And here is an example for business owners about the power of not doing the
right
thing. That guy will not be in business much longer...
Greg Burrows
Thomas - Sweden wrote:
> On the subject of metalworking. I had my '65 Silvia
> at a bodyshop to get the bodypanels copied for
> my other car, or so I thought. He asked for a $1K
> deposit and the work should have been finished
> a month later. After a month and half I went there
> to take a look but the only thing I found there was
> 6 small pieces that I could have done in a couple
> of hours myself. Okay, so then he say's "I promise
> the work will be done by early June". June comes
> but now he say's I can not visit because of (put
> all excuse's you can think of here) so I say if the
> car is not done by August 1:st I will pick it up and
> the money must be returned. Today I took my trailer
> and went to take the car home. We are going to
> discuss the money next week but if I dont get at
> least half of the money back I will send a couple of
> Yugoslavian bodybuilders on steroids to visit him. I
> have to find another metal fabricator but this time
> if I see as much as one beer can in their shop, empty
> or not, I will look elsewhere as I wont ask another one
> that just might be another useless beer belching slacker.
>
> I also went by a fibreglass supply warehouse and
> bought 150 lbs of polyester, 50 lbs gelcoat and a
> 125 foot roll of 3/16" thick coremat. I will at least
> make fibreglass moulds of the body and I will consider
> using fibreglass to make body panels. One thing I have
> seen recently was a German restoration shop that
> did a full body mould of a 300 SL Gullwing. I dont
> know what they used to make body jig from but
> the fibreglass was strong enough to use as backing
> to hammer out the sheetmetal to the correct shape.
> It looked like some dark clay they had put inside the
> body to make it stiff and solid as heavy steel. Polyester
> and portland cement perhaps? Does anyone have a clue?
>
> Thomas
>
> PS. I do drink beer sometime, but never at work.
>
> aaron atkins wrote:
>
> > I just picked up a book that every car person should have. "Ultimate Sheet
> > Metal Fabrication". It talks about English wheels and hammerforming, and
> > all this cool stuff that will take me a week to digest. I never realized
> > how easy it is to do the stuff the pro's do (at least they make it sound
> > easy". If you get a chance check it out. Very informative book on the
> > basics of working in sheet metal relating to cars.
> >
> > Roadster content.
> > Hand-hammered fender flares here I come.
> >
> > Aaron A.
> >
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