{"id":93,"date":"2004-02-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-02-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-04-01T16:57:15","modified_gmt":"2011-04-01T16:57:15","slug":"bel-air\/almost-done-section","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/?p=93","title":{"rendered":"Almost done a section"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All I seem to have done the past few weekends is create loads of dust. I&#8217;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&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/BelAir\/2004\/02\/Fintastic.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"244\" alt=\"Fintastic.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I feel quite good about *almost* having done a section, but there&#8217;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.   <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/BelAir\/2004\/02\/Drivers_Side_Pillar.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"242\" alt=\"Drivers_Side_Pillar.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p> 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.  <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/BelAir\/2004\/02\/Drivers_Side.jpg\" width=\"443\" height=\"267\" alt=\"Drivers_Side.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All I seem to have done the past few weekends is create loads of dust. I&#8217;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&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/BelAir\/2004\/02\/Fintastic.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"244\" alt=\"Fintastic.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I feel quite good about *almost* having done a section, but there&#8217;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.   <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/BelAir\/2004\/02\/Drivers_Side_Pillar.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"242\" alt=\"Drivers_Side_Pillar.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p> 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.  <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/BelAir\/2004\/02\/Drivers_Side.jpg\" width=\"443\" height=\"267\" alt=\"Drivers_Side.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}