Yet another use for bondo

[724x4a/cchevy]

Saw this on a house i was power washing the other day. Tried to fix the crack/hole with bondo. Thought i'd seen it all. Anybody got any crazy stories?

[dave2953]

I get a red x

[chevy71super]

I can't see the picture either but I discovered they use bondo here in California to fix cosmetic dry rot in wood. They ream out the rotten wood, spray some type of fungucide in the hole and patch it with bondo. Blew me away.

[sleepyboy]

bondo does wonders..great on toast....I've used it to fix wood rot.

[724x4a/cchevy]

How about now? sorry about that.
Justin

[1969k10stepside]

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Red X.....

[redhead69]

I do high rise commercial construction and see autobody filler being used by many trades. Cabinet builders use it to hide seams, carpenters use it to fill nail holes and float miters etc etc. I have been fixing small dents in metal window frames and have mixed almost 2 gallons on this last job (thats alot of filler!!) Many many uses.. when I get bored I make sculptures out of it! lol

[LEEVON]

I work in commercial construction too, and bondo is frequently used to repair dents and dings in commercial hollow metal door and window frames. The thing that drives me nuts is that old school carpenters insist it's the best, but I keep telling them that a newer, lightweight fiberglass filler is much easier to use...but to no avail. Bondo it is. Gets the job done though, and much cheaper than replacing a $1600 prison cell door or frame.

[cameeks]

This isn't recomended but a guy I went to school with had hydros and kept hitting his tank on the ground. He used it to patch the hole in the gas tank.

[spdrcr29]

We used it on the kid's pinewood derby car.... He cut it to look like a fastback Mustang (I know, we already had the blue oval talk... Gotta get him off the video games).
Anyway, I helped him cut out the back window area pretty deep with a dremel, and then filled the new hole with round weights and bondo. It's kinda dense (like me), and after it was sanded and smooth it looked great (also, like me!)

[Biff]

Last weekend at Easter, my brother sat on my parents couch and broke one of the legs off. The stud that sticks out of the leg and screws into the couch had stripped out. My dad got out the trusty bondo and filled in the hole and redrilled it for the stud. Works great! BTW who else here loves the smell of fresh bondo?

[redhead69]

Originally Posted by MiamiGrant

I work in commercial construction too, and bondo is frequently used to repair dents and dings in commercial hollow metal door and window frames. The thing that drives me nuts is that old school carpenters insist it's the best, but I keep telling them that a newer, lightweight fiberglass filler is much easier to use...but to no avail. Bondo it is. Gets the job done though, and much cheaper than replacing a $1600 prison cell door or frame.

Yup.. the lightweight filler is way easier to sand. And it seams no matter what brand or style filler your using everyone calls it Bondo. I have been doing a ton of what you mentioned of window frames and some of the guys on the job call me "bondo man" it cracks me up!

[va_tlc]

bondo smelling is a fetish!!!! lol

[FREEMAN70]

hi im new but i guess ill jump in, i do body work and i love the smell of bondo i wish they would make it in air freshners.

[Jondotcom]

I've used it as wood filler on many occasions, and "wood filler" that is much more expensive and in small quantities is the same thing, only more $$.

[1968SWBBigBlock]

The best I have ever seen, in high school one of the kids loved bondo so much that he put the 1/4 panels onto his 67 impala on with bondo - he saw no reason to weld them or pop rivet the panels on. It worked well until he hit the railroad crossing to hard one day and had one entire 1/4 fall off and the other one sag down and hit the tire before it got caught under the tire and he drove over it. I wonder if he passed body shop?

[stacerbob]

Way out in the country on a dirt road, I hit a big limb in the road with my old '69 GMC, poking a hole in the radiator, I had a half used can of body filler in the bed, I used it about 6" spot over & around the wound, filled it up at the next creek, It held for a long time!!!

[redrum]

I have a friend that claims to know two guys that were drunk one night and did some dental work, filled a cavity with bondo. Guess the fumes were pretty fierce!

[hootlube]

Again, somebody's gotta say it... "I love the smell of bondo in the morning."