Fabricating Our Own Front Fender Panel Patches | Saving Original W-31 Fenders
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- Опубликовано: 21 авг 2024
- #fabrication #rare #automobile
Round 2 of saving these original W-31 fenders with metal we have from other panels and other projects we can salvage to fabricate our own patch panel without replacing these fenders.
Tell us what you think, or If you have done this one a car before to save original metal panels or to keep the car with its original sheet metal.
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Steve you are the man I can’t believe what you can do with metal that fender looks 100X better Joe must be so happy….,,,
Ecstatic! These fenders came out great, I just got up here for the week to help out and see all the work from the last few months and they’re so much better in person. Hoping I can source a trunk this week and detail these parts up a bit to test fit! Working on this weekends video! -Joe
Outstanding work!
Hey there Terry. We really appreciate that! Thanks for taking the time to watch. The positive reinforcement certainly helps keep us motivated to make these videos.
Stay Tuned.
-steve
Man, your skills are off the chart! Excellent work!!
Wow . Thanks for that compliment. We appreciate you watching and playing along.
Please feel free to watch some of our older stuff, if you haven;t already, to see what we started with. Yikes.
-steve
Mr. B. Here ! 🍩☕️👀😎👍🇺🇸. Morning Steve & Joe . Have enjoy these videos yes a lot of but done right 👍👍
Hey Mr. B great to hear from you. We really appreciate your continued support! Lots of hours at the work bench.
Have a great week and stay cool.
-steve
@@theautorefineryYou guys keep up the out standing work 🍸🍸👀😎👍
Good job
Thanks very much for taking the time to watch and for that compliment. Welcome to " what we do"
-steve
That wheel well Molding fits better on your new pieces than on OE metal :-)
Hi Ryan! We really appreciate you taking the time to watch along as always. Yeah, pretty pleased with how that part turned out. One step closer....
-steve
@@theautorefinery your wheel well mouldings fit better than mine :-)
Do you cool after each tack an inch apart or just space the tack welds and bounce around. Nice work
Hello there and thanks for taking the time to watch some of our work. I guess the honest answer is.... it depends. On larger flatter sections I absolutely do cool down the welds as I go with compressed air to help prevent most of the warping. On the tighter, more rigid shapes, I have found that skipping around and using a wet rag to keep the heat under control works just fine.
Thanks again for watching and for your compliment.
stay tuned
-steve
Thanks for the reply. That’s what I was thinking. I have to do a patch very much like yours.
I place a piece of copper I have from roofing underneath the butt edges to be welded. It absorbs a lot of heat and helps with possible blowout. Especially when I start at the ends where starting the weld which tends to blow out and make a possible location to start a crack.
I’ve been thinking about screwing the butt edges down to a copper backing strip to start and fill the screw holes later.
You never stop learning when welding.
Yes copper can be a big help too! Welding is like many other things....you need to let the metal talk to you - let it tell you how it wants to be melted together. Believe it or not, when I built my daughters convertible and even for some of Mr. Jones, I was using my old reliable flux core welder. Keeping things cool with that is a real challenge but very possible. Like the old saying goes, if you can't be a great welder, be a great grinder. hahahah
thanks for playing along.
-steve
@@theautorefinery I like that saying. I always thought welders were a bit nuts from sniffing all that gas!
( a lot of work ) lol
Boo hoo! 😧😧😧
Great job! Have the same rust in my 69 fenders, so I will be doing the same repair very soon. Picked up some good pointers. Thank you
Hey! This is even better. It's so cool when we learn that some of our hard work both on these cars and sometimes harder work in making these videos ends up helping somebody figure out what their game plan might be.
let us know how your repairs come out.
Until next time...
-steve