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[Spridgets] You can't go home again

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Subject: [Spridgets] You can't go home again
From: andrewpayne@intrex.net
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 22:56:59 +0000
Some of you may recall my introductory tale of buying back the Midget of my 
youth, some 15 years later.  Well, today has been a sobering day.   I have very 
slowly been stripping my '76.  I have not had much time to work because my WRX 
has been taking most of my time, requiring a new transmission, radiator, and 
shocks this calendar year alone.  For some reason working on a daily driver is 
less satisfying than working on the MG.  But today I set into the paint, HF 
angle-grinder in hand.  It was not long before prepping the metal became 
looking for metal. Some panels have a half inch of filler over seemingly sound 
steel, while some areas were all bondo. Eventually, I started grinding through 
filler simply looking for boundaries for patch panels.  I was pleased to find 
that my patch panel was still very clean some fifteen years on.  The most 
offensive item was the left rear quarter where some dpo had cut out the lower 
two inch portion of steel from door to mid wheel arch and replaced it with 
bondo over great stuff foam insulation!  Yes, my car has more plastic than Joan 
Rivers.  
I am dumbfounded, who could possibly think this is ok? I will admit, I have 
been looking for cost cutting solutions to the wheel arches, but still 
involving steel.  You know flat steel bondo'd to shape or with racing style 
arch flares.  I just don't know.  Anyone have a good cheap arch solution? 
Lastly, what are the ideal grinding wheels for paint and bondo? I have been 
using a wheel from HF that looks like a grill scrubbing pad.  It seems to work 
well and faster than the hard grinding wheels.  The problem is that I think it 
will take about ten, and at six bones a pop, they will add up.  If there is a 
better wheel I'd like to try before stocking up.
Cheers,
Drew
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