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    Lead puddling

    Jun 25, 2018 2 minutes
    WORDS AND PHOTOGRAPHY STEVE COOPER

    With the advent of modern adhesives it wasn’t long before some bright spark sussed out you could make a pretty good body filler with some two part epoxy resins and an inert filler. At a stroke this new technology ousted the old art of lead puddling, aka body soldering. The

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