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Car Forum / Driving, Maintenance, Tuning / Maintenance and Repair / July 2009Contaminated Body Filler
Looks like I've run into another potential headache with this restoration job. After having the vehicle covered for a long period of time, today I finally removed the tarp so I could turn the car around. I was very upset to see that some of the body fill (Bondo), applied months earlier, had gotten contaminated with penetrating oil. I had recently sprayed the interior of the side panels, and the oil must have soaked through a pinhole where the new metal is welded on (you try to make a clean weld on sheet metal with a homemade stick welder....). So now I'm afraid I'll have to completely strip this area or worse - is there any alternative? > Looks like I've run into another potential headache with this restoration > job. After having the vehicle covered for a long period of time, today I [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > homemade stick welder....). So now I'm afraid I'll have to completely strip > this area or worse - is there any alternative? No aluma-lead. There's one here called All-Metal, and another, Metal to Metal filler: http://autobodystore.net/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Category_Code=FM Or you could just sand the bondo down and reapply another thin coat. On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:44:25 -0400, Hachiroku ???? <Trueno@e86.GTS> wrote: >> Looks like I've run into another potential headache with this restoration >> job. After having the vehicle covered for a long period of time, today I [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > >Or you could just sand the bondo down and reapply another thin coat. The oil may continue to migrate. Don't know about car finishes, but for oil in walls the normal procedure is to use a sealer. Bin is one. --Vic Bondo isn't any good for anything.I have done some minor body repair before, many years ago.I used a product by the name of Aluma Lead.It looks sort of like powdered aluminum, have to mix a resin/hardner with it and quickly apply to the surface of the metal and then sand it smooth.I don't know if Aluma Lead is still available. www.tinmantech.com probally sells a decent product for body repair. I wouldn't use Bondo even if somebody gave me a free lifetime supply of that stuff. cuhulin > Bondo isn't any good for anything.I have done some minor body repair > before, many years ago.I used a product by the name of Aluma Lead.It [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > that stuff. > cuhulin Alumi-Lead??? how about All-Metal - Same thing, aluminum powder with epoxy. waterproof and sandable All-Metal? www.devilfinder.com All-Metal body repair Maybe it was Alumi-Lead I used to use.I will check the local area auto parts stores around here and see what they have. cuhulin On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:22:31 -0500, cuhulin wrote: > All-Metal? > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > parts stores around here and see what they have. > cuhulin I looked all this up when it was first posted. Alumi-lead is gone. Probably because of the lead. That must have been good stuff... Bondo is not the worst body filler in the world. Inexperienced and incompetent "body" boodies make their own poison One of those American Chopper episodes.They smeared some sort of a fiberglass material on top of a piece of metal for a motorcycle seat.Then they changed their minds and they ripped the material off of the seat.What is the name of that material they used? It was tough to remove it from that piece of metal/seat. cuhulin |
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