0:03 hi this is chuck from monocoque metal
0:04 works today
0:08 i'm gonna tell you how i glue bonnets
0:10 you know this used to be a well-guarded
0:13 secret of mine but i've realized that
0:15 there are way more bonnets in the world
0:18 and i can do myself so i might as well
0:19 tell some of you guys
0:21 how to do it if this spawn is a little
0:22 funny looking that
0:25 makes sense this is actually a series
0:26 two bonnet
0:28 that has been converted to series one with
0:29 with
0:31 covered headlights series one turn
0:33 signals we've removed the series where's
0:35 my finger there it is we've removed the
0:36 series two
0:38 uh turn signal pod so it's all series
0:40 one except it's got a big series two mouth
0:41 mouth
0:44 but the gluing part is exactly the same
0:46 now what i've done is i've done a
0:48 complete test assembly here
0:52 um you'll see this is a 60 pound bag of lead
0:52 lead
0:55 shot and it is holding this side down now
0:56 now
0:59 one of my things that i tell people but
1:01 i've kind of violated here is
1:04 don't force the bonnet into shape in any
1:05 way because it's going to want to pull
1:07 that glue apart
1:10 but this was just a very loose riding up
1:12 here of this piece and so i just need
1:14 something to hold it down so that i've
1:15 got a nice
1:17 tight glue gap here while i'm doing the
1:20 gluing that won't cause a problem later
1:23 you'll also see i've got some wires here
1:26 on the headlamp diaphragms that is
1:27 because you want
1:30 this to be straight across here
1:32 and if you don't do that as you're
1:34 lining everything up this tends to want
1:34 to like
1:37 bow out here quite a bit and it'll end
1:38 up putting
1:41 this flange here over here you know well
1:43 not that far but it'll put it out here a
1:45 little bit so you don't want that
1:47 so i've got everything just the way i
1:49 want it i've got a nice even
1:51 gap here about an eighth of an inch
1:53 sometimes they're closer sometimes
1:55 they're farther
1:57 i will mark these flanges you can kind
1:58 of see this one here is marked a little bit
1:59 bit
2:02 um and i will
2:05 put a lot more marks on these and i'll
2:06 pull everything off
2:09 the diaphragms will come out completely
2:11 with these two flanges
2:13 bolted onto them and they'll stay bolted
2:14 on the diaphragm
2:16 kind of makes a mess when you put it in
2:18 and it'll smear glue
2:20 in here but that's okay you can clean
2:22 that all up trying to put those flanges
2:26 on by themselves is a major no-no
2:29 when you put the bonnet together you
2:31 and when you're gluing and everything
2:33 you want to do the diaphragms with their
2:35 flanges on
2:39 first then do the mud shield flanges
2:41 that one and this what we call the
2:43 heater flange here
2:46 then do these four i usually start in
2:48 the front and then didn't do these two i
2:50 always end up doing the long one last because
2:51 because
2:53 for some reason it has given me trouble
2:55 in the past so i kind of
2:58 put it off um you can see i've got some
2:59 marks here
3:01 on the diaphragms already and i'll put
3:03 some more marks down
3:06 um what i am going to do next is
3:09 i'm going to put tape on the bonnet and
3:10 use it as an
3:12 edge i'll put the glue in and then i'll
3:14 peel the tape off
3:17 stock they had a very messy glue job but
3:19 i just can't handle that that's not the
3:21 way restorations go now
3:24 so we give a nice clean edge of glue on these
3:25 these
3:29 the glue we use here's another secret
3:33 is this 3m marine adhesive
3:37 it is the 4200 in black
3:41 do not use the 5200
3:42 you will never get it apart if you have
3:45 problems and when it dries it cracks
3:48 this is just like the original stuff and
3:50 it's the same color it's got just the
3:51 right strength
3:55 do not use panel adhesive
3:57 so many guys have thought oh i'm going
4:00 to use the modern panel adhesive that'll
4:01 just work great
4:03 major nightmare i'm not even going to
4:05 get into what the problems that causes
4:07 you see i've got my acetone out i've got
4:10 a whole roll of paper towels
4:12 i've got a 10 pack of these blue nitrile
4:14 gloves and like another maybe
4:17 six or eight i hope that's enough you can
