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Holiday Buggy Restoration 4 years 1 month ago #58432

Nice work :y: B)

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Holiday Buggy Restoration 4 years 1 month ago #58433

Cool way of repairing chassis!
Good work!
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Holiday Buggy Restoration 4 years 1 month ago #58434

Woohoo. A very nice work. Congrats. :y:

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Holiday Buggy Restoration 4 years 1 month ago #58438

A very impressive method to repair a damaged chassis. It looks like it will be hardly distinguishable from original.

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Holiday Buggy Restoration 4 years 3 weeks ago #58489

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Time for Tires….
Today I put the chassis work aside and took care about the tire & wheels status. Definitely too much letters on the tires. ;)

So I stopped whitening and sorted out the best out of the worst. Unfortunately many of the rims are scratched. But I was surprised they are obviously not painted or coated. I took one test sample, scratched it, sanded it and polished it. It looks quite ok. I think I will try that on one rim with scratches at the edge. Any other idea how to get damaged rims nice again? Any kind of filler? Probably take one

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Holiday Buggy Restoration 4 years 3 weeks ago #58498

.... Any other idea how to get damaged rims nice again? Any kind of filler? Probably take one

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Lots of options:

- wet sand down to the flat bit of the outer rim
- as above but bond on a disc of styrene, turn new rim detail & paint
- as 1/2 but bond on styrene forms to replace details & paint
- add chips of styrene to damaged rim detail, sand to shape & paint
- as above but sacrifice a wheel part for donor chips & possibly not have to paint
- use a filler (Revell Plasto comes to mind) or 2-part epoxy (I think millipult do a "silver" version)

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Holiday Buggy Restoration 4 years 3 weeks ago #58499

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Hi,
thx for giving me the options. I just read it but started my own approach yesterday using similar method as for the Chassis. Again I took the blue silicone and made a master shape of a new rim. Then took a strongly damaged one, cut away the damaged material. Put the master on it and dissolved one of the mold gates in solvent (Tetrahydrofuran). It took only few seconds to get the resin molten.
Then transferred the liquid resin and filled out the gaps between the rim and the silicone master. Unfortunately I was too impatient and demolded to early and started sanding although the resin was still kind of flexible. But for the first try with a strongly damaged one it is not that bad.

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Getting the resin liquid:


Filling the gaps (shown with first test silicone part. I missed to take picture from the complete master which I then made):
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Holiday Buggy Restoration 4 years 3 weeks ago #58500

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Demolded (on the right the final master shape):


First look (flash cut away and only some first sandings):


I will now wait for some days that all solvent really has vaporized and I can put some finish/polish to the edge of the rim.
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Holiday Buggy Restoration 4 years 3 weeks ago #58502

That's a pretty impressive result, especially for a first try. How easily accessible are the materials you used to us normal humans?

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Holiday Buggy Restoration 4 years 3 weeks ago #58505

That's an amazing result. Impressive.

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