Dissection – It’s a dirty job…

This is my least favorite part of the process – it’s depressing, REAL dirty, and DANGEROUS!

When people come to visit the shop, they are often freaked out by the shears, brakes, etc. like they are going to get their fingers cut off just by looking at them – and that stuff is dangerous and you have to be REALLY careful!  But the most dangerous tool in the shop – and something most if not all of you have too – is the 4.5″ angle grinder!

With a slicing, grinding, or wire wheel spinning at 10,000 RPM, this thing is just looking to kick back and hit your hands and fingers ALL THE TIME!  And, although I’m big on safety, it’s useless with the guard, so you have to take that off and that makes it even more dangerous – so BE CAREFUL, and ALWAYS wear gloves!

The other thing that makes dissection dangerous is the sharp corners that you get left with on the bottom of the A and B-posts.  No matter how hard I try, I get spiked in the head and lower back with these damn things 2-3 times on every car!  And it’s one of those things that just ENRAGES you, instantly!  I have taken that point of the B-post right into my skull so hard I could feel it coming to a hard stop on the bone – be careful, and as you do this work, take time to slice the sharp corners off at a 45 or round them down some…

OK – enough of that rant (can you tell it really aggravates me!?!).  Here are some shots of the dissection stage of this ’68 roadster.  It WAS a “relatively solid, straightforward shell” – was…

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