With the outriggers ready to fit we start to remove the chassis from the jig, it will be reblasted, colour coded primed then have all the closing panels welded on.
Will be watching this one with interest. Seems that over the past ten years, the level of detail people are going to, in order to restore van's has ramped up to a whole new level! Who say's you can't do a 'body off' on a type 2 :lol:
So moving on with the restoration and we need to make more panels and sections to repair the poorly repaired cargo top floor area (bulkhead fuel tank area).
First up we had to make a pair of dies for our Pels machine (pullmax type) then after this was complete do a few test runs before starting on the repair panels.
Some photos of the areas that need repair, yes the complete rear of the bus is off and upside down after being blasted.
The machine we have is a Pels it's like a pullmax, a huge Pac-Man looking monster that has an adjustable heavy duty hammer, by making a die you can make most panels, but you get into the realm metal art so you need to be able to shrink or stretch metal in certain points or areas for the pressing to work. Other machines like English wheels and shrunken/stretchers, folders and rollers are needed.
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