1973 Bubbled Rear Apron & Restoration Thread

[fredybear]

Sunday Fun Day

The Blasted Rims

The smaller rim for spare

The Epoxy

The Setup See what happpenes when the cup slips out of your hands

I never understood what a Rim Job was, guess its painting your rims

[fredybear]

Rims Rims Rims

Dry Epoxy

The inside

The Urethane

Next up. Black inside, thats inside the tire where no one will ever see except the insane who trys to make things perfect KOOKOO, KOO KOO KOO COO KUCU OOOKOOO ...and Silver out

[fredybear]

Got this for $10 Works awesome for this paint

Sweetness. At 30psi. Now Drop to 25 for the thinner urethane. Had it at 30 for the thicker urethane primer.

See the roll marks. Roll your rim while spraying, comes out beautiful

A real wacko would color sand a buff this.....OOOBoy, Im not that KOOKOO

Lookin good. Let it dry for a few and paint the rest. One side at a time or both at once.

[fredybear]

Next up.

Door painting

I have a gray door and I want to paint it red. OOOYeah

Epoxy, poly fill than urathane. than red

Sand sand sand. I have an electron microscope in case I missed a scratch

The painting order.

[VW_Jimbo]

Hey Fredy! Any updates?

Hope all is well!
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Jimbo

There is never enough time to do it right the first time, but all the time necessary the second time!

[fredybear]

Updates

Moved out. A few ago.

On a Saturday, 5:30 PM. Some idiot tried to steal the Cat out of my car. I was watching cause I thought it was for next door, than I heard the saw. I went out and stomped on his ankle and scared the crap out of him. I was gonna beat him but there is cameras around, so I let him go. See the Van. They got it for three cats, cost $1500.

So I got 50 bucks for it for scrap Hmmm

Ready for the 55

I will update, Beetle stuffing How to stuff your beetles is small spaces.

[fredybear]

Update.

Beetle Stuffing.

See all the extra room. Guess who's coming to visit

[fredybear]

Im feelin inspired Why, watchin the Biggest Looser. Never watched that before. Seeing a bunch of really fat folk being tortured with exercise, gives me motivation.

Sometimes im so useless I can stare at wall for hours, scratchin and A pickin and be in joyland


Ready to paint a whole beetle with this combo?

Witch gun??? The $10, $20 or $400 hmmmm

Can it be done. Lets find out

[Buggeee]

You are not in need of anybody's advice, specifically mine, so here's my thought on painting with a small compressor.

It will be running all the time to keep up with the gun, so the air will be hot and full of moisture. My solution was to run a 50 foot air hose up the wall, accross up to a peak in the middle of the garage, back down to the other wall, down the wall, and near the bottom tee'd off a drip leg with a ball valve at the bottom to let the water out. The whole run was shaped like an upside down U. I also had a tee'd off drip leg with ball ball valve at the compressor side as well, one at the bottom of each end of the upside down U. The idea was to give a long run for the air to cool down and moisture to condense out before hitting the filter at the far end of the run (like a moonshine still) From the filter I ran the 25ft air hose to the gun. At the gun handle, I also had a small clear air and oil separater to see the condition of the air at the gun and then one of those disposable orange ball filters between that and the handle of the gun.

I was amazed at the volumes of water that this long run was able to condense out at both ends. I still burned through filter elements even though the filter also had a drain.

I like the pressure to be 40psi at the gun, and then use the gun air control knob to fine tune it from there. Fan control basiically almost wide open.

I cant wait for it to warm up again over here. I've now got a toilet paper filter on my big compressor and I love it. The elements are almost free, single ply rolls.
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Big Time 1988 Vanagon Westy
Release the Krankenwagen! 1966 Sportsmobile Camper
Dr. Kompressor 72 Super Duper
61 Turkis Pile (adopted out)

[fredybear]

[fredybear]

Comin along

Finish insulating the roof/ceiling, exhaust venting and

[Busstom]

[Buggeee]

That shop is sweeeeet
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Big Time 1988 Vanagon Westy
Release the Krankenwagen! 1966 Sportsmobile Camper
Dr. Kompressor 72 Super Duper
61 Turkis Pile (adopted out)

[fredybear]

[DUNGBTL]

SUBSCRIBED!

[fredybear]

Ready to finish this time. Im in Prime, Fill and Sand Mode

Before its too hot, lets see what I got

Sands in minutes, its so tiny compared to the tank,

Reprime epoxy, weld some, again, urethane and ready?
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1955 Beetle
1960/63 Beetle
1968 Beetle
1971 Beetle
1973 Beetle
1971 Bus

[fredybear]

Motivation baby....How U Ask

Drugs,

little sudafed for the sinus and U gots MoTiVation


Beetle Booty

Finish welding

Next Up
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1955 Beetle
1960/63 Beetle
1968 Beetle
1971 Beetle
1973 Beetle
1971 Bus

[Buggeee]

[VW_Jimbo]

Nice job Fast Freddy! Wondered where you ran off to. Found ya, again!
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Jimbo

There is never enough time to do it right the first time, but all the time necessary the second time!

[fredybear]