Proof that not all human beings succeed at realising how awesome and patient they are within their own craft.

@D3Sshooter

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the comments

@blizteredthumbs7911

3 жыл бұрын

@@D3Sshooter pleasure

thank you for sharing I bought my almost identically damaged Lotus Elise around the same time you did and I'm almost finished now. your videos have been very helpful and extremely professional thank you

@D3Sshooter

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Ray, and good luck with yours... what is it ?

Good idea putting the car on the trailer to work like a gentleman! Thanks for sharing.

@D3Sshooter

5 жыл бұрын

Txs, that works easy.. I am all for easy work..

Very good tips there. This is the kind of thing that experts keep to themselves. Thank you for the explanation.

@D3Sshooter

5 жыл бұрын

TXS and my pleasure

Brilliant!! love that she is getting the attention she deserves!

@D3Sshooter

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks

Clever process. Good explanation

@D3Sshooter

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks, just my way of doing it... maybe not the best but it works

A previous owner of mine Elise put those sound isolator paper behind the seats. They call it Dynamat and are very hard to remove. Generally they use dry ice, but I couldn’t use it on vertical surface… To cut a long story short, the easiest way to do it was to spray it with propane. I took some small bottles to recharge the lighters and I sprayed on it. It got frozen and it broke away in peaces in no time. It may not work on those materials but it may do. It’s cheap and fast. Of course don’t light up a cigar wile you try it!

@D3Sshooter

5 жыл бұрын

Propane , Really ... scary... I can see why it worked , the evaporation of the liquid propaan caused it to col down and freeze.. I would go for liquid nitrogen less risky. But thanks for this special tip... I might try that out ( nitrogen)

@onlytheessential

5 жыл бұрын

@@D3Sshooter I use nitrogen, for work. It’s expensive and you need a special container to keep it, so it doesn’t evaporate and create a small amount of pressure for the use. Of course it reach very low temperatures and faster. With proper equipment you could actually cut all those materials in no time. Keep up the good work !

Awesome 👍🏾

@D3Sshooter

5 жыл бұрын

TXS

Would do it the same way as you are doing , trying several different ways to see which one worked the best, be interesting to see if any experienced body shop workers who do this type of work leave comments as it's something I have never got involved with . My first job was in a high class body repair shop ,steel panels ,panel beating .body soldering , paint spraying.Being young and getting bored I left after a few years to do more interesting things, long time before glued together motors became the in thing .

@D3Sshooter

5 жыл бұрын

Thans for the comments, I shared the way i do it... for me that worked out well . I am sure that there are pro's that even have better tips... So Pro's tell us as we all wnat to learn from you

Very good video, how about when I need to remove a panel intact from one car to use on another, in this case thin steel panel. Removing the damaged one first helps to understand just where the critical glue points are, then it appears lots of patience with a tool such as yours and other sharp tools very carefully?

@D3Sshooter

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, exactly , in that case use a piano string that works very well or an electrocal gitaar string

Back in the mid 90's I was working for a Renault dealer a Renault Espace mk2 came in that had been hit in drivers door , handed a glassfibre door skin and told put that on , asked how the hell I'm supposed to do that I was given a technical manual and told read that , quite surprised they recommended useing 6 self tapping screws to hold door skin in place while glue set and fill holes with glue after glue cured . A couple of years later I was working at another garage when a Renault Espace 2 came in for a door skin the job was given to a apprentice , had a chat with him told him I had worked at a Renault dealers and explained how to to do the job , he told he was not going to drill holes in a new doorskin and clamped it on , when he took clamps off skin was in wrong place , walked away laughing at him stupid little prick .

@D3Sshooter

5 жыл бұрын

hahaha, that is indeed the way we do it, glue and clamp it in place,,, I did in one of the video's on the Lotus Elise crash box replacement...

That's something Crocodile Dundee would call "A Soldering Iron."

@D3Sshooter

5 жыл бұрын

haha, yep and indeed ... maybe something to carry into the city :) :)

thanks for putting this up ! .... what would you use to remove panel bonding adhesive that remains on the surface of a painted part? I was thinking to apply a lot of soap and water m and carefully use a razor blade (to not damage the painted surface / minimize damage underneath) Acetone would probably remove all the paint.... i think ultimately the whole surface would have to be resprayed... but i am just trying to minimize damage.

@D3Sshooter

4 жыл бұрын

well I used acetone, but you need to be carefull and all depends on the paint type you have .

May I ask what make your oscillating saw is , it looks like Fein ?..Great video again .

@D3Sshooter

5 жыл бұрын

Yes indeed , its a fein... great tools... and txs for the comments

Great video, but what happened to the truck?

@D3Sshooter

5 жыл бұрын

Mark H , its coming ... I have a few projects and a full time job so I toggle between them ... Old Rusty is not forgotten, Soon it will be on the tube