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what restoration aspects do you all want to learn?
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Uncle Joe
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 2:29 pm    Post subject: what restoration aspects do you all want to learn? Reply with quote
Which aspects of restoration do you all want to learn? Coachpainting? Rust repairs? Body soldering? Wood framing? or something else? Question Question
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Standardsteve
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 3:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I guess it would have to be coach painting, I was lucky to learn lead loading and welding when I was young from an old pro now long gone but have always fancied a go at coach painting.
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Uncle Joe
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 3:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
standardsteve, I guess that there are going to be more than you with that answer...is there anything else? Now lets see what anyone else says!
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buzzy bee
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 6:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I need to get better at electrics, painting, coach painting, lead loading, ash framing.......
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Brian M
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 8:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Having tought myself to mig weld and able to bend and shape metal to a good standard, I would really like to be able to put the final coat of paint on.

Many years ago I rebuilt an early Range Rover and tried to respray it myself. I couldn't get a good finish - thin paint, runs or orange peel, so my son, who was then aged about 15, asked if he could have a go.

I sanded down all my work and gave him the gun and seemingly without effort he put on a first class paint job!
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Old-Nail
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 9:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Anything at all Joe, I am notoriously ill informed as to all aspects of good practice when it comes to restoration.

Whatever you choose to put up would be beneficial to me!
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Uncle Joe
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 12:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I wasn't really thinking of posting anything, but I suppose that it could be possible on the main site, if Rick was in agreement.

The trouble is, I tend to be a bit of a perfectionist, and therefore a bad teacher!

One thing that I have been thinking about lately though, which in a way contradicts the teaching thing, is to find someone suitable to pass on what knowledge I have...I'm not getting any younger! Exclamation
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Old-Nail
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 2:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
You mean a 'grasshopper'?

(known only to persons of a certain age or kung fu fans!)
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Uncle Joe
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 3:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Aah, but which one of us is grasshopper?
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Standardsteve
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 6:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Ah that's the other thing I wanted to learn - how to walk on rice paper! Ive already branded the standard badges on my arms. this also will only make sence to the older ones amongst us.
Standardsteve
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 7:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
yup, you lot have lost me entirely now Very Happy

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buzzy bee
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 9:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Me too! Confused
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Old-Nail
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 1:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
When you can snatch the spanner from my hand.... it will be time to leave! Laughing
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Uncle Joe
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 5:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Standardsteve: I guess that the master could teach you to walk on rice paper...did grasshopper ever manage it?
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buzzy bee
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 6:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
UJ

I would love to learn some of the tricks and tips you must have been given/found out over the years, the type of things that make jobs easier that no one is willing to teach you?!?

Cheers

Dave

P.S... I haven't heard about your book for a while, hows it going
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