Agreed, had to hire a garage this year to do an mot weld for the first time in a while. They charged me 300 quid for something I feel like I could do in an hour and they left burn marks from spatter in the nearest door card and hideous black paint all over. The headache of just finding someone you can "trust" to do it properly is hard enough before you think about how much it costs.
Welding might be the talking point at the NEC. First Matt was welding up the crown Vic. Steph's been welding up the Marina and now the Hubnuts are welding the Daihatsu. Another entertaining video by Team Hubnut. 😊👍
Well done Carly, that second attempt looked fantastic! Good effort too Ian 😉. Sadly it very rarely ever is 'just one hole', although thankfully you're in the best possible place to deal with it! I've taken many notes for when I eventually get round to starting the Golf too.
Like everything a patient teacher will always help build confidence and Lewis certainly has that calm confident to that says I can do this - but it’s a great skill to have that will pay off down the line
That was extremely interesting. I learned a lot from watching your instructor giving you instructions on how to weld properly. It wasn't long ago when Daihatsu, KIA, and other related brands had the reputation of being a cheap and mainly one owner car, due to the alarming speed that they rotted away. They were cheap and usually in the scrapper after 5 or 6 years. But they didn't cost what other cars did at the time. Corrosion is a hard legacy to shake off, KIA went up market and up in price, but I bet that rusty history still haunts them.
I bought a very powerful spotlight to help with focusing - I can't weld without it - Once you get the hang of welding it's extremely addictive and very satisfying.
Welding is a necessary skill to have to keep cars like this on the road. I did almost exactly the same repair on my L251 last year. Lower sill, fuel filler area, passenger rear floor, bump stop mount and inner wheel arch all needed attention. Still to do the other side which had been bodged previously, just havent had the time to take it off the road to do the work. If your bump stops fall apart like mine did, you can get 'Parabolic rubber buffers' with an M8 thread which will screw right in and do the same job as the original bump stops are unicorn farts at the moment.
Oh, another thing if you're considering picking up your own kit, the Blackline 250 amp MIG from Rally Design is a great bit of kit for the price, pair it with a HobbyWeld argon / co2 cylinder and you'll be set, it does require a 30amp socket however but those are useful for other stuff anyway.
Well done Carly. My money is on you to be the better welder! Sorry to see things just got worse but that always seems to be the way when you have just a little hole to sort out. I hope things don't get too bad. 🤞🤞🤞
I never realised there was so much innuendo in welding. Marvellous! Welding has always fascinated me. I've never tried but it looks very satisfying. After all the work you've put into Chemmy, she'll have to be a keeper after this. She's been a great opportunity for you both to try new things
Excellent work interesting my dad was a welder but didn't want me to do it as older days flash damaged his eye sight, both doing well will pop over to there site now to check it out ,we'll done Ian and Carly
I recently did a welding course learnt the basics then bought myself a welder, really been enjoying it so far. Managed to finally finish my second bit of welding on the car that im restoring and im dead chuffed with the outcome :) and it saves a lot of money lmao.
Wow, this is really useful to those of us how have never used an electric welder before. Having it all explained it all makes sense. With my less than perfect eyesight it could be a challenge getting a mask to fit over my glasses but I'm almost tempted to get hold of a rig and some metal off cuts to give it a go at some point. Many thanks for sharing.
Hello Ian and Carly. Ian, if you can't focus exactly on the weld area you will struggle. I have a stronger than normal pair of glasses I use that allow me to look directly into the weld area. Those and a decent helmet are gamechangers. Good to see you doing some welding. Having a good tutor is priceless. you are lucky in that respect. All the best, Mart (just a welding fool lately).
Auto-dimming helmets are amazing! I've got almost no welding experience but the first time I used an old mask. In normal lighting I couldn't see a thing, yet the arc was still uncomfortably bright. The second time round I had access to a modern helmet and it was just amazing how much better I could see!
A very good intro to welding. I did some training at college around 30 years ago in various types of welding. I even borrowed my Dad's mig welder around 22 years ago and never gave it back oops. Sadly I think some makes of car are worse for corrosion than others. thats why my classic is fibreglass which has its own joyfull issues. Well done to both. hopefully you dont find more holes!!
