jackisthebox
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Evening all, first the nickname, Jack is the name of my Boxer dog. Why am I here? Fans of Father Ted will recall the scene where Dougal and Ted discover a small dent in the bumper of their prize car. Ted says something like, “I’ll just give it a little tap.”, several hours later and many “Adjustments” and the car looks like a car crash. I was just going to get the engine out, get it rebuilt and put it back in.
A month later and the wings are off and I have had a go with a cutter on various rusty bits of metal, haven’t even looked at the rear of the car yet. Attached is the early stage without the engine.
The car is a 62 saloon and last had major surgery in 1991 where some expensive welding was done. 20 years later and the tin worm is still dining out on my cash, so it’s time to learn welding. I have signed up to a welding course which covers Gas/MIG/TIG here:
http://www.dorsetruralskills.co.uk/courses/welding.htm
And ordered a Portamig 185 from Weldequip. A friend came round last weekend with an ESAB Caddy, the expensive one, he’s doing up an XK and E-Type at the moment. I had a go with it but didn’t feel that confident with it hence the course. I have been looking in to this Forum which is a great source of knowledge, one of the good things about the internet. Anything that keeps skills alive is good in my book.
I’ll post some pictures of some of the holes later.
I watched David Gardiner’s Bodywork Restoration Tutorial the other night and I have a question: He suggests that Gas Welding should be used on external body work, I think because the weld seam is less brittle and more workable than MIG, and MIG for structural stuff, implying that in an ideal world you aught to have and use both. Is Gas Welding not used on structural stuff then?
A month later and the wings are off and I have had a go with a cutter on various rusty bits of metal, haven’t even looked at the rear of the car yet. Attached is the early stage without the engine.
The car is a 62 saloon and last had major surgery in 1991 where some expensive welding was done. 20 years later and the tin worm is still dining out on my cash, so it’s time to learn welding. I have signed up to a welding course which covers Gas/MIG/TIG here:
http://www.dorsetruralskills.co.uk/courses/welding.htm
And ordered a Portamig 185 from Weldequip. A friend came round last weekend with an ESAB Caddy, the expensive one, he’s doing up an XK and E-Type at the moment. I had a go with it but didn’t feel that confident with it hence the course. I have been looking in to this Forum which is a great source of knowledge, one of the good things about the internet. Anything that keeps skills alive is good in my book.
I’ll post some pictures of some of the holes later.
I watched David Gardiner’s Bodywork Restoration Tutorial the other night and I have a question: He suggests that Gas Welding should be used on external body work, I think because the weld seam is less brittle and more workable than MIG, and MIG for structural stuff, implying that in an ideal world you aught to have and use both. Is Gas Welding not used on structural stuff then?