Just wonering how many letterheads use Bondo as much as I do. It is cheap, dries fast and hard, and sandable. It works great on HDU and MDO as well as on fiberglas molds and stuff. You can even carve it! this stuff is awesome... like my friends in the auto body trade say.... " nothing a little BONDO won't fix"
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Posted by cheryl nordby (Member # 1100) on :
I love Bondo!.... But I don't use it much anymore. Here is my VW I Bondo~ed the heck outta. This was my first shop vehicle in 1976.(tied 4x8's to the top....had to have the bumpers re~welded tons of times) Ha!.lucky my shop was right next door to a welder! It was first beige. I painted it with a brush after it was full of bondo and primer. I think it weighed twice as much as it should have with all the bondo I put on it. I love Bondo. Great fun to work with.
[ November 10, 2001: Message edited by: cheryl nordby ]
Posted by Steve Barba (Member # 431) on :
Bondo is a great product- as long as you dont use it to replace a fender! Friend of mine had this car, a 67 Chevy Impala. Real sweet looking car, then he got hit in the left rear fender, just a ding really. The whole fender was Bondo, and it all fell off. That car looked pretty funny runnin around with 1" thick bondo flakin off of it!
Posted by Rick (Member # 373) on :
it works good for filling seams and counter sunk nails in crown and chair rail mouldings in houses too.
Posted by pierre (Member # 1462) on :
Bondo is actually NOT the best of it's kind anymore. POR15 has a body filler that blows Bondo away. It's much harder, sands much finer, feathers MUCH better and, best of all, it won't crack out like Bondo. It's not actually something that I handle, but you can read about it at www.por15.com and buy it at automotive repair supply shops. It's the absolute next best thing to leading for automotive repair, and in some respects, even better. The body shops I know who use it don't even stock Bondo anymore.
Posted by Preston McCall (Member # 351) on :
Mondo Bondo! I owned an antique auto restoration business for ten years and learned enough about bondo, cheese graters, spreaders and pinholes. Martin Senour Microlite was my favorite. It cut fast and never failed me.
Someone dropped off a 76 Cadillac Eldo one day which was thoroughly rusted out, needing an estimate. After seeing the bid at several times more than the hardtop was worth, he left it and said he would be back to pick it up. Two years later he called and told me if I could sell it, we would split the difference. The car ran pretty well, but was a real rust bucket.
In comes my seat cover upholsterer, Joel Martinez. He offered a couple hundred bucks for the car and the seller cheerfully agreed to sign off the title. The deal was done and it went away. Soon, I discovered Joel was a secret BONDO magician. He managed to mud up all the gaping holes and cut off the top, making the car a permanent drop head. No top whatsoever. He said he always wanted a topless Eldo. The real kicker was that he masked off about every lens, light and window. He then bought fifty cans of "Chrome" paint and turned it into one giant, shiney block of chrome. Had to wear sunglasses just to look at it. No kidding! The thing would literally blind you coming down the road! Joel was a huge man and had a giant smile. Seeing him aim that thing around town was always a treat. Seats, dash, tires...everything in chrome paint. He only drove it on sunny days as the rain would 'spot' his finish, however he always carried a spare can of Chrome in his glovebox, so he could render any quick touch-ups. What a guy. Six months later, Joel split town.
Two years later, I see the car come thru the I-70 auto auction. The chrome paint had faded and the car really looked about as ugly as a sack of slugs with no top and on a rainy night at the auction. The rust? BONDO MONDO! There was no trace of the previous gaping holidays. Bondo came thru. If the world only knew how many problems were hidden with bondo. It is the handyman's and handywoman's best kept secret! Mondo Bondo!
Posted by Monte Jumper (Member # 1106) on :
I love "Bondo" for everything except...
Evertime a customer walks in with a magnetic sign and says "these won't stick" I know exactly what the problem is before the last word clears their mouth.
Posted by Michael Boone (Member # 308) on :
Call me the Bondo Bandito...! I did a rotten El Camino one time.....welded n brazed some new tin on her. 2 1/2 gallons of Bondo with a couple quarts a Tiger Hair later.....Voila...! Blitz a quickie paint job on..... Rear wheelhouse lip dang near 3 inches thick... Solid as they make em!Drove it 3 years in New York ..Salted roads n all! Now....I like Gougeon Epoxy with sawdust for thickener.....strong! Gougeon fixes everything but broken hearts and holes in the sky!
Posted by Rick Sacks (Member # 379) on :
I've used Bondo on wooden signs and for edge filling MDO. Initially it works great, but the expansion rates are vastly different from those of wood. I tind it cracks out and is not the solution for lasting signs. The MicroLite has fiberglass in it and is a bit better, but still not a long term fix for MDO edges.
Posted by Mike Languein (Member # 319) on :
"...I love the smell of Bondo in the morning!"
Posted by john randall (Member # 2450) on :
ive used it and had luck , but have noticed that it shows through the primer and finish coats