4:17 can
4:19 easily go through 20 rubber gloves on
4:21 this job because you typically have to
4:22 take them off and
4:27 do a cleanup between every flange
4:29 here as you can see i have done a lot of
4:31 bonnets with my trusty cheap caulk gun
4:33 here i mean i must have done
4:36 20 or 30 bonnets with this um it's got a
4:37 lot of
4:40 the adhesive on it and there's a good
4:41 reason for that
4:43 this stuff is going to be everywhere
4:44 when the job is done
4:47 i'm a little neater than i used to be
4:49 but it makes a big mess
4:52 so i'm going to get ready now i've got
4:53 to tape these off and
4:56 mark them and then take them all off
4:58 i'll do another video here and kind of
5:00 splice it onto this so you see what's next
5:01 next
5:10 okay so real quick now i've wiped this
5:11 all down
5:14 and i have taped you see i've i've
5:18 marked here
5:19 right here i put these marks in here to
5:21 tell me what level to go to
5:23 now if you can go down a little further
5:25 once you get the glue in there
5:26 that's okay but you don't want to go
5:29 bananas because then all your four
5:30 you know your four pieces in here might
5:32 be at different levels and right now
5:34 i've got these all set to kind of the same
5:34 same
5:37 eighth inch you want that to be uniform um
5:38 um
5:40 what i didn't mention before you might
5:42 note that or you should note that
5:45 i have put a good quality etch primer
5:47 everywhere the glue is going to go
5:49 because i have found that the glue will stick
5:49 stick
5:53 better to well etch primed metal
5:54 than just bare metal but this is
5:56 sandblasted metal so you'll probably be
5:57 all right the
6:00 only time i've ever had an adhesion problem
6:01 problem
6:04 with this glue is
6:07 when i didn't prime and i didn't sand i
6:09 forgot to do anything and i was dealing
6:10 with a flange that had been run through
6:12 a planishing hammer so
6:15 it was like a mirror on the it was like
6:16 chrome on the underside
6:20 and after i took the bonnet apart
6:24 for priming with epoxy it sat around and
6:25 one of the pieces popped off the wing
6:27 because it was under pressure a little bit
6:27 bit
6:30 otherwise no no adhesion problems with
6:31 this whatsoever
6:32 so you do want to get a little etch
6:34 primer down and what i've done next is
6:36 i've put a two inch
6:39 wide piece of tape here this is the 3m
6:41 blue tape with the little green writing
6:43 it has this stuff called
6:46 edgelock you gotta get that don't get
6:47 some other cheap
6:50 version of the blue tape and i am now
6:51 going to put a piece of
6:54 one inch in here i'm going to put it
6:55 right in here and i'm going to lay it
6:57 off this little bit so i get a little
6:57 bit of an
7:01 angle here when i when i do my gluing
7:02 and that way after i get the glue
7:04 smeared in there i can pull that one
7:07 inch piece up without screwing this all
7:09 up and i'm gonna have newspaper and
7:10 stuff taped in here too
7:17 okay oh wait a minute this isn't working right
7:20 right
7:23 okay i have now put in the
7:26 one inch tape and you can see i have
7:27 stood off
7:29 here by a little bit because as you can
7:31 see there's a gap
7:33 and so you want to be able to have like
7:35 a little 45 degree angle down there
7:36 because the adhesive
7:39 will shrink a little bit it doesn't
7:41 shrink like crazy
7:43 but it will shrink a little bit and so
7:45 you want to you want to just stand off a
7:47 little bit and if the gap
7:49 is wider you want to stand off a little farther
7:50 farther
7:53 usually i stand off just under an eighth
7:54 of an inch
7:57 see down here where the gap was wide up
7:59 here i'm farther away where the gap
8:01 is real tight down here i'm down there
8:02 those little wrinkles are
8:07 stock they always have those um
8:10 and so oh what i will do now is i will
8:12 pull the diaphragms out
8:15 with these two flanges remaining on the diaphragm
8:16 diaphragm
8:17 and i will pull all four of these
8:19 flanges out i will pull this heater
8:21 flange out but i will leave
8:24 this flange in place and when it comes
8:26 time for me to do this flange
8:29 i will put a tip on the adhesive and i will
