Prepping for beginners...

[woodola]

Oh maybe not

[Chrissyt]

after rubbing down a few patches, they are heavily pitted, so after painting with vactan can i filler directly on top of the treated areas?

Chris

['hanish-boy]

Nice avatar widdershins!

Pity that Bath footage hasn't surfaced yet.

[DivingDaisee]

Chrissyt Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2008 7:56 pm Post subject: Re: Prepping for beginners...

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after rubbing down a few patches, they are heavily pitted, so after painting with vactan can i filler directly on top of the treated areas?

Chris

That's how I've been doing it!

[jamesc76]

daisy - I have used the gauze before, and this is how I did it...

knock all loose rust out from the hole, and apply copious amounts of rust treatment - front and back.

then cut some metal gauze (got mine from halfraunds) just a bit bigger than the hole. If you can get behind the hole, it helps. I then mixed filler and put it round the edge of the hole. I then used this as glue to hole the gauze in place. Allow to harden. You can now fill the hole in the standard way.

Dunno if this is how the pro's do it!!

Em
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Thanks Em, That's how I figure it must be done, but thought I'd best ask first. Better get a few yards of it then

Thats the worlds biggest bodge way of doing it, sorry just had to say if you got that method of doing it anyway near (with in 30cms) of any seatbelt, seat mount or suspension mount it will fail the MoT, its sooooo wrong what your supossed/ment to do is cut out all bad metal and weld in fresh clean metal then fill and spray, your method will bite you in the ass very soon!