How to restore classic car bodywork Tips, techniques & step-by-step procedures
Book - 2006
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- Published
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Dorchester :
Veloce
2006.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Item Description
- "Applies to ALL metal-bodied cars."
"Colour throughout." - Physical Description
- 112 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 27 cm
- ISBN
- 9781903706626
- Introduction
- Scope of the book
- Buying your classic vehicle
- Vehicle construction
- Mild steel sheet
- Surface tension
- Spot welds and spot welding
- Chapter 1.. Rust - know your enemy
- Protection
- Chapter 2.. Tools, equipment & workspace
- Basic tools
- Hand tools
- Hydraulic gear
- Power tools
- Welding gear
- The workspace
- Chapter 3.. Workshop safety
- Specific hazards
- Welding
- Power tools
- Hand tools
- Chapter 4.. Basic panel removal
- A very simple panel
- Front wing
- A real life example
- Drilling spot welds
- Alignment
- Welding at last
- Welding completed
- Problem areas
- Chapter 5.. Basic panel fitment
- Alignment
- Welding at last
- Welding completed
- PRoblem areas
- Chapter 6.. Sectional repairs to basic panels
- Circular patches
- Corner repair section
- Sill end
- Salvaged panel sections
- Typical lower wing sectional repair
- Proprietary wing bottom section
- Proprietary boot lid section
- Supporting structures and alignment
- Section upon section
- Bowl sections
- Pillar joints
- Methods of joining and fixing
- Gas welding
- Soldering
- Chemical bonding
- Cold rivets
- Pop rivets
- Chapter 7.. Doors
- Door construction
- Problem areas
- Window frames
- Hinges and supports
- Check-strap
- Removal and handling
- Door bootoms
- Basic door skinning procedure
- Tools and equipment
- Starting off
- Grind off the return edge
- De-seam
- How's your bottom?
- Split off the skin
- Clean up
- Position the new skin
- Seal and clamp
- Tap up
- Fettle
- A few good tips
- Extra safety
- Chapter 8.. Sills, floors & outriggers
- Triumph Spitfire sills and floor
- Assessment
- Set up and support
- Work order
- The Triumph Stag
- Tread-plate sills on a separate chassis car
- Half still section and oversills
- Half sill
- The oversill
- Chapter 9.. Chassis members - repair & renewal
- The basic checks
- Lift check
- Drop check
- The jig
- Outriggers
- Example 1
- A bit more on safety and fuel lines
- Example 2
- Repairs to chassis main rails
- Miscellaneous
- Chapter 10.. More about floors
- Typical mid-floor repair
- Half floor sections
- Making floor sections
- Chapter 11.. Multiple panel assemblies
- Triumph GT6
- inner wheelarch rebuild
- Rejoining the inner wheelarch to the bonnet
- Fitting new wings
- Lamp panel repair
- D-plate and inner valance
- Chapter 12.. Wheelarches
- The options
- Assessment
- Replacing a wheelarch
- Inner wheelarch repair
- Welding in the new wheelarch
- Making a new wheelarch
- shape formers
- Forming the wheelarch
- Half round repair section
- Arch lip repair
- Templates
- Remove old metal
- Fix the new metal
- Full rear quarter panel/rear wing replacement
- Concealed welds, brazed joints, etc.
- Pillar joints
- Internals
- The inner wheelarch and location
- Half panel sections
- Welding
- Chapter 13.. Metal forming techniques & panel beating
- Basic metal forming techniques
- Folding
- Curving or rolling
- Shrinking and stretching
- Edge spreading
- Cold shrinking
- Planishing, raising, and hollowing
- Planishing
- Hollowing
- Raising
- Chapter 14.. Basic hammer exercises
- Planishing
- Raising and hollowing
- The teardrop bowl
- 6in bowl from a 7in disc!
- Annealing
- Folding, curving and shrinking
- Bonnet (hood) scoop
- Fabrication
- Dorian's spoiler
- Chapter 15.. MGB facelift
- The design
- Constructing the station former
- Creating the blank
- Hollowing, raising and planishing
- Finishing the edges
- Folding
- Flanging
- Swaging
- Wiring
- Welding panel sections
- Chapter 16.. Panel repair techniques
- Principles
- Assessment
- Roughing out
- Hammer and dolly work
- Indirect hammering
- Direct hammering
- Other panel beating techniques
- Spring hammering
- Pick hammer
- Hot shrinking
- Faux shrinking
- Metal finishing
- The body file
- The bumping file
- Finishing up
- Appendix
- Glossary of terms
- Index