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Progress and NEW camera ...
... yes caved in a bought a $94 new camera. Thank God!.
Welded up.
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11-08-2009, 05:49 AM
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Ahhhhh that's better....good thing you finally caved in there Pete. It's not that I don't like the psychedelic look, but I was beginning to wonder what else was going on in the garage there mate.
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11-08-2009, 02:54 PM
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Ahhhhh that's better....good thing you finally caved in there Pete. It's not that I don't like the psychedelic look, but I was beginning to wonder what else was going on in the garage there mate.
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Yes I'm much happier .
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11-09-2009, 01:05 PM
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I hope that's your MUG there Pete?....and if it is....I'd say you look happier.
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11-09-2009, 02:20 PM
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I hope that's your MUG there Pete?....and if it is....I'd say you look happier.
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 , er it was me ... I needed a way to get a current photo to work and sending it as an attachment via email kept getting rejected.
We're having a laugh at work growing moustaches, raising money for charity  .
I've removed it now so as not to scare any small children that might be budding Alfisti.
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11-14-2009, 08:19 PM
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Progress ...
... Scuttle nearly finished. Now only drivers side as a little bit of rust where the guard was bronzed to the scuttle.
The lower windscreen surround has also been repaired.
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11-15-2009, 06:31 AM
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It's getting closer Pete. What state of affairs are your doors in? Will you be doing any re-skinning on them?
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11-15-2009, 02:48 PM
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It's getting closer Pete. What state of affairs are your doors in? Will you be doing any re-skinning on them?
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Well I've made a wee mistake with the door situation. When I first started this restoration I concluded that I could not fix the existing doors and bought 2nd hand doors from America. At that stage I did not know about 1750's being split into Series 1 and Series 2 ... thus thanks to Murphies Law I ended up purchasing Series 1 doors when my car is a Series 2.
Now I've been using those doors for all the build up so far but I think I need to go back to the original doors OR convert these doors to Series 2, or swap for other doors.
Anyway you are correct the doors will be the focus soon as we are ticking off all the other issues and I cannot finish the areas around the doors until the doors are perfect.
I'm very happy with current progress, and wife appears to accept my current urgency ... so we'll keep going hard while we can 
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12-04-2009, 11:41 PM
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Finished the drivers side of the scuttle ...
... where more bronzing had caused rust and there was minor surface pitting in the top panel under where the front windscreen rubber would be, so that has been replaced. All metal, no filler .
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12-05-2009, 07:36 AM
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Amazing how much damage can be done in this area by the tin worm isn't it? And these are some of the best drained areas as well.....in theory at least.
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12-05-2009, 11:47 AM
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Amazing how much damage can be done in this area by the tin worm isn't it? And these are some of the best drained areas as well.....in theory at least.
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Yes agree. I imagine owners of these cars now keep this area better cleaned, but heck we really should not have to go to special efforts.
What continually amazes me, is how many little panels are required to make these body shells and it just goes to show how small a manufacturer Alfa Romeo was/is. Compare these cars to say a Ford of the same period and it would be like half the number of panels and thus a lot less work to make and to repair.
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12-05-2009, 03:16 PM
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Where there has been brazing/bronze welding I think the corrosive influence of the nesessary flux causes problems but this was a common method of attaching panels by panel beaters in the past with the gas plant they used so are a common source of rust to those of us restoring.
Re the number of panels compared to Ford, remember Ford were concerned with mimimisation of cost by reduction of materials, using the cheapest possible materials that would perform the task, and fewer production steps-they actually made a profit then- whereas even though Alfa Romeo were in a different market segment and should have been concerned at making a profit, the engineers tended to do their own thing without many constraints and worked more towards an engineering ideal. That`s one of the reasons these cars and the equivalent Lancias are such an attraction. They were simply built without much constraint and are in my opinion an absolute bargain. You have to buy a Supercar now to get the same levels of materials quality, and engineering ideals compared to run of the mill cars of the same era.
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12-05-2009, 11:59 PM
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More progress, scuttle now finished ...
... as the wiper mount has been reinstalled and finally the aerial hole has gone along with the rust around it. The first photo below is from within the front inner guard looking up at the patch repair to get rid of the aerial hole and shows the weld penetration (using the tack tack and more tacking until completely welded method) with patches made as close as I can to fit perfectly, ie. no gap. I'm not going to grind the weld off here as nobody will ever see it unless they remove the splash guard ... hopefully this photo will help those starting out with MIGs and wondering about penetration with the tack method .
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Lookin' good as always Pete... so what colour have you decided on? Probably missed this earlier in the thread but will you keep it original colour?
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12-06-2009, 04:31 PM
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Lookin' good as always Pete... so what colour have you decided on? Probably missed this earlier in the thread but will you keep it original colour?
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Yes original colour which was yellow oche. Wife really wants it to be red, but now (was going to be red once) think the yellow oche is awesome. I even asked James to bring his series 1 over to our house so she could see how good they look ...
Wife is thinking about moving back to NZ ... hmmm, that will be a drama for this car again. Last time it was in a container they lifted it with a fork lift and damaged the rear panel and spare wheel well. I think if we do this I'll weld a frame together that completely surrounds the shell and has fork lift points so she does not get damaged again, otherwise I feel I might hurt somebody 
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