HOW TO REPAIR RUST HOLES IN BODY PANELS, SHEET METAL WELDING
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024
- Here's a few tips on repairing rust holes in car body panels.
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In this video im showing you the process I use to do small rust repairs where a complete panel is not needed.
My names Matt Urch and I own and run Urchfab welding and fabrication.
I specialise in custom automotive fabrication from building roll cages to complete one off builds.
I built the worlds most unique and oldest drift car known as the drift rod which can be found on my channel.
So if your into grinding, welding, fabricating, drifting, going fast etc, your in the right place!
Matt you have amazing talent and explain in a way that the average person can understand. Thank you
No problem, Cheers
I used to make a living out of inspecting welds in the oil industry.
This buddy Matt knows what he´s doing.
Absolutely awesome. Down to earth cool and relaxed, with the right amount of details that do make the difference. Thanks!
This is the best video out there on how to learn to weld. The way you explain the whole process is amazing. Even I as new learner/beginner who is still terrified about welding become more confident and I tried your advice and instructions and I'm amazed at my results. I used 0.6mm wire and 90/10 took it easy and slowly and I'm chuffed with the results. Thank you so so much you are a legend TOP MAN and expert in your field once again thank you very much. 🙏👍👍👏👏👏✌🤟❤❤
The amount of knowledge dropped in this video is insane. Thank you for the information. I learned a ton
Brilliant, step by step, easy to follow clip...thanks so much !
I'm about to start my first rust repairs and this has given me a lot more direction with how I should approach the repair.
Great video. One thing is the cutting out of the panel and the repair piece, I always find the easiest method is to lay the new piece on top and cut through both the new piece and the rusty piece at the same time. That way you've always got a perfect fit with a decent gap around the edge for penetration of the welds 👍🏼
Edit: for anyone wondering how to hold the two pieces together while cutting, I use a couple of strong magnets.
You explained it perfectly man a toddler could learn how to do this from watching your video awesome job!
Dude, i've watched so many of these videos from all over youtube, and you are literally the most articulate in defining the process
I was looking for another box for my 1983 Ford truck. But they're hard to find and never rust-free.
I'm going to buy a mig and do it myself. Your vid motivates me big time.
Hi Matt
Every time I feel my restoration project is overwhelming me your straightforward presentation and advice gives me the boost I need to continue. Please keep them coming! Greetings from sunny Perth WA 😎
I’m also in Perth and watching this before I take on my project!
Great video man. Thank you so much. I've been working on a truck resto for a year, running on straigh C02. The first 3 minutes of your video may have saved my project. Thank you for clarifying gas mix. I'm switching to 90/10 today
you sir are an excellent instructor and the comments you made about your techniques are priceless. Thank you for sharing your knowledge!
once prepped and painted no one would ever know its been plated, perfect repair..
Oh My G! That was the most perfect and relaxed tutorial I have ever watched as I try to fix a tiny rust hole on my daughters Mini Cooper. THANK YOU, I think a small wet towel and compressed air is perfect! 👍👍
I use UrchFabs technique on my restoration of a '76 FJ40. Taking my time on the patch panels. I like using the butt weld clamps when I can get to the back of the panel, and I like to use a copper backer so I can use my 0.035" wire and 75/25 gas. Takes forever but the finished product looks great. It's the journey not the destination. I also really like the 2" Roloc wheels from 3M and an air grinder to grind the weld. Much more control over the big 4" heavy grinder.
Man U helped me weld my own stuff had bought car off my dude who had lil bit rust on the back above the right tire wasn’t trying pay to get it done did it my self thank u Man U helped me save money and learn a new trade
Brilliant teacher, great tutorial, not every teacher has this gift.
A master at work. I'm going to keep this for reference
Ditto. Most others seem the skip over steps where as you explain everything perfectly. Thanks for taking the time for us.
I was hoping for more instruction on the actual welding/tacking part...totally skipped over.
Wow. I must have watched 20 videos, they made it sound so hard and so daunting... You just made me understand if I go in with some patients and plenty of time, I should conquer it 🤷✌️ cheers brother. Should have my Skoda s100L up n running in no time.
