Blasting the Morris Mini shell #2...This is HARD!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 พ.ค. 2024
- Ive been working my way through media blasting the 1969 Morris Mini shell, and it's not as easy as it looks! Its getting there, and we're finding good and bad, and built a new spray booth
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Great video Mat. My biggest worry is picturing Mrs Furious wandering around your back garden looking for pegs for the washing line😂😂
I would have it dipped, personally I think the advanges of dipping far outweigh the dissadvantages of future paint problems around seams. Perhaps I am watching this just thinking how long it.s going to take compared to all your other projects. Full marks for determination
Totally agree- With personal experience this is so much hard work, aggro, and mess - and a Mini would be perhaps be a reasonable cost to have been mobile soda blasted or dipped.
Dip and strip is the way to go! Easy and gets into all the crevices
@@722garage9 it's great, as long as it does get fully out of the crevices too!
Minis arnt great for dipping, too many traps that hold the dip until after its painted
A friend had his Cooper S (genuine) dipped years ago. Then he got a body shop to paint the shell. I do remember the bodyshop had it on a rotisserie and they told me when we went to visit the job that they needed to drain many crevices. One thing I remember was the panels (the undamaged ones) were very easy to paint because there was zero damage to the metal.
check the heel board (where the front of the rear subframe bolts on to) there will probably be a fair bit of grot there. This is the repair that causes many mini's to 'crab' down the road.
I was hoping rustival 2 might be further north this time! Never mind, one day maybe!
Well done Matt. This is my favourite car on the channel, and it's going to be a delight to behold when it's finished. It will be worth the effort, these cars are so special...
Thanks for the update Matt, the Mini is progressing nicely. 😊👍
Some great progress Matt, uncovering more issues now is far better than finding them out after a full repaint. I remember my 1st Mini, a 76 model 1000 that was so way beyond its best before I got it in the 80's. The gearbox had lost synchro on 2nd and drove with less urgency than a slug going up hill with a bad back on salt. It was my 1st car and I knew little better at the time. The front floor had more perforations than a teabag that I only noticed after removing the continually drenched carpets (well if you could call what was left a carpet) that if you put an inspection lamp under the car we had stars showing inside the roof! I had new front floors done but the car moved on some months later. Many thanks for sharing.
Wahoo back on the mini. The hard part is getting all that paint off. Can't wait for rustival ! Ticket booked for vdp
BIG project on a small car, but that's restoring in a nutshell! Love the series, keep it up Matt.
Lo Matt, all the bits iv'e seen that need repair are bits that is always going wrong. Watched big EDD a few years back and he completely hacked one to bits and found that there was not a lot of good bits left. The problem with minis is that they got a great press(Paddy Hopkirk ) and all that but a couple of years down the line and people realised that they were rust buckets.Rust free ones of that era are rare. Good luck with that one . Once again your refusal to be beaten is commendable. Laters 🙃
Back in the day if you had a rusty mini it was common to re-shell it. I did one myself after a prang on a rally - I must have been mad but I was a student and had limited funds. It was also possible to buy a new shell from BL and from memory in the early 70s they were about £400 quid. Fast forward to today and we have rusty wrecks that need a hurculean effort and bags of money to fix. I admire the tenacity of those to take on these challenges but it is love not logic!
Love a bit of Car Archeological digging on a Sunday morning Matt , nice detailed body history 😉. Matt gotta say bro , am so glad they didn’t have you working on the Covid Vaccine 😂, with that Isolation tent leaking like a sieve we might have had a Worldwide epidemic 😂, oh we did 😂. Yeah very hard work and now warmer weather and no extraction of dust 🥵 is going to be a long old slog , great vid Matt 👍🏻.
Well done Matt a great update and the progress on the mini is really coming on now
If U ever decide to bare metal another car,save. A fortune using fibre stripping discs on a grinder.theyre about £20 for a pack of 5.they removed filler and paint,but don't mark the metal.i stripped my A30,and used 4 discs.i did make the suggestion in an early video.
Damn Matt Mrs wanted me to mow the lawn right now 😂, guess now I have to watch your vid first now 😏, she won’t be happy ☹️ but when is she EVER !!!!! 😂👌🏻
Its a hard life!
