'55 11-Window"Sheep Carrier"....a bit of a rethink

kombi1976 · Post by **kombi1976** » Sun Apr 05, 2009 9:10 pm

1963 Empi Radar wrote:
kombi1976 wrote:
Now all I need to do is decide where to start......
Sell the Cb's

It's funny you should say that.
[Cue: Dutchy enters stage right]

kombi1976 · Post by **kombi1976** » Sun Apr 05, 2009 9:23 pm

morts wrote:Think your young'n has got his eye on this one.........

Ya reckon?
What I didn't post was the pic of his little brother crying consolably because I'd made him get out of the '55, there being little bits of glass all over the place.
He didn't just have his eye on it, he had his arse in it!

slowlearner · Post by **slowlearner** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 9:13 am

i'll be coming down for an inspection next week if that's ok with you.

i have to say it looks awful though

kombi1976 · Post by **kombi1976** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 9:36 am

Anytime, mate, although you may want to check with the missus when it's convenient.
And if you're thinking it doesn't look great I'm not going to argue with you.
Mind you, things are looking up.

Dutchy · Post by **Dutchy** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 10:08 am

first job done, installed the fuel filler cap....

Tonz Magonz · Post by **Tonz Magonz** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 10:12 am

Dutchy wrote:first job done, installed the fuel filler cap....

You have the wrong type....
Thats a Golf one..

Apologies to the younger viewers for that " Dad" joke..

slowlearner · Post by **slowlearner** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 1:13 pm

kombi1976 wrote:Anytime, mate, although you may want to check with the missus when it's convenient.
And if you're thinking it doesn't look great I'm not going to argue with you.
Mind you, things are looking up.

yeah I'll give your missus a call.

btw, what's looking up? the size of the rust repair bill?

Tonz, you need help [and I am jealous I didn't get to that joke first]

D-Train · Post by **D-Train** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 1:21 pm

Tonz Magonz wrote:
Dutchy wrote:first job done, installed the fuel filler cap....
You have the wrong type....
Thats a Golf one..
Apologies to the younger viewers for that " Dad" joke..

tonz, want some wine with that cheese?

Tonz Magonz · Post by **Tonz Magonz** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 10:59 pm

No wine,
But some flutes would be nice for the "Champagne" comedy ...

kombi1976 · Post by **kombi1976** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 11:25 pm

Is that right after your "champagne" lawn bowls?

kombi1976 · Post by **kombi1976** » Tue Apr 14, 2009 11:16 pm

Today I began the long task of removing the rotten house paint that is strewn all over this poor vehicle.
Rust is one thing but the paint is another.
Some people reckons it saves metal......well, not in this bus, mate!
On the recommendation of some mates I tried Citristrip.
My missus has used this stuff before and it's very effective but I played it safe and tried it in an innocuous spot first....the inside of the fuel filler cover.
Here's the before pic:

And after a liberal supply of Citristrip and 25 minutes or so:

These results were encouraging so I decided to go for broke on the upper back RHS corner of the bus.
Before:

And after:

There were some scary moments.
As I was scraping off the paint around the belt line I noticed some red paint here coming through UNDER the blue:

To begin with I though it was a factory undercoat and I'd buggered it up.
But on closer examination there is ANOTHER layer of blue below the red.
Clearly at some point in it's life it was resprayed over the factory paint with a similar if not identical colour.
Most of the way around there's nothing between but here there's red between the layers.
What it does mean is I'll have to carefully sand the last of the 2nd layer of blue with very fine sandpaper, perhaps steel wool, to get to the bottom layer before polishing.
But yeah, it's a good sign.
I'm a school teacher and have the next week and a half off so it's goal for my hols to get all that paint off the outside, if not the inside.
The main thing is not to rush.
It's preservation not eradication afterall.

splitbus · Post by **splitbus** » Wed Apr 15, 2009 6:36 am

Nice work, should come up good

and extra blue paint for a safty net

Patience, patience O little one, try and take the pebbles from my hand

Dutchy · Post by **Dutchy** » Wed Apr 15, 2009 7:15 am

looks good under there, youve got more patience than i do. I started to do this with my 11 to try to reveal the 'mango cremy colour' but got too enthusiastic and went back to bare metal all round. dont do what i did, it will be worth it in the end.

warb · Post by **warb** » Wed Apr 15, 2009 8:43 am

looking good mate, get that blue to the surface!.

matara · Post by **matara** » Wed Apr 15, 2009 8:55 am

That looks very encouraging Andy. Slow and steady, I'm sure this is going to turn into a pearler. The in-laws will be eating their words soon!

Cheers

Steve

'55 11-Window"Sheep Carrier"....a bit of a rethink

Taking off that bloody house paint!