I learned a lot from your video. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience.
Superb film, the best I've seen on panel patching. And British! Very, very helpful - shows me I am at least on the right track. Thank you for posting.
Great video. I used to be a painter 20 years ago. I was a combination man for awhile. I have since been an industrial fabricator and now a journeyman millwright. Having said that, great info. I was obviously trained wrong way back when I was younger on panel repair. I was in collision repair work not restoration or custom work so.. it was speed over quality for the most part. That's what burned me out because I prefer to do something right. Wish I had this knowledge back in the early 90's because it was just some of, what sounds simple to me now, had me frustrated to the point of burnt out and I actually had to take a step back and say hmm after watching this video. I've been around "production work" for so long I have forgotten just what the art of patience truly is. Thanks for the reminder. Cheers from America.
America isn’t about quality it’s about hurry up and get it done or else! It takes a toll for sure!!
Another exlant video. But i would say what you done can be done with Co2 gas. I returned lots of cars in a much simular way 👍. You are a great teacher. A pleaure to see working 👍
Very informative video . Thanks for sharing. I now know why the first patch panel I welded warped like crazy!
Knowledgeable, no faff and a truly excellent learning experience. Thanks so much.
Possibly the best tutorial I've watched in a while. Thank you.
I second that comment. I’m a novice welder, but you’re a great teacher, mate.
Make perfect sense what you say and do, also if you have access to back of panel, a copper strip works great to prevent blowing through. The copper band stock can just be knocked loose later. Aluminum work as well. We used to plug mis-located holes in plate steel by using a copper backing plate clamped in place, then fill hole to just above surface and then break away the copper plate and then grind your plug weld fill flush. Thanks for the video
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Trying to learn how to do this. Thank you for sharing your talents!
Brilliant video, I've seen a few other peoples videos and I'm none the wiser afterwards. Your video explains so much I actually feel confident enough to attempt it now. Thankyou
Bro I learnt alot out to this, I'm going to have a go at repairing rust in my HJ47 Landcruiser ute because of your video. Thanks heaps mate! Legend!
LandCruiser bros! Got a BJ40 myself (was my dads)
I know feel that I can do this at home given the right tools. It all seems really straight forward but time intensive.
You make me feel like I could be a welder...... You make welding look easy, but we all know it takes true skill to be a welder I may try my hand at it tho thank you for the Inspirational videos. I love DIY
Very good instruction. Simply described. Best I've watched.
Great craftsmanship. We all need to be reminded to slow down and keep things cool!
Thank you very much for taking the time to show these tips...really appreciate it, I am in the process of starting to do some rust work on a car, replacing small panel parts like these...once again easy to follow tips and a big thanks.
Thanks for sharing. In Canada our vehicles are consumed by road salt in the winter, rust repairs are a way of life.
Great explanation and execution.
Hey Bud. I keep brass plates around for backings (If You can get behind it) and use magnets to hold the plates then I can just slam (well low voltage/amperage slow 120/130 feed slam lol) with .035/C02 mig. I love it when I can use My TIG with no backing plates of course, but that's rare. Great video !
EDIT: Man, I could spend a weekend out in the garage with You, common sense and so calm and relaxed. Hot head anxious people are so stressful to be around. Welding/building should be fun and relaxing.
Excellent! You have a real talent for teaching. Thanks
Fantastic explanation of details . No BS just pure facts. Keep up the great work!
thank you, x1000, I've searched the internet for a video like this, and you my guy have helped me a lot, great explanation, detailed information.
Great tutorial!! I’m getting ready to do this on a 76 CJ 7. Thanks for sharing.
Great video, the cereal packet embossing is simple but genius.... with pride comes patience, in turn brings reward
This is one of the best and most useful welding vids on RUclips, top marks!
I always wanted to know how to do this...thank you sir for shareing your knowledge...in my book you are the master body repair God.
