Door skins and frames epoxy mastic’d. All worth it in the end!
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I’ve made a big push this week to get the door frame on the O/S complete.
My repair piece for the door bottom tacked in:
And ground flush. It came out pretty well.
Style line curve closed up at last:
Repairs made to the bottom corner:
And more repairs to the seal channel:
Started stripping the bottom half to bare metal:
And a little while later, the bottom half all zinc primed.
Hoping to get everything prepped and epoxied over the next few days so I can get the skins on and have the doors done.
Made up another big repair panel for my door. Hoping to get the frame finished this weekend.
Final repair for the door card style line and curved corner section welded in. Started making up a template for the previously badly repaired door bottom.
Some further progress over the bank holiday weekend. Corner seal channel repair welded in (I’ve made the curved bit, just need to weld that in this week).
Fabricated 3 repair sections for the door card style line, and got 2 of them welded in; just a few pin holes to weld up.
Wing mirror brace bar repaired and lower seal channel repair welded in.
Made a start on the O/S cab door this week. It’s in slightly better condition than the other side, apart from the bottom which is in a terrible state:
Schofields repair cut down and clamped in while I repair the brace bars:
Both bars repaired:
And made a start on the repair for the wing mirror bar:
After many, many, many hours I’ve finished the welding on the bottom of the inner frame for the N/S cab door.
I had this final gap to fill where the frame curves round to join the door skin:
Quite a fiddly bit to make, I ended up doing it in a few bits, but the end result looks fine and the skin fits well around it:
Then finally a thorough cleanup with Strip & Clean discs and wire wheels, and a coat of zinc primer. Much better!
I’ve not ground the welds down on the inside as it’ll be hidden when the skin is on, but i’ll put some seam sealer on them before I fit the skins. The outside will need a skim of filler along the bottom when I get round to the shaping stage.
Not bad considering it looked like this before:
Now to start the other side!
Lower corner done now. Nearly there with this door (sick of the sight of it tbh!)
Folded up another repair for the bottom of the door tonight. Cleaned up and etched the wing mirror brace bar.
