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Old 05-29-2012, 12:18 PM   #27
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Re: '55 International Metal/Body/Paint Work

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Originally Posted by 65Pickup View Post
Looks complicated, but great solution, technology worked beautifully.
The panel adhesive is some neat stuff. I used it one other time on a home-made Camaro targa top roof skin and it worked great on it too. It's very strong and works to seal the seam as well.


Here's some shots of the work done on the roof. It looked like it had been used as a dance floor at some point in the past! It wasn't too hard to straighten since the dents were fairly shallow, and came out 95% with just hammer and dolly work. The rear edge of the roof was in worse shape, and needed heat shrinking and pulling with a stud gun/dent puller.








Throughout the process of metalworking the roof, I guide coated it and used a 21" adjustable block to find the high/low spots and work them out with a hammer/dolly. I got the dents out enough so the block was sanding the low spots, so it wouldn't take much filler when skim coating it.




Skim coated and blocked, ready for primer.




Primed with Slick Sand and guide coated.

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