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Posted: 5/2/2008 7:37:28 AM EDT
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Hey guys, I just started working on one of those "Rusty Devil" Romys from Centerfire and its in pretty bad shape, and needs alot of TLC. I have been using a bench grinder wire wheel to take off most of the rust but in the areas where rust was the worst, there are now rust pits. Although cleaned now, is there anything that can be done for "filling in" those pitted areas for a smooth finish later? Anyone have experience smoothing these pitted areas? Any help would be much appreciated. |
| there is a heavy coat primer called POR (Paint Over Rust) it is a thick coat of epoxy primer and fills in the small pits that you always have on old car frames. i used it on my 26 ford coupe and it filled up the small pits on the lower door panels and lower fender |
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LOL its funny you should say that... I spent an hour with a large punch, hammer and vice and made 0 progress... hit |
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Until I went to a build party and saw it done, it's hard to describe. TxDogblaster put the trunion on the edge of the press plate, put the brass rod on top side of pin and hit with a 4 pound hammer, everyone moved first time, every time. He then went to a punch to drive them out, I'm talking about a brass rod about 3/4 around flat on the end resting against the barrel pin while clearing the raised portion of the trunion. |
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Wow hock.gif Thats nuts... but hey, whatever works right. As for me... im buying a shop press very soon so i hope to have some success pushing it right out. gunthings.com has some nice $19 barrel pin adapters for most presses. Im thinking of ordering one. |
one of these days, I'll p;ost pics.. You need to use an anvil, and a big hammer, and you need three different punches to get a pin out. a 1/2" x one foot long rod, to start it, a 1/2" rod with a 1/8" inch long x 1/4" diameter "punch ground onto the end of it, to get the pin recessed (so your normal punch won't MISS) and a normal 1/4" punch to finish it off. 
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| Use a press. No hammers, no punches, no mashed thumb, no missed swings, no banged up parts, no drilling, no replacement parts, no broke vises, no problems. I have yet to find a pin I can't press out in 3 minutes with so much as breaking a sweat. Plus i can drink a beer at the same time. But if you like swinging hammers and doing caveman building to each his own. I never have to replace a single part or tool though. |
i use the gunthings tools also, makes cake work out of pins. Just say no to hammers! |
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