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Just thought I would pass this on in case others grind outside like me too. I was cutting the grille apart right at the end of the day. Just getting another thing done quickly, like you do sometimes. Packed up went inside and 30 minutes later I thought I could hear the neighbour's bike idling away. Took no notice until I heard the window in the kitchen suddenly smash. My wife took a look and shouted FIRE! I just raced for the front door and around the side of the house to find flames right up into the eves! Ran for the hose and got the fire out quick smart but just glad we were home. I had fitted cement impregnated weather boards which are fire resistant. If I hadn't we would have lost the house for sure! Sparks had set some wood chips alight under the barbeque stand that I use to put the grinder and tools on. The stand caught alight and then set the window frame on fire.


Had spare boards so replaced the scorched ones. Cut part of the window frame away and replace it.


Wasn't going to risk another wooden stand this time! Decided to make a new bench instead. Re-purposed the neighbours swing set for the two main beams. Cross members were made from someone else's bed frame they had thrown away. Also added some flat stock supports that came from our old balcony railing.


Laid 1/2" thick fibre cement board down and then 3/8" thick floor tiles for the top. Nothing fancy but it is now fire proof and will serve its purpose well enough. Going to replace the wood chips with crushed rock soon too.
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Glad to hear you and family and house are ok, and disaster averted. You did well to put it out, top effort. So many times it doesn't end so well.


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Oh wow man!!
I'm glad no-one was hurt and everything turned out well. So, so lucky.

Ironic, too. A house two blocks away, burnt down, just the other day, Wednesday.

What a wake-up call, though..... wouldn't it have just been easier to "come up" with the idea, of replacing the wood chip with crushed rock?

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Made up a new batch of citric acid to strip the rust for all the remaining panels. I use 1kg acid to 10 litres of water. That is about 1lb acid to a gallon of water.


I hadn't stripped the over spray inside the roof channel here where some red oxide paint was. When you pull it out it looks like the acid hasn't done anything as you can see the rust above it as well.


A few seconds with the pressure washer and it is like this. Just a few bits of red oxide left and all the rust gone. Paint has to be a bit flaky or have rust under it to work come off in the acid though. Good paint will stay there.


Love seeing the difference it makes. Can see the 'tide' mark clearly.


Half a front guard done.


A week later the rest.


Free of rust now as the rust left beforehand was even after a strip disc had been over it and couldn't remove it. Blasting would not have got it out of the seams either which acid does a pretty good job of. If it can soak in there, it should remove it. No warpage risk as well.


A popular custom mod is rounding the corners of doors and bonnets etc, not sure if it suits the boxy Willys Truck or not? Here is a version made by Mitsubishi that has similar doors but a CJ3B front. Gives an idea what it would look like.
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I'm still astounded by the performance of the acid dip.

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I reckon you should round them off Marcus, at least the bottom corner that's exposed when the door is open. Reason is, I still have the scars on my right knee from Western Star doors. Regards oldon.
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Having a quick go at the roof.

Just marking out the original size of the roof panel using a spare one from the 58.


Then laid out the one I had cut up earlier to be 9" wider and 7" longer than stock. The rear is wider still due to the shape of the roof.


Because the cut was made in the middle and not at the highest point, you can see how it wont flow and end up with a big flat spot if a panel was just fitted in between. I knew this beforehand but I'm pancaking the roof anyway so it doesn't matter. The 4 even sections makes this laying out easier.


Raising the rear panel 6mm-1/4" evenly brings it all back into line.


I looked at raising both the front and rear panels edges 3mm-1/8" as well, but it makes the highest point move forward.


So decided just the rear panel lift looked the best.


Now for the pancaking or sectioning of the roof. I have always thought the stock profile was too high so had this modification planned right for the start. I also want to reduce the amount of wedge shape the side profile has. To this end the front will come down 25mm-1", the rear 38mm-1.5". The packers are 1/2" shorter than that as a new 1/2" flange still has to be bent along the bottom edge.


So this is what it looks like before the flange has been turned. I'm not entirely happy with the amount of crown at the back still, though but am on the front panels.


Putting a front panel inside a rear one shows that there is 13mm-1/2" more crown in the back panel compared to the front. It is an inch taller in the corner but 38mm-1" in the middle.


So left the 25mm-1" rake front to rear but have now made it so it has the same crown left to right.


Happy with the profile now.


Flange still needs to be turned so overall will drop another 13mm-1/2" yet.


Was a good way to get rid of all those spot weld holes too and some rust pitting as well.


So rather than put a huge cross right across in both directions, I will be making a whole new centre panel instead with 4 smaller infill panels. This will stop a massive amount of weld shrink concentrating right in the middle of the roof which is the last place you want it. It would suck the whole centre downwards and be much harder to planish it all back up again at full arms reach.


Next thing will be wheeling a nice smooth matching crown into the filler piece. Hoping someone can give me a hand to do it at the next metal meet as it is a two person job.


Can see the crown that needs to be wheeled in across the front too. Be nice if I can get help by someone with more experience than me on a bigger panel as only done small ones so far.
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