Hi guys. Back in the day, to repair rusted out holes we used chicken wire
with paper layers for reinforcement, followed by a layer of Bondo.
This worked well for a while, but over time the chicken wire would rust
and the paper would absorb moisture and dissolve, allowing the Bondo
to crack. This was a dead giveaway to a potential buyer of body rust.

A better solution is to use cardboard. Not the wimpy single layer stuff,
but the heavy duty corrugated type. This negates the need for chicken
wire backing, and if coated with bedliner will last for a long time.
Apply your Bondo generously, file it smooth, and stand back and
admire your bodyworking skill...

You should make a YouTube video you'll get a Million views and Just as many likes and subscribers!!!!! you'll be making money over night!

People just don't care about doing anything right any more! they want the cheap easy crap they can buy at Harbor fright, or Walmart never mind what it looks like tomorrow.

Strangely enough, I've never done that. Put the bog on a bit thick a few times, and had to reinforce it with fly screen mesh (actually works for smaller holes in bars and similar) but that's the limit.

Doright wrote:You should make a YouTube video you'll get a Million views and Just as many likes and subscribers!!!!! you'll be making money over night!

Can I go halves?

BRILLIANT!

I recently saw a Video of a Guy who takes a car/truck with quarters and rockers riddled with rot and back fills them with Expanding Can Foam Sands it off puts a Layer of filler over then paints it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZ7k_DzpDBM&t=276s

The Video had over a million hits thousands of likes and way too many subscribers.

I ended up totaling out a project car because the quarters and rockers had been repaired like this before at one time. The foam allowed moisture to have full contact with all the metal it touched and held the moisture, the project was abandoned as repair parts exceeded the cars value and was not financially feasible to repair.
The guy had done a good job of hiding the foam as I did not discover it till a good time later when restoration was started, I ended up loosing a good chunk of cash on that Car.

The work people do has a Direct effect on a Cars value and when covered with Paint you don't know whats underneath as a Buyer unless your told by the owner that's very unlikely to be done by a seller eager to get cash.
Most states allow a Person to sue a former owner for sales fraud by not disclosing such things.

I posted this as an April Fool's Day joke, but the YouTube idea
isn't bad. Repairing holes with chicken wire and newspaper isn't
as prevalent as it used to be, but I saw my share of it as a
teenager buying and selling old clunkers.

Happy April First to all!

FUNNY, it was the norm back in the day, bondo use to come with the screen as a kit.
Jay D.

Tha April Fools joke of the day IMO

JT

NightTrain wrote::rotfl:
I posted this as an April Fool's Day joke, but the YouTube idea
isn't bad. Repairing holes with chicken wire and newspaper isn't
as prevalent as it used to be, but I saw my share of it as a
teenager buying and selling old clunkers.

Happy April First to all!

You got em!

NightTrain wrote::rotfl:
Repairing holes with chicken wire and newspaper isn't
as prevalent as it used to be, but I saw my share of it as a
teenager buying and selling old clunkers.

Happy April First to all!

i wonder how many of them old clunkers are considered classics today.