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[gdrill]

No problem here. I am very happy with them!

 

[MarPar]

I'm here... what seems to be the problem?

Just wanted to share that you have a satisfied customer!

 

[gdrill]

This one had the bigger crack in it. I pulled it apart to to show it. It had a previous repair but that had failed over time. I tried using MEK but this material is not meltable! Damn it. So JB Weld it is. But rather than just counting on the glue, I added two screws embedded into the insert and a piece of haywire hooked on each screw and then pulled together in the middle. Along with very deep scratches from an awl, the JB Weld should work. That should give it a ton of strength when it all sets up. I can cut it off and grind it down as required once everything is rock solid.
We’ll see tomorrow……

 

[gdrill]

Quite happy with it. Got JB into the smallest cracks. Gotta do some filler in some nicks here and there but this is gonna be great. When the hood gets here I’ll determine whether or how far I have to sand the underneath down.

 

[gdrill]

The second one is solid now as well. Some small body work on a few nicks and they will both be awesome.

 

[gdrill]

One more small task off the list. Many times I will just dump tumbler pieces because not too often somebody will try their key in your car. But this time I figured I would get the doors matched to the ignition. 100 flipping dollars! Wow. Have things changed. If he had warned me I would have dumped the tumblers. Of course that is only 37 cents American but it’s a hell of a chunk up here! The rod on the 71 seems to be longer than some and I was missing one. So I had to snip a couple and weld them together as one at the right length.