I agree bondo sucks.Although I've been told that the "new" generation of
bondo doesn't absorb water by body people. But seeing that It's still made
out of the same stuff (polyester resin & sawdust) as the bondo I had used 25
years ago I think that all they are trying to do is allay my fears until the
check clears. Due to my hatred for bondo I migrated to epoxy mixed with
glass micro spheres which is harder to work & more expensive but I do have
areas of my roadsters where the paint has peeled away & the epoxy is still
there with no bubbling or rusting below it after 25 years outside in humid
Florida.
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 11:00 PM, Fred Katz <roadster@astound.net> wrote:
> Finally got around to doing body work on Blondie, my 70 1600 daily driver.
> Sitting outside in San Francisco fog weather for 10 years took it's toll.
>
> A section of the passenger rear quarter panel was rotting away, along with
> the trunk lid. Before I bought it 11 years ago, it apparently was in an
> accident and a body shop "repaired" the damage by overlapping and welding
> together pieces of donor metal, covered by plastic bondo. After I bought it,
> I did some superficial cleanup and painted the car yellow. A couple years
> ago the bondo cracked, let water in, and the metal rotted and started caving
> in. Then i saw the lousy job some repair shop had done, overlapping metal
> with deep gaps and covering with thick layers of bondo. Rather than pound
> out dents, they covered them with bondo.
>
> Because the lower half looked okay, I decided to replace the only top half
> of the quarter panel and the trunk lid from a donor car . I cut off the top
> half quarter panel. Then decided to fix the trunk well behind the wheel
> inner fender, as there were some holes there. It looked like just a small
> piece of new metal should do it. As I started sanding away the paint from
> the lower fender behind the wheel well, I ran into bondo. Lots of it, from a
> 1/8 to 1/4 inch thick. And lots of rotted metal. There were stitch weld
> spots all over, tying together multiple pieces of metal. Grrr! Like swiss
> cheese, rusty holy metal held together by tons of bondo.
>
> In hindsight, I should have planned on replacing the entire quarter panel,
> not just the top half. But I'll create patch pieces and make do. But I'm not
> going to put tons of bondo on; I'll repair with metal only as much as
> possible. I hate bondo!
>
> Fred - So.SF
> 70 1600 "Blondie"
> 66 2L "Loosie"
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