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Old Feb 5th, 2018, 14:30   #28
Army
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Last Online: Feb 11th, 2022 03:15
Join Date: Jan 2018
Location: Somewhere in the Netherlands
Default Today - looking at the front end damage

Just wazzing it with an angle grinder and wire brush attachment



Someone liked filler somewhat!

For user survival necessity I had to get the hot air gun out and put the angle grinder and wire brush away - the filler started to smoke and went everywhere - nasty plastic dust...



Need to do the top too.



Paint stripper next stage I guess before a final polish off with the sand blaster


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On other parts of the car the holes on the RHS lower A post section turned out to be a lot smaller than I was expecting.

I will be welding these holes - I want metal especially on an important part of the car. No filler for hole filling here!



Thing is - this hole's pretty close to the pretty paint (that's not normally under the front wing) - I suspect I'll be stripping more paint than has been done so far because the plastic filler that the whole cars seems to have been dipped in will melt and de-laminate after welding heat...

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