8:30 will
8:32 pump it under it's kind of a pain but
8:34 it's better than taking this all apart
8:36 i'm trying because that flange is on the
8:37 back of this one in the front of this
8:39 one and then you undo that
8:41 and sometimes there's tension one thing
8:42 i did want to mention is
8:46 this stuff um can die on the shelf and
8:47 harden up in the tube
8:49 and so what you want to do is keep it in
8:51 the refrigerator
8:53 and this is in a plastic bag i just
8:54 pulled this out of my refrigerator a
8:56 couple hours ago
8:59 this is a tube that i used halfway and
9:01 taped up so that it would seal it from
9:02 the air
9:04 put it in this bag and put it in the
9:06 refrigerator i have about a 50 50 success
9:07 success
9:08 rate on being able to use them on the
9:10 next bonnet so we'll see what happens
9:11 when i open that
9:14 it takes about a tube and a half to
9:19 do a bonnet do not start the job without
9:22 four tubes at your disposal because
9:24 you don't want to get rolling on this
9:26 and then open a tube and find out it's hardened
9:27 hardened
9:31 and uh you're sunk so
9:33 buy four tubes send two back if you're
9:35 just doing one
9:37 alright let's move on to removing the
9:45 okay i am ready to start gluing as you
9:45 can see
9:47 i've put some paper down here that i got
9:49 from the craft shop next door usually i use
9:50 use
9:52 newspaper but i forgot to bring some
9:53 over here today
9:56 um the diaphragms are out
9:59 and all the flanges are out except for
10:01 that one over there
10:02 the diaphragms are over here they've
10:04 still got their little wires on them and
10:06 the kinks are going to put them exactly
10:09 where they were before
10:11 this is going to look really ocd here but
10:12 but
10:16 these are the bolts and washers and screws
10:17 screws
10:19 that hold everything in and i've lined
10:20 these up
10:22 by flange i actually have never done
10:24 this before but this is a good idea because
10:25 because
10:26 usually i throw all this stuff in a pile
10:28 here and i'm just
10:31 rooting through it um which is tough to do
10:31 do
10:33 when you've got rubber you know blue
10:36 nitrile gloves on your hands
10:39 covered in this adhesive uh
10:41 this is what we call our assembly
10:43 hardware you can see it's been used
10:44 many many times these aren't even the
10:46 right oval washers i think these are
10:47 used for
10:49 toilets actually but i've got thousands
10:51 of those sitting around
10:54 um these are original screws there some
10:56 of them have been sandblasted some of
10:56 them haven't
10:58 but you can see they've all got the
11:01 adhesive and primer and all of that
11:04 all over them because things get very
11:05 messy and you're about to
11:09 see that um i have opened up the glue
11:10 that i used half of
11:12 last time and given it a little test
11:14 smear on here
11:17 came out a little stiff at first because
11:18 it's still a little cold from being in
11:19 the refrigerator but it's
11:22 okay you can see how it's shiny and
11:23 smeary and what you
11:27 really want to see oh see
11:30 i just stuck my fingers in it but that's
11:30 what you want to see
11:34 actually see how um it's got what i was
11:35 going to show you is
11:39 see this little tiny smear there and i
11:40 got it on my fingers and see how
11:44 see that that's what you want
11:46 because you see that you're going to
11:48 want to smear this
11:50 in to the edge after you put it down and
11:52 then pull that tape up
11:55 so this glue is looking real good if you
11:56 open one of these up
12:00 and it's not like that don't use it
12:02 it's already started to harden up so
12:04 i've got everything laid out here i've
12:06 got tons of paper towels start with a
12:08 full roll of paper towels
12:11 20 of these gloves have a
12:13 gallon of acetone ready we've got a nice
12:15 little plunger thing there
12:18 um and you're all taped up you've got your
12:18 your
12:20 your stuff down here i mean you could
12:22 wipe you could scrape off the glue after
12:24 the fact but it's just a lot messier so
12:25 i put this down
12:27 and we are gonna go ahead and get started
12:28 started
12:32 um i can't do it and film at the same time
