1966 Plymouth Fury 3

[PhilA]

Things have slowed down a little here.

Partly because summer is pretty much here and it's hot- gone from 15c and fairly dry to 30c and humid in the span of a couple weeks (normal for here) but that's a big change to acclimate to outside in the garage. Makes any time out there hard work.

Second is I'm at a point where I've gotta spend money, more than just a few dollars here and there. The panels I'm putting in need to be sized to the rear quarters, but I need to buy the repair sections and get them welded in with a welding machine I need to buy.

It all begins to spiral...

 

Phil

[hairnet]

justgiving

id donate for a dollar (you know what i mean )

 

[PhilA]

Appreciated but not required. It just stretches the time frame out a little, is all.

[PhilA]

Made a couple eyeball measurements and bought some steel bar.

Matches the die well.

Heated it up to bend it to make a handle.

Chamfered the end, then clamped the steel and beat the blazes out of it with hammer and new bar. Cleaned and painted because that shows the profile very well.

Not perfect but well enough when offered up to the factory metal.

 

Phil

[PhilA]

Further test using the same method to see if I could make the panel halfway without it being unusably warped.

[vulgalour]

Goodness that magenta is good on this particular car.  The purple is okay too but that magenta is something else, there's not many cars that can pull a colour like that off so well.  Nice work with the manual dimpler for the floor too.

[hairnet]

7 hours ago, vulgalour said:

Goodness that magenta is good on this particular car.  The purple is okay too but that magenta is something else, there's not many cars that can pull a colour like that off so well.  Nice work with the manual dimpler for the floor too.

Pervert 😛

[PhilA]

13 hours ago, vulgalour said:

Goodness that magenta is good on this particular car.  The purple is okay too but that magenta is something else, there's not many cars that can pull a colour like that off so well.  Nice work with the manual dimpler for the floor too.

I'm still in two minds over it right now, but that was an interesting excursion into color space. It would need to be a deeper magenta, that one was just too pink, particularly in the sun. Now, granted, I didn't paint it on very thick so that has a bit to do with the way it looks also.

Phil

[Noel Tidybeard]

i think Aconite is the colour you require

http://morrismarina.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/aconite.jpg

[PhilA]

1 hour ago, Noel Tidybeard said:

i think Aconite is the colour you require

Aconite is nice but if I'm doing that kind of shade, I prefer Black Tulip.

It's a much more red shade of purple. Aconite is quite blue.

Phil

[Noel Tidybeard]

31 minutes ago, PhilA said:

Aconite is nice but if I'm doing that kind of shade, I prefer Black Tulip.

It's a much more red shade of purple. Aconite is quite blue.

Phil

yes that is the point aconite is betterer!😁

or Amaranth if you want to go mad!

[PhilA]

Just found 3 of these in the undergrowth.

I'll keep looking for a 4th.

 

[eddyramrod]

I have a pair of 1980s Plymouth dog-dishes left over from my Gran Fury.  Sadly only a pair though.  Not much help, sorry.

[PhilA]

26 minutes ago, eddyramrod said:

I have a pair of 1980s Plymouth dog-dishes left over from my Gran Fury.  Sadly only a pair though.  Not much help, sorry.

I have a feeling that's the case with these. 3 there because one's gone.

 

Buuuuuut, it does show that look is a good case of "yes please". Shame, those ones are aluminum and would polish up nicely.

 

Phil

[PhilA]

Alrighty, I think I've settled on a color.

Hellraisin.

[djim]

That colour is incredible, I thought you were joking with the name at first. 

[PhilA]

5 minutes ago, djim said:

That colour is incredible, I thought you were joking with the name at first. 

Nope, they've gone back to giving the colors interesting names.

[djim]

I'm sure you know this but that colour was apparently called Blackeye originally and I can see why. Your Fury would look amazing in this!

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[PhilA]

12 minutes ago, djim said:

I'm sure you know this but that colour was apparently called Blackeye originally and I can see why. Your Fury would look amazing in this!

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Apparently it's hard to paint, and even harder to touch up when it chips... But, on a big flat sided car it works. 

Usually it's coupled with matte black but I'll be going the other way and using chrome as the detail instead.

Phil

[MorrisItalSLX]

17 minutes ago, PhilA said:

Usually it's coupled with matte black but I'll be going the other way and using chrome as the detail instead.

My Hero.

[PhilA]

I reckon that's good enough.

Lessons learned from this exercise:

I do need to make a smaller die for the shorter ribs. The metal doesn't stretch too badly, that test piece is a bit steel drum only because it had the big first test rib in. I hammered that flat so the panel warped slightly as a result.

Phil

[PhilA]

Welding unit, get.

Electricity get.

Welding, sort of. Just using 0.8mm flux core there, trying to get my technique dialed in (coming from stick arc welding, MIG is kinda different) and getting all the settings correct on the machine.

Practice, practice, practice.

 

Just tidied all that mess up in the garage. Ready to make more.

 

Phil

[Rod/b]

Aren’t you going to shower the car in weld splats? 

[PhilA]

58 minutes ago, Rod/b said:

Aren’t you going to shower the car in weld splats? 

The glass on the back end of the car is either removed or wound down.

Plus I was shielding most of it. The doors are still barricaded shut and the nail in the front left tire has shifted meaning the damn thing goes flat in about 2 hours. I need to pull and plug that.

The weather's been cycling heavy rain and bright sunshine approximately every two hours so that doesn't leave much time to push the car outside and work.

I'm trying to re-learn welding now- I learned using stick arc, and the method for that is way different to that of MIG, and the gasless flux core welding with the electrode polarity reversed gives a strange arc.

I'm trying to get used to the settings- a good thing that it's quite adjustable. A bad thing that also it's quite adjustable! I was getting close to a halfway decent, flattish bead that didn't want to burn through the steel last night but ran out of time.

Phil

[PhilA]

Got fed up with the driver's side front tire going flat every couple hours.

Okay, there's the problem.

Pulled it out and for sure, it was leaking badly.

Went bought a plugging kit from AutoZone.

One plug later, put 32psi in it. Let's see if that stays inflated. Hopefully so, it was becoming tiresome to have to put air in every time I wanted to move the car.

 

Phil

[PhilA]

That seems to have worked.

Water blew in under the garage doors, it was stormy last night.

 

Phil

[2flags]

This looks awesome. Your skill level is amazing.

[PhilA]

Just now, 2flags said:

This looks awesome. Your skill level is amazing.

No, learning as I go!

[Jenson Velcro]

How does the tyre plug work? What, if anything holds it in place. I’ve seen ones that look like mushrooms that are pulled through from the inside and the head is stuck to the carcass, but nothing like this.

[Saabnut]

I have one of those kits and use it for tractor and lawn mower repairs. They are illegal for road use in the UK.

Basically a string of rubber is coated in glue and pushed 90% through the hole from the middle, then the tool is pulled back which mushrooms the string against the tyre until it pulls through the tool. You then trim the ends. I have some mower tyre repairs that are still good a couple of years on.

There are videos on youtube showing how to use them (something like "string puncture repair" I think)