Hello,
After rain delays the last 2 days, after today's rain it was windy and things dried out, so I was able to finish blasting the hood.
Also we should note that this hood being on a 1945 Willys MB, is a Ford hood .
The Ford hoods were at this point in time being made by ACM since the machinery was transferred to ACM from Ford, so they could supply ACM2 body kits to both Willys and Ford.
The Ford style hood was selected to be part of the ACM2 specifications.
On these Willys hoods, the front hood tinning was way less than we find on earlier GPW jeeps, although I did find some traces of tinning.
Here I took a picture of the trace remains of a thin strip of tinning.
We can see that is is of a different dimension and certainly was not very thick as compared to older GPW hoods.
So I decided to replicate some semblance if what I found on this hood, and bare traces found on an additional number of MB hoods.
All were the same, almost no tinning left, and a very thin strip of tinning were there was any evidence of tinning.
As these are type 2 radio suppression jeeps being so late, most of the fender rinning was eliminated if not all.
This is what I recreated to match the general outline of what I found looking at the hoods.
After tinning, I ground down the segments flatter, to get them closer to what they are supposed to be.
After I tinned the areas, I wiped off the Flux, then blasted the area clean so no Flux remained.
I reprimed the tinned areas, and will use a rotary sander to clean the primer off the tinning, and tape it off before painting.
I also want to let everyone know about a new purchase of an item that is an important tool !
When I blast with the crushed glass
media, I sweep it up, sift it, and reuse it all, over and over.
I had an old section of a fireplace screen, that has just the right size openings in the screen to let the material sift through, but it catches the debris and leaves etc. that get swept up.
My old screen has long since rusted away, and was falling apart.
I found a new one on Amazon for $49 with free shipping.
It is the exact same screen size needed for a smooth and quick sifting of the media.
This works great and even had handles on it.
The brand is BCP, and is the only model I found that was cheap and does the job.
It works great with 2 buckets under it to refill.
My neighbor gave me some kitty litter buckets with snap on covers which are great to store your media in !!!!
Best Regards,
Ray