12:33 time
12:35 i'll try to get some intermediate things
12:37 but what i'm gonna do to start out see i don't
12:38 don't
12:41 have any tip on here i'm just
12:43 squeezing it's kind of sucked back in there
12:45 there
12:47 see how it's coming out it's very hard
12:48 to squeeze this you'll get quite a workout
12:49 workout
12:53 i am gonna go right onto the flange like this
12:54 this
12:58 without any tip and go ahead and really
13:01 cover that flange and then mash it down
13:03 that's how the stuff goes everywhere
13:06 so let's go ahead and get started and
13:10 i will give you um you know a mid-level update
13:11 update
13:13 i did want to mention it has taken me
13:16 two and a half hours to get this far
13:18 since i did the first video and i
13:19 haven't been messing around i've been
13:21 doing i've been just working on this
13:24 it's usually all in the prep it'll now
13:25 take me about an
13:29 hour to glue all the flanges and then
13:31 yeah half hour 45 minutes to clean
13:32 everything up
13:39 okay i've put a nice big bead
13:42 of the adhesive onto the flanges
13:47 that are bolted down hard to the
13:48 diaphragm well actually those aren't
13:50 bolted down quite that hard but that's okay
13:51 okay
13:54 and um we are going to stick this in there
13:54 there
13:57 and this is going to smear out all over
13:59 the place and in the back we're going to
14:00 leave it and in the front we're going to
14:02 smear it along that tape line and then
14:03 pull the tape
14:06 up you can see i've got this held in an
14:06 old vise
14:09 because it takes two hands to work that
14:11 caulk gun
14:13 so here we go if i get through this
14:15 without covering this phone with this
14:22 okay i've got the first diaphragm in
14:25 you can see it makes quite a mess um
14:27 i missed a little bit this one came out
14:29 great went right where it was supposed to
14:30 to
14:33 this one kind of landed here and it's
14:35 it's very hard you always have problems
14:37 up in here the way that i do it with
14:38 keeping these on the diaphragm but
14:40 believe me that's the easiest way
14:42 so i ended up having to pull it back
14:44 pump some in and that's where you start
14:45 seeing a big mess here
14:47 this is this is how you want them to
14:50 look um it's got a nice see where i've
14:51 pulled the tape up it's got a beautiful
14:53 little seam there
14:55 some is slopped over the edge but we'll
14:57 clean that off with a razor blade after
14:58 the fact
15:01 now over here a lot is slopped over the
15:02 edge but again
15:04 that's not a concern that cleans up
15:07 easily with a razor blade after the fact
15:09 this is what you want to see on the back
15:11 side i don't know how well this will
15:14 show up see a nice bead kind of glopped
15:15 out there
15:19 so you know you've got a good adhesion
15:22 and i'll just show you up in here um
15:25 i made sure that there's enough coming
15:26 through up there
15:28 right here it's kind of touching and
15:31 that's okay it's it's fully under there
15:33 um and then it's coming out here as well so
15:35 so
15:38 one down i went through four gloves
15:40 getting that little episode done
15:43 and now i'm gonna do the other diaphragm
15:44 one trick is you're gonna be
15:47 smearing off to get this nice neat edge here
15:48 here
15:49 you're gonna end up with a whole bunch
15:51 of this on your finger on the glove
15:54 go ahead and come over here and just
15:56 wipe that on the next one so i kind of
15:58 kind of got all the all the way over to
16:00 here with excess from that and then i
16:02 just went and put a bead on there
16:05 so now we're going to put that in
16:12 okay here's the other side in this one
16:14 worked out a little better but about the
16:16 same it's it's very tough to squeeze it
16:17 in here
16:19 so you know don't worry about this
16:21 that's not really stuck to anything
16:24 let it dry and then get it off later
16:26 and again anything that's slopped over
16:28 you can scrape off with a razor blade
16:30 nice and neat we usually scuff these all down
16:32 down
16:34 because we take the whole bonnet apart
16:35 and then epoxy prime everything and then
16:37 put it all back together with finish
