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sputnick60 Samba Moderator
Joined: July 22, 2007 Posts: 3915 Location: In Molinya Orbit
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Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2018 8:36 am Post subject: Re: Picking up the Pieces. |
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The work continues on the sills. By now it it time to close up the area but there has to be a precaution for rust. Hence epoxy is sprayed over the whole inside area and weld though primer along the joins. The weld though primer is that orange coloured stuff. There's been plenty of that being used.
Masked off for the spray
Purple tape over the weld through primer before the epoxy get sprayed
Epoxy drying out
The view from below.
Now we deal with the doors and door sills
The door is fitted up and will get its lower skin later.
Same deal has been going on over on the other side
Then there's lots of work down to the front sections.
Then there's rust remediation inside where a part was fabricated....
... to replace the rusted bit
Conversion to RHD for the battery box and surrounding area
Then inserting all that in the nose..
And not to forget the lid ...which looked pretty bad...
until a bit of reshaping...
...cutting...
..welding...
... and filing..
... took care of it
That's all for now..
Nicholas _________________ '66 Karmann Ghia Cabriolet...
'65 Porsche 356C Coupe...
2005 Mecedes Benz C180 Kompressor Estate
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Steve F Samba Member
Joined: June 26, 2005 Posts: 19 Location: Vista,Ca.
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Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2018 3:38 am Post subject: Re: Picking up the Pieces. |
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Awesome work!! |
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63Ragtop NZ Samba Member
Joined: December 04, 2007 Posts: 895 Location: West Auckland
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Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2018 7:56 pm Post subject: Re: Picking up the Pieces. |
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very awesome!
this thing has me all confused, looks like its a "pan off resto" _________________ If you can't join them, beat them! |
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wheel607 Samba Member
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Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2018 1:08 pm Post subject: Re: Picking up the Pieces. |
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Steve F wrote: |
Awesome work!! |
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Jacks Samba Member
Joined: July 15, 2006 Posts: 2347 Location: San Clemente, Ca.
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Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2018 9:26 pm Post subject: Re: Picking up the Pieces. |
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63Ragtop NZ wrote: |
very awesome!
this thing has me all confused, looks like its a "pan off resto" |
It's monocoque construction. Look it up. _________________ Jack Staggs
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roy mawbey Samba Member
Joined: May 21, 2012 Posts: 397 Location: Sussex England
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Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2018 4:59 am Post subject: Re: Picking up the Pieces. |
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Nicholas,
So well done, great to see your progress, the last bit and the hood repair made me grin, how to save money if you know what you are doing!!!
Look forward to seeing the lower door skin repair. Mine looked just the same before I started welding it, had me almost in tears over 40 years ago!! I only had gas then nothing modern like Mig. I am good at making excuses!!
Great job Nicholas. great photo's too!
Roy _________________ Roy
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sputnick60 Samba Moderator
Joined: July 22, 2007 Posts: 3915 Location: In Molinya Orbit
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Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2018 8:22 am Post subject: Re: Picking up the Pieces. |
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Thanks for the favourable comments guys. I'm pleased you are enjoying yourselves.
Did someone mention door skins?
The inners are painted with epoxy primer and so to the inner side of the new skin
The skin is shaped and folds added.
TIG welding begins
More TIG welding and filing
More filing
Drivers door fitted up to the car.
Next!
Nicholas _________________ '66 Karmann Ghia Cabriolet...
'65 Porsche 356C Coupe...
2005 Mecedes Benz C180 Kompressor Estate
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sputnick60 Samba Moderator
Joined: July 22, 2007 Posts: 3915 Location: In Molinya Orbit
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Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2018 2:23 am Post subject: Re: Picking up the Pieces. |
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So this time we assemble the sections in front of the door hinge pillar behind the front guard.
Here, the enclosed area has etch primer sprayed over it and brown coloured weld through primer masked up on the interface to the next panel
The backside of the cover panel shown here is similarly treated.
Then the inner guard panels are faux spot welded with the TIG
Then the grinder smooths the welds over
The same gets done on the other side.....just like every else
In case it isn't obvious (as it should be) , the floor of the car has been lifted out to provide access to the outer section. It kinda looks "off-the-pan" like a Ghia, but this is a monocoque body so sorry, the concept doesn't apply. The floor will go back on later.
Nicholas _________________ '66 Karmann Ghia Cabriolet...
