71 rebuild

[Jethro]

CammO can't you set it up so we can just attach a pic form computers with out using at third host ?

[metalhead]

*&%$ing photo%&*$et got you too. They've singlehandedly destroyed every internet forum on the web.

They've destroyed all my posts on various forums for the past 9 years too.

[wabco40]

I wouldn't mind paying a reasonable price but they want $399 per year recurring and there is no way I am pay them that much.
It takes an hour just to do anything on there site because of the amount of ads they bombard you with.

[metalhead]

Yeh, exactly. A reasonable price and I wouldn't have cared much, I might've been a bit miffed, but I'd have paid it. As it is, even if they were to change their minds and come back to offering it for $15-20 a year you wouldn't be game to do it now - they're just as likely to make it $400 again in six months time. That's $400US too, more like $550AU.

Other sites still offer the same service for free without such painful ads, I would never still be using them if I hadn't started so long ago. But to kill 10 years worth of most forum pictures without warning and hold them for ransom at that sort of cost? They just put themselves out of business.

[craigh]

I have been on a Plus 20 plan with Photobucket for a few years as I maxed out on bandwidth image views.

From my read once that contract ends I will have the same issue as any free user.

What a pain !!!

[craigh]

Is photobucket a new form of ransomware ?

[metalhead]

Pretty much...

[wabco40]

Is photobucket a new form of ransomware ?

Seems that way Craig. As I previously said I wouldn't mind paying a reasonable fee but there's no way I am paying anywhere near that much. In fact I would rather pay this forum to host my pictures.

[craigh]

Hi Brad

What brand/type body fillers do you use in your fibglass work. ?

[craigh]

Did  a read back through your thread and it looks like evercoat.

I can find the reinforced one in Australia but may have to use evercoat Rage on top.  Seems a lot of the range can't ship here 😩

[wabco40]

Hi Brad

What brand/type body fillers do you use in your fibglass work. ?

Hi Craig,

I used Evercoat fibretech for structural and gap filling and finishing work was done with Evercoat VPA (Vette panel adhesive). Both dry very hard (much more then normal body fillers) and you need to start sanding while it's still soft.

GPI group are the Australian distributor for Evercoat. They have the fibretech but don't import the VPA.
I had to import it myself. Being classed as dangerous goods it also cannot be airfreighted.

What work are you doing? If its structural the fibretech can be blocked back to close to finish and then a fine skim of rage to fill any pin holes etc. Most of the final filler gets sanded off anyway.

[craigh]

Thanks Brad

I have a couple of small repairs

For the front bumper corner I will lay glass up behind then when dry do the same on the front.  Then sand glass back to shape.

Filler will be final steps to get shape correct



As for door area glass behind then do a top layer that will mostly be saved back.  Some filler to finish



Thats the plan anyway

[wabco40]

That's right, just use polyester resin and matt (not cloth) to reinforce and build up the area and then block back to shape. You should be able to get it very close to finish with the resin and matt and not have to use the filler to get the shape. Then use a light skim of polyester body filler to fill any pin hole and blend in.

The areas are only small corners so there easy to fix. If it was in the middle of a panel then it would be a different story.

[wabco40]

I have just signed up with Imageshack to host my pictures. Hopefully I don't have the same issues as with Photobucket

Not sure how I am going to go updating the pictures from the previous posts.

Heat shields done in black chrome.

[metalhead]

That looks awesome!

[craigh]

Looks good Brad

a side on shot would be good.

As for hosting images I have just finished rehosting all mine.

A few years back i set up my own domain hosted on Siteground.com

It does all my family mail and allows you to install lots of apps.

One I have started using is ZenPhoto to manage and store all the images I use in build threads etc.

Just chose the option to install ZenPhoto on my domain servers and its ready to accept images.

I then downloaded all I had on Photobucket and uploaded them to Zen via ftp.

Filenames stay the same so all I need to do is edit pages in build threads and change the url before the image.jpg.

Sound s easy but I am sure it will take a bit of time to do it.

This way i own and manage it all.

Cost is about $70 per year and that includes my mail domain storage security etc etc

[metalhead]

I did something similar, but using a mates hosting, and he registered photosucket.com so that I only needed to change one letter in my image links. He's not sure if he's keen to set it up for multiple users, but if you're interested then let me know.

[wabco40]

I did something similar, but using a mates hosting, and he registered photosucket.com so that I only needed to change one letter in my image links. He's not sure if he's keen to set it up for multiple users, but if you're interested then let me know.

Thanks for the offer metalhead. I am having a few issues with Imageshack but will see if I can sort this out first. If not I might try what Craig suggested.

[wabco40]

Looks good Brad

a side on shot would be good.

As for hosting images I have just finished rehosting all mine.

A few years back i set up my own domain hosted on Siteground.com

It does all my family mail and allows you to install lots of apps.

One I have started using is ZenPhoto to manage and store all the images I use in build threads etc.

Just chose the option to install ZenPhoto on my domain servers and its ready to accept images.

I then downloaded all I had on Photobucket and uploaded them to Zen via ftp.

Filenames stay the same so all I need to do is edit pages in build threads and change the url before the image.jpg.

Sound s easy but I am sure it will take a bit of time to do it.

This way i own and manage it all.

Cost is about $70 per year and that includes my mail domain storage security etc etc

Thanks Craig.

I have just starting having issue with Imageshack not working correctly on my Ipad and phone. It seems to work ok on my windows PC. Hopefully I will get it sorted out, if not I might do what your doing.

[Jethro]

Bad in Black :) lov e the look BradO