16:38 hardware but
16:41 you must do the diaphragms first forgot
16:43 to mention this because when you put
16:45 them in
16:49 they shove these walls in
16:52 if you if you do these first and then
16:53 put the diaphragms in
16:56 or even the diaphragm flanges it's going to
16:57 to
16:59 shove the walls over and mess up what
17:00 you've done here and it's going to mess
17:01 it up
17:03 after the glue has started to dry which
17:05 is a big mess
17:08 got to put the diaphragms in first so
17:09 they're both in now
17:10 now we're going to put in our heater
17:13 flange which is right over here
17:15 sitting in the vise it's got all the
17:17 on it left over from the smearing here
17:18 here
17:20 and then we're gonna pump glue under here
17:22 here
17:30 okay when you see the long one done that
17:34 means i have completed the gluing
17:37 so they're all in now as you can see
17:40 i made a big mess like i always do
17:42 because you're constantly getting glue
17:44 on your fingers and then you have to
17:45 you know you got to wipe wipe it
17:48 somewhere so i just wipe it all over these
17:49 these
17:51 pieces of paper like i said usually use newspaper
17:52 newspaper
17:55 all the tools have the glue on them so
17:57 they will all get wiped off with a
18:01 heavy duty shop paper towels and acetone
18:03 that takes this stuff right off
18:06 while it's wet so you got to do all of
18:07 that right now
18:11 um came out pretty good i've had better
18:14 but this came out good um i've had much worse
18:15 worse
18:18 and when it's worse it's real bad
18:20 because then when it goes bad you got to
18:21 take it all off you got to wipe it all
18:23 down with astune that takes your etch
18:25 primer off and
18:28 it just turns into a big mess you need
18:30 to be in the right frame of mind when
18:31 you do this
18:33 i was tired when i started and that
18:35 wasn't good but i was afraid to have a
18:38 cup of coffee because i'd be too jittery
18:41 so um i will probably
18:45 continue this once i get this all
18:46 cleaned up
18:49 and uh will also show you guys the whole
18:52 scraping and sanding and how that goes
18:53 so i don't know when i'll actually get
18:55 this whole video together
18:57 but i think this was a good thing to do
18:58 to help people out
19:00 so hopefully you're learning i know
19:02 there's a lot of information in here and
19:02 it's not all
19:04 organized i'm just mentioning things as
19:06 i think of them
19:09 but this should help this is how i do it
19:16 okay we're all cleaned up i've wiped
19:18 down all the tools over there
19:20 drag the trash can over and pull this
19:21 all up
19:23 and of course some of the tape sticks
19:25 especially where it's on the etch primer
19:27 it really likes to stick to that so you
19:29 got to make sure that all gets up
19:32 um here are all the flanges glued
19:34 see there's you know a little little bit
19:37 of a mess right there but that's okay
19:39 it'll all get scraped down you can see
19:40 we got nice neat little
19:44 edges um 72
19:48 hours people don't rush it
19:53 uh technically 48 will do but
19:54 i find that a lot of guys doing it at
19:56 home tend to have thicker
19:59 glue because they don't have the ability
20:01 to adjust the metal pieces
20:04 as as much as we do here and on the real
20:08 thick glue you need more time so 72
20:09 hours i probably won't touch this for a
20:12 week we've got plenty of other things
20:15 to do this is what you want the back
20:16 sides to look like
20:18 and this is kind of what the stock ones
20:21 look like but you will find that
20:23 i've pumped this in from the other side
20:24 remember i said we don't remove that flange
20:25 flange
20:28 it's very difficult to get that look
20:31 you know we've gotten that here and
20:35 see over here see how i kind of had a
20:39 a miss and then a slide in
20:41 i see this all the time on factory bonnets
20:42 bonnets
20:46 see how we've got a nice bead there
20:48 even even over i don't know if i can i
20:49 can get you
20:52 over here see
20:55 back in here got a nice bead
20:58 to hold that in place
21:01 um series twos are nice because the
21:04 mouth is big you can stick your head
21:08 right in here um without getting caught
