Phil C Posted August 2, 2018 Report Share Posted August 2, 2018 Quote On 7/31/2018 at 12:50 PM, Bordfunker said: Phil, many thanks for the kind words and encouragement Karl, you are welcome. I look forward to seeing more Like Karl and Paul (and probably many others on the forum) I would also strongly encourage mig ownership. With a little guidance and lots of practice you'd be amazed at what you could achieve! Sometimes it won't be pretty but provided the penetration is there you can grind away the mess! I would recommend gas rather than gas-less and don't waste your money on disposable bottles as its a false economy....as I found to my cost☹️ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NonMember Posted August 3, 2018 Report Share Posted August 3, 2018 Another vote for the "get a MIG" camp here. For a random aside... our cooker hob (gas) is a bit prone to being too hot for simmering. It's OK if you hold the pan an inch above it but not directly on the frame. "Ah!", thought I, "easily fixed". An hour's cutting, welding, grinding and a coat of barbecue paint later, we have a thing to sit on the hob to raise the pan by an inch. ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris A Posted August 3, 2018 Report Share Posted August 3, 2018 Spotted an advert for a second hand one, but it is for sale in Florida ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bordfunker Posted August 6, 2018 Author Report Share Posted August 6, 2018 On 8/3/2018 at 11:27 AM, Chris A said: Spotted an advert for a second hand one, but it is for sale in Florida ? Wrong Mig! That's Mig 29 UB, absolutely useless to weld with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bordfunker Posted August 6, 2018 Author Report Share Posted August 6, 2018 Given the current weather I haven't been as keen as I normally would be to get in the garage and carry on welding, so have limited myself to a couple of hours on Saturday and Sunday, so as not to end up a shrivelled dehydrated smudge on the garage floor. So I started off where I left off last week, namely the repair panel between the B-pillar and the rear arch on the passenger side, which I had completed most of the welding on last week, but not quite all. This is where I left it last week. You can see the horrible seam weld that I had to use when the Halfords weld through primer proved that it wasn't! This got a tidy up with the angle grinder, both the seam at the top, and the joint with the remains of the rear wing. Overall much neater, but I still need to straighten up the top seam, but at least this will be covered by the sill. However, being me I got a little too ambitious in grinding back the lower seam, and managed to grind through it, which I then compounded by blowing through while trying to weld it! Oh well it's all practise, and within 5 minutes was fixed. I've still got a bit of a lip between the repair panel and the rear wing, which I have managed to get down to around 0.5mm, which I can then cover with a thin skim of filler, much better than the 5mm of filler that was there previously if nothing more, and at least the panel is now solid steel. I also seam welded the joint between the panel and rear arch. I've managed to build in a slight step towards the rear of the panel where it meets the arch, but again nothing that can't be fixed with a skim of filler. So not perfect, which is annoying, but I'm treating this as a learning curve, so things can only get better right? Karl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
68vitesse Posted August 6, 2018 Report Share Posted August 6, 2018 Do not know if it has been said but a piece of aluminium behind the weld is excellent at stopping blow through when welding thin sheet steel. Regards Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bordfunker Posted August 6, 2018 Author Report Share Posted August 6, 2018 Thanks Paul, that or chunk of copper is on my shopping list. Karl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bordfunker Posted August 7, 2018 Author Report Share Posted August 7, 2018 Following on from yesterday's update which chronicled Saturday's activities, on Sunday I sorted out the missing section of wheel arch. This is pretty much where I started out. Given the position of the piece that needed to be removed I wasn't going to attempt cutting it out with an angle grinder, so went for a more controlled approach drilling out the edge of the area to be removed. Which then allowed me to fold the flap down and cut it out with a junior hacksaw. Note the rust between the inner wheel arch and outer lip. If I was being really anal I could drill out the spot welds, split the wing away from the inner arch and clean it all up, but instead I think I will simply douse everything in rust stopper as the rust appears to be surface only and not structural. I did clean up the area under the repair patch, before trying the repair patch for size. This was after about 15 minutes of tweaking with files and flap discs, slowly adjusting the fit, allowing me to clamp it up ready for welding. Given how thin the metal is on the Herald I used a stitch technique for the welding, pulsing the welder rather than applying a continuous bead, as this reduces the chance of blow through, and only doing about an inch at a time, before cooling the area down with compressed air from the air compressor. As you can see I also plug welded the repair section to the inner lip of the wheel arch, which, without Halfords weld through primer, worked perfectly this time. This was then cooled and cleaned up with a 40 grit flap disc in the angle grinder, leaving me with this. Overall much happier with that than the B-pillar repair section as the fit is much flusher overall, and will need little in the way of filler to tidy it all up. That pretty much finishes up the welding on the rear passenger side of the car, and leaves me feeling more confident about returning to the welding on the bulkhead, which I can't put off any longer. Karl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bordfunker Posted September 23, 2018 Author Report Share Posted September 23, 2018 It's been a few weeks since I last posted, mainly due to picking up a virus which took weeks to shift, and left we with a serious mojo deficit when it came to working on the car. This wasn't helped by discovering that one of the chassis welds had cracked, leaving me with concerns for the rest of the welds, therefore I then spent a couple of weeks practising my welding to ensure that I was happy that my welds were consistently strong. All of which has meant only starting to make progress on the car again this weekend, focussing on grinding back the existing welds to check for cracks, before re-welding all the joints on the chassis. At least with all the practice my welding has improved, and bouncing up and down on the freshly welded chassis has caused no further cracking. I've still got the front driver's corner of the chassis to finish, after which I'll give the chassis a thorough