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Great progress Tony! Keep it up and those rest breaks too! Gonna have you move in and work on mine! Promise I will feed you boudin and King Cake!
Thanks Andy.....the old spine is pain-free, but the back muscles where they were cut to access the vertebrae are really sore now. I'm taking today off to let them recover.
Meanwhile......here are two pics of the door edge where I'm wondering if the door skin has been "miss-repaired" previously leaving the fiberglass too thin/easily able to separate from the metal door frame........
DG,
***In my opinion***
The door looks fine...and does not look like I have seen before. The reason is that there is actually some fiberglass from the outer skin going past the point of where the steel inner structure stops....like your arrows in your photo show.
The doors I have seen will look like someone ground on the edge and ground it back til it hit the steel...thus...making the door narrower in total length.
I do agree that making 1969 door look and function like a 1968 door is...in my opinion....cost ineffective and pointless due to the amount of work required to make it happen. It would be easier getting a 1968 door instead.
P S...............the spine is great/right leg no longer paralyzed, but the incision is painful/Dr.Appoint. tomorrow to make sure it's all O.K.
In the meantime whilst the weather is good......I added another 40% to the rear of the Vette garage. The beadblasting cabinet/the portable Hurricane generator/the air compressor/the Harley Davidson/the drill press/the restroom/etc will all have a new area. It had become so cluttered I could not walk around the front of the car!
I will remove the wall that supports the A/C/then place the A/C in the new rear wall.
P S...............the spine is great/right leg no longer paralyzed, but the incision is painful/Dr.Appoint. tomorrow to make sure it's all O.K.
In the meantime whilst the weather is good......I added another 40% to the rear of the Vette garage. The beadblasting cabinet/the portable Hurricane generator/the air compressor/the Harley Davidson/the drill press/the restroom/etc will all have a new area. It had become so cluttered I could not walk around the front of the car!
I will remove the wall that supports the A/C/then place the A/C in the new rear wall.
P S...............the spine is great/right leg no longer paralyzed, but the incision is painful/Dr.Appoint. tomorrow to make sure it's all O.K.
In the meantime whilst the weather is good......I added another 40% to the rear of the Vette garage. The beadblasting cabinet/the portable Hurricane generator/the air compressor/the Harley Davidson/the drill press/the restroom/etc will all have a new area. It had become so cluttered I could not walk around the front of the car!
Great -you are feeling better!!!...BUT you need to be realistic!!!
"I added another 140% to the rear of the Vette garage."
Great -you are feeling better!!!...BUT you need to be realistic!!!
"I added another 140% to the rear of the Vette garage."
LOL.....with the slope of the back yard the slab would be 2 feet thick if I added any more to the length.
Originally Posted by derekderek
So the addition is going to be on deck-type floor instead of poured slab? So it is more workshop space than vehicle space?
Yep Derek.....strictly work/storage space because of the platform (which was designed to support up to 4,000 lbs.). I needed a quick addition because of the rain/monsoons. I will enclose the outside of the platform to keep the critters from making a home under the floor.
I'm hoping to finish the roof today before the rain hits So. La. again.
(By the time I work my way to the front of the car I should have a good idea of how to bond those fiberglass pieces you sent me!)
Last edited by doorgunner; Feb 21, 2018 at 05:27 AM.
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