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Location: Finland | That`s some nice tig welding there....beautiful work... |
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Location: California/Wisconsin | Well done work! Thanks for sharing and keep posting as it gets further along in restoration and completion. |
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Location: Beaumont TX | That's going to be a beautiful car.... Great work on it... |
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Location: So. Cal | Very nice TIG welding indeed! Why does the ?water?blaster have light coming out of the end of it? |
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| It is work light, hard to see. Water pressure is 2600 bar.
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Location: So. Cal | I had to translate your bars to psi: Wow, that's 38,000 psi! I've never heard of water blasting before, but I like it. It seems to remove rust quite well too! |
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Location: D-70199 Heslach | Nice work you have done until now Sahnu. One question, is "Fritte" Jan F from Malung Sweden?
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| Yes, Jan from Målung. Do anyone have lock rings on photo.
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Location: Finland | I lift my hat ...those reinforcement spots on both ends of the rocker panels are beautifully done.. |
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Impressive metal work Olli.
You could probably sell those brackets if you made more.
Whether or not, you could turn a profit would be another thing.
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Location: Finland | Absolute worldclass work! But what are you going to do to the surface rust ? |
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| Next week starts doors and ohter parts puting sit well. Timo has done grate body work. Thank you very much. |
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Location: So. Cal | I'm impressed that he's painting inside the panels before he welds them on. I do that too, but amazingly, few people do. |
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Location: Southern Sweden - Sturkö island | Impressive work, this will be a fantastic car once again |
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| Imperial is now on my garage. We are doing some final body works before sandplast.
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Location: Southern Sweden - Sturkö island | I got a recipy for my cars color Blue grass wich is very accurate to the original paint.
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