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Two Glove Boxes Samba Member
Joined: March 03, 2005 Posts: 838 Location: Texas
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braddick Samba Member
Joined: March 11, 2017 Posts: 183 Location: Australia, Victoria
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Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2021 3:00 am Post subject: Re: Aussie 58 mango |
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Getting the floor ready
Marked out where the top hats and I beams run and started drilling holes
Got some welding and a lot of grinding in front of me to come
It will awesome to get the floor in
Any tips I should know about before I start
Work front to the back or back to the front
Weld the floor first before the lips around the edges then uprights
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mdege Samba Member
Joined: January 16, 2018 Posts: 938 Location: Niederkruechten, Germany
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Two Glove Boxes Samba Member
Joined: March 03, 2005 Posts: 838 Location: Texas
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1958kafer Samba Member
Joined: January 25, 2015 Posts: 16 Location: South Australia
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Posted: Sat Feb 20, 2021 7:04 pm Post subject: Re: Aussie 58 mango |
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Good progress mate, A and B pillar turned out great! |
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braddick Samba Member
Joined: March 11, 2017 Posts: 183 Location: Australia, Victoria
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Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2021 4:42 am Post subject: Re: Aussie 58 mango |
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Working away on the floor
With lots of drilling
Drilled into the I beams to get a stronger weld
Used a bit of old railway line to get a good contact with the top hats and I beams
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braddick Samba Member
Joined: March 11, 2017 Posts: 183 Location: Australia, Victoria
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Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2021 4:45 am Post subject: Re: Aussie 58 mango |
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German Krew wrote: |
Congrats on the progress and I'm sure it will feel good when the floors are in because they cover such a much area. |
Yep definitely feeling like I'm making progress now
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braddick Samba Member
Joined: March 11, 2017 Posts: 183 Location: Australia, Victoria
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Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2021 4:46 am Post subject: Re: Aussie 58 mango |
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1958kafer wrote: |
Good progress mate, A and B pillar turned out great! |
Thanks Steve
The race is on, looking forward to seeing some pics of your bus |
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BarryL Samba Member
Joined: November 01, 2004 Posts: 14257 Location: Casa de Oro, California
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Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2021 6:42 pm Post subject: Re: Aussie 58 mango |
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Those iron rails look heavvvy. Looks like they did the trick. |
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braddick Samba Member
Joined: March 11, 2017 Posts: 183 Location: Australia, Victoria
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Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2021 6:17 am Post subject: Re: Aussie 58 mango |
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Not a lot of progress lately but the cold weather here in oz has brought me back into the shed
Still grinding those floor welds
Almost done
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Bendango Samba Member
Joined: September 04, 2005 Posts: 593
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Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2021 9:34 am Post subject: Re: Aussie 58 mango |
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Great build - looking at your Oval and your Mango looks like Oz VW’s had red primer???? _________________ I want a real garage.
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Where did you find the elephant dick? |
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braddick Samba Member
Joined: March 11, 2017 Posts: 183 Location: Australia, Victoria
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Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2021 4:40 am Post subject: Re: Aussie 58 mango |
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With our recent lockdown in Victoria and some cold rainy weather it was good to get back into the shed and keep progressing with the mango
Used a silver weld through bbt complete dogleg and it went in pretty good
Moved the bus closer to the fire to stay warm
Moved onto the passenger floor repair piece
Starting to come together now |
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braddick Samba Member
Joined: March 11, 2017 Posts: 183 Location: Australia, Victoria
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Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2021 4:45 am Post subject: Re: Aussie 58 mango |
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Bendango wrote: |
Great build - looking at your Oval and your Mango looks like Oz VW’s had red primer???? |
Yep red primer for us in oz
That's why any new repair piece that's going to be visible gets the red oxide paint ready for some blending/patina
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braddick Samba Member
Joined: March 11, 2017 Posts: 183 Location: Australia, Victoria
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Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2021 4:38 am Post subject: Re: Aussie 58 mango |
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Well I finally found the last piece of the og paint mango jigsaw puzzle
I managed to find a og paint front drivers door in the uk on a FB page back in dec 19
By the time I got it payed for and found someone that was happy to ship it to oz and also make me a set of tubs it was March 2020 and this thi g called covid came along and shut everything down and sent freight through the roof
At the time I thought this won’t last long it will blow over in no time, how wrong could I be
Anyway fast forward to now my door has just arrived
Anyway unfortunately what I thought was og paint wasn’t og paint
So the paint stripping begun
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braddick Samba Member
Joined: March 11, 2017 Posts: 183 Location: Australia, Victoria
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Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2021 4:49 am Post subject: Re: Aussie 58 mango |
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What I thought was og paint turned out to be another mango respray from years ago
Now I have started removing another layer expose the real og mango paint
Unfortunately this layer is paper thin and doesn't take much to rub/ burn through to the grey primer which is not a match to oz buses as they had red oxide primer
Slow and steady |
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braddick Samba Member
Joined: March 11, 2017 Posts: 183 Location: Australia, Victoria
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Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2021 4:56 am Post subject: Re: Aussie 58 mango |
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You can see the next layer is a better match
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FCBulli59 Samba Member
Joined: November 27, 2019 Posts: 78 Location: Germany, Rheinland-Pfalz, Hunsrück
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Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2021 3:57 am Post subject: Re: Aussie 58 mango |
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very nice find with the og door. you will achieve a good patina result after peeling it.
I have peeled my whole bus from oversprayed color, and the right side passenger dooer came out to had a wheel burnout.....
Thanks for sharing.
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braddick Samba Member
Joined: March 11, 2017 Posts: 183 Location: Australia, Victoria
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Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2022 4:46 am Post subject: Re: Aussie 58 mango |
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Progressing with the bus
Loaded up the bus and headed to a mates place that works on buses for a living
He’s going tackle a tricky repair lower front inner and outer front valance while leaving the nose on and also installing a sunroof to make it into a sunroof standard
Seems a great way to fix the rust holes in the roof
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mtnbus Samba Member
Joined: July 01, 2007 Posts: 733 Location: Colorado
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Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2022 6:43 am Post subject: Re: Aussie 58 mango |
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nice looking bus !
great work |
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braddick Samba Member
Joined: March 11, 2017 Posts: 183 Location: Australia, Victoria
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Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2022 2:20 am Post subject: Re: Aussie 58 mango |
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mtnbus wrote: |
nice looking bus !
great work |
Thanks |
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