Another grille thread…. (1951 Mercury)
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March 17, 2014 at 21:42 #11468Ian GibbonsParticipant
Is it stainless? I would think something of that size would be regular steel and then painted or chromed depending on the trim level of the vehicle. Have you tried checking if it is magnetic? It’s not a definitive test but if it’s not magnetic you know for sure it’s stainless. You can MIG stainless but it usually requires a tri mix gas and stainless wire so unless a guy is set up for that already the costs for doing a couple of small jobs would probably be more than just taking it to a guy to TIG.
March 17, 2014 at 22:20 #11470John RyanParticipantOh you are probably right, it probably is steel. It had thick paint on it, and a few spots where paint flaked off it has some surface rust. I’ll look for a magnet. If steel, mig is okay?
March 20, 2014 at 00:19 #11542Justin KudollaParticipantYour ideas and car are very good. I’m so glad you aren’t going with a DeSoto grill. Everytime I see a freshly built Merc with yet another DeSoto grill, I just cringe. It’s a great design, but it’s nice to see something with imagination.
I like the bar without the bullets, most people would tack them on, so I think your car would be more unusual leaving them off. Nice work! Whatever way you go, I’ll be anxious to it completed.
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www.trendcustomcars.comMarch 20, 2014 at 00:26 #11544TonyParticipantI agree. Pie-cut and curve the bar, float it. Simple, perfect, done.
March 20, 2014 at 03:28 #11548John RyanParticipantThanks guys, the simple bar with 2 pie cuts, one on each side of the center ribbed section is the plan.
Ian pointed out that its probably steel so my friend Joe should be able to mig weld it.
March 20, 2014 at 16:07 #11552DavidParticipantThe more I look at it John, the more it looks to me that in the picture with both bars next to each other on the driveway, the shorter bar appears to have more v to it. Is that just illusion from the picture, or do they both actually have the same profile? If it does, then my question is which bar is propped in the car in the picture from above comparing the curve of the bar to the curve of the hood?
March 20, 2014 at 18:04 #11588John RyanParticipantDavid, one of the bars is too too short for the grille opening. I don’t recall if they have different curves, I can snap a pic and we can see. My recollection is that the shorter bar is too short for the opening.
Based on looking at many pics of Oz’ ’49, the center of the bar was left alone and then the immediate ends have a v cut.
March 20, 2014 at 18:06 #11589John RyanParticipantMarch 20, 2014 at 19:01 #11591DavidParticipantWell, the reason I asked is that the center of whichever bar in the pic from above looked a bit too flat in the center to match the shape of the hood. So, my thinking was that if one bar was more v’d than the other, I would use the most v’d center section and then do the pie cuts with the longer outside ends….if any of that makes sense. That last picture above though makes it look like there isn’t much difference between the two. I remember previously talking about a zillion cuts in the center section to v it more and still maintain the parallel ribs, but that would be an astronomical amount of work for most everyone to never notice. I think this grille is going to look great!
March 20, 2014 at 19:50 #11601John RyanParticipantI think both have similar lines but in some of my pics the longer bar looks a little angled, might be due to a dent that it has…
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