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using a paper towel in there because the metal is not flat its a bit convex

and then we let it set, we wait, and we wait

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Yessir the seat bolted right in.

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Cant wait to see more of this .

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alright, here you go then

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and the bandages come off

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lots of silly pics of lots of silly holes

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so it took 6 hours to set and 24 hours to cure, so I removed the C clamps and magnets after 24 hours - trust me the waiting was the hardest part, going to bondo the holes next, maybe tomorrow

here is the belly

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Can't wait!

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Don't bondo them... Just use more JB weld and it will cure like metal and look 100x once you've sanded it all down good.

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X2 on that...
Bondo will crack at the parting line with the holes. Lab Metal or JB Weld epoxy will not.

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Looks great. Cannot wait to see the final product. Been wondering what to do with my dash so you may have just provided the answer.

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I might have to try this on Clarence (my 74 stepper) someday if I dont sell him off.

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Look's good any updates ?

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Gregski, you inspired me! Picked up a donor bed today. I will be using the base, front and wheel wells. My original looks like it was used to haul loose cannon balls. Sorry, about the upside down pics.

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thanks, man you were giving me virtigo - ha ha

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Sorry, got a little side tracked

Daughter Knows How To Get Dads Attention

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Cool it happens :metal:

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Family first

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so couple of weeks ago I got one of these $20 bucks off Rewards for being a ToolKit member at our local Pick n Pull junkyards

What to spend it on?

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Well I've been thinking about replacing my perfectly good chrome side mirrors with some black rectangular ones, now I appreciate chromes durability, but I aint no fan of shinny things on my truck, you know what they say, chrome won't get you home but black will get you back...

and so we found ourselves this beautiful 1986 Dodge Ram 50 and stripped its ears off

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not bad for $10 bucks with that coupon discount

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here's how the two mirrors compare

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we came home after work and just had to try them on for size, the holes are close but off by about 1/4 inch

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we mounted one mirror with one screw for mock up, what do you all think?

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1) Do your wing windows work?
2) Can you actually see out of those?

I often found even the dumbo mirrors could block the view at times. Those look even smaller and to close to the doors.

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Different but I don't think they look right.

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You are good my friend, it did seem too close to the door. Of course I have not driver the truck yet, but the wing window pillar already seemed in the way, hey can't blame a man for trying.

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The dumbo mirror's don't get much love but it's still a big mirror with decent view and "correct". You can get a white set and paint them to match.

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Well the Tribe has spoken, we'll be using JB Weld.

So we hit O'Really's and picked up a jumbo tube of the stuff, $20 bucks for the 5 oz tubes instead of the little 1 oz tubes

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after changing into some work clothes we threw the dash on our [ahem] mobile work bench and mixed the white stuff with the black stuff 50 fifty like the recipie tells us to

now I must say, this stuff was difficult to work with, I don't know if I did something wrong but the goop was runny, not like water, but slowly shifting, it got to the point where I couldn't work on the dash in the vertical position but had to lay it horizontally or the goop would glide away

now as I type this post, I recall AutoZone had the fast drying type aka the J-B Kwik (dries in 6 minutes), but I thought who the heck needs that, I got time, ha ha

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i know the rule of body work is the less bondo you use the less you'll have to sand, but at this point I didn't care how much I would have to sand, I just wanted those stupid round holes to disappear - know what I'm sayin

I was beginning to wonder if 65* F maybe was too cold to applicate this product, I don't know, seemed warm enuff

just showing you how much goop we had left, this may be a two step process, goop some on, sand it off, goop some more on until the holes are completely full and then sand it off again

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You need to treat JB Weld just like bondo.

The dark stuff is essentially the metal part and the white stuff is the catalyst. Depending on how fast you want it to set you can add more or less white stuff.

Who much white will make it harden too fast though.

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Thank you for the tip, does the ratio effect its strength I wonder? Like for example is the 50 black/50 white mix stronger than the 25 black/75 white mix?

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My thought process was always the faster it hardens the more brittle it could be so I've always tried to mix it just slightly under like 75/25 instead where its not so runny or weird but still dries plenty hard.

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I love the stuff. Runny initially, but it starts thickening pretty quick, and you can manipulate it all the way to where it is like clay. It will run though if left "other than horizontal" even when it is pretty thick. If you have the hole you are filling horizontal, and you put enough to fill the hole, even as a glop in the middle, it will flatten itself out. I let it dry overnight before putting the thing vertical, or it will ooze out even hours after applied.

I discovered some cheese cloth in my drivers floor pan under the point of the wing vent where water drips. I will probably skin it with JBWeld, but I will apply painters tape to the underside to keep it from oozing out of the holes until it cures.

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For the last two days I have been reading this thread, its great. This is like the "GO TO" thread for your project. You do a little bit of everything and anyone looking for help is bound to find it in this thread.

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Agreed ^^^^

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Thanks bud, there's more to come.

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