Thanks 962 Porsche

[vas930]

This is just a general thanks to you 962Porsche for all your help to all of us.
I have learnt so much off you and you always seem happy to help.
Thank you. Vas.

[yel911]

+1,
He knows his stuff!!!

[962porsche]

thank so much for the nice words ! alot of people don't under stand why i help out when i have a shop thinking it takes work away from me . my fealing is that you guys are still going to do your cars you selfs so why not see if i can in some way help out . its not like i need the work hell i have more work than i can handle now . there is a thanks to you all too ! as you may or may not know i'm writing a book about body and paint work so know what problems your having does help me too . all i have to say about that with my spelling is thank god my mothers boy friend of 23 years is an editor !!!!

[vas930]

Well I look forward to the book, and thanks for your time.
Any idea when the book will be out?

[Fishcop]

I think we're all eagerly awaiting the book

[jsveb]

+1

Is there a timeframe on the book?

Thanks for taking the time to help.

[Walko]

Can I be first in line to buy the book

Michael

[962porsche]

when i started writing this book my thinking it was going to take about 6 mounths or so its now some thing like 2 years . every time i think i'm finished some thing new comes up that i feal should be in it . you can thank john forcier rebuild for some of the delay ! some times you guys get talking about some thing on the car and it makes me think .well i over look that question and thats some thing that should be addressed in the book . also when i started the book it was for most all cars and now it seams to be turning into more about porsches . then there is another problem doing this book . if its going to be now more for porsches then what do i do about color codes and chips ? i could burn up a 1000 pages on the info i have on that . how many pages will determine the cost if the book . also if i do color chips ? then do i do real color chips with real paint or just ink . remember with most inks you can't do metallics . they all lok like solid colors .

[Fishcop]

Originally Posted by 962porsche

when i started writing this book my thinking it was going to take about 6 mounths or so its now some thing like 2 years . every time i think i'm finished some thing new comes up that i feal should be in it . you can thank john forcier rebuild for some of the delay ! some times you guys get talking about some thing on the car and it makes me think .well i over look that question and thats some thing that should be addressed in the book . also when i started the book it was for most all cars and now it seams to be turning into more about porsches . then there is another problem doing this book . if its going to be now more for porsches then what do i do about color codes and chips ? i could burn up a 1000 pages on the info i have on that . how many pages will determine the cost if the book . also if i do color chips ? then do i do real color chips with real paint or just ink . remember with most inks you can't do metallics . they all lok like solid colors .

Oh no... Your book will be titled "Fishcops F*** Ups, And How to do it Right"

I'd email Wayne Dempsey He's written a few marque specific books now and surely has an idea of what may be involved. I think he has a contract with IMB Publishing.

Obviously writing a Porsche specific book is great for all of us, but in real terms it may be too small a market? Perhaps the pubisher will want "European cars" or similar?

You could always self publish, but I understand it's quite an effort and there will be next to no profit in it for you.

[962porsche]

my mom's boy friend tells me to split up the book . do one book on body work . one on painting then if i really feal the need do one more book about porsche colors . john as for your rebuild i'm not seeing any f-up's . your doing a great job !

[yel911]

I hope you cover a topic that I can't seem to get a decent answer on.
Question: How do you protect an area that will be closed by welding? (rocker panel etc.)

Some answers/thoughts: weld thru primer, drill holes for undercoating etc.

[962porsche]

on some thing like the rockers were there are 3 layers ( inner , center and outer ) i will brush or roll SEM rust shield on the inner panels leaving just the pinch weld part bare metal . that bare metal area i coat with a weld primer . most of the welding we do is with a resistance welder not a mig . most of the guys that do there own work only use a mig for all there welding . so your left with doing plug welds and a **** load of grinding . also using a mig for all your welding it builds more heat than a resistance welder . this burns more of the zink weld primer away from around the weld and there is really little to nothing you can do about that . you could see if you can get a wand of a cavity wax gun in there and wax it . cavity wax has no chromates in it but it will cover the in side seam almost like a seam sealer would .

[Nomadic]

@962porsche Is the book going to be 911 / Porsche specific? If you already have an editor, you might consider self-publishing.

On demand/ low volume printing technology, web marketing and Amazon distribution has really changed the publishing game. You can always use a publisher later... and probably negotiate better terms.

Kevin Kelly has a nice little article about self-publishing on his Cool Tools website:
Cool Tools: The Self-Publishing Manual

Your editor's idea about splitting the the book into parts is a interesting one.

[ratpiper71T]

when i started writing this book my thinking it was going to take about 6 mounths or so its now some thing like 2 years . every time i think i'm finished some thing new comes up that i feal should be in it . you can thank john forcier rebuild for some of the delay ! some times you guys get talking about some thing on the car and it makes me think .well i over look that question and thats some thing that should be addressed in the book . also when i started the book it was for most all cars and now it seams to be turning into more about porsches . then there is another problem doing this book . if its going to be now more for porsches then what do i do about color codes and chips ? i could burn up a 1000 pages on the info i have on that . how many pages will determine the cost if the book . also if i do color chips ? then do i do real color chips with real paint or just ink . remember with most inks you can't do metallics . they all lok like solid colors .

+1 on waiting for the book!! I don't know 962, if it's only about porsches, I'll buy 3- one for the garage, one for the coffe table and one for the toilet! Perhaps color chips although a great idea, is trying to include too much, and as you stated reproducing the colors in ink or paint is going to be a daunting task as well as lackluster results on a book page. My own humble opinion, you could put paint codes as a reference section in the back of the book but make the body of the book on body restoration and the intricacies of that( with extensive pictures of course) broken into 3 sections early/ mid-year / later cars. Your reasoning on materials choice( like what to paint inside rockers/ longitudinals for example. How to align and check chassis measurements without a Celette bench and straightening panels, body lines, etc. Is the magic stuff. Well.. Thats what I think anyway!!

[962porsche]

i have all the chassis measurements for all years and models of porsches . but there poster size . so to copy them and add them to the book all bring the cost way up . then that would make the book porsche only cutting the buying market down . i'm not looking to make a living off this book but i would like to get the money back for what it is costing me .

[kycarguy 935]

I am looking forward too your book also. Thanks for all of the help you give on this forum.

I think if you made it Porsche specific it would be in many of our libraries. You could also cut out some of the Porsche specific area like undercoating and particular door and fender gaps and make a general book from the same information. The Porsche book would just be more complete.

A book about color codes and paint chips sounds so interesting too.

If you did make two books you could always package them together.

I think a picture of a car on your Celette while working on it would be beautiful.

[drcoastline]

Just saw this thread. I to would like thank 962 for his help. The extent of his knowledge is priceless. But he offers it for free to people for the most part he doesn't know.

Thanks 962 and vas930 for starting this thread.

[vas930]

Originally Posted by drcoastline

Just saw this thread. I to would like thank 962 for his help. The extent of his knowledge is priceless. But he offers it for free to people for the most part he doesn't know.

Thanks 962 and vas930 for starting this thread.

Thanks, drcoastline.
Any updates on the book?

[962porsche]

one more chapter to go on color sanding ,buffing, detailing . thinks very much for all the kind words ! than what about a dvd on body and paint ?

[drcoastline]

Originally Posted by 962porsche

one more chapter to go on color sanding ,buffing, detailing . thinks very much for all the kind words ! than what about a dvd on body and paint ?

As in a "how to" DVD? If so I say yes.