Tell me about it 😂😂😂😂
When I started in the job , like 40 years ago it was not unusual to grind off rust , grind the heart of the active rust , dimple it , treat it with a corrosion inhibitor and then use glass fibre filler if it was perforated and then Body filler and maybe fine stopper to smooth the damage out , this was routine on seventies / eighties stuff sometimes multiple areas on one panel , As my game moved on [ and the job and the repair materials changed ] I was now putting metal where the fillers went , but still you needed to use filler to remove imperfection or get some shape back , as good as you are with metal it is no insult to use fillers just be sure it gets no moisture from behind , good metal work you just use less filler , it is what it is applied over that counts .
Great to see the Mini again. And well done for perservering with the blasting of it. It would be awesome to see it at Rustival 2.
You will find compressing the air will produce moisture. So drain the compressor every night after use. I modified my compressor using an oil cooler to cool the air as it left the compressor and before it entered the reservoir. It worked almost perfectly and my water trap removes to small amount left. A gate valve is a type of tap, normally brass with a compression fitting each side (but there are other designs) screwing the tap knob lifts and lowers a flat piece of brass that stops the flow (this is the gate bit). Sorry but it's hard to describe one without a picture.
Matt, I was watching another video on another restoration channel where the guy was blasted Ng an old Datsun down to bare metal, and he was using walnut shells as a blast medium because apparently it's a lot less likely to cause warping.
Also, I'm not sure if there's a significant cost difference, but if it's a lot less surely it's a win/win for you? 🤔
My wee MK 4 Mini (AUTO) OOOOOOOOOOHH gets picked in a couple of weeks after 12 years off the road. to get what ever it needs. 1. I'm not physically able 2. I cant be arsed 3. But yer videos scaring the living outta me.........Awk its only money
Retropowercars have literally just put up one of their uncut episodes the same day as you have put this up and it features tips on media blasting.
IOll have to give that a watch!
Nice to see another video on the mini Matt. That lower quarter repair section is very common to see. I imagine there is loads of head distortion hence the filler. Looking forward to seeing more on this 👍 this car at rustival! Do it!
It looks like theres a ledge to the lower bit, so maybe a lip on a repair panel. Either way it all needs to come out!
What a nightmare of a job!
Your sand blasting efforts are admirable....apart from the blocking issues you are having seems to me the jet from nozzle could be better, seems as if it is putting out a jet, other sand blasting i have seen the jet is a fan. Same idea as jet wash, not sure if you can adjust the nozzle but suggest if you can get a fan shaped jet you'd get the job done quicker...
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I don't really see the point of that Clarke cylinder. My blast setup just has the gun, a rubber hose going onto a steel pipe which pokes into a bucket of sand. I think keeping the blast media in a closed vessel will mean any dampness will be unable to evaporate off.
Use the paint and rust strippers you attach to angle grinders seriously they work amazing, keep up the great work
Keep going!
Blasting and sanding dust is insidious and a total pain. I hope you are able to wash the cars at the barn. Using the vac fitting on the DA would help. As you said, this is really a job that is best left to the pros. A bit expensive but a good exchange for channel content IMO.
You gonna have to keep an eye on the inlet filters on that compressor with all that dust around
Doesn't matter how long it takes, it'll still be finished before Binky.
Adam Fabco is restoring his Mini (turbo!) on YT too, Matt. You might pick up some tips on fabrication. 😁👍
Matt when you return to removing the rest of that filler set about it with your angle grinder and save yourself a couple of hours.
For future reference, a wire wheel on a grinder would have chomped through that filler in seconds, it’s what I have had to do in the past. DIY sandblasters are notoriously crap for big jobs like that, good for the odd part / panel but not for a whole car. All good with hindsight I know… maybe in future tell us what you’re planning to do and ask for advice before you start, that might save you days of pain…
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Great video... wonder what it would cost to dip it rather than sand blast it?
both cost about £1000 - £1500
Pale yellow (Mimosa?) would be nice.👍
Idle thought......
