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Originally Posted by waynieZ
it's metal I can fix it!
That's the best attitude to have and why your doing so well !I need to think that way a lot more.  |
I can work with metal, give me a piece of wood and I'll screw that up!
Man did I make a mess today with this 3M Bonding stuff. It was a good day in the garage, got the window fuzzy re-inforcement welded onto the door skin and epoxy primed the door frame and the door skin where the weather stripping attaches .... figured I better get it now before it was bonded together.
Then I cleaned the frame and the skin and put on the 3M Bonding adhesive and got at bending the skin over the frame .... this was my first door skin and I was a little apprehensive about messing it up and then the pressure of only having 90 minutes with the adhesive.
Well the adhesive was setting up before I came back around to wipe it off, so I guess I'll have to sand it off and re-prime .... no biggy. The skin is sealed, protected from corrosion and bonded all in one step.
Pictures.....
Welded the re-reinforcement and epoxy primed
Epoxy primed the frame while the skin was off.
Covering all bare metal on the skin w/ 3M adhesive.
Door frame gets same w/ bead on outside edge.
This top corner was a PITA!
Skin came out pretty even.
So ... one down, I'll have to bring the door into the house to cure cuz the temps will get down to the 50's tonight. Next door I won't use so much bonding adhesive .... seems to squeeze out after you start bending and there is plenty to spread around, oh well.
Thanks for looking ....