This is the hole on the right rear quarter panel I mentioned earlier. It kind of showed up out of nowhere.
Nice margins around it when I wire brush it. Cool, I suck at welding, and my welder isn't the best, nor is it the best for this, but I think I can handle a little 1"x2" patch.
Well, that complicates things, but I still got this, right?
What the? Oh . Well, let's see how much further it goes.
Jesus Tapdancing Christ! What the do I do about this???
@Davedacarpainter @2Blue2 @LILCBRA @rusty428cj @429MII @CarMichael Angelo any advice ya'll have would be appreciated. I'm going to stop there for the night after hitting it with a light coat of Rustoleum to keep the bare metal from flash rusting overnight.
So what was the major hang-up?
I cut away all the rotten metal, cleaned up all of the rust on that support, painted it, re-stripped the area around it, cut out the first of the two patch panels, fired up the welder...I'd guess that everyone would have their own way of tackling this, but I would probably plan on at least a partial part of the upper quarter panel being replaced. Cutting into that would at least give you a line of sight and access to the underside of that location to know what you have to deal with. It would also give you more room to cut that inner section out, fab up a new patch and test fit it before closing the quarter panel back up.
I made the cuts with butt joints in mind.Seems to me that you'd want to turn the wire speed up, not down. Sounds like you're melting the parent material without adding any to it. Is everything cut for butt joints or do you have a flange tool? You can pick one up from Harbor Freight for pretty cheap and it can get you away from most of the butt joints you have to work with.
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I was kind of inspired by @Keionte 's videos in his build thread which have music in them (by the way, this guy is doing some neat , if you haven't taken a look at it, I HIGHLY recommend a read and watching the videos: https://stangnet.com/mustang-forums/threads/in-the-beginning-god-said-let-there-be-luciel.915364/ ). I don't have the time/equipment to make decent videos, but I can totally add music!I like the sound track, you need to release an album.
this sound track thing is catching on