The Enemy of Dust

During and after the woodworking and shop prep the dust situation was bad.  We tried to be clean. Kept things blown out and swept up but I still came back to quite a coating on everything.  Not to mention a great deal of the parts tools and stuff was pretty dirty on moving in. I installed a little blower in the back wall to provide positive air flow and built a filtration contraption, which I call the Enemy of Dust (EOD)

As I process parts, IE scraping polishing grinding wire wheeling and making a mess I knew I would need a system for controlling air born debris.

Primary filtration is from a metal furnace screen on the inlet which also serves as a flame screen.

The fan moves about 250 cfm and discharges into the secondary filter.  That filter is a very fine dust filter that also fits my shop vac.  This works pretty well.  I run it when ever I do anything that stirs up dust.  

After cleaning, sweeping and dusting with the unit running I blow the daylights out of the whole shop with a leaf blower.  Let the EOD running over night and came back in the morning to a clean shop.

Shop Prep

Got to build a shop if you want to build a car.  I have leased a 1200 sq ft shop space and prepared it for Mabel's arrival and rebuild.  Added some insulation, built some wood shelves, and bought some used shelf units.  Wired in the air compressor and plumbed it in.  Stashed an office back in the corner, got internet service installed and installed a cell phone repeater. This is 10 minutes from home, has good light, and is heated. No water or sewer but I had a porta potty installed out back.  Laid down some gravel along the side for more parking.

The body Shop

Mabel went off for some professional body work, and lived there for almost a year while other commitments were tended to.  The work there was absolutely fabulous.  A new floor pan and all the bracing as well as rocker panels were replaced and welded in as new.  There were numerous patch panels welded in and an assortment of additional doors and fenders were  scarfed up for renewal parts.  The best fit up was achieved not from replacement fenders and doors but they made good replacement patch panels. It sometimes took two doors to come up with one that was not wasted and yet fit well.  The end result is that all the original doors and fenders are back up on the car and fit like (or better than) original.

The body was also reinstalled onto the frame. The frame had been substantially overhauled and painted. As noted in a previous post, new front disk brakes and renewed front suspension and control as well as new springs all around.  It was put back to a full rolling chassis. 

Everything received a good coat of primer and paint.  It is all currently black colored with a good durable top coat.  I will be building the car back in black.  But the top coat in place can be finished and painted in any color scheme we want (TBD)

Going to be Tired

For now we are going to use her old tires.  Got some rims on the way and will polish up the hubcaps.

She's being Framed

Rebuilt front end suspension, new brakes, new leaf springs, and a rebuilt rear end.  Going to have a "Rolling" frame soon.

Going for a ride

This is the first sunshine she has seen in quite some time.  Quite the project to get her down off the blocks, rolled outside and loaded onto the trailer.

Gonna get Blasted

Delivered her to blast shop on Valentines Day