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December 27, 2020 at 07:25 #69233
Tony
ParticipantDecember 27, 2020 at 14:40 #69234mark wojcik
ParticipantIf you look at my posts here, I did a step by step doing a 4 door Lincoln sedan, into a 2 door hardtop. While not the esiest task, it’s pretty straight forward.
0December 27, 2020 at 18:36 #69235Mild Mitch
ParticipantMind bending is correct Tony. More filler please…
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0December 27, 2020 at 20:07 #69237Tony
ParticipantDecember 27, 2020 at 23:14 #69238Quentin Hall
ParticipantIronically that “workmanship” is probably fairly representative of the time and “traditional”.
Its only the advent of mobile phs and  of step by step , 5 year builds where we worry about perfect gaps, hammer welds and what others will think of our bare metal workmanship.
Back then you could cut it up on Saturday, lead it up or bog it up on Sunday and be back on the road on Monday.
+5December 28, 2020 at 00:51 #69244Larry Pointer
ParticipantJust a word of caution from an oldtimer, looking at that sequence: Don’t braze! In weather swings over time, brass and steel sheet metal expand and contract at different rates. Cracks are inevitable. Yes, you can melt brass at a lower temperature than mig wire, or tig welding, so perhaps less initial warpage danger, but for the long-term, best to weld like-with-like.
0December 28, 2020 at 01:34 #69245Tony
ParticipantIronically that “workmanship” is probably fairly representative of the time and “traditional”. Its only the advent of mobile phs and of step by step , 5 year builds where we worry about perfect gaps, hammer welds and what others will think of our bare metal workmanship. Back then you could cut it up on Saturday, lead it up or bog it up on Sunday and be back on the road on Monday.
That may or may not be the case – there have always been butchers – but this was last week, not 1962.
Guy has no fear of rust …or anything else!
0December 28, 2020 at 04:30 #69246Quentin Hall
ParticipantBog doesn’t rust!!!
0December 28, 2020 at 18:15 #69252Mild Mitch
ParticipantI have begun to write something here several times. But keep going back to “if you can’t say something nice, don’t say…”
Mitch
0December 28, 2020 at 19:33 #69253Ian Gibbons
ParticipantI think I figured out who worked on my Merc. 🙂
0December 29, 2020 at 16:54 #69256Mild Mitch
Participant“I think I figured out who worked on my Merc.”
HAHAHA, Sorry Ian. That’s really sad.
Mitch
0December 29, 2020 at 18:47 #69258bob tindale
Participantyep.. this is one extreme and on the other is the restoration of the Tom Hocker 40 Ford. i like being somewhere in the middle. Bet he will have more fun than most.
+3December 30, 2020 at 17:57 #69288Torchie
ParticipantI never trash another persons work. We all have different ideas on what’s “Acceptable.”
I prefer to think that any one that tackles this sort of thing is doing the best they know how. And more importantly , learning so the next one they do is better.
I’m sure that there are times that people on this site have looked at my welds and made a comment or two. (hopefully, just to themselves.)
In the words of the immortal Isley Brothers. “It’s your thing. Do what you want to do.”
Peace.
Torchie
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+4December 30, 2020 at 22:49 #69299Ian Gibbons
ParticipantI never trash another persons work. We all have different ideas on what’s “Acceptable.” I prefer to think that any one that tackles this sort of thing is doing the best they know how. And more importantly , learning so the next one they do is better. I’m sure that there are times that people on this site have looked at my welds and made a comment or two. (hopefully, just to themselves.) In the words of the immortal Isley Brothers. “It’s your thing. Do what you want to do.” Peace. Torchie
I agree up until the point that you start charging people for the work which this guy is.
It makes me laugh that so many on that post are saying what great work it is but they would be the same ones ripping someone about the hack job someone had done to the car if they had bought the finished car and torn into it and had discovered what he is showing.
+1December 31, 2020 at 00:30 #69300Tony
ParticipantIt makes me laugh that so many on that post are saying what great work it is but they would be the same ones ripping someone about the hack job someone had done to the car if they had bought the finished car and torn into it and had discovered what he is showing
Yes, the ‘hey look what I found’ horror threads with pictures of 2″ thick filler are always popular. I’ve never seen a before thread though, until now.
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