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Auto Body Shop in Full Swing!

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Norah Hill paints the F-100 cab

Angel Rosales, Ethan Dhuse, and Nolan Ketchum paint their panels

Dion Davidson, Aiden O'Beirne, and Angel Rosales buff the F-100 fender

Emma Jacobs primes the interior of the F-100

Lucas Odle paints the underside of the F-100 hood

Marco Cuevas and Thomas Romero prep the primer of the F-100

The F-100 interior is primed by Norah Hill

The inside of the F-100 doors get a new paint job by Olivia Taylor

Olivia Taylor works on a motorcycle tank

The Panel Project is in full swing for the AM class

Starting off the year strong, the Auto Body shop is in full swing. The early days of the semester were filled with learning safety procedures, how to use the tools in the shop and building skills for repairs. The Auto Body class is now working on vehicles and getting jobs done. We are working towards our first two completed customer vehicles. We have a 1965 Ford F-100 that was started during last school year and is in the final stages of paint and reassembly. We also have a 2006 Jeep wrangler in for a few minor rust repairs and fender replacement.

The first couple of weeks of the class started with students getting the low-down on safety in the shop - not just how to be safe with tools but also where emergency equipment is located. They completed their S/P2 safety training and prepared for life working safely in our shop. Once that safety training was complete students began working in the shop.

Students began by learning about the layout of the shop, the tools we will be using as well as how to use the tools. They worked on panel projects that gave the opportunity to take a repair from bare metal all the way through the paint process, and finally to detailing and buffing that panel. Once the first round was completed, students had their panels scratched by Mr. Winters (He enjoyed this a little too much!) and had to repair the scratch and blend their paint in the repair so it looked like we never had to make the repair.

Once students began to finish up their panel projects, they started work on their custom painted tumblers. Each student was given a tumbler, and they took it from the bare stainless steel to a complete paint job. This helped build some new painting techniques while also allowing a student to have something to take home and show off. Students were permitted to complete any paint job they chose which allowed some to really shine creatively.

The 1965 Ford F-100 was a project started last year around this same time and is finally getting into the paint booth for its final color: going back to its original Caribbean Turquoise. This one started with a lot of body work as well as some big-time patch work. We had to patch the front passenger fender and we replaced the center section of the bed floor. We just about had all the body and primer work done at the end of last year. We finished up the final priming of parts this fall and are in the home stretches.

The 2006 Jeep came in with a couple of rust spots that had gone beyond just sanding out. We had to patch the rear right corner with new metal and a couple of patches on both the driver’s and passenger’s side rocker panels. Once those patches were in place we finished the body work around them and had the Jeep just about ready for primer. The driver’s side fender needed to be replaced as the rust was too bad to repair. The new fender was installed after we painted the areas that will be under the hood and where many components attach. This Jeep is just about ready to prime and getting ready for paint.

All in all, this has been a busy and productive first semester with more on the horizon. Looking forward to new projects and new skills to be developed in Auto Body this year.

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Auto Body Shop in Full Swing!