Elle’s 1960 FB 225 mild custom

[Errol62]

I was going to paint inside the bars either silver enamel but to impatient to let the metalfix cure.


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[Errol62]

Mission accomplished


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[FireKraka]

Good job mate and I see it was Stout time dy then

[Errol62]

Yep. Lights working. Exhaust exhausting. Calling it done for now.

On to sills. The drains were mostly blocked. One had been spot welded right in the middle,so this sill is the original. Cheap unskilled labour put these together.

Pulled out a lump of tar and found this.

I’m giving it the metalfix and fibre treatment.
Let it cure a bit then another coat and close it up so I can flood the sills with the good stuff. Not stout, I mean fisholene.

I will leave the outside as long as I can before I touch it up.


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[Errol62]

The other side I not as bad but similar
Front inner had a repair


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[EK283]

Pretty good for its design and age you know !

Ive never used that metal fix, got a small job on an engine block to seat a gasket, might try it on that.

Greg

[Errol62]

Very good for original, I agree.

METALFIX is a tough, fire-retardant primer designed for application directly over badly rusted surfaces. It converts the rust into a metal phosphate within the paint film and simultaneously forms a protective abrasion-resistant skin which tolerates temperatures from minus 40 degrees C, up to approximately 1000 degrees C. The coating can be used in conjunction with glass fibre matting to repair non-structural rusted holes in surfaces including steel water tanks, gutters, roof panels, and the trays of utilities or pick-up trucks. METALFIX will take any type of topcoat.

Above taken from the website, but I disagree with the last sentence, which is why I use enamel over it.


FB ute fixer upper, EK van on rotisserie