Barney’s Verona red Baur refresh

[BarneyT]

   I’m not much of a welder and can’t really see that well…forgot to turn gas on this morning.

Picture of repair panel marked up before cutting.

 

 

 

 

 

Today I welded in repair panels I cut and fit yesterday…

 

 

Tomorrow I’ll grind that down/ re-weld as needed/grind again…

 

Edited February 28 by BarneyT

[JsnPpp]

Metal work takes so much time. It's fun, but constant back and forth as you iterate to your goal.

 

For heavy metal welds a flap wheel is great but unfortunately for 20ish gauge sheet metal super easy to slip and thin out the rest of the clean metal. For this reason I used a dremel with a largish grinder wheel (2"?) on it to be super controlled and not hit anything I didn't want to hit. Very light 220 air sander at the very end to smooth it out. Was 3X time but I'm not unhappy with it. At the end of the day its very very hard to get thin metal to have an invisible weld.

 

Jason

[Tommy]

3 hours ago, BarneyT said:

   I’m not much of a welder and can’t really see that well…forgot to turn gas on this morning.

Seeing is pretty important to the welding result. Not long ago I noticed that it's better to start wearing glasses under welding helmet. It helps, but still not easy as younger.

[SydneyTii]

5 hours ago, BarneyT said:

forgot to turn gas on this morning.

Yeah I forgot to do that the other day, takes a longer time to make a cuppa that way!

[BarneyT]

Thursday pretty much finished with the floor not 100%. I will hit it all again with the welder from the bottom when I put the car on the lift after setting the doors.

 

Cut out and installed two stiffener panels between the side rails, and the tunnel…filling the gap left where I cut those existing off an inch plus because of rust…

 

 

['76mintgrün'02]

On 2/27/2024 at 9:16 PM, Tommy said:

Seeing is pretty important to the welding result. Not long ago I noticed that it's better to start wearing glasses under welding helmet.

 

Same here, but I also added a magnification lens to my helmet.  Initially, it was so I would not need the reading glasses, but now I wear both at the same time!  It works really well because all of the work is up close.

 

 

[BarneyT]

   Friday I finished the last large repair panel in the trunk, many thanks to Jason Gipson for selling/shipping this trunk repair panel to me…stopped early to change the oil in my coupe.

 

 

 

 

[BarneyT]

Another good day, I took a ride in the coupe early and then Worked the rest of Saturday on the doors…. passenger side door.

the driver side door…

 

 

 

 

Edited March 3 by BarneyT

[BarneyT]

Things got serious today, I had to call in the boss lady to help mount/set the doors. Then I removed the fenders to under coat them getting them ready for final install.

 

the bottom/wheel wells will be painted body color…

 

 

Edited March 5 by BarneyT

[Steve76063]

1 hour ago, BarneyT said:

Things got serious today, I had to call in the boss lady to help mount/set the doors. Then I removed the fenders to under coat them getting them ready for final install.

 

the bottom/wheel wells will be painted body color…

 

 

Looking good Tory

I love the attention to detail you put in your work - I'd love to have one of your creations.

[JsnPpp]

Looks great Barney! Haven't used the wurth underseal. Love their other products (use the seam sealer + chip guard). What are your thoughts on it?

[BarneyT]

   Worked a few hours on Friday and final installed the two front fenders…next I will be moving car on to lift to finish welding the bottom.

 

 

Edited March 9 by BarneyT

[BarneyT]

Not much work on Saturday, move the car onto the lift and hit the panels for about 30 minutes with the grinder…

[BarneyT]

Spent the last few. Days finishing up the bottom, final welded/sanded/primed/and undercoated…

[BarneyT]

Worked a few hours on Saturday to finish up interior floor, a few more small things to handle but should make my date of 3/28 to deliver Baur to Painter…