I learnt some welding at college. All with non auto dimming masks and in a dark booth in a dark room... useless conditions for a novice. I certainly got plenty penetration on my early attempts though, welded the practice pieces to the table 😂
welding with a mig is easy enough to learn...what you are also learning is if an old car has one rusty hole its likely to have plenty more...if you start doing your own be very careful of fire...I set a Rover P6 head lining on fire once whilst welding up the bottom of the rear wheel arch...the heat just conducted itself up the metal...inside a wooden garage and the petrol tank is in the same area...luckily I put the fire out with my welding gloves...I had done years of welding before this happened it was a sort of freak incident...but be aware of it and get welding ! 😀
You two are getting the hang of rudimentary welding techniques, I can see these ongoing learning skills leading to a new direction in Hubnut videos, better late then never, hindsight is wonderful I know, but now we can look forward to some more ambitious content - as they say - Welderup !
Carlys welds looks really good, good job both on learning this skill. Self taught the same way and made my first portion of pidgeon poo on my fiat 127 😀
Nice to see you having a go at welding not done any on cars for years. Most of the stuff i do these days is for recycling plant machinery and its 10mm+ thick.
Excellent lessons. I don't know how to weld. But with you guys, I learned a little bit (e.g. the gravity thing when welding overhead). I'm looking forward to the next session on the Whiteland Restoration channel. Cheers --- Martin
The mission to keep older cars going know exactly how u feel, I can't give up on my old girl. Welding is brill skill to learn well-done a skill for life. Friend of mine does Tig welding as his business he's very good and something therapeutic about watching him.
I didnt hear if this was mentioned or not, anytime i have welded on a car thats still in service, i disconnect the negative cable from the battery, so the electronics of the car do not experience a potential voltage spike to any onboard systems
I fixed up a Fiat Uno a few years back. Touched it with one of those wire brushes and the entire thing almost completely disappeared in less than a second before my eyes. Terrifying.
It’s been over 20 years since I did any tacking up when I helped a pipe fitter. That was stick welding. I did do a test piece and had it checked by the ‘bombers’ (x-Ray) and for a first go it was fairly good. Welders we’re not happy to say the least that a labourer was taking their work 😂 I even had a go using a plasma machine too and the platers were not happy either 😂
Well done both of you. Certainly did better than I did on my first attempt at mig welding. Managed to weld the wire to the tip of the gun. Not touched one since 😂😂
Plenty to practise on there. The trick is clean metal equals easier welds, add to that lots of practise and patience. Weld through primer is a must or it will rust from the inside out 😪 Love to see youse getting stuck in and learning a vital skill
Get yourself a Kempii mini arc mig welding set, that's what I've got in the workshop, it's very compact with a smaller torch and is great for welding cars, I've done loads on my mini with mine. It does go up to 5mm thickness though so can tackle bigger jobs as well, very user friendly and easy to set up.
@@BigPaul62 Yes they are expensive so depends how much use they'll get, my Dad has got a fabrication business and they've got quite a few Kempii sets so he sourced the one I've got. You can buy cheap sets but they're not very good which is what I think puts a lot of people off learning to weld, even in professional hands it's difficult to get good results with a cheap set.
I'm qualified in lead welding...in theory. I havn't done any for over 20 years though so I'd be a complete disaster now 😂 I also did an evening class in arc welding, but we didn't do any mig or tig on that. It was useful when building my Dutton kit car with the thick steel chassis. I've never done this sort of welding. It's all practice,practice practice as with many skills.
Oh heck, Ians got a welding kit now . Lets pray to the welding Gods this ends well. I think Miss Hubnut could nail this one . Did welding when i was an aerospace apprentice many moons ago , its quite an art when you do it in real life situations as you are at different angles . lots of practice methinks , you will get it it will just take patience .
Nil desperandum! The positive view is that there will be no rust when the jobs have been completed properly. At least the car doesn't consist of welded patches held together by rust.
As for gauges of steel, the quoted 1mm applies to the structure of a classic car from the 60's or earlier, such as a Morris Minor. 1990'S CARS, especially Japanese/Asian cars are far thinner gauge, more like 0.7 or even 0.6mm.
Good luck to you both I am very impressed with your learning. Welding is a very rewarding thing to do. I will be taking the grinder and welder to my 75 hopefully this week. The rear arch sill end on the drivers side is crumbling. Wish me luck too
The only welding I've ever done was forty years ago with a basic arc welder (no mig in those days!). I managed a few decent repairs, but I always struggled to see what I was doing; eventually gave up and used the professionals!