Someone must be selling a cheap Gazebo somewhere? Or even giving one away on Freegle at this time?
Old brake fluid brushed onto paint would soften and remove a lot of it, without damage to metal.
An awful lot of work, fair play to you.
Poor guy, awful stressing
4 minutes in and it and it sounds like there are V10 F1 cars somewhere nearby!
I promise there weren't
Hard work but will be worth it…don’t you need a “camping awning” off market place..?
Something I’m sure you would know the answer to…..apparently the 2x large holes, one in the bulkhead and the other in the rear…apparently Mini’s were built with a large shaft through there and the shell rotated around to aid assembly …? 🤔
thats right, they rotisseried them on the production line
Hope you are going to keep the paint original by using cellulose, yes know it's hard work to keep a shine on it and it doesn't like many modern polishes, one has to use a pure wax which has to be reapplied after every wash. It was bloody hard work keeping a humble car looking like a limousine.
A gate valve is the old type stop cock on your water main, they can seize, mine has so have to isolate the water at the meter in the street, so a ball valve the best option, a large diameter one though, at least 3/4".
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All that abrasive covering the other cars 😬 Cleaning them without scratching paint and glass is going to be a pain. Godspeed, Matt.
Compressed air here, snow foam at home, all good
It's like project masochism and even watching is slighly painful! If if ever gets finished all you have is a MIni and having owned such things in my early 20s all I can say is rather you than me!
now you've built that curtained area, you can lease it out to Certain People if they need to dismember someone
Dexter?
Would a gazebos be any help?
they're a bit big for the space
Mission.
Doesn't that compresser look like a character in Star wars.
Can see your having a blast, video approved, click.
Blasting is very time consuming and messy , dipping would have been far more cost effective as would have taken all the rust and filler out so better finish
Minis arnt great for dipping, too many traps that hold the dip until after its painted
Did you not think of blasting it outside Matt? You're getting there, everything just takes longer than you think sadly.
Yeah his neighbours would love that.
With UK weather?
They do it at Yorkshire Car Restoration.
the doors too far away, and the farmer would not be happy!
Would of been lots quicker and probably cheaper to get the car dipped.
In chocolate ?
@@cappaculla Acid dipped to strip all the paint.
Minis arnt great for dipping, too many traps that hold the dip until after its painted
Could you not have blasted the car outside, or would that create too much mess for the rest of the barn occupants?
I think Id be evicted if I did that! Also the hose wont reach all the way outside
Might be better buying a 2nd hand gazebo.
I suppose a mini video is appropriate...
Could be worse, at least it's not a Rolls Royce.
I think with your Mini and my Beetle both rotten, dead, and booked into Rustival 2 we're going to find out if miraclea do happen at the end of September!
For somebody who prefers Manual transmission an Automatic Mini is strange choice, I find them disappointing compared to manual ones. Please beg a drive in a 998cc Auto before you finally decide not to convert to manual.
we have two auto ADO16s and they're a hoot to drive! The AP four-speed is a very good box as long as you keep fresh oil in it
@@MrTimcoronel I have a Morris 1300 manual and a good friend has a VP1300 Auto and says mine is much more fun to drive.
It wasn’t a car I looked for but one I found and rescued
I very much suspect that that body will be unsalvageable once the filler is removed. Another to add to the waste of time list.
I think it is doable as repair panels for the whole shell are available. Pete C has totally restored Cortinas much worse than this. It is just a matter of effort and money and that is the judgement call here.
why would you think that, its pretty minor and people rebuild far worse
how very dare you say there is many millimetres of filler! 🤬 it's an old mini there's 1/8 inch of filler! philistine! 🤣
Tedious. Does not look like an enjoyable hobby
I knew it would be dirty and destroy the barn but that's just because I worked in a factory that did things like you....the try it and see method 😁 we eventually got a truck container and it was used for mucky jobs so the rest of the place didn't suffer 🫡
Those were the days before h&s was even thought of, us culchies just got on with it.
The new lean-to would have worked but i guess your posh neighbours would moan...🙄👍🇮🇪
the neighbours? What about my wife? Id be sleeping out there!