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roy mawbey Samba Member
Joined: May 21, 2012 Posts: 397 Location: Sussex England
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Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2018 10:27 am Post subject: Re: Picking up the Pieces. |
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Nicholas,
You make it look so easy!! Please tell me its not !!
Very nice detail work.
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sputnick60 Samba Moderator
Joined: July 22, 2007 Posts: 3915 Location: In Molinya Orbit
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Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2018 6:49 pm Post subject: Re: Picking up the Pieces. |
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No, not easy but mostly time consuming.
Here is the latest update.
Getting the door gaps right required adding some metal to the front and rear guard sections on both sides.
..and a bit of rust repair down the bottom corners. No surprise there, huh?
The filing was done off the car being easier to control the tool standing up.
The lip of the bonnet was also addressed with new metal and in the corners where there were cracks, new sections spliced in.
We replaced the top of the rear guards on both sides where it runs under the quarter window
The car looks to have been swiped on the left side in its sadder days.
There will be a fair amount for shrinking and swelling to do to get this all sorted. We solved the doors with new skins but this shape is more complicated. I'm sure we'll get it as best as it can be.
And of course the floor has been added to the car.
Its now looking like that monocoque design and less like a squashed beetle.
Thanks for looking
Nicholas _________________ '66 Karmann Ghia Cabriolet...
'65 Porsche 356C Coupe...
2005 Mecedes Benz C180 Kompressor Estate
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sputnick60 Samba Moderator
Joined: July 22, 2007 Posts: 3915 Location: In Molinya Orbit
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Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2018 7:03 am Post subject: Re: Picking up the Pieces. |
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There's been a fair bit of welding underneath
The floor is finished and there is not much more to complete under the car..
So now is the time to break out the masking tape and protective plastic
Because the time has come to get the undersides sealed in epoxy and top coated with stoneguard as per factory.
Here is the rest of the undersides sprayed and outside in the sun
Looks good huh.
Next will be mounting up the guards front and rear and applying the same epoxy and topcoat per factory inside the cabin before the dash panel gets inserted.
Nicholas _________________ '66 Karmann Ghia Cabriolet...
'65 Porsche 356C Coupe...
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sputnick60 Samba Moderator
Joined: July 22, 2007 Posts: 3915 Location: In Molinya Orbit
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Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2018 3:56 am Post subject: Re: Picking up the Pieces. |
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This new lot is a little out of sequence being work done before the under coating.
Some ugliness at the foot of the front bulkhead needed action. The pedal cluster mount and footrest bracket were looking rather sad from rust.
So it was obviously needing removal.
Once the floor was put in position some effort went in fixing the outside section
and finally the new pieces welded in.
With that the front braces could be welded in. A number of faux spot welds were also finalised at the front around the outer parts of the battery box and the area under the nose
Welds all cleaned up.
After that it was ready for paint.
Nicholas _________________ '66 Karmann Ghia Cabriolet...
'65 Porsche 356C Coupe...
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roy mawbey Samba Member
Joined: May 21, 2012 Posts: 397 Location: Sussex England
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Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2018 7:36 am Post subject: Re: Picking up the Pieces. |
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Nicholas,
Wonderful work, really fabulous restoration. You need a Gold medal just for the effort and the explanation and photos. This alone takes much time to collect and insert on a forum !!
Well done,
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moogie32 Samba Member
Joined: April 06, 2005 Posts: 663 Location: Connecticut
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Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2018 6:15 pm Post subject: Re: Picking up the Pieces. |
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Nicholas - this is just incredible! You skills and attention to detail are evident in every photo! _________________ RIP HBB (1984-2009)
Du liefst so gut
Du warst so schön
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Gary Person of Interest
Joined: November 01, 2002 Posts: 17069 Location: 127.0.0.1
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Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2018 7:02 am Post subject: Re: Picking up the Pieces. |
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Love the Tig work, Nicholas. People don't believe me when I say it's easier and more clean than Mig welding. _________________ West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 624 (1943) |
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sputnick60 Samba Moderator
Joined: July 22, 2007 Posts: 3915 Location: In Molinya Orbit
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Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2018 1:48 am Post subject: Re: Picking up the Pieces. |
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Thanks guys for the favourable commentary. We aim to please and there is plenty to be pleased about, particularly with how this project progresses. For example, we hung out the washing.... oh ok. ...we didn't hang out the washing. We hung up the things that open and shut......
... and gave them a squirt of epoxy primer.
now everything's gone green!
