Tig welding patch panels

[bam55]

I just wanted to share why I enjoy tig welding sheetmetal.

Bondo, bondo, bondo.

This is what was under all that bondo

This is what I had to cut away. Yikes

Yeah thats another fender in that background covered in bondo also.lol

I had some front fenders that I've been gutting that provided the majority of the patch panel. A little tweaking and they worked fine. That little rust spot that was left I just formed my hand.

I used a 3/32 2% ceriated tungsten and 1/16 filler rod and tried to keep the smallest HAZ I could. Tig sheetmetal is great you can see how low the bead profile is and some of the metal finishing I started. Man you can hammer and dolly that HAZ to your hearts desire.

And here it is, almost ready for primer a little more welding and hammer and dolly work to do and very little filler will be needed now.lol

 

[MP&C]

Almost ready for some green paint!

 

[bam55]

MP&C you are just as nutty as I am.lol Man you are everywhere just like me.lol

 

[zmaxmotorsports]

Beautiful work,Ive always said bondo is for fine tuning metal not sculpting panels from.
Ill try and find some pictures of my old sheetmetal projects to post

 

[bam55]

Thanks zmaxmotorsports, and please do post pics when you find them. I'm a nut for metal work and fabrication.

 

[zmaxmotorsports]

My wife has this habit of putting my stuff in boxes then not remembering where,Does anybody else have this problem?

 

[bam55]

Yeah I think those of us that have been married a while know about that. Also when they go through a cleaning frenzy your stuff will end up in the trash and all you will hear is "I didn't know you needed that" while you're outside looking through the trash.lol

 

[zmaxmotorsports]

Yeah Im still waiting for her to figure out where she put the discs with my pictures on them!