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My guess is that you can't get the printer's lead to stick. I believe it's really the tin that makes it stick. Body lead is basically solder but in a particular proportion. I don't remember the specifics but sounds like Jeff knows and I'm sure he is right. I have seen stuff sold as body lead and even supposed to have the right composition that was either too hard to apply, to work, gave a terrible surface or just fell off sometime later. Stick with the known right stuff. It isn't that much more expensive.

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Ok, drivers side front fender is done, It has passed my muster I will not do any more on it. You can keep fooling with them forever if you don't have some stopping point. I am over half done with the other. Stupid question ,as its been many moons, should the valence on the bottom be installed before the fenders? I'm thinking yeah?
 
OK, one fender done, the other very near done and the valence is coming along nicely. The valence face was actually not in as bad a shape as I had thought, but the stuff attached to it was worse than I had remembered, have been tapping on in and starightening it for a while today. Done for the day and will look at it afresh tomorrow.
 
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