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Re: sheet metal and welding
Posted by Brian [Email] (more from Brian) on Tue, 2 Mar 2004 02:26:28
In Reply to: sheet metal and welding, MikeinME, Mon, 1 Mar 2004 17:58:09
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First, I am not a welder, I just have started to do what you are doing.
The sheet metal you need is going to be at least 20-gauge steel or even better would be 18-gauge (smaller number means thicker steel). These sheets are available from Eastwood Co. and are fairly inexpensive.
If you are using anything in your welder larger than .024 welding wire, in my experience, you burn through even the 18-gauge steel. Go with the .024 or .023.
As Kansas mentioned, the sheet metal in the floors and trunk are all structural parts since the car does not have a frame. This means the repair panels need to have the channels formed into them for strength (you can't just weld flat sheets where the formed pieces were). I bought some repair panels from Motor Sport Sweden (http://www.motorsportsweden.com) that have the correct channels but the one I cannot seem to find is the front center piece and that one I am going to have to fabricate. This brings us to your next problem: with most home-type metal bending equipment you can make simple small 90-degree bends in the 20-gauge metal and anything thicker gets really hard to bend. I am still trying to figure out how to bend the channels down the center of a pice of metal.
Good luck and keep us posted on anything you do or learn that would help the rest of us doing the same thing.
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Posts in this Thread:
- sheet metal and welding, MikeinME, Mon, 1 Mar 2004 17:58:09
- Re: sheet metal and welding, MikeinME, Wed, 3 Mar 2004 18:41:32
- Re: sheet metal and welding, Brian, Tue, 2 Mar 2004 02:26:28 <-- Viewing This Message
- Re: sheet metal and welding, kansas, Mon, 1 Mar 2004 18:50:54
- my set up, MikeinME, Mon, 1 Mar 2004 23:33:36
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