Keeping things moving along......
.....it was time to let the sun shine on the little car, so it got dragged into the light to see all the imperfections.....
....except there weren't any.
Then into the spray booth it went to get its own covering in that green epoxy
So now its time to bolt the doors and lids onto it and it will be ready for the high build and lots and lots and lots of sanding and more sanding.
Nicholas _________________ '66 Karmann Ghia Cabriolet...
'65 Porsche 356C Coupe...
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sputnick60 Samba Moderator
Joined: July 22, 2007 Posts: 3915 Location: In Molinya Orbit
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Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2018 7:50 am Post subject: Re: Picking up the Pieces. |
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I'd like your uncoloured opinion about the Porsche colour, Signal Red. As previously discussed, this car was ex factory in Signal Red 6407.
I have a section of the car interior that sports the original paint. I used a spectrometer to make a paint formula from that. This was sprayed onto a test card and laid over the original paint. Here it is.....
... and it is a rather exact match.
Next, I used a formula for Signal Red 6407 and sprayed that onto a test card. Comparing the original paint you can see a slight difference.
Sure its almost impossible to be sure given the discrepancies between various computer monitors and the camera.
However, my question is about the best most accurate to the original. Has the original colour changed over the years? Is the formula Signal Red the correct one to use?
What's your view?
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roy mawbey Samba Member
Joined: May 21, 2012 Posts: 397 Location: Sussex England
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Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2018 4:42 am Post subject: Re: Picking up the Pieces. |
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Nicholas,
Your own sample looks the best compared to the original sample. This does not surprise me! My 356A is Meissen Blue and in 50 years I have re-sprayed it twice in 1979 and 1989. The interior is original as is the Meissen blue dash panel.
First time in 1979 the match to an original painted part proved to be incorrect but I used it as it was only then an old car. Second time I was more careful, and chose a company in Liverpool over here to provide me with a sample swatch.
This was 100% perfect placed against my dash panel. So I bought the paint cellulose of course and its been on the car now for 29 years.
The company I used no longer exists but... a number of guys have supplied me with Meissen blue swatches to compare against my dash panel. None were prefect, one was very close some were along way out.
Meissen blue has a touch of green in the formula it makes it special I think
My dash has not faded in the past 29 years and likely not faded in 50 years since I bought it. Sure I don't have the sun beating down on it and that might help.
I would personally in my opinion go with the sample colour you produced as I think from my experiences all samples can vary. I guess in the first place Glasurit supplied the signal red.
Lovely work Nicholas
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Angus Dowrie Samba Member
Joined: March 07, 2005 Posts: 341 Location: Kangaroo Point, Australia
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Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2018 4:50 pm Post subject: Re: Picking up the Pieces. |
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Hi Nicholas
Tricky one! Due to variations in the paint manufacture and recipe translations over time the standard signal red is unlikely to be the same as original as you have found. I went through this with my Karmann Ghia, sea blue. Even from the factory there would be a slight variation from year to year in the same colour. I had no original painted piece to refer to as I was changing the original pearl white colour.
If the sample piece you sampled from is from an area of the car not hit by the sun I think the best method is to use your colour sample match. Make sure you hang onto the recipe though for any future paint repairs required. That way it is as close as possible to how it left the factory.
The flip side of that is that once you've painted it in the standard signal red it will still look good and I don't think anyone could reasonably hold you to account for it!
Weighing it up I don't think either way is 'wrong' or 'bad', but I'd tend to the one you made up from the colour sample. _________________ 1963 Australian Delivery RHD Coupe
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sputnick60 Samba Moderator
Joined: July 22, 2007 Posts: 3915 Location: In Molinya Orbit
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Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2018 5:14 am Post subject: Re: Picking up the Pieces. |
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Taking these comments into consideration I also took the samples with me out and about during the week. I asked people the question “Red! which one?”.
Two people chose the red from the formula. Whilst ten people chose the spectrographed red, or the colour derived from the originl paint.
Interestingly, for work I’ve had a fire supresion system installed in this small satellite ground station I’m building at the moment. The key elements are painted..... signal red. Who’da thunk it. This signal red is something other and heads towards orange but it matches the primer on the backside of the 356’s dash. How odd. It some other signal red. Sigh
I’m settling towards the popular choice. I liked it immediately and just about everyone seems to agree. So this car will go with the spectrographed red on the dash. Like Angus says, there is no right or wrong. Its a matter of getting it close.
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