There, one door in undercoat


Now it's the other door which only has a few ball pean hammer type dents, nowhere as bad. First thick is seal the return folded edge, even tho not necessary I thought it should be fine as they've been grit blasted and most sealer is gone. I will spray stone chip inside the door cavities to proper seal the door, also sealed around the hinges plates as they were cleaned out too.


I'm going to make a (or two) of those panel hangers, online they are upwards of $150ea , I think I've enough tube and rod to make my versions. They have a centre pole about 6ft high with 6 adjustable height/swing rods that have hooks to hang doors or bonnets etc.
Something like this contraption... Obviously not as pretty but I go for function over looks..

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$130 inc free delivery if you wanted to spend the time catching Dave instead
 
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I did see that one and one on sale at Woolies of all places, same price.
Just about half way thru cutting the steel , got a couple of nice solid galv poles too for the uprights. At least mine will be rugged enough . Now it's design the base so it's not going to tip up, going to fill the tube with sand for added centre stability.
Total cost for both will be about $50 not Inc wheels..

I'm using a couple of galv poles I stole from the back yard, they were cut down to about 1700mm for now.

Cutting the outer tube with bandsaw at 100mm , made 14 off but will use 12, 6 for each pole

The stack all cut and will be stripped of the white paint

Cause I'm cheap the pipe I cut wasn't big enough diameter so I cut and widened then

Next was to cut the remaining 2 tubes into 12 slices, these will just be welded on the other tubes so it's a full tube again

I wasn't after a neat butt joint, just want then joined together, the weld will be smoothed down. Next is to go to a steel shop for smaller tube and rod that'll slide nice thru it, I didn't have anything laying around suitable to use.

Making a square out of 4mm plate to be the base mount for the tube to sit in

These are the base support feet, there's 8 of as I'm making 2x stands. All plate was cut with a plasma cutter, they'll be smoothed and welded tomorrow in the same way as the other, I've moved up in MIG wire to 0.8mm for this job from 0.6mm which had trouble stitching metal this thick together

Looks good Marty. I reckon 3 long feet should prevent it wanting to tip. Say to the extremity of the items you hang from it?
Making the tools is probably more fun that the job their intended for.

Yes Mark I think I made them 450mm each leg so it's about 3ft as you said.
The base mount design is simple to make, I had the tube as a gauge and used magnet angles to square it up. Welded it all together, then the metal shrank just enough to do the tube sliding thru, needing it to be die grinded loose again !

A bunch of wheels, some are oddball but all the same height in their groups of 4

Next was to buy some small tube with a 12mm inside dia and cut 12 of them, 6 each post.

These are the tubes from earlier all welded and marked for drilling to have the nut welded, same is done for the small pipes. I should have them both done tomorrow

Bending the hooks in 2x types so they can be altered to suit the application, rod is made a medium grade stainless steel that's still magnetic which means mig welding will work fine

The rods are 450mm long as you never know what length needed , this is the hooks welded on

Plates for the wheels plasma cut and welded on, also brushed some orange on the stands so safety man Adam doesn't jab a toe walking past them

These are the bigger tubes with the smaller tubes welded at 90deg, with nuts also welded on, I thought the black was gloss but dried a nice satin

And the finished product except for the twist knobs I'm 3d printing for the bolts


Back to the regular programme now, working on the escort mk1 door which is a easy one compared to the last one.

Got printing 24 handles for the panel racks

I did them in bunches of 8x so the time being made wouldn't take forever, as it was each bunch was about 8hrs long. This is them on the racks

Moving back to the car door I spent 2x days so far pulling out the simple dents which was nail welded and pulled but one dent was giving grief but managed to lift it a little. Here's where am at so far, the top part of the door will get the mirror holes and brightwork holes filled with welds, I will fill the door lock hole as well since it'll have remote centre locking installed, the driver door still has the lock hole but will get a solex key lock

The door is in primer now, there was a few odd dents on the inside frame to do they were adjusted back flat.

Today I'm going to the local upullit wreckers to see what's there, I need a few modern car things, might be lucky and find Volvo 4spot calipers !