When I had my van done the bodyshop dude overlapped and welded the panels to
get rid of the rust-prone seams wherever he could. Here are some pics:
http://doug.alcock.googlepages.com/bodywork

Cheers,
Doug

On 1/11/07, Benny boy <huotb@videotron.ca> wrote:
>
> I will take explicite pictures of that tomorrow, but basically, the top
> part
> of the skin is overlaped, the new one over the remaining upper one, to
> smooth the junction, microfiber is aplyed and some bondo (the question is
> what kind of bondo... me, i don't like that English name?), if you use
> proper product, putty, as i like to name it it a very good and strong and
> nice finish, but, before there is bondo, microfiber, skins are glued
> together... for life.. this glue is almost scary!!! this product is making
> body work easy for everyone!
>
> Only (in that case) the upper part of any skin (as we alway work on the
> botom skin of our vans) is overlaped, each side are glued-welded like they
> were when VW put the van together, the lower portion is also overlaped but
> it was like that originally. Some may think that "overlaping" will show,
> but
> it will not! 1mm or 1/16in is not enough, overlaping reinforce the skins,
> now, it's just a question of "look", it's whre you need bondo-putty to
> blend
> the 2 parts... i use Evercoat Spot lite:
> http://www.evercoat.com/productDetail.aspx?pID=5
>
> Expensive stuff, but men!!! so nice to work with... i basically use ONLY
> Evercoat product...
>
> Enough for now... me tired...
>
> Later, Ben
> http://www.benplace.com/
>
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> This is something I was curious about too. I was looking at some tech info
> on installing panels this way. I think it specifically directed that the
> perimeter of the void was NOT to be flanged first. I don't understand how
> or
> what you bond to without a flanged edge. If one simply laid the panel over
> the edge, how would you possibly feather out the edge without it being a
> noticeable bulge?
>

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