😱 Nothing quite like the sinking feeling of unexpected holes 😢. I discovered what I thought/hoped was a perished body bung in the Skoda's floorpan. How wrong I was... I wish I could weld, but I'm not brave enough to have a go & I don't have the kit.
Also of relevance shame my late father is not around he would weld up Chemmy no problem as in the 1980s he worked as a Mig and Tig welder for the MOD welding for them and also did sheet metal work on Tornado Aircraft , the hardest thing to weld is Stainless Steel thats what he used to tell me when i was a kid.
To achieve a perfect bead peneteation , you need to keep the tip of the weld metal in the " weldpool" to create a key shape , left to tight , right to left , the angle of the torch is important to , to prevent undercut , as well as amps n speed of wire
You can't keep a constant weld pool going on such thin metal, it will burn through very quickly. Small continuous runs of tacks as shown is the way to do thin bodywork. Plus if you get any undercut on bodywork like this, it will blow through almost immediately.
Good work and you have a great instructor. If you're having trouble focussing wear reading glasses (behind the hood). I don't wear them for reading but I do for welding.
A German expert on automotive who worked for the TÜV - the organisation that more or less invented the MOT-style technical inspection sometime in the 1930s - once said to me that the difference between European and Japanese cars was that in the former, stuff would go wrong bit by bit: the engine would break but the gearbox be ok, or the bodywork would get rusty but the mechanicals stay ok, etc. While Japanese cars, due to the perfection in their analysis of the deterioration process, would still be rock solid at the moment when their European competitors would show their first big ailments. And then, when the Japanese cars started to crumble, everything would go wrong at once. I hope your little car will prove that wrong...
I heard that saying too back on the day. However I would say that although 70’s Japanese cars were reliable cradle to grave, the bodywork did start to deteriorate significantly after three to four years. Datsuns and Toyota’s of that era were very rust prone, as bad if not worse than BL cars.
Been there and done that, and got the T shirt..there's not many things worse in life, than laying on ya back, trying to find solid to weld too, I was using acetylene gas, causing molten underseal to stick and burn ya..LOL..
Sadly things escalated so much we had to let the pros take over. Bear in mind it took them over a day to get her solid again. Would have taken us months!
It's like going to the dentist. Just one cavity. But then, once you look, there's so much more. Off to Whiteland's for the Happy Ending (I hope) (no tittering at the back, there).
0:35 nudge nudge wink wink! SAY NO MORE... 😂😂🤣🤣😂😂Remember to treat the metal inside before you plug the holes. That is what I do to help slow down trouble areas. Looks like you had some fun! Also check out Seaside Garage. He has found a rather good way to make patch panels using wood templates. Time to get your own welder now mate.
Everybody's welding Matt has been welding for a long Steph has just started welding her Marina and Hubnut and Miss Hubnut are learning to weld and will be welding the Daihatsu good to see maybe get you and Steph and Matt for a weld of
Lol mate I feel your pain your friends going to be pulling his hair out by the end of fixing that great vid good luck at least it's not an old ford 😅👍👍rotten as an old plum
Hi Ian & Carly! Alright then... who was sniggering in the background? Sounds like it could have been Lewis! As for the welding, practice, practice, practice... that's what I did when my Granda bought me a 123E Anglia & handed me a stick welder to repair it at age 11... oh how he chuckled at me making more holes than I was repairing 🤣 Cheers. Leigh.
So, does this mean we'll be seeing a proper Krown Rustproofing video a la Skoda Favorit but on the little Daihatsu in the near future? :) Glad to see her saved! I get my 2009 Hyundai Accent rustproofed every year here in Nova Scotia....the winter road salt would absolutely kill it otherwise! Krown the last few years and another place for many years before that!
@@HubNut Thanks for the reply Ian! No worries...distance can be a bother! Any rust-proofing (Krown or not) will be a big help in keeping Chemmy on the road....looking forward to it! :) Have a lovely evening, all of you!
It’s about time you did welding…you’ll save a fortune. Well done 👍
Very true, my gasless MIG welder from Argos, over 30 years ago, has paid for itself tenfold easily.
Agreed, had to hire a garage this year to do an mot weld for the first time in a while. They charged me 300 quid for something I feel like I could do in an hour and they left burn marks from spatter in the nearest door card and hideous black paint all over. The headache of just finding someone you can "trust" to do it properly is hard enough before you think about how much it costs.