21:10 on a series one
21:11 you have the tendency to stick your head
21:13 in and then once your ears go in you
21:14 can't get your head back out
21:18 so be careful um
21:20 there's a nice bead there for this so
21:22 we're looking real good
21:24 real good there's a nice little bead for
21:26 the heater flange now you'll see where
21:29 this is just factory glue here these
21:30 fenders were actually in pretty good
21:32 shape but it was coming apart a little bit
21:32 bit
21:35 and so i stuffed some new glue in there
21:39 this is always harder to do and so
21:41 we will have to dress this up and sand
21:43 it a little bit this stuff
21:46 actually sands
21:48 pretty well i don't want to say sands it
21:50 sands off pretty well
21:52 we'll scrape this off with a razor blade
21:54 here where it's on the flat surface
21:58 so there you go uh next segment will
21:59 show us
22:01 disassembling this and cleaning up the glue
22:07 okay i'm back it's been five days now
22:10 that the glue has been drying and
22:12 you're really supposed to let it dry 48
22:15 hours i always give it at least 72
22:17 but we've got enough stuff going on
22:19 around here that i can let it go over a weekend
22:19 weekend
22:21 and so that's what's happened so i'm now
22:23 going to take this all apart
22:27 and i'm going to scrape off this top
22:29 layer of slopped over
22:32 glue so you'll see what that all
22:34 looks like i sand it down a little bit
22:36 and just get this
22:37 real nice and then this whole thing will
22:40 be scuffed down and ready for epoxy primer
22:40 primer
22:42 so i'll show you when it's apart and we
22:48 okay now you can see i've disassembled
22:50 the bonnet i've left the wings
22:54 bolted up we don't have the spacers on
22:56 this bonnet because this bonnet is not
22:57 going to have the chrome strips going
22:59 down there or bumpers it's kind of a
23:00 high performance bonnet
23:02 um i probably mentioned this already a
23:04 million times but this is also a series
23:06 two that got converted to series one so
23:07 you can still see the weld seam from these
23:08 these
23:11 uh conversion flanges as you can see out
23:12 here it's all
23:15 smooth so but now you can see what the
23:16 glue looks like
23:20 it's it's sitting in a nice bed of glue
23:21 this has been five
23:24 days so it's nice and strong and cured
23:26 you can see where i always make sure as
23:28 i'm doing it i'm getting this nice
23:31 bed of glue pushed through out the back
23:32 so i've got a full
23:33 width of glue in there again here was
23:36 just a little touch up now
23:38 i mentioned earlier as i was doing it i
23:40 missed on this one
23:42 um this remember these flanges were
23:44 bolted to the headlight diaphragm when i
23:46 put it in it kind of went in on an angle
23:47 like that and smeared a bunch of glue there
23:48 there
23:51 i see this on factory bonnets all the
23:52 time they did the same thing at the
23:54 factory sometimes
23:57 so i will just leave this uh you know
23:58 you could cut this
24:00 and scrape it all off it's not hurting
24:02 anything it's unseen it's
24:04 semi-correct anyway so you can see
24:05 actually this is an area where we had to
24:06 do a lot of work
24:09 um so these are all ready to go now what
24:10 i'm gonna do
24:13 is i'm gonna come along and i'm going to scrape
24:14 scrape
24:17 this off with a razor blade and then
24:19 sand it down and i was going to show you
24:21 a different one but i think this is a
24:22 good one to show so i'm going to
24:25 hand the video off to brent he's going
24:26 to hold that
24:29 and video me scraping it and sanding it
24:31 to show you what we're going to do with
24:32 all of these
24:33 this is where it gets slopped over now
24:35 you can see on this edge
24:37 i have you can see the edge there
24:39 because i was i remember i took my
24:41 finger and i ran it along like this
24:43 but now what i'm gonna do is i'm gonna
24:45 take this razor blade
24:47 i'm going to run it along there like that
24:49 that
24:53 all right and we're just going to scrape this
24:53 this
24:58 excess right off
25:00 all right we will do more in a minute
25:02 but then i want to also show you after i
