When shaving your handles do you guys make your own plates or can I buy them? I am looking to shave the handles and locks, gas filler, taillights (inner), and the antenna. Any help would be great!
-Brandon
everyone makes there own i made a set awhile back for the trunk and it was pretty easy.
What about slight bends like the handles? They have a little arch in them.
-Brandon
use a scrap door or just hand bend them
In Loving Memory of Phil Martin December 14 2005
you really dont have to worry about shaping them, because when you start to fill it in with kittyhair and bondo you can shape it all out then.
^^ I don't recommend that. If you don't shape it and just weld a flat piece of metal, you would be using about 3/8" of "kitty hair" in the center of the filler plate. It doesn't take but 30 minutes maximum to shape a small curve in the plate. Don't take the easy way out...
Sommer wrote:you really dont have to worry about shaping them, because when you start to fill it in with kittyhair and bondo you can shape it all out then.
HELL NO!
as for shaping them, a hammer is your best friend
Jacob & I bought some filler plates for the inner tails on the trunk off of eBay for cheap.
But as for the rest, we will be cutting our own out from scrap. But yes, if you don't get that slight bend in there, you're going to have to use filler to make it look right. And it's going to eventually crack. I've seen people use hammers to shape it, and I've seen people just bend them with their hands until it looks perfectly curved.
The idea is to try to use a LITTLE filler as possible (but I'm sure that you knew that.
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-Crystal
id do the cardboard cutout to sheetmetal. then metal finish it if u know how and can. weld it on. grind the welds. re-metal finish. and thro a bit of plastic filler (bondo) if you cant metal finish it. i hate using plastic filler if i dont have to.
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