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My main focus this week was getting the last of the bodywork on point as I cannot get the truck painted, so I need to have a smaller goal. That is getting the truck ready for paint/primer. I went to O'Reilly's to pick up some sandable primer. This is used to be able to better see minor imperfections, such as ones that you would see in your paint. It is hard to see these things without primer because the surface is so many different colors. This makes it very difficult to see shadows, divots, humps, etc.. Therefore, I needed to lay a coat of primer on my big problem areas to make sure that I had got them worked out to a comfortable place. I also primed the smaller areas such as the dent in the door and the roof.
Another big thing that I did this week was weld in the holes on the bed rail and where the third brake light used to mount. I did this so that the surface would be flat, and so that water would not leak in between the metal in the truck. This is a very easy way to get a lot of rust if you aren't careful and fully seal off the holes. Welding these holes was very hard on as thin of metal as it was, especially trying to weld it with flux core. While I was welding, I had to have my temperature/power all the way down, and it was still immediately burning holes in the metal. I combatted this the only way I knew how which was to build up the material by basically tacking it a bunch of times and letting it cool in between each. This stopped it from getting so hot and burning through so easily. Lastly, I had to grind off the mounds of welds that I left on my truck. This was going well until I got to my 3rd brake light holes and realized that my welds were hollow. When I went to grind off the mounds of welds I had left, I ended up creating the same whole that was there before because the welds didn't fill in the hole, they made a hollow mountain over the hole.
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