Heavy Meddle 1956 Ford F100 Australia

Yes, folks, I'm back again with another F100 project! Can't wait to get stuck in! Hope you follow along if only for the laughs! It's a 1956 F100 and I can tell you it is gonna take a TON of work to get her up and running. Stick around...things could get ugly!

Sunday, October 20, 2024

After a two month pause, we're slowly getting back into it again

 

It looks like a hive of activity, and it kinda was. Rob came down and spent a lot of hours helping me get some of the panels into shape. He did some good work on the door and really hit the roof hard. Afterwards he hit it with some 2k epoxy primer. We followed it up today with a light skim of filler on the roof. 

We tried out Rob's new Vevor spot welding/ dent pulling gun thing with mixed results. On the stout steel the studs worked to a fashion. We tried the wavy steel option with the craw but that did not weld to the metal anywhere near as well as the studs, and anyway, the dints weren't big enough or long enough to warrant that kind of treatment, but it was fun trying. 




If you ask me, the jury is still out on the effectiveness of the gun, as now you have to grind off the stud marks in the body, and there is a risk of putting a hole in the steel. 

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