Welding might be the talking point at the NEC. First Matt was welding up the crown Vic. Steph's been welding up the Marina and now the Hubnuts are welding the Daihatsu. Another entertaining video by Team Hubnut. 😊👍
Yes indeed 😊
The most bravest of acts possible is welding publicly on the internet. This deserve some sort of trophy or medal.
Satisfying skill to learn. I taught myself to weld with a rig bought off Amazon, 1st job was reconstructing a wheel arch on my old Hymer motorhome.
I learnt a lot from Lewis there - a very informative video - thanks to all involved.
Both doing really well there ,and the most patient welding teacher ever! And OO The Innuendo.
Well done Carly, that second attempt looked fantastic! Good effort too Ian 😉. Sadly it very rarely ever is 'just one hole', although thankfully you're in the best possible place to deal with it! I've taken many notes for when I eventually get round to starting the Golf too.
Thank you Katie. I was well chuffed with my second attempt! Oh this escalates. Massively 🙈. Chaos is content *cries*
Like everything a patient teacher will always help build confidence and Lewis certainly has that calm confident to that says I can do this - but it’s a great skill to have that will pay off down the line
That was extremely interesting. I learned a lot from watching your instructor giving you instructions
on how to weld properly.
It wasn't long ago when Daihatsu, KIA, and other related brands had the reputation of being a cheap
and mainly one owner car, due to the alarming speed that they rotted away. They were cheap and
usually in the scrapper after 5 or 6 years. But they didn't cost what other cars did at the time.
Corrosion is a hard legacy to shake off, KIA went up market and up in price, but I bet that rusty
history still haunts them.
Love the topolino in the background.
I bought a very powerful spotlight to help with focusing - I can't weld without it - Once you get the hang of welding it's extremely addictive and very satisfying.
Surely Mr Furious had some left over expanding foam that you could've bunged in!
Welding is a necessary skill to have to keep cars like this on the road. I did almost exactly the same repair on my L251 last year. Lower sill, fuel filler area, passenger rear floor, bump stop mount and inner wheel arch all needed attention. Still to do the other side which had been bodged previously, just havent had the time to take it off the road to do the work. If your bump stops fall apart like mine did, you can get 'Parabolic rubber buffers' with an M8 thread which will screw right in and do the same job as the original bump stops are unicorn farts at the moment.
Oh, another thing if you're considering picking up your own kit, the Blackline 250 amp MIG from Rally Design is a great bit of kit for the price, pair it with a HobbyWeld argon / co2 cylinder and you'll be set, it does require a 30amp socket however but those are useful for other stuff anyway.
Well done Carly. My money is on you to be the better welder! Sorry to see things just got worse but that always seems to be the way when you have just a little hole to sort out. I hope things don't get too bad. 🤞🤞🤞
I never realised there was so much innuendo in welding. Marvellous!
Welding has always fascinated me. I've never tried but it looks very satisfying.
After all the work you've put into Chemmy, she'll have to be a keeper after this. She's been a great opportunity for you both to try new things
Excellent work interesting my dad was a welder but didn't want me to do it as older days flash damaged his eye sight, both doing well will pop over to there site now to check it out ,we'll done Ian and Carly
Two fingers, ooooh sits you sir!😂 Full pentration oh my! Helmets welders flick? What on earth is going on here!? 😂😂
Liked the use of left hand snips on a right hand cut , but it is all a great skill when you do get it .
I recently did a welding course learnt the basics then bought myself a welder, really been enjoying it so far. Managed to finally finish my second bit of welding on the car that im restoring and im dead chuffed with the outcome :) and it saves a lot of money lmao.
Man I wish I had learnt welding at uni when I had the chance.
Better machines available now so it's still worth giving it a go.
Wow, this is really useful to those of us how have never used an electric welder before. Having it all explained it all makes sense. With my less than perfect eyesight it could be a challenge getting a mask to fit over my glasses but I'm almost tempted to get hold of a rig and some metal off cuts to give it a go at some point. Many thanks for sharing.
A decent helmet should fit over glasses just fine. i had no trouble at all.
Hello Ian and Carly. Ian, if you can't focus exactly on the weld area you will struggle. I have a stronger than normal pair of glasses I use that allow me to look directly into the weld area. Those and a decent helmet are gamechangers. Good to see you doing some welding. Having a good tutor is priceless. you are lucky in that respect. All the best, Mart (just a welding fool lately).
