Well,
We're almost at the point where we are ready to start cutting out the rust of our 64 Daytona and putting in new cancer free patches. Interior has been removed, dash removed,steering wheel our, and the left fender is off.
Removed the firewall liner last night and we found even more rust and even some dead mice.. Oh joy!!
We have some holes that need patching on the firewall where the drivers side door hinge is. I'm hoping this weekend I can remove the undercoating and start patching it.
So my question is that we have a MIG welder and I was wondering how to put the patches in. Should it be an overlapping weld with a 1/4 inch overlap or should we try doing a butt weld?
My bodyshop instructor thinks that we should be doing lap welds because they are so much easier.
My dad thinks we should be doing butt welds but he's never used a mig welder before. He did butt welding with gas the last time the 64 was restored and when he restored his 62 Champ.
Any opinions out there?
Thanks
Steve
We're almost at the point where we are ready to start cutting out the rust of our 64 Daytona and putting in new cancer free patches. Interior has been removed, dash removed,steering wheel our, and the left fender is off.
Removed the firewall liner last night and we found even more rust and even some dead mice.. Oh joy!!
We have some holes that need patching on the firewall where the drivers side door hinge is. I'm hoping this weekend I can remove the undercoating and start patching it.
So my question is that we have a MIG welder and I was wondering how to put the patches in. Should it be an overlapping weld with a 1/4 inch overlap or should we try doing a butt weld?
My bodyshop instructor thinks that we should be doing lap welds because they are so much easier.
My dad thinks we should be doing butt welds but he's never used a mig welder before. He did butt welding with gas the last time the 64 was restored and when he restored his 62 Champ.
Any opinions out there?
Thanks
Steve
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