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It's going to look great, just be patient with the sanding.

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Mabe red would be better

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Good work, this is going to some truck, hope the girls like it!

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Thanks, soon I am going to have the girls start helping, especially when it comes to wet sanding and putting it back together.
Good to see you got on the board.

I am currently working on the passenger side door. I sand blasted it down to bare metal last night and then patched a piece of metal on the bottom where it was really thin. Ill try to post some pictures. It was actually a truck door that i cut down to make a blazer door. Darn it though I did not notice the blazer doors had an extra part around the latch and threw the old one away.
I guess I will have to find one down the road.

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This door is rust free and almost dent free. I did have to weld up some holes where several other types of mirrors were mounted. I know it is a lot of bondo but most of it will be sanded off.

Good to have a sand blaster to get inside the parts like this (last pic)

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Great job it looks really clean, what blast media are you usiing?

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The media is just fine sand. cheap!!
If you get board one night, or day. read this build thread. amazing work all the way around. http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=426382
Are you working on anything lately, fstway?

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Not doing much work on the Jimmy but it is snowing here! Sorry for the guys up North, probably not as big a deal, but around here it is not as common. In fact in just a couple of days it will be back up to the 60s

Kinda weird, this is at 900 at night, it should be very dark but it looks like day time.

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Snow in Texas? I would think it's about as rare common as snow in Western Washington. Fun to go play in tho!!!

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Not much still going on with the truck, but I did start back on the door. I think this is the last of the bondo I will have to put on it. And I cleaned up the side mirrors. The PO decided to camo these along with the rest of the truck. Not show quality but good for a driver. I also picked out some of the best crome vent windows I have and cleaned them up as well. Still have to install the new rubbers. On to the pics.

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Looks Great! sweet attention to detail.

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I painted the door jams and inside with the Harbor freight special HVLP Spray gun but it spit and sputtered as I did. Then I went to the pawn shop, and look what I found. Score! Sharpe Razor 1.4 tip HVLP. Much more smooth and better flow. Great gun. Now its time to block and prime, block and prime, and on and on.

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I decided I needed to blast some parts and did not have a blaster, so I decided to try and make one. This is the start. Why does it always turn out bigger than you plan, or is that just me...

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Working forward on the sand blast cabinet, have it almost done. Here are some pictures.

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I ordered the seals gloves and other items on line from a Made in the USA company, and the walls are made from 14 ga metal. Probably a bit of overkill but if i was going to do that much work I figure I want it to last.

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that thing is sweet! :metal: have any plans to make one that you would want to share?

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Thanks Jonesky2. I do not have any plans for it, I just kind of made it up as I went. I could post some things I would have done differently though and mabe some details on the sizes of the items. It is 3 1/2 feet wide, so I should have just made it 4 feet and not waste the half a foot of metal.

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all the details you are willing to give would be sweet. I would much rather build one myself than buy one!

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I have not posted in a little while. I have been busy doing other things, but have recently started again. I took off the whole front clip so I could fix some rust issues on the radiator support below the battery. I was going to order the part but just made it instead.

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I also ordered a battery box, just the bottom part, as you can see the old one was rusted a bit.

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I also ordered in a door skin. It was a triplus?, and the quality was very good in my opinion. However they sent me two, I guess just in case i messed up the first one?
Anyway. cut off the old skin, blasted the old interior of the door and then primed and painted the inside. I then fit the new skin seam sealed it and then tapped the edges to a crimp. time consuming but easy fix over all..

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This is the test fit 1st pic, and the result after installed..

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I have also been putting the blast cabinet to good use, and blasted every part i could think of that i wanted black, that i had off of the truck at the time, then primed and painted them all at once.

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awesome thread. I love the attention to detail. Very too reference, particularly on the rear panel work. Keep the pictures coming!

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Thanks bambbrose.. More pics coming as requested.