Auto-dimming helmets are amazing! I've got almost no welding experience but the first time I used an old mask. In normal lighting I couldn't see a thing, yet the arc was still uncomfortably bright. The second time round I had access to a modern helmet and it was just amazing how much better I could see!
Loved this. I was wondering how welding was done, now I know! Thanks.
A very good intro to welding. I did some training at college around 30 years ago in various types of welding. I even borrowed my Dad's mig welder around 22 years ago and never gave it back oops. Sadly I think some makes of car are worse for corrosion than others. thats why my classic is fibreglass which has its own joyfull issues. Well done to both. hopefully you dont find more holes!!
0:44 that quiet giggle :D
I learnt some welding at college. All with non auto dimming masks and in a dark booth in a dark room... useless conditions for a novice. I certainly got plenty penetration on my early attempts though, welded the practice pieces to the table 😂
welding with a mig is easy enough to learn...what you are also learning is if an old car has one rusty hole its likely to have plenty more...if you start doing your own be very careful of fire...I set a Rover P6 head lining on fire once whilst welding up the bottom of the rear wheel arch...the heat just conducted itself up the metal...inside a wooden garage and the petrol tank is in the same area...luckily I put the fire out with my welding gloves...I had done years of welding before this happened it was a sort of freak incident...but be aware of it and get welding ! 😀
You two are getting the hang of rudimentary welding techniques, I can see these ongoing learning skills leading to a new direction in Hubnut videos, better late then never, hindsight is wonderful I know, but now we can look forward to some more ambitious content - as they say - Welderup !
Nice work Carly & Ian
Thanks for sharing those welding skills in such an easy to follow style. Well done 😊👍
Carlys welds looks really good, good job both on learning this skill. Self taught the same way and made my first portion of pidgeon poo on my fiat 127 😀
Fascinating video. Thanks to all involved.
Nice to see you having a go at welding not done any on cars for years. Most of the stuff i do these days is for recycling plant machinery and its 10mm+ thick.
Excellent lessons. I don't know how to weld. But with you guys, I learned a little bit (e.g. the gravity thing when welding overhead). I'm looking forward to the next session on the Whiteland Restoration channel. Cheers --- Martin
That closing scene omg 😱 good luck Chemmy.
This is a good learning project.
Best Hub Nut news this year
Well done on the wel-ding.
Well done you two on the welding, Lewis is a good teacher. Looking forward to future welding content.
Arrggh! Ian welding, this should be interesting.
The mission to keep older cars going know exactly how u feel, I can't give up on my old girl. Welding is brill skill to learn well-done a skill for life. Friend of mine does Tig welding as his business he's very good and something therapeutic about watching him.
I knew you could do it Carly.
Absaloutly brilliant video ian miss hubnut ❤👍 excellent welding guys brilliant
Well Done both of you. Welding is a good craft to learn.
I didnt hear if this was mentioned or not, anytime i have welded on a car thats still in service, i disconnect the negative cable from the battery, so the electronics of the car do not experience a potential voltage spike to any onboard systems
Indeed. Haven't actually welded on the car in this video but very sensible advice.
@@HubNut 👍🤠👍
Miss Hubnut will do a fine job of welding up the hole👍
Nice looking practise welds :) It's the usual story, one rust hole tends to become surprisingly big job.
Full marks to you guys for tackling that. I've always found welding very difficult. 👍
As a person who has been looking through welding mask a lot, you two are doing great..
Thank you. Early days! Watching Lewis at work is a little daunting...
I fixed up a Fiat Uno a few years back. Touched it with one of those wire brushes and the entire thing almost completely disappeared in less than a second before my eyes. Terrifying.
That fella is mega calming. Good chap
It’s been over 20 years since I did any tacking up when I helped a pipe fitter. That was stick welding. I did do a test piece and had it checked by the ‘bombers’ (x-Ray) and for a first go it was fairly good. Welders we’re not happy to say the least that a labourer was taking their work 😂 I even had a go using a plasma machine too and the platers were not happy either 😂
Well done both of you. Certainly did better than I did on my first attempt at mig welding. Managed to weld the wire to the tip of the gun. Not touched one since 😂😂
Same here. Everyone blocks the tip up when they're beginners. Dont let it put you off.
