All I seem to have done the past few weekends is create loads of dust. I’ve skimmed the back drivers side and the top of the wing where I took the old lead out, then sanded, then skimmed again. I’ve ended up with a very thin layer of filler covering the dents, and have got to the point where I need to switch to a finer grade filler and sandpaper, so stopped for now.

I feel quite good about *almost* having done a section, but there’s plenty more to do. I spent a few hours sanding filler yesterday, then moved the lights in the garage so that I could swing the car up a bit further. It was way too cold to be outside anyway, so this should enable me to work in the garage a bit more. At least Lisa will be able to hear the TV without the noise of an angle grinder. That should also mean I get to stay working on the car for longer.

I spent a few hours today with the angle grinder brush cleaning the drivers side windscreen frame. It looked awful and took a fair bit of scraping before I used the grinder. The pillar was pitted where water must have been trapped behiind the seal, so I cleaned it till it was shiny before skimming it over. The grinder is beginning to vibrate badly, and the brush was badly worn, but I managed to join the clean bits of the front and the back of the car together. When the brush started to disintegrate too much, I switched to the scraper and took one half of the tarred sound deadening stuff off the roof. Then a skim of filler where the lead used to be, and a quick spray over with primer.