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We're broadcasting remotely today; we're doing our update remotely. Because we
can't get over the bridge to Pennsauken.
because of the hurricane. Those of you who are familiar with Hurricane Sandy, know what I'm
talking about. But, we did get a call.
uh... Minerva is ok. The shop is ok; nothing's been damaged. We're going to have to
work with what we got here. So, today, what we're doing is the door skins and the
front nose. On these older cars, they're a lot less complex than the uh... newer
cars. Newer cars have
side impact airbags, they got a lot of electronics, they got weatherproofing,
soundproofing. With Minerva, it puts a lot different; it's simpler. Pretty much, you
just have the door frame and you have the door skin. The door skin is the outer sheet
metal, which was really rusted out.
So, what we're going to do is we're gonna drill all around the edge. That's gonna
allow us to removed the existing rusted door skin.
And then we're gonna get an aftermarket piece; and I told you what aftermarket parts were in the last
video.
and we're going to weld that back on. In addition, we're also going to be
replacing the front end of Minerva.
- Again, an aftermarket piece. This piece spanned about eight years, which means
the bodystyle on the front is
different than the Type 2 1972 that Minerva is.
So, we're gonna have to weld over
the front vent because we're not going to be using that vent anymore. This was used as air
conditioning, but
we're actually gonna have air conditioning in Minerva, so we're not going to need that anymore.
And also the seal, the front emblem,
the VW logo, that was raised
in this new piece and it was not raised on Minerva.
So we're gonna have to kinda hammer that down a little bit, smooth that over. And then
we're going to hang it on the front. The sides of this piece need to wrap
around where the door is. So you're gonna see us kinda hammering that in, it's gonna fold it over.
And then we're going to do what's called spot welding or resistance welding.
You basically uh... run high current in between two pieces of sheet metal
and what that does is the resistance creates heat and that heat fuses the
two panels together.
The reason we want to use that, one of the reasons, is it doesn't create a
lot of heat
compared to other methods.
And what this will do is it'll keep the warping of the panels down, it also
allows us to move a little bit faster along the edge. We're also going to use
panel bond, it's a 3M product. It's a two part. You're going to see it mixes
through the tube
and that two-part will harden in about eight hours.
You put that around the edge and on the front part of the door skin so that when
you lay that panel on and after you're done welding,
eight hours later you got a nice bond that's not gonna go anywhere. That will last for
pretty much the life of the vehicle.
You're also going to see that we want to make sure that the metal is treated. Any
exposed metal
we wanna make sure that we cover that up so you're gonna see us spraying it down with kinda like a
greenish color, which is going to protect that bare metal so that no more
chemicals or rust can get to it over time
That's before we put this nose on. So, here we go.