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  1. Willie dog
    Love it. Great work.
  2. Willie dog
    I found my round2its next to the sky hooks a VW beetle radiator hoses.
  3. Willie dog
    Luckily Vlad, the curved part of the tank are in good shape. The lower side panels took the most abuse from the salt and junk they used on the roads during the Pennsylvania winters.
  4. Willie dog
    Ain't it though!! Welds beautiful, and you can hook the ground clamp anywhere!
  5. Willie dog
    Whatever shop you build will never be big enough. LOL
  6. Willie dog
    I don't have all the fancy rollers and benders either, wish I did though. I think I see them in my future though. So far everything I have made has been literally made by hand with a welder, cutting wheels and a nice straight, flat edge on my work bench.
  7. Willie dog
    Unf Unfortunately the bottom half of the tanker body was the worst part for rust. Plus the fact the cabinet floors were all hacked up from years of modifications. I'll keep up the posts of the progress.
  8. Willie dog
    I showed this to my wife and tried to win her over by telling her it would be the PERFECT thing to water her flower beds......sorry to say she didn't agree with me.
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  10. Willie dog
    After some time doing other unimportant things (eating, sleeping, work ) I'm back in the Mack attack. Sorry about the mismatch of the pictures. I uploaded some of the wrong ones and couldn't figure out how to get rid of them before posting. I'll do another one soon with the correct ones. Got all the frame work completed for both side boxes, fabricated and installed the floors and walls, made a couple of more doors with actual working latches. Also started mocking up the pump and counter as well as the hose reel to check the fitment. Soon the LONG process of getting the whole tank ready for primer. No rest for the weary!
  11. Willie dog
    I have used POR 15 many times. It is a great product for stopping rust and it dries rock hard. It does fade and get a chalky finish if exposed to sunlight for a long period of time. So if looks are important, you can paint over it will any color or finish you want. Do wear gloves and old clothes when applying it because it will NOT come off your skin if it gets on it. And it sticks to everything in the vicinity of what you are painting.
  12. Willie dog
    I'm interested in a decent glove box door. No latch is fine.
  13. Willie dog
    I'm in the process of doing that now. I had to at least try to cut some of the layers down to make sanding/grinding a little easier. Once i get it down some it will come off much easier. In the past, after using chemical stripper and scraping the loose layers off and a good rinsing with lacquer thinner I always sand the metal with 80 grit on a D.A. sander. .
  14. Willie dog
    I've got an old catchers mask I'm going to convert into a jock strap for future grinding jobs!!
  15. Willie dog
    Next time I'll be wearing kevlar underoos.
  16. Willie dog
    I'm gOing to send it out to have the cracks and crevices blasted. I got an estimate to have done without me removing any paint myself, just to do the tank would have been $1800. The cab will be a different story though. It will be worth almost any price to get EVERYTHING stripped off.
  17. Willie dog
    The problem with that is you gotta come back down wth the zipper. I dont' know where the spaghetti came from. Colorful though ain't it?
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  19. Willie dog
    Started removing the paint off the tanker body. Got quite a way to go removing 15 layers of paint (literally ). Also found out I didn't know what pain was until a grinding disc disintegrated at 5,000 rpm and hit me straight in the crotch. 😨
  20. Willie dog
    I still have some massaging to do along the bottom edge. I rolled it by hammer and dollie around the framework I made. The panels on the far left and right sides are made from a roof section from a '57 Chevy pick-up. They had the perfect curvature and fit the original panel perfectly. Then it was just a matter of cutting away the rotten panels and installing the metal.
  21. Willie dog
    Here's where I am so far. It's much better than the panel that was on there. Full of rust holes covered by filler and fiberglass.
  22. Willie dog
    Thanks guys. I love doing this type of work. I'll post more pics as it progresses.
  23. Willie dog
    Started putting the new rear skirt on the tanker body. It's a little rough to start with. It still needs a lot of dressing and finishing. It's not easy making a flat sheet of metal curve like you want it to without a roller.
  24. Willie dog
    It's drop dead gorgeous. It takes just as much time or more to modify from original than to restore to factory original. We can all appreciate how much work it takes to do both. In the end, if you're happy with the results, THAT is all that matters. By the way, did I mention that it's drop dead gorgeous?
  25. Willie dog
    Her face has been removed and is waiting for a MAJOR makeup session.....I'm thinking Merle Norman?

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