25:04 get that off it's just got a
25:08 very light almost a stain of excess glue
25:10 now i come along with a piece of 100
25:15 grit sandpaper
25:18 and i sand that off
25:20 and see now here's the end [Music]
25:25 [Music]
25:28 picking up a little bit of a of a mark
25:30 in the actual
25:37 sometimes you gotta like trim and scrape
25:38 a little bit
25:40 all right and now we're just gonna stand
25:42 make sure you don't sand the glue that
25:43 you want to keep
25:46 just kind of stay up here on this top
25:47 edge of the metal
25:49 get all that glue off [Music]
25:53 [Music]
25:57 boom see we haven't touched this at all
25:57 and now
25:58 that doesn't have that shiny look
26:00 anymore because it's all dusty but i
26:02 will wipe this down with a wet rag
26:03 before we're done
26:10 like
26:12 okay now i'm going to show you how i'm
26:14 going to scrape off this excess glue
26:16 with a razor blade and sandpaper now you
26:16 can see
26:18 you can see the little edge there from
26:20 where i've run my finger down with the
26:21 rubber glove
26:22 and just smeared it right along remember
26:24 i told you we always offset it a little bit
26:25 bit
26:26 because if you get some shrinkage you
26:28 don't want it shrinking up under
26:30 and i take a razor blade i put it on the
26:32 top here
26:35 and i just run it right down
26:37 holding it nice and flat against that metal
26:39 metal
26:42 okay like that here's a little piece up front
26:47 i'm gonna take that off come down in
26:47 like that
26:49 you go through about a dozen razor
26:50 blades doing this because as you're
26:52 scraping along the metal
26:56 edge you will dull them up pretty quick
26:57 see i'm not taking anything off the back
27:00 or the side just getting this top
27:02 sometimes a little trick is you can
27:04 scrape like this
27:07 and that will really take that off look
27:08 at that
27:11 beautiful all right let's see i'm just
27:13 doing a little scraping like that
27:15 boom you want to buy these razor blades
27:17 in a box of a hundred so you got
27:20 tons of them all right
27:21 that's all off now i'm going to take a
27:24 piece of 100 grit sandpaper
27:27 i'm going to come down along like this
27:28 you can see it's taking off some of the
27:30 etch primer but we'll put a little bit back
27:31 back
27:32 one trick you want to know is that the
27:34 etch primer
27:37 i put that back down on top of the cured glue
27:38 glue
27:41 just to make sure my epoxy is really
27:42 gonna stick
27:44 sometimes the epoxy is a little bit more
27:46 of a harder brittler
27:48 primer although the stuff we use is nice
27:50 and flexy
27:52 but you just want to make damn sure that
27:53 epoxy is going to stick to that now come
27:55 out to the side there
27:57 see i got a little bit of mess up here
27:58 because i had that glue
28:01 all over my fingers as i was doing this job
28:02 job
28:04 so i'm also going to run the sandpaper
28:06 up here
28:10 like this you don't want to press super
28:11 hard but believe me that
28:14 puppy is glued on there it is not coming off
28:15 off
28:18 all right so now i stand at the top
28:23 [Music]
28:27 all right that one is done now you just
28:31 gotta go along and do the rest
28:34 okay i have finished the scraping and
28:37 sanding i wiped it down with a wet rag
28:40 so you can see what it looks like now
28:43 we've got a nice smooth and even amount
28:44 of glue
28:46 showing it was a little messier
28:48 originally from the factory
28:51 but i like it this way um
28:55 and there you go that's just how i do it
28:57 like i said this it's got a nice it's
28:58 always got a nice amount
29:01 on the backside here so next what we
29:02 will do
29:04 um it gets hot and hectic when we're
29:06 doing the priming and everything
29:08 so we'll probably jump to like a
29:09 finished bonnet after this
29:12 but i will see this is the like a
29:14 greenish etch primer
29:16 i will put more etch primer over this so
29:18 that all the exposed
29:21 glue has a little etch primer on it and
29:23 that really grabs onto the glue and then
29:24 we will go ahead and put two coats of
29:26 epoxy primer on everything
29:29 apart and then we will reassemble the
29:30 whole bonnet
