Recent content by Potmetalman

Thanks for asking. 6 going on 7 years ago I was doing experiments with pot metal/spelter Long story short, skipping over time and expenditure I wish not to remember, I developed a method to weld pot metal. Along the way and after 37 years, I was forced out of the auto restoration industry for...

Those were that good ole days of body shops. Today, very seldomly will shop owners allow employees to being in their own projects to work on them. If they can't make money every inch of floor, they're not having it. It's a damned shame how selfish our world has become...

Welcome Brother. ...When I was in high school in the 80's, a good friend of mine had an orenge and white '70 Superbee. It was a resto-mod his Dad and him did. It looked almost stock except for the running gear and wheels. It was one of the nicest daily-driver cars around for the time.

Welcome Brother. Good to have you. =)

That's how you do it brother. Research, Youtube Collage, and the will to jump in and do it. With metal, mess-ups can always be restored!

Yep. Sit on it until you're ready. Otherwise if you sell now, you'll cry later and it'll cost 4 times of that you sold it for. True story brother...

Man, If I could find one of those for $5k, I'd buy in a second!! My Dad has wanted a '68 since he was a young man.

I may be able to help you with that? Can you post some photos of the achors that need to be removed?

That is interesting. What's going on here??

The problem with painting them together, with today's materials it's so thick and unlike liquor it continually shrinks over time. This system doesn't work over seams. It will delaminate over a short amount of time. Although wrapping the material around the edges of the parts helps this not to...

Pot metal will be on the grey side. Also pit metal has copper a magnesium in it making it much heavier then aluminum. Aluminum on the other hand is lighter in weight and in color and when side by side, they're easily identifiable.

Yikes! Not under plating my friend. Just ask a reputable plating shop...

LOL No my firend. I don't do solder brother.