"The Joker 67" Bug resto

ran out of lead sticks, so looked on frost, they wanted £6-00 per lead stick, thought this is going to costs a lot.

so on a trading website a found a leading kit for sale at £25-00 , it came with a set of 6 paddles, and all the items required, and 12 sticks of lead.

could'nt belive my luck.

You really have put some work in on this fella! Looked quite sweet when you bought it, what lies beneath eh!

Top work though and will be one hell of a '67 when she hits the street!

Credit where it's due...great job!

loosk sweat a fook,

Been doing a bit more

n/s/r roof gutter was rotten, so purchased Big daves old roof off him, thanks Dave





just for nomates, i lapped the joint



all cleaned up and weld through primered.

all the welds cleaned up.





tinning flux solder applied, which has to be heated up



flux solder has been heated to tin the metal up.



now leaded up and lead filed and sanded.







rear 1/4 joint also leaded up.





andy

Looking awesome dude. Nice one

joker 67 wrote:

ran out of lead sticks, so looked on frost, they wanted £6-00 per lead stick, thought this is going to costs a lot.

so on a trading website a found a leading kit for sale at £25-00 , it came with a set of 6 paddles, and all the items required, and 12 sticks of lead.

could'nt belive my luck.

hey bud wat site was it

Andy its looking sweet mate!!

You and your work rock thats all i can say!


This is as good as it gets on a build


Top banana Andy keep it up your a true inspiration dude

itsabuglife wrote:

joker 67 wrote:

ran out of lead sticks, so looked on frost, they wanted £6-00 per lead stick, thought this is going to costs a lot.

so on a trading website a found a leading kit for sale at £25-00 , it came with a set of 6 paddles, and all the items required, and 12 sticks of lead.

could'nt belive my luck.

hey bud wat site was it

some car boot website, found via google.

repaired the o/s roof gutter (drivers side) last night.





andy

That is looking amazing dude....Why is Gunge wearing a lab coat is he making his next batch of Rohypnol?

ARCANE wrote:

That is looking amazing dude....Why is Gunge wearing a lab coat is he making his next batch of Rohypnol?

Thats my Echo warrior suite!!

joker 67 wrote:

now leaded up and lead filed and sanded.







rear 1/4 joint also leaded up.





andy

I like the idea of lead - it looks very, very neat!

Is it easy to do? Or does it require lots of skill?

skill .....a lot of skill .......or alot of sanding LOL

Shamrockez wrote:

joker 67 wrote:

now leaded up and lead filed and sanded.







rear 1/4 joint also leaded up.





andy

I like the idea of lead - it looks very, very neat!

Is it easy to do? Or does it require lots of skill?

its not the easiest material to work with, as there is quite a bit of preperation, then you warm the lead , and be very careful how warm you get it , otherwise you end up with a £5-00 bar of lead on the floor in a blob.

But it seals off joints very well, and edges that could be damaged easy if filler was there , are a lot stronger.

i am still going to use plastic filler over the top of it, as the cost is expensive.

it is a metheod used by all classic car repair shops of any quality and any coach built car has all the panel joints lead filled.

i learn't in a ford garage by an old guy i used to work with, as capri's granadas, etc used to have lead joints in the rear wing panel.

andy

Hmmm I might give it a go on the next project and see how I get on with it. Thanks for the info

Altho I can see myself with a nice expensive lead floor

Shamrockez wrote:

Hmmm I might give it a go on the next project and see how I get on with it. Thanks for the info

Altho I can see myself with a nice expensive lead floor

have a look on restowagen at the 54 cab, as gavin at trailer queen has been using lead quite a lot, on that.

the price of all the equipmet just to get going is at leats £200-00, and then you will have to buy more lead.

i was just lucky to pick the lead kit up cheap. but i still had all my body files and fluxes, tallow and a couple of bars of lead in my tool box from years ago.

also need a blow tourch to warm the lead..

read this
http://freespace.virgin.net/tommy.sandham/leading.htm

and watch this.
http://www.sovereigncoachworks.com/page2/files/page2-1002-pop.html

andy

I have bought a new steering wheel, Purchased from Ivan McCutcheon from Volksworld, at a very good price.

N.O.S Speedwell wheel.



Got to meet him to collect it now. He does not want to post it as he is scared it will get lost or damaged.


andy

uber uber cool Andy very subtle and class touch dude...Ivan, chatted a couple times with him top bloke very knowledgable getting on a par with you maybe!

How many hours do you reckon that gutter took, to get to where you are now?
Looks really good, I would love to be able to do that

ProjectParsons wrote:

How many hours do you reckon that gutter took, to get to where you are now?
Looks really good, I would love to be able to do that

i reckon about 4 hrs, to get to this stage.

it did help having the 2nd roof section to use.


how bad are yours?

andy

picked the beam up today, very nice quality, good clearance as the adjusters are welded to the top of the beam, so will not hit the ground.

andy

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