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Thanks guys..I think I'll try it. Thanks John C for the insight. Rufus

I saw some sort of gel / lube next to the flux-core wire I was buying. It said it "reduced splatter and splatter build-up on MIG tips." It didn't say how to apply it or anything eles on the container...made by Lincoln. Anybody ever use it? The flux-core set-up seems to produce tons of splatter... if it worked I would try it.

ok...so...I have been strippiing my roof for quite a while now, there was easily 1/2" to 3/4" of fiberglass spread all across the whole roof, probably 20-25 pounds worth of paint and fiberglass. Anyway it came off in thin strips as I scraped it, and of corse I just let it pile up and never tossed it out. Anyway I was motivated...multi-tasking...I was finishing the stripping on the roof and finishing welding the drivers-side floorboard. Car on a rottisserie, on its side. Just finishing my last bead when I either smelled something or noticed something...I pulled off the helmet to see a 4' x 5' BON-FIRE blazing under the car!! The guy I share my space with (Fred Sanford) has a collection of old paint, urethane, stripper, ...anything flammable stuffed against the wall right next to my car...tons of stuff. As I come around the car the flames are licking up the stack of paint, catching rags on fire, etc ......I almost ran...instead I grabbed the hose...too bad the idiot (Fred Sanford) constantly drops the bucket of his bobcat without looking... and now my hose is partially cut 4' from the spigot. I am 15' away trying to put the flames out, yet the nozzel is barely putting anything out...I ended up ripping off my welding jacket and jumping on the flames...finally put it out. Luckily the car is a shell and the only flammable thing in it is the headliner....gonna need a new one of those. My heart has never pounded so hard, it seemed like a dream...a very bad dream. Never too late too learn that sparks CAN cause ignition. No good pics, however I will take one of the paint collection (potential bomb) Fred has... Bottom line...I was not prepared..I had my water bottle,..I always keep one handy when welding...It was no use..I grabbed it and immediatly realized it was not the tool for the job...next purchase...fire extinguisher!!!

Some lessons are learned late in life . Although you know something is a bad idea you may still do it until something goes wrong. For example....Knowing that paint stipper is flammable, paint is flammable, bondo also burns well and when left in a shredded pile soaking in stripper becomes like a bomb...one would think that welding would be out of the question....kids just came home...to be continued.

Very cool. Thanks for posting pics. I may shoot you an email with questions as well. Rufus

What are you referring to in this quote? I don't see a pic anywhere. Funny I was wondering that myself. I read my post and can't figure out what the frick I was talking about. All I can think is I was trying to reply to a different post? ...sorry

Interesting...thats how I got my "over-engineered" rotisserie.. Its working out great by the way Denny BTW check your PM's ...got a question for you Rufus

David, Beautiful car man...Very Happy for you...Enjoy It!!!! Rufus

Go Figure......

NOTAZ Congrats on he purchase wise decision between this and the C5 as well IMO.

We are men of the same mind set!! I can close my eyes and see it clear as day....The take off on the Bruce Lee film is hilarious as wel!!!

This is the style I am looking for actually.. http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7905759660&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1

Yea... I have gotten pretty good at whipping through the results. When I first started searching it would take my a while to look at everything...now...minutes!! Always the same stuff once in awhile though you find something cool!!

Funny I saw that today on my daily ebay search..I didn't even have to hit the link to know what you were talking about!!!

Not cheap...7 bills plus shipping...but it came with the CV shafts and it is in great condition. I figured I would pay more for a Quafie and still have to get shafts and have the carrier installed so I figure I got off easy!!! Hey are your 300 tail light assemblies in decent shape? Wanna sell em? Rufus

Are you familiar with one of our members..... "BlueovalZ"? He has a solid mounted setup and has a link to his website showing all the mounting points ( I think..) do a search for his screenname and check out his site. Even if all of his setup is not there he has a ton of useful / cool pics. Good Luck!! Rufus

Gary, I hope this is not considered hijacking a thread but I plan on building my own long tube headers using a mandrel bent kit made by "Headers by ED". It seems like it will be cheeper in the long run and I will have equal length long tubes!!! Rufus

FWIW.... In adition to torquing to the correct spec each pan has its own pattern in which to tighten them. Kinda like how you would use a star pattern to tighten a wheel. When I worked for Ford we had a book which outlined the correct pattern for every type of pan beit oil / tranny etc for every make of Ford. Some of the patterns made no sense but seemed to work. Rufus

I thought it was typo........ ...sorry can't help

Thank You- Sly and the Family Stone!!

I used paint stripper to remove most of my undercoating. However a mewmber here recomended carb cleaner. That worked great. I don't recomend heating it because it gets gooey and hard to remove. I used POR-15 0n my floorboards but a couple guys were talking about a light truck bed spray on liner I think. Try a search for bedliner. I think you will find it. Take a look at my site to see what fun I had removing it... Rufus

Very cool!! Glad to hear you fixed it. Sorry you had to go through it but I know I learned something from it. To be honest I had never even heard of a reaction disk!!

aWESOME!! hOW ABOUT THAT STRUT TOWER BRACE? pRETTY COOL!! yOUR OWN DESIGN? Oops cpas lock again.. I really need to learn to type

True... but it does not make it OK to be a D___!! I understand your point Wayne...Thank you for the info!!