Bil, Bill, Bill,
While you have an affinity for working with brass, I think you should
consider using plastic on plastic items and save the brass for brass
items. You won't regret it. The dissimilar materials may come back
to haunt you. But your repair job looks great!
Filling in the pilot of the PA's should be done in plastic, and
believe it or not, that's not that hard. A filler piece can be
fabricated by bending the plastic first to the contour you wish and
then attaching the piece with a good solvent cement. If you use a
thicker piece, you may have to heat the plastic in a pan of boiling
water first and then bend the plastic to its contour. Any seams can
be filled with auto body glazing putty, or like I prefer, with a
mixture of plastic that has been disolved in a solvent like lacquer
thinner or MEK and made into a paste. This mixture may take a few
days to dry, but other projects can be done in the meantime. This is
the technique I used exlusively in making my AEM 7 a few years ago. It
results in a very strong and stable structure.
Be sure to chamfer the edges of your brass sections and make your
putty as smooth as possible using (lilke you surmised) by wet or dry
sandpaper.
I don't have a website, but if you wish, I could sent digital photos
of projects like this, and would be happy to do so. Modeling is
modeling, no matter the material used.
Goog luck!
Jerry Poniatowski
>
> I may try some putty on the seams on the sides. I am guessing that
plastic
> will sand smooth with the finer grit wet n dry papers. I really have not
> done ANY plastic body bashing like this.
>
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