> I would STRONGLY advise anyone who wants to weld something on their
[...]
> This is not something that could have been remedied by "proper" welding
> as the guy who did it knows his stuff, and warned me it might happen
> because of the heat. I wish I would have used some bondo instead...
>
I don't know about that... What I'd do would be to cut patch metal like
Mark described, then drill the holes just like you're going to use rivets,
but *don't* drill holes in the control panel. Using a wire welder you just
puddle the metal up in the holes for a second (try not to burn through).
Then the rest of the process is the same-- use the bondo, sand it down, etc.
(Basically all you're doing is replacing the rivets with tack welds.)
Another approach would be to just cut out a disc of metal that's maybe 1/16"
smaller as the hole to patch and tack weld that in a few places to the
control panel. Fill in the gap with bondo and sand.
A spot welder or plasma welder would be better, but I don't know anyone with
that in their garage. ;-) (instantaneous heat to just stitch the metal
together.)
If you try to do anything with a torch I'd fully expect the metal to warp
and deform...
-Clay
Received on Thu Nov 11 13:19:01 1999
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