Rust holes are repaired by patching the machine panel.
Rust holes in an auto body panel contribute to a weakening of the machine frame and contemporaneous a safety hazard. The rust holes too create drafts and are especial unsightly. To locate a rust gap, a patch is installed over the gap. The project restores the panel fast to its inceptive instance. Provided you obtain auto body skills, this is a routine locate. For the amateur, on the contrary, the project Testament demand an afternoon or another to outright.
Instructions
1. Incision out the rusted metal surrounding the rust gap using a CD grinder and a metal cutting CD. Remove all of the rusted metal encircling the gap. When finished, one shot solid, uncorroded metal should last.
2. Degree the dimensions of the gap with a tape degree. Pride the widest and longest points and add 2 inches. Hint away a shape with these bigness, correlative to the gap you annex, on a abundance of page metal. Applicability a magic marker to draw the shape. With a pair of metal shears, cut out the shape to use as your patch.
3. Place the patch over the hole and orient it so about 2 inches of sheet metal overlaps onto the car surface.
4. Drill holes along the edge of the sheet metal, through both the sheet metal and the car metal, with a power drill and carbide bit. Make a hole about every 3 inches.
5. Insert a rivet into your rivet gun and set the rivet into the holes you drilled through the sheet metal.6. Cover the sheet metal and a 1 inch area around the sheet metal with auto-repair putty or body filler using a plastic applicator card. Spread the putty evenly over the patch and onto the car surface.
Attach the rivet by clamping the gun closed. This will secure the sheet metal in place. Apply one rivet per hole. Let it dry for five to six hours (allow for more time on larger patches).
7. Sand down the putty with 80-grit sandpaper and a sanding block until the patch and surface of the car appear smooth and even.
8. Apply a coat of auto primer to the surface of the repair and let this dry for four to six hours or as indicated on the label of the paint. Add one more coat of primer after completely dry. Once the final primer coat is dry, apply a top coat of matching automotive-grade paint to the surface of the repair if desired.
