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<div style="direction: ltr;font-family: Tahoma;color: #000000;font-size: 10pt;">Not so many years go I watched my Dad repair a dent and some corrosion on his vintage 1949 teardrop Buick, a beautiful car. He used a blowtorch to melt some lead in a cast iron
crucible and a wood paddle he had shaped to apply it to the clean metal surfaces. This was followed by a rough file to shape the lead and sandpaper to smooth it before primer was applied. More sanding, more primer, then the top coat was faded in, ending with
careful polishing, etc. You couldn't tell a repair had been completed. He was careful about the fumes and wore gloves when filing and shaping the metal, Later, concerned about lead fumes, he used Bondo, being very careful in it's application and top coat.
After a few years the Bondo cracked and started to fall out. The lead repair was still there, undetectable, when the car was sold.
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<div>Randall Reihing</div>
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<div id="divRpF888880" style="direction: ltr;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Triumphs [triumphs-bounces@autox.team.net] on behalf of Doug Mathews [mathews@uga.edu]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, February 25, 2016 6:17 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Andrew Uprichard<br>
<b>Cc:</b> 'Triumph Mail List'<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [TR] Lead<br>
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<div><font face="Cambria">used to be standard in filling in seams on older cards back when.<br>
Then somebody figured out the fumes were causing body havoc with the body workers.<br>
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Here is youtube link.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiYxuzYhZTLAhVLox4KHepjAHwQtwIIIjAB&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DSD98LDc0GAI&usg=AFQjCNEg0wZ8fNnBrTjxszR4ckjJFeFbxQ&bvm=bv.115277099,d.dmo" target="_blank">https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiYxuzYhZTLAhVLox4KHepjAHwQtwIIIjAB&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DSD98LDc0GAI&usg=AFQjCNEg0wZ8fNnBrTjxszR4ckjJFeFbxQ&bvm=bv.115277099,d.dmo</a><br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/25/2016 5:13 PM, Andrew Uprichard wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">what’s the story with all the lead on these cars?</blockquote>
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