Re: Fashionable Fever! - 1969 Chevy C10 Build
 

if you need to make sharper bends on your material,the shrinker/stretcher will do it.i've bent some metal on mine making pieces for my 39 Chrysler project,no problem.what i found helped was not putting the metal into the jaws very deep and it'll curl right around.

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Appreciate the pictures on your setup. Gives me some ideas if I get tired of holding the piece with one hand and pumping with the other. Right now, I just bolted it to a plywood bench stand that I built when I hung my kitchen cabinets. Works nicely other than bending over to do the work.

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Thanks for the words. Spent yesterday evening grinding welds and removing paint. Also went on the hunt for some dixie cups to get the epoxy primer out of my qt can. Can't waste one drop of that expensive stuff. Turns out, those little dixie cups are hard to come by. Went to the local grocery - no dice, went to the local big box store - nothing. I think tonight I'm going to run to the liquor store.... I bet they would have them for making jello shots.

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Yes! That's what I found out after my first piece turned into a trial run, I just messed around with it and found out some tricks with the tools. Still got to master exactly where the bend will happen once I put it in the tools. Ive just been cutting the piece longer than normal, making my bend and cutting it so the bend is where I need it, but if I have to do multiple bends in a run, it would be nice to know exactly where to start bending if that makes sense?

Any words of advice on that?

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Finally tracked some of those dixie cups down at my local diner. First time mixing up epoxy. Mixed up less than an oz. and it was still way more than I needed. I put a lid on it and hoping to use it up tomorrow on some other areas.

As you can see I tried to save a buck and mixed the stuff up in a paper cup instead of using the bigger plastic paint cups I bought with the epoxy. The primer ate right through the paper - stupid mistake.

Hopefully now that I have (i think) everything I need to get this firewall seam done, it will go alot faster.

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Forgot to take a couple pics of the face of the firewall. That metal is also being replaced at the same time and epoxy primer applied.

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More welding, more grinding.

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Looking good! :metal:

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Holy smokes, I can't seem to catch a break. Was getting the last of the house interior projects wrapped up and then March of 2023, ended up having ice dams which caused leaks in the master bed and the living room. Had to redo parts of ceiling, walls, insulation, etc. Worst part of it all was having to rip apart and redo the work I just did a couple years prior. Things didn't get done as quick, plus after getting home from working construction all day, makes it hard to get ambitious. Have a few things left to get done, but the weather is nice, so I'd rather be outside.

Finally pulled the trigger on a rear disc brake kit from Baer. Put most of it together. Didn't install pads or loctite yet. Want to make sure the park brake cable and brake lines will work with the orientation of the caliper first.

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Good to see you back at it. I was wondering what happened to you there. Sounds like you've been busy. :metal:

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Life definitely gets in the way, particularly house projects. House before hot rod is how it has to be tho.
Nice progress. How’s the firewall and cowl rebuild going?

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I've been lurking around the site here and there. I tried to stay away so I wouldn't get side tracked on my house stuff :)

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It's not lol. I gotta get back on the cab soon, but I've been putting off getting my frame to be a roller for so long, I finally just bit the bullet and ordered some brakes for the back. Once I get the brakes finished, I can throw my "cheap" wheels on it and get the frame off the jack stands.

I've been trying to come up with ideas on a homemade paint booth that I can just have set up in my garage for awhile. I think I have a plan figured out finally, now its just cleaning the corner of the garage and building it. I really need to get going on priming some of my parts that I have sitting around with no paint before they spot rust.

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Made a little more progress on my brakes. I ended up ordering new hubs for the front to make it a 5x5 pattern. In doing so, I either had to order new rotor hats ($225 a piece) or drill the 5x5 pattern into my existing ones.

Ended up drilling my existing ones. I did 3 of the 5 holes myself on one of the rotor hats, but couldn't get the last 2 holes since they were half way into the existing holes. (I need a drill press). I called up my buddy who is a machinist, and he was happy to help. I brought over both rotor hats to his garage and watched him do it. Pretty amazing to watch him do the work on his mill. Both hats fit nicely, now its just getting the front brakes put back together.