Excellent.
You're in the best hands. You know you are.
Oh this makes my heart sing - Christmas presents sorted !
As a totally self-taught welder, I wouldn't be able to teach anyone. Good job. 😊
Plenty to practise on there. The trick is clean metal equals easier welds, add to that lots of practise and patience. Weld through primer is a must or it will rust from the inside out 😪
Love to see youse getting stuck in and learning a vital skill
Get yourself a Kempii mini arc mig welding set, that's what I've got in the workshop, it's very compact with a smaller torch and is great for welding cars, I've done loads on my mini with mine. It does go up to 5mm thickness though so can tackle bigger jobs as well, very user friendly and easy to set up.
Agreed Kempii are one of the best - my mate is a professional welder and swears by them - but rather expensive for occasaional DIY use.
@@BigPaul62 Yes they are expensive so depends how much use they'll get, my Dad has got a fabrication business and they've got quite a few Kempii sets so he sourced the one I've got. You can buy cheap sets but they're not very good which is what I think puts a lot of people off learning to weld, even in professional hands it's difficult to get good results with a cheap set.
The set I've got is about £1200 new so cheaper than the full size sets but I agree probably too expensive for many people for diy use.
A welding episode at last, FAB :)
I'm qualified in lead welding...in theory. I havn't done any for over 20 years though so I'd be a complete disaster now 😂 I also did an evening class in arc welding, but we didn't do any mig or tig on that. It was useful when building my Dutton kit car with the thick steel chassis. I've never done this sort of welding. It's all practice,practice practice as with many skills.
Oh heck, Ians got a welding kit now .
Lets pray to the welding Gods this ends well.
I think Miss Hubnut could nail this one .
Did welding when i was an aerospace apprentice many moons ago , its quite an art when you do it in real life situations as you are at different angles .
lots of practice methinks , you will get it it will just take patience .
Nil desperandum! The positive view is that there will be no rust when the jobs have been completed properly. At least the car doesn't consist of welded patches held together by rust.
Great work and lessons from Lewis. Poor Chemmy. Got to save her.
My hand click counter "penetration" result = 13.
As for gauges of steel, the quoted 1mm applies to the structure of a classic car from the 60's or earlier, such as a Morris Minor. 1990'S CARS, especially Japanese/Asian cars are far thinner gauge, more like 0.7 or even 0.6mm.
Good luck to you both I am very impressed with your learning. Welding is a very rewarding thing to do. I will be taking the grinder and welder to my 75 hopefully this week. The rear arch sill end on the drivers side is crumbling. Wish me luck too
Good luck! Does seem one of few Rover 75 rot spots.
The only welding I've ever done was forty years ago with a basic arc welder (no mig in those days!). I managed a few decent repairs, but I always struggled to see what I was doing; eventually gave up and used the professionals!
😱 Nothing quite like the sinking feeling of unexpected holes 😢. I discovered what I thought/hoped was a perished body bung in the Skoda's floorpan. How wrong I was... I wish I could weld, but I'm not brave enough to have a go & I don't have the kit.
Also of relevance shame my late father is not around he would weld up Chemmy no problem as in the 1980s he worked as a Mig and Tig welder for the MOD welding for them and also did sheet metal work on Tornado Aircraft , the hardest thing to weld is Stainless Steel thats what he used to tell me when i was a kid.
To achieve a perfect bead peneteation , you need to keep the tip of the weld metal in the " weldpool" to create a key shape , left to tight , right to left , the angle of the torch is important to , to prevent undercut , as well as amps n speed of wire
You can't keep a constant weld pool going on such thin metal, it will burn through very quickly. Small continuous runs of tacks as shown is the way to do thin bodywork. Plus if you get any undercut on bodywork like this, it will blow through almost immediately.
@@JamesChurchill3 I agree , depends on thickness of metal ur welding I did heavy pipe stuff , I get carried away , it's the fumes ............
Finally! A great skill to learn. Are inner mudguards a thing in Britain?
Most modern cars seem to have them. Not this one sadly.
I learned to weld when i was 18 and was terrible at it. Now 36 im not bad at it and only started do it again in 2020
Nice😀
I passed out as a 6G coded pipe welder , our first instructer was a proper nightmare , he literaly hated me
Don't let your mullet catch on fire Ian 😂😋
another great video has always Ian and miss hubnut and hublets and hubmutts 👍
Good work and you have a great instructor. If you're having trouble focussing wear reading glasses (behind the hood). I don't wear them for reading but I do for welding.
