What did you do at work today?

[ck80]

Started sanding the 36 for polish today. Noticed a small crack in the passenger corner of the rumble seat opening. Dug in and noticed that the guy that did the metal work filled the corner with all-metal rather than a proper repair. Brought it to the owner’s attention, and now it has to be fixed properly. Decided to drink on it. One hand says panel bond, the other says weld it. Either way I’m reshooting the whole car. Can’t believe it didn’t show up until I started color sanding. Sucks

Like you've said many times, this is why taking on a project where the owner did work themselves (or elsewhere before coming to you) sucks.

Feel bad for you, both because getting this thing out the door would be nice to be rid of the headaches, and, because doing the same work twice on the same project is always a downer as well.

 

[08Malibu]

Cleaned out the corner with a carbide burr on a die grinder and filled it with panel bond. No flex as of this am. Im going to find out if flowcoating is easier than a sand and buff on Saturday.

 

[Hurricane77]

Like you've said many times, this is why taking on a project where the owner did work themselves (or elsewhere before coming to you) sucks.

Feel bad for you, both because getting this thing out the door would be nice to be rid of the headaches, and, because doing the same work twice on the same project is always a downer as well.

That's a tough one as a DIY'er. I wouldn't want to pay the labor involved in all the metal work required on my car. But I'm no professional. And seeing the detail involved in spraying a car, I appreciate that a quality place isn't going to want to just spray a car without knowing what they're going over top of. Certainly appreciate that if they will do it, there'd be pretty good limitations on any sort of quality guarantee

 

[08Malibu]

Like you've said many times, this is why taking on a project where the owner did work themselves (or elsewhere before coming to you) sucks.

Feel bad for you, both because getting this thing out the door would be nice to be rid of the headaches, and, because doing the same work twice on the same project is always a downer as well.

I did a paint job on another car for this guy, and the work on the car was clean. That’s the only reason I took this one on.
I spoke with the guy that did the metalwork. He said he welded on that corner 2 times and had to remove a section because it hit the rumble seat. So the section was weakened from being worked too much. I looked at it closely and it looks like the metal is cracked. Looks like I’ll be removing the panel bond, welding the crack. Then I’ll add the panel bond back in later to bond the inner and outer frames. Rest of the car seemed to be ok.

 

[08Malibu]

Repaired the bad metal work on the 36 on Thursday. Sanded the whole car down and painted the repair and recleared the whole car today. Back on track.

 

[CopperNick]

Work??? On Saturday???? Time and a half for the first so many hours and double time after that. Stat Holiday next weekend so will be paid for that if I work both ends of it. Work pays the bills but it sure cuts into my daytime shop hours and by shift end I am beyond bagged so little gets done after supper.


Nick

 

[mclellan83]

On the way back to the shop saw a lady get hit by an SUV, luckily for her she was not a small girl. Luckily she had some padding because the SUV was going pretty fast and no idea why she wouldn't look at the traffic she was walking into but think all things considered she is very lucky

 

[86LK]

On the way back to the shop saw a lady get hit by an SUV, luckily for her she was not a small girl. Luckily she had some padding because the SUV was going pretty fast and no idea why she wouldn't look at the traffic she was walking into but think all things considered she is very lucky
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2 firetrucks and 2 cop cars, 1 each from 2 different jurisdictions....

 

[Supercharged111]

They must stay pretty busy.

 

[CopperNick]

About the same as I've done for most of the week. COTB Courier ops is mostly about internal mail distribution. A lot of driving punctuated by a lot of drops and pickups. Weather up here is nothing but air quality warnings. Even when it is hot, the sky is a washed out color or blue that is more grey than anything. Supposed to have been rain for the last two days........Not. Mowed the lawn Monday, and it did rain on Tuesday. Rained overnight last night, and the local squirrels still didn't have enough sense to slow down when doing through high water areas. Tomorrow is the last day of the week and then a long weekend. My regular work partner has booked his holidays and he took Mondays and Fridays so he is on a three day work week for the rest of the summer. That's okay, i get his shifts so more money for me. Next week is short and it ends with me in the Transit Stores facility having to baby sit the new summer probie. I am not the best of teachers or possessed of the greatest amount of patience. This could be interesting.


Nick