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Bamford EG1 Restoration

Eventually managed to find the time to start the restoration of my rusty old Bamford EG1. As I was stripping off many years of "crud" and old flaky paint I noticed that the casting had been filled with some sort of filler, dark in colour. This presumably was done during manufacture of engine castings. There is now quite a large step in the casting where the filler has fallen out, and now shows quite a large casting defect. Before I just cover it in P38! I was wondering if there is a correct material to fill the holes with, or would P38 filler work OK? Bruce

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Bruce
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Clean, clean clean that surface - chisel out any bits that are insecure, then build up layers of really good quality body filler. The better stuff will not object to getting hot & clod but cheap stuff may crack & drop off.

If you are an authenticity nut, set to with cellulose filler. ;o))

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kimsiddorn

Calcium Plumbate primer would have been far more likely though now unobtainable

IMHO

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Roland Craven

try here they claim to stock Calcium Plumbate primer

The Paint Centre

27 Southcote Road Bournemouth BH1 3SH, UK.

Email: snipped-for-privacy@technicalpaintservices.com Phone: 0845 230 1244

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<gummymonkey

Many thanks for the replies. Didn't want to ruin the paint work by having bits of filler falling out first time it got hot!!!

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Bruce

Try the metal loaded type. Sticks like s*1t to a blanket if the substrate is clean. Bl**dy hard to rub down though.

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