Discokids
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2. All INNER bodywork yes, the outer skin is aluminium. And your name is terry, ok?
Aluminium or steel?
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2. All INNER bodywork yes, the outer skin is aluminium. And your name is terry, ok?
Oh, OK.
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It's hard to dig a scratch in steel with a sharp edge - not so Aluminium - isolating the two almost impossible but lots of mastic, paint holes after drilling, paint fixings etc. etc. Good luck
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If you are going to go to all that trouble I would cut the steel floor out and get another welded in. If you line the inside with aluminium it will hold moisture between the two and just hide the corrosion that will rapidly take place. I wouldn't have though it would cost that much more than all of the aluminium, but you would have a proper solid floor that you can maintain. IMO
Ok so i can confirm the bonnet is aluminium, so no problem checker plating that!
Next i checked all the checker plate that is here and it is all aluminium!
The floor is steel and all re-built (just finishing that just now). My 'issue' is that the side walls and the floor look horrible as its all patched together (see the first photo of my car) and i have non of the original interior trim.
I saw the second photo and thought that would be a great way to make the car look a lot better. But i don't understand how this can be achieved without asking for future corrosion issues. I am wondering if just boxing out the back in ply wood is the best option!
Next i checked all the checker plate that is here and it is all aluminium!
The floor is steel and all re-built (just finishing that just now). My 'issue' is that the side walls and the floor look horrible as its all patched together (see the first photo of my car) and i have non of the original interior trim.
I saw the second photo and thought that would be a great way to make the car look a lot better. But i don't understand how this can be achieved without asking for future corrosion issues. I am wondering if just boxing out the back in ply wood is the best option!
Discokids
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Easiest way to tidy that up, by far, is to find somebody local breaking a disco. Go along and get everything out of the boot to fit yours.
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What you going to fix the alloy to the bonnet with? Pop rivets? Steel are they not?
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aluminium usually
waldamar
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Understood - but steel internally - the OP is concerned about reaction steel/aluminium and surely pops - being a combination of the two will cause reaction [although he'll no doubt be long dead before it's an issue]
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ali is all the touches the two panels, the rivets themselves seem to last a fair while
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Same applies to many phrases these days, must give subjects a fashionable name in case people are offended.
Perhaps it's just my age, but I think we live in a sad world & I've already thought of some really non-pc phrases to go on my headstone
Pop rivets seem to be the standard way of attaching checker plate and there seems to be minimal issue. I know there is a vitally important fact on the proportion of one material to the other (the anode and cathode), but i currently cannot remember (blaming the Saturday night beer) which is the preferred way around....
The biggest issue i can see is putting vast quantities of aluminium plate into the back of a steel built car. But perhaps this won't cause an issue prior to my death as waldamar suggests....
The biggest issue i can see is putting vast quantities of aluminium plate into the back of a steel built car. But perhaps this won't cause an issue prior to my death as waldamar suggests....
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Pop rivets seem to be the standard way of attaching checker plate and there seems to be minimal issue. I know there is a vitally important fact on the proportion of one material to the other (the anode and cathode), but i currently cannot remember (blaming the Saturday night beer) which is the preferred way around....
The biggest issue i can see is putting vast quantities of aluminium plate into the back of a steel built car. But perhaps this won't cause an issue prior to my death as waldamar suggests....
The better ones often use little stainless bolts with conical heads that go into countersinks in the plate. Stainless nuts on the back inside the bonnet. Pop rivets are adequate for 2mm on the wing tops and such.
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use ali rivets and use an anti fretting agent where the two panels touch.
similar to Grippcott NF or Duralac
similar to Grippcott NF or Duralac
