Date:         Mon, 24 Nov 2008 17:11:25 -0800
Reply-To:     Loren Busch <starwagen@GMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Loren Busch <starwagen@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Body work question
Comments: To: craig cowan <phishman068@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To:  <d1ea9acf0811241543l20c8daa4n9cafb749ac083d01@mail.gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8

RE: "Lead Wiping" was pretty well replaced with Bondo and such many years
ago.  But I can recall watching a body man doing lead wiping on the fender
of a car when I was a kid, visiting a shop somewhere with my dad.  Guy was
using a heavy glove and a pot of molten lead, picking the lead up on the
surface of the glove and wiping it over the surface of the fender filling in
the dimples.  At least that's the way I remember it.

On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 3:43 PM, craig cowan <phishman068@gmail.com> wrote:

> They used to (and still do over seas i'm told) use Lead as a filler. You
> pound the metal accordingly and then take a large inget of lead and flow it
> over the entire area. Once it's hard, you take a file and file it until you
> start planning the surrounding metal. That's another part of the "lost
> art".....
>
>

------------------------------------------------------------
+    To unsubscribe from the Vanagon List send an e-mail to
+    listserv@gerry.vanagon.com with SIGNOFF VANAGON
+    in the body of the message.
------------------------------------------------------------