Any interest in another Amazonian rescue? The welding continues

[Ronkey]

Now this was fun. Don't worry: I haven't set fire to it. Yet. The sound deadening was not for moving heat wasn't working so I thought I try cold from a CO2 fire extinguisher. It worked a treat!!

[warninglight]

6 minutes ago, Ronkey said:

They are fabulous. What colour code is that red?

I think it's this code. However it was restored and painted in the 1980s, and I had the scuttle and sills done to match in 2017, so it may be a bit different.

sadly I've decided today that it's time to sell up! Already had the blue one for sale, but I need to make room to finish my Laplander and get my Austin 1100 back on the road.

[Ronkey]

I'm definitely getting better at this. Although the welder does have a major splatter occasionally for no reason I can determine. I dropped on a broken Clarke 151 and have repaired it: the extra power makes a big difference when plug welding. I also find it is more controllable on the lower setting. Not bad for £50 and £25 of parts. 

This corner of the car is in by far the best condition. Which means it needs loads of welding. Lip to bottom of rear wing was shot, but only where out of sight. That means the rest is salvageable. The rear of the outer wing and the inner look manky, but nowhere near as bad as the other side. See for yourselves:

On bit of luck: a lower valance repair panel had been spot welded on as a past repair. Wonder if it will clean up?

Nice. After this photo was taken I attacked it with the phosphoric acid and a wire brush. Looked nearly new. 

New lip welded on and ground back. I hate welding upside down and it doesn't matter how well you protect yourself there is always a bit of splatter that find bare skin and leaves a crater. 

Well happy with this little fabrication. It is part of the boot floor and has a vertical curve in it with a lip. I cut the lip to suit and welded it back together to get this:

And now with it in the car. That'll do. 

Started chopping out the inner wing and boot floor to repair that nightmare lip. 

 

 

Tell me to keep going: is there any end to the welding on this thing??

 

[juular]

2 hours ago, Ronkey said:

I'm definitely getting better at this. Although the welder does have a major splatter occasionally for no reason I can determine. I dropped on a broken Clarke 151 and have repaired it: the extra power makes a big difference when plug welding. I also find it is more controllable on the lower setting. Not bad for £50 and £25 of parts. 

This corner of the car is in by far the best condition. Which means it needs loads of welding. Lip to bottom of rear wing was shot, but only where out of sight. That means the rest is salvageable. The rear of the outer wing and the inner look manky, but nowhere near as bad as the other side. See for yourselves:

On bit of luck: a lower valance repair panel had been spot welded on as a past repair. Wonder if it will clean up?

Nice. After this photo was taken I attacked it with the phosphoric acid and a wire brush. Looked nearly new. 

New lip welded on and ground back. I hate welding upside down and it doesn't matter how well you protect yourself there is always a bit of splatter that find bare skin and leaves a crater. 

Well happy with this little fabrication. It is part of the boot floor and has a vertical curve in it with a lip. I cut the lip to suit and welded it back together to get this:

And now with it in the car. That'll do. 

Started chopping out the inner wing and boot floor to repair that nightmare lip. 

 

 

Tell me to keep going: is there any end to the welding on this thing??

 

You're knocking this into a different postcode. Really good to see it being done properly. I must admit when I got to this point I'd lost a lot of motivation and large gaps got filled with mig wire. Your fabrication is spot on and that is going to last forever.

It will be worth it.

[Ronkey]

Whoomph! There it is.

Inner arch now reconnected to the rest of the car: that feels like a massive milestone achieved. I made the lip continuous on floor repair by putting some copper behind and filling the gaps with mig wire and then grinding back. Gives a neat result. 

Getting nearer to the oily bits with every hour now  

 

 

 

[DSdriver]

You can be proud of what you have achieved so far, it looks magnificent. Onward and upward.

[rm36house]

On 19/02/2024 at 12:10, warninglight said:

Fantastic! Nice to see another one saved properly. My own red 4 door (121) had all the same rot in all the same places when I got it in 2015.

Looking forward to seeing this progress!

Amazone estate looks so good Sir.   Well done.