degrease, followed by a coat of epoxy primer. The aim after that is to drop the gearbox and check the condition of the clutch, as well as the condition of the rear engine oil seal, as I figure now is the easiest time for me to do this. Karl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bordfunker Posted October 7, 2018 Author Report Share Posted October 7, 2018 I had hoped to get back into the garage last weekend, but managed to pick up a cold from my boss! I wouldn't mind so much but I felt fine by Monday morning, what a waste of a weekend! However with the cold now gone, Mrs B off to the north for the weekend, no more excuses, time to get into the garage and actually do some work. Nothing for it but to finish up the chassis welding, which with yesterday's lovely weather was a complete joy with the garage door open, however I didn't bother taking any pics of the chassis welding, as if you've seen one bit of chassis welding on a Herald, you've seen them all. I did however take pics of all the other stuff, some of which those of a delicate nature may find distressing. The 'other stuff' was the underside of the bulkhead area, which was covered in a thick coating of under seal, which I attacked with a wire brush in the angle grinder, over a period of several hours, which left me with this..... ...it also left me with a whole load of black gritty dust all over the garage, which left me feeling grateful for having a worn a mask and goggles, even if I do end up looking like a minion! As expected the driver's side looked to be in better shape than the passenger side, with much less surface pitting... ....however removal of the under seal removed some horrors. This is the rearmost chassis mount on the driver's side of the bulkhead, which had looked perfectly serviceable, but which turns out to have significant rot. Cue that sinking feeling. Worse still is that the double skinned section behind the mounting point has started to rot out like the passenger side! Removal of the under seal over the forward chassis attachment revealed more tin worm.... .....as well a holing of the mounting itself. I then decided to take a peak behind the mounting itself...... .......I really wish I hadn't! Removal of the mill board alongside the accelerator peddle revealed the full extent of the rot. Oh dear, deja vu all over again! And I've still to finish the repairs to the passenger side! At least now I know that Chic Doig make a replacement section for this area, so rather than attempting to fabricate my own, I'll take the sensible route on the driver's side. With all the paint and under seal stripped off, nothing else to do but give both sides a coat of the FE 123 rust stopper. I couldn't find a paintbrush for the FE 123, so tried a mini roller, which worked far better, with fewer drips and runs, and was much faster. It's always depressing to find rot where you thought there wasn't any, but I figure now is the best time to find, when everything is accessible, and I don't have to face the prospect of undoing my own previous repairs. Karl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dougbgt6 Posted October 8, 2018 Report Share Posted October 8, 2018 Oh dear! I had an MOT advisory last year "Excessive underseal" Oh dear, oh dear Doug Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bordfunker Posted October 8, 2018 Author Report Share Posted October 8, 2018 Doug, they probably suspect you of trying to hide something! Though I do think that, 'excessive under seal' is a charge which could have been levelled at my car, given how much 'solid' steel has turned out to be under seal! Karl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Lindsay Posted October 8, 2018 Report Share Posted October 8, 2018 9 hours ago, dougbgt6 said: Oh dear! I had an MOT advisory last year "Excessive underseal" Oh dear, oh dear Doug YOU WHAT????? My 1200 was caked in the flaming stuff, right up the engine sump, side valences, bonnet adjusters, brake pipes, springs, shocks, everything. Took me ages to get it all off, and sometimes it came off in huge chunks like tarmac. It came with an MOT, but then it also had a seized front brake caliper and a chassis made from Swiss cheese... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bordfunker Posted October 8, 2018 Author Report Share Posted October 8, 2018 Colin, that sounds a lot like mine chassis wise, air coated in under seal! At least the suspension on mine wasn’t coated in the stuff as well. I ordered a repair panel from Chic Doig for the passenger side today, as I’ve given up on making my own now that I know you can buy them ready made. Karl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Lewis Posted October 8, 2018 Report Share Posted October 8, 2018 Thats why mine 64vit6 ended up like a jigsaw but on the bright side back in 1965ish my 59 948 had no side rail and no body mounts The front two had long disappeared to rot , 7 years old and rotten as socks even the rear bumper panels had giant rust bubbles so after all these years whats a few holes H a!! Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bordfunker Posted October 8, 2018 Author Report Share Posted October 8, 2018 57 minutes ago, Pete Lewis said: ........so after all these years whats a few holes! An MOT fail! Karl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Lindsay Posted October 8, 2018 Report Share Posted October 8, 2018 That's why I never bother putting my socks in for MOT. (plus I can't get the toe-in.... ) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppyman Posted October 8, 2018 Report Share Posted October 8, 2018 1 hour ago, Colin Lindsay said: That's why I never bother putting my socks in for MOT. (plus I can't get the toe-in.... ) You always have to put your foot in it........... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bordfunker Posted October 8, 2018 Author Report Share Posted October 8, 2018 He is a heel sometimes. Karl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppyman Posted October 9, 2018 Report Share Posted October 9, 2018 Shall we give him the boot?? Tony. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Lewis Posted October 9, 2018 Report Share Posted October 9, 2018 did you foot the bill for the brake shoes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppyman Posted October 9, 2018 Report Share Posted October 9, 2018 If he breaks down he could always see a chiropodist.......... I have heard they are very good for a "TOE" Tony. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bordfunker Posted October 9, 2018 Author Report Share Posted October 9, 2018 I’m putting my foot down now, no more puns! Karl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Lewis Posted October 9, 2018 Report Share Posted October 9, 2018 size 10? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppyman Posted October 9, 2018 Report Share Posted October 9, 2018 Or 12 inches....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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