A lady brought this lawnmower in today and felt the welding her neighbor guy did was unsafe. He had a chunk of angle and a Sawzall blade melted into it. Easy fix, remove the part and weld in a new piece, should be safer now....Bob
Nice one. Guess the last thing you need when mowing is for that old piece to come flying out at high speed. A long time ago I was told by a window salesman that the greatest danger for patio doors are hover mowers that fling small stones out at high velocity.
Don't suppose it would do your feet a lot of good either
Check out this hack job that also was brought to me to "fix". A driveshaft from a truck. It has a Chevy engine in a Dodge truck so they just welded two driveshfts together to get it to fit. The black stuff on the right side is duct tape along with two shims of sheetmetal and gobs of weld, no wonder it vibrated so bad. Nothing 235 bucks wouldn't fix for a new one professionaly made...Bob
Guess you could start a 'Black Museum' of welding/engineering.
Amazing what folks get up to. What is really frightening is that in a lot of cases they have absolutely no idea of the dangers or risks that they are inflicting on themselves, their family and the general public.
That is until it goes really wrong, but then it must be the equipments fault, after all they've done nothing wrong - have they
Can't believe anyone would glob a propshaft together - that's crazy. Even "professional" modders forget about the need for balance sometimes. I had a new one custom made for not much more than the price of a factory one.
I'm forever dismayed by the standard of car welding that comes out of back street garages - no prep beforehand, just a patch on top. At least it makes them easy to remove so they can be sorted properly. This one came off with a screwdriver.
I rebuilt the front of my wife's VDP 1300, the hardest job was undoing the botches that someone before me had done. The trouble is I have since spotted a couple further down the sills which i will have to cut out and re-do before i allow the car back out on the road, just in case anyone thinks they were mine.
I've never really understood why most people restore cars the way they do, I mean say they have a rusty panel, they seem to try make good by patching it. I would not be content driving around in a car like that, I would fit nice fresh shiny panels and if they aint available I would, if need be get them custom pressed to spec.
I hate rust and its a down hill battle to deal with as time goes on.
Body fill is another thing I hate, just get a new panel and do it properly???
I suppose what i'm saying is I like things symmetrical knowing that if my car was x-rayed it would look a right mess if it had filler and patches all over it.
Cost is a factor but if your restoring it should be your passion and joy thats worth spending on.
Theres a point though where any classic was just an old banger (apart from maybe the e type jag league cars) and people will have just botched them to get them through the next MoT. I've (albeit welded properly) patched the chassis and floor of my Trooper simply because its never gonna be a restoration, its just to get another year out of it before it goes to the great off road circuit in the sky.