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[stateofidleness]

***EDITED TO BE MY BUILD THREAD*** I left in the important paragraph (IMG:style_emoticons/default/KMA.gif)

The journey begins! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/driving.gif)

"im sorry it was without your consent, but you are ALL now my new mentors, educators, and general eFriends/maybe some day REAL friends. Look forward to that noob-to-educated resource transition! "

here's kind of where i basically started:


Thanks Everyone!

[charliew]

You probably should go to restomotive's web site and check out the por 15 and metal ready and their marine clean process. It will only take a few minutes. The stuff you have thats free might be great but the application is what makes it work either great or crummy. The tar could be cleaned up with laquer thinner. The laquer thinner will evaporate very quickly if it's hot maybe we are going to get some cool weather now. Keep the tar saturated for awhile till it softens and wipe it off. Even sand blasting won't remove tar. A big grinder with a twisted cup brush is the best to clean rust and tar off. Be careful when grinding rust cure it makes a bad dust for your lungs and eyes, maybe use a small fan to blow the dust away as you clean the panels. The tough spots are where you can't get in the tight areas. You can use a small screwdriver to scrape theses areas to get rid of the loose scale. Attention to details is what makes a good job. Preparation is the key to a good job. A good guy to get to know is Mark Heard in Boerne, Tx. He has sold me some good parts and knows 914's well. He's on this forum as 914sixer. If you apply por 15 correctly you can't knock it off with a hammer. Also if you leave it on your skin or anything else it will be there a long time. It also has a very short shelf life so only buy what you will use and be sure to keep the lid groove clean or you won't get it off. Don't work out of the can, dip some out and put it in another container to dip your brush into. I use little paper cups I have for mixing resin in. They also have a cloth you can put down on perforated areas and paint the por15 over and it's like fiberglass cloth and resin. The surface must be positively clean for it to stick. Good luck with your new project. There was a chalon for sale on craigslist somewhere around Shertz is your's it?
I am starting a 914 with a suby motor and tranny with AA steel flares and such as soon as I can get a few other projects out of the way. I live outside of Waco, TX.

Charlie