{"id":3508,"date":"2010-02-16T00:18:17","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T10:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.studionewmedia.com\/blog\/?p=3508"},"modified":"2010-02-16T00:18:17","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T10:18:17","slug":"uncork-the-rat-nest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/02\/16\/uncork-the-rat-nest\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncork the Rat Nest"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"IMG_0950\"<\/a>How do I spend the day after Valentines? By doing bodywork on my car and going for a mountainbike ride, hah! Actually it being the day after VD doesn’t mean much to me, but it is Presidents Day and I have the day off! So after putting it off, finally got around to start working on the windshield frame area. <\/a>Jay came over for some of the fun and we hit the antenna hole first with the stripping wheel.<\/p>\n

Oh yum, bondo patch. \"IMG_0951\"<\/a>No, wait, bondo plug. I start poking around, just how much bondo is in there!? Poke around some more, and even more. \"IMG_0956\"<\/a>OK, this is getting ugly, I go at it more aggresively with the wood chisel I had conventient.<\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

<\/a>Oh, what’s this? Alright, at least he didn’t fill the entire pillar full with bondo. There’s a nice rat nest of fiberglass back in\u00c2\u00a0there. \"IMG_0957\"<\/a>I suppose we can’t be too critical, I’m sure we wouldn’t have done much better if we didn’t have the means we do now.<\/p>\n

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Rat nest<\/p><\/div>\n

So here is what we pulled out, minus a couple chunks of bondo that fell down somewhere inside the pillar, to forever rattle around now.<\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"IMG_0962\"<\/a>Time for Scat to shine. He busts out his secret techniques and while I work on stripping back the interior, I hear him off in a corner going at it with snips, file and smacking something.<\/p>\n

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Patch perfect<\/p><\/div>\n

Kinda wish I could have watched him, he’s pretty good with forming these patches. It’s fitted up and ready to go, but we break for a St. Louis downhill run on this gorgeous Hawaii winter afternoon. It ends up being something of a little adventure, I’ll make a seperate entry for that.<\/p>\n

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Obligatory testing shot, testing of the autodarkening by flash that is!<\/p><\/div>\n

It’s just getting dark when I get back home. Postponing dinner, I pull out the welding gear, I want to get this in and covered as soon as possible before it gets too late. \"IMG_0968\"<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0Everything set, I tack it in. It goes pretty well. I burn only a few holes. Nothing glopping some more weld on there doesn’t cover up. And I didn’t set anything on fire. I guess the wet rag and fiberglass cloth worked.<\/p>\n

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Here it is with all the weld. Not pretty, I’m not going to be putting together any airplanes anytime soon, be glad, but it should do. \"IMG_0972\"<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0And some grinding makes it all better.<\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

Cover it up with some temporary paint, there you have it!\"IMG_0973\"<\/a>
\nOne monkey patch job! I’ll have to go back to it to clean it up and use some bondo, but no nest here!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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