MY Wagon Rust repairs

revmax · Post by **revmax** » Sat Aug 18, 2012 9:00 pm

Yer I'm hearing you.
Bunnings and Gasweld are pretty close together and are both close to me about 3km by road and I pass them on my way to and from work.

Wanted to do some blasting on the other side of the wagon today but didn't happen because I wanted to get a white guard from B3 but discovered it was rusted out.
I have a red guard origunaly from B1 which is dinted so painted it saturn white from a pressure pack, rough yer I know but the rest of the car is faded so who cares, I just didn't like patchwork pannels.

Sunny looks pretty neat Bennie

Trivia quiz.
How many pressure packs does it take to paint the external surface of a front Brumby/wagon guard.

Brumby Kid · Post by **Brumby Kid** » Sat Aug 18, 2012 10:28 pm

revmax wrote: Trivia quiz.
How many pressure packs does it take to paint the external surface of a front Brumby/wagon guard.

How many coats? For one coat to paint the front 1/4 panel it should use less than Hal a can I reckon.
I desperately need an air compressor and a gun, getting sick of pressure pack cans.

Cam

Silverbullet · Post by **Silverbullet** » Sun Aug 19, 2012 12:45 am

Brumby Kid wrote:How many coats? For one coat to paint the front 1/4 panel it should use less than Hal a can I reckon.
I desperately need an air compressor and a gun, getting sick of pressure pack cans.

Cam

Nah it must take more than that, I used up 1.5 cans of primer covering up where my old stripes used to be...I'd say little over 2 cans for the guard? I'm just going to bite the bullet and save up for a paint shop to do it

revmax · Post by **revmax** » Sun Aug 19, 2012 6:28 am

I used 3/4 of a can but that was all I had, some spots were a little darker so i recon you could get away with 1 can with tree coats. If it was white on white or Beige, one can would be heaps.

Post by **TOONGA** » Sun Aug 19, 2012 9:19 am

When buying an old bush basher the common consensus was, one can of 3 dollar paint per panel

and maybe 2 for the roof.

TOONGA

steptoe · Post by **steptoe** » Sun Aug 19, 2012 9:46 am

all the same colour or camo varities Jules?

revmax · Post by **revmax** » Wed Aug 22, 2012 8:48 pm

still plugging away.
should have most done by end of tomorrow except the worst bit, which is the drivers side rear. I blased it on the weekend and it looks like swis cheese.
I am going to have to cut a chunk out and either rebuild it or cut a piece from another wagon and weld it in.

revmax · Post by **revmax** » Sun Aug 26, 2012 1:45 pm

out with the grinder and some fresh metal.

Silverbullet · Post by **Silverbullet** » Sun Aug 26, 2012 2:15 pm

Sheesh you were right about this thing being rusty

What section of the car is that exactly? I can't quite make it out from that close in. Looking good!

revmax · Post by **revmax** » Sun Aug 26, 2012 2:54 pm

in front of the rear wheel drivers side.

revmax · Post by **revmax** » Sun Aug 26, 2012 8:02 pm

from the other day.

before blasting

after blasting

plate welded over and painted.

revmax · Post by **revmax** » Tue Aug 28, 2012 5:58 pm

found me camera.

from the outside

still to weld a piece on the inside

YouTube · Post by **El_Freddo** » Wed Aug 29, 2012 8:10 pm

Geez, tricky area to be working in!

Cheers

Bennie

revmax · Post by **revmax** » Wed Aug 29, 2012 9:06 pm

yer. I have welded the inside in but it was tricky to line up.
Once lined up it was point, pull the trigger, weave then stop for a few seconds, then start the cycle again. Got it in and it is structualy sound but the high spots had to be ground off the welds.

Have made a template and cut the sheet for the channell support and may get a chance tomorrow to weld and bend it into shape.