Citroenboixm
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Hi guy , great site!
I have owned a 2cv for the last 12 years as my daily car. It is now in need of a lot of work to keep the mot man happy. I plan to make it a future ongoing project and am going to take my tine to make it good as new. After receiving a £8000 quote from a well known 2cv garage to restore the car, I have decided to do it myself.
I'm a d&t teacher so have a little experience of mig welding but nothing on this scale. The car needs new boot floor, rear light panel, inner wings and a bit if the b post.
I have just bought a Clarke pro 90 mig.
My experience of welding is usually with thicker metal, so I'm a little nervous of blowing the car to bits lol.
I will upload photos of the car in it's current state soon and keep an update of my progress.
I believe most of the replacement panels and existing metal is about 0.8mm thick.
I assume I'm going to need minimal power and low wire speed???
Would I be right in thinking I would be better off with 0.6 wire rather than the 0.8 that came with the machine??
Sorry for all the questions and cheers for any advice
Mark
I have owned a 2cv for the last 12 years as my daily car. It is now in need of a lot of work to keep the mot man happy. I plan to make it a future ongoing project and am going to take my tine to make it good as new. After receiving a £8000 quote from a well known 2cv garage to restore the car, I have decided to do it myself.
I'm a d&t teacher so have a little experience of mig welding but nothing on this scale. The car needs new boot floor, rear light panel, inner wings and a bit if the b post.
I have just bought a Clarke pro 90 mig.
My experience of welding is usually with thicker metal, so I'm a little nervous of blowing the car to bits lol.
I will upload photos of the car in it's current state soon and keep an update of my progress.
I believe most of the replacement panels and existing metal is about 0.8mm thick.
I assume I'm going to need minimal power and low wire speed???
Would I be right in thinking I would be better off with 0.6 wire rather than the 0.8 that came with the machine??
Sorry for all the questions and cheers for any advice
Mark