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I was wondering what that was supposed to look like. When the holes weren't lining up did you spend a lot of time rearranging and second guessing your ability to follow directions? I would have lost hours to that. Great progress overall. I like lurking here and learning about it.
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Absolutely put a diagonal piece across the back. Like a wooden gate might have. Wedge it fully between the top and bottom rails. 
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Jul 21, 2020 19:34
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If those welds are bad I should probably put my welder up for sale. I think they look good especially for welding onto sheet metal, which can be so easy to burn through and tricky to get thicker stuff welded onto. I has some small angle that I was welding to sheet metal, actually thick stuff, 18ga, and half of the welds were sticking to the sheet and wouldn't penetrate the angle.
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Aug 23, 2020 01:00
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I was just thinking about this thread. Nice work using the van for its purpose! If those are your takeaways it's pretty drat solid overall eh?
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Sep 19, 2020 03:56
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Blacknose posted:Covid lockdowns across Europe make this basically impossible sadly. On the plus side I have a mortgage not rent so hopefully that money isn't lost forever. Yeah so lazy that you built out an entire van, pretty quickly too. You should be at peace with it. The truly lazy are sitting back watching TV all day.
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Sep 21, 2020 20:36
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Blacknose posted:Yeah, I'm lazy in the sense of disliking 'work', but have done work I'm very proud of in my spare time for free - coordinator/mechanic at a bike co-op, ran a community space used by loads of left/arts groups, animal rights stuff, trained at a left wing boxing club and helped with workshops, Cool stuff I'm not gonna discuss. Shame I've never made a penny off any of it and never will. We would get along.
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Sep 21, 2020 21:08
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This was an outdoor spray job using a low voc paint and a turbine sprayer. Most of the paint went on the truck and I don't have little orange flecks all over the driveway and house, the overspray really is less on turbines. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3864300&pagenumber=8&perpage=40&userid=0#post510307462 And I definitely don't hate it. If I was just respraying I bet I could have knocked it out in a couple weekends. I could bring it down to one long weekend with single stage paint if you can get it. The clear really did add a lot of sanding and polishing plus the clean and spray time. Of course a van is a lot more square footage, so each step is going to take time. The actual spraying time is probably very close to the rolling time. Just like inside the house, all the time is in prep.
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Jan 13, 2021 00:06
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Blacknose posted:I've been following your thread and I've got to say your truck looks great. I know very little about painting so will look into what a turbine sprayer is and what the advantages are, thanks for the tip. Oh thanks! I wasn't sure. I doubt you'll want to buy a sprayer for one job. I justified it as a comparison to getting a pro paint job for two or more cars and I think it was fun. Perhaps you know somebody with one or to rent or something though. Mine was about $700 and I dropped another $700 on paint and supplies. Of course now if I find another $500 Celica like I used to have I can buy $300 in the cheapest possible paint and zazz it up.
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Jan 13, 2021 02:31
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That looks very nice. Clean and simple. But what happened to the OP? Why didn't they post the pics?
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Jul 11, 2021 15:57
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CaptainTofu posted:Excuse the double post, but I'm thinking the van would look better with black wheel centre caps rather than grey. Anyone have an opnion? It would look better with grey wheels and black center caps.
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