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Best Way to Make Perfect Holes in Sheet Metal

When you’re building a custom car or restoring a classic you may have to make or replaced…

Best Ways to Keep Your Exhaust From Rusting Out

Rotted out exhausts is a problem we fight on our classics as much as our daily drivers. Wi…

What Makes Us Tick- Scott C.

A Finely Tuned Machine- Eastwood Employees Make Us Tick We want to share the great Eastwoo…

Why Use Eastwood Intermix Paint System

Custom Paint with the mystery taken out! In this day and age standing out in the crowd wit…

10 Tricks to remove that Stuck, Seized, or Stripped Bolt/Nut
10 Tricks to remove that Stuck, Seized, or Stripped Bolt/Nut
One of the biggest frustrations when disassembling a vehicle for restoration, or even rep...
Plasti Dip® FAQ's - Frequently Asked Questions About Dipping Cars
Plasti Dip® FAQ’s – Frequently Asked Questions About Dipping Cars
Plasti Dip® is a flexible, rubber coating that was originally used for dipping tool handle...
Buyers Guide: When to Use Rust Encapsulator VS. Rust Converter
Buyers Guide: When to Use Rust Encapsulator VS. Rust Converter
Our tech team answers a lot of technical calls and emails each day, and there are a lot of...
How to Repair Clearcoat Defects
How to Repair Clearcoat Defects
Since the 1980s the automotive manufacturers have been painting cars with two stage, base...
How to Prep Metal For Welding - Quick Tip
How to Prep Metal For Welding – Quick Tip
DIRTY WELDS ARE NEVER STRONG, CLEAN YOUR METAL BEFORE WELDING The key to any good weld is...
Ditch Those Leaky Header Joints
Ditch Those Leaky Header Joints
After you've been building and modifying cars for a while there's some things that you bec...
How to make a Body Panel From Scratch- Rear Quarter Panel Fabrication
How to make a Body Panel From Scratch- Rear Quarter Panel Fabrication
If you want to get better at anything you need to practice and push yourself to try things...
How to repair a damaged Aluminum Alloy Wheel
How to repair a damaged Aluminum Alloy Wheel
In this part of the country (Mid-Atlantic) cars, wheels especially take a beating during t...
How to Prep Metal For Welding - Quick Tip
How to Prep Metal For Welding – Quick Tip
DIRTY WELDS ARE NEVER STRONG, CLEAN YOUR METAL BEFORE WELDING The key to any good weld is...
Ditch Those Leaky Header Joints
Ditch Those Leaky Header Joints
After you've been building and modifying cars for a while there's some things that you bec...
How to make a Body Panel From Scratch- Rear Quarter Panel Fabrication
How to make a Body Panel From Scratch- Rear Quarter Panel Fabrication
If you want to get better at anything you need to practice and push yourself to try things...
How to repair a damaged Aluminum Alloy Wheel
How to repair a damaged Aluminum Alloy Wheel
In this part of the country (Mid-Atlantic) cars, wheels especially take a beating during t...
How to Prep Metal For Welding - Quick Tip
How to Prep Metal For Welding – Quick Tip
DIRTY WELDS ARE NEVER STRONG, CLEAN YOUR METAL BEFORE WELDING The key to any good weld is...
Ditch Those Leaky Header Joints
Ditch Those Leaky Header Joints
After you've been building and modifying cars for a while there's some things that you bec...
How to repair a damaged Aluminum Alloy Wheel
How to repair a damaged Aluminum Alloy Wheel
In this part of the country (Mid-Atlantic) cars, wheels especially take a beating during t...
TIG Welding FAQ
TIG Welding FAQ
TIG stands for Tungsten Inert Gas. Unlike MIG or ARC welding, TIG uses an electrode separa...
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