A German expert on automotive who worked for the TÜV - the organisation that more or less invented the MOT-style technical inspection sometime in the 1930s - once said to me that the difference between European and Japanese cars was that in the former, stuff would go wrong bit by bit: the engine would break but the gearbox be ok, or the bodywork would get rusty but the mechanicals stay ok, etc.
While Japanese cars, due to the perfection in their analysis of the deterioration process, would still be rock solid at the moment when their European competitors would show their first big ailments.
And then, when the Japanese cars started to crumble, everything would go wrong at once.
I hope your little car will prove that wrong...
Probably some truth in that. Japan also focussed on an eight year car life back home.
I heard that saying too back on the day. However I would say that although 70’s Japanese cars were reliable cradle to grave, the bodywork did start to deteriorate significantly after three to four years. Datsuns and Toyota’s of that era were very rust prone, as bad if not worse than BL cars.
@@retiredbore378 That’s about the size of it. Bet all the switchgear, stalks, window winders etc were still perfect at four years though.
AY UP MR AND MRS HUBNUT
Been there and done that, and got the T shirt..there's not many things worse in life, than laying on ya back, trying to find solid to weld too, I was using acetylene gas, causing molten underseal to stick and burn ya..LOL..
By the time you have found and repaired all the rust holes on that little car you will both be master welders😂
Sadly things escalated so much we had to let the pros take over. Bear in mind it took them over a day to get her solid again. Would have taken us months!
@@HubNutkeep at it with the practise. Lots of cars to practise on 😊
It's like going to the dentist. Just one cavity. But then, once you look, there's so much more. Off to Whiteland's for the Happy Ending (I hope) (no tittering at the back, there).
Thanks this is great content.
Great video, a bit of welding at it will be well solid. Best wishes.
looks like miss hubnut is getting a welder for xmas from mr hubnut
Do Daihatsu make Tea Bags?
Sorry Miss HubNut.
Looking forward to your joint series with Whiteland Restorations.
0:35 nudge nudge wink wink! SAY NO MORE... 😂😂🤣🤣😂😂Remember to treat the metal inside before you plug the holes. That is what I do to help slow down trouble areas. Looks like you had some fun!
Also check out Seaside Garage. He has found a rather good way to make patch panels using wood templates. Time to get your own welder now mate.
Exactly where our two have rusted on both sides !!!! Don't despair!!!! Ours are two years since our repairs .....
Everybody's welding Matt has been welding for a long Steph has just started welding her Marina and Hubnut and Miss Hubnut are learning to weld and will be welding the Daihatsu good to see maybe get you and Steph and Matt for a weld of
Choked on my coffee at the 2 finger coment 😂
LMAO at 1 minute 21 secs whats with the cartoon characters on the tv in the reflection in the window ? LOL too funny
Interesting that you are learning welding at the same time as Steph.
Yup! That time of year I guess...
Back in the '70s a couple more weeks and they'd have let you both loose making oil rigs😄
Lol mate I feel your pain your friends going to be pulling his hair out by the end of fixing that great vid good luck at least it's not an old ford 😅👍👍rotten as an old plum
That topolino!!
0:41 Oh my!
It's only a 2006! Practically a brand new car. I hope she lives on.
Hi Ian & Carly! Alright then... who was sniggering in the background? Sounds like it could have been Lewis! As for the welding, practice, practice, practice... that's what I did when my Granda bought me a 123E Anglia & handed me a stick welder to repair it at age 11... oh how he chuckled at me making more holes than I was repairing 🤣 Cheers. Leigh.
So, does this mean we'll be seeing a proper Krown Rustproofing video a la Skoda Favorit but on the little Daihatsu in the near future? :)
Glad to see her saved! I get my 2009 Hyundai Accent rustproofed every year here in Nova Scotia....the winter road salt would absolutely kill it otherwise! Krown the last few years and another place for many years before that!
No, we have alternative treatment plans. I like the Krown stuff but it's a really long trek from here.
@@HubNut Thanks for the reply Ian! No worries...distance can be a bother! Any rust-proofing (Krown or not) will be a big help in keeping Chemmy on the road....looking forward to it! :)
Have a lovely evening, all of you!
Ians new youtube channel, Hubweld !