Excellent video, by far the best I've seen on panel repair. Very well explained and all makes sense
Copper is a pretty good backing on thin steel old copper pipe opend up seems to work well, if you can get to the back weding on the bench is a breeze. First class demonstration, many thanks
That was a great and informative block of repair instruction, I will be applying that knowledge as I am about to embark on some rust repair on my 66 Chevelle I have some rust on my front left "A" pillar band some in the back window channel as well, I have good MiG welding experience so with that knowledge combined what I am learning on your channel I have enough confidence to accomplish this work, now if I can just learn how to paint THE CAR AS WELL.
excellent tutorial , I have picked up a lot of tips and techniques that I previously didn't know about .
I am much more confident about tackling some 0.8mm panel repairs now on my Ford Focus but thanks to this guide, I first need to order some mixed argon .
Co2 will do the same job. 😁👍😉
Wow thank you so much brilliant am complete novice this is really helpful thank you 😊
Great video! Found some rust in my project skyline recently, one arch,both sills and strut towers. This video has given me the confidence to break out the mig and give it a go. Thanks. Subbed
Good stuff, Cheers
You are very talented and articulate well, explaining every thing in great detail. Very well done video Sir! A+
Proper craftsman at work.
that really does take talent that was an outstanding job of flushing
Fixing my cars is a hobby of mine for a long time, I am not a welder or mechanic, I work in the office. For long time I had transformer buzz box, it was ok on 2-3 mm metal, but unusable for car body. I could not start an arc unless the amps where set way to high for car. A year a go I bought decent inverter type DC stick welder and good quality auto-darkening mask. Now it was possible to weld car body using 2mm 6013 rods with some success, the more I practiced the better results. I preferred 2mm rods over 1.6mm because they where stiffer and easier to control. Big help was easy arc starting and anti-stick on low currents. I blamed welding rods for bad results, but changing stick welder made all the difference, my old rods welded so nice, especially on thicker stuff they are designed to weld.
I have a car, so rusted that it did not make sense to pay someone for welding that thing. This was a real world problem for me to solve and excuse to spend more time in my garage(man cave) and improve my welding skills. Welds did not have to look good, just pass the inspection. In place I live, only acceptable rust fix is to weld it. Inspectors use magnets to check if there is metal underneath the paint and filler. They also visually check that metal is welded and not attached using rivets.
After spending some 20 to 30 hours with stick welding this car, I "upgraded" to older low-end transformer MIG welder witch was given to me for free. I use 0.6mm wire and 100% CO2. It is my first experience with mig welding, and I feel that stick welding practice made me better mig welder. I had to try so hard with stick welder to get any result on car body, mig welding 0.6 mm wire on car panels felt so easy. From now on I will only mig weld car panels, and stick weld thicker stuff. Patch prepare for welding takes the same amount of time, but welding is 3x faster, and gives much better results, with no need to clean up welds.
From my approx 10 hours of mig welding experience I can tell that it is easy to weld car body panels with 100% CO2, if you use 0.6 mm wire.
Excellent instructional, to the point, relevant and and achieved an awesome result.
Great stuff thanks for the video I have a few to do on my project car
Your video has helped me out massively and couldn't have come at a better time
I'm glad I subscribed 👍
I've watched this 3 times. Thank you!
That was a great explanation thanks. I have more confidence to tackle my van now 👍
Cool calm and collect tutor. Very good for the beginner, Thanks Dan.
Hi Matt, thanks for the video - you made a lot of important points and the gas mix one was a bit of an eye opener. As I have been looking at various videos on patch repair topic, I thought you might be interested in one point I saw on an American site. This is being that when cutting out the patch and the replacement peice the original you do not have 90 degree angles in the corners - you use curves on the four corners rather than two straight cuts going into each other. It makes sense for the heat dissipation being more even on a curve, and also welding in corners can be difficult especially on the end of a square or rectangulr peice which can just vaporise. Project Spotlight: Thin-gauge metal repair. was the site if you want to check it out. Cheers.
Nice job Matt and well presented you lesser talented welder can follow. All the best Bob
Very good video. Learnt a lot. I am stick welder not a mig. Have to get the mig out now know were I been going wrong . Many thanks
Very good useful information as I will know what to do with my car bodywork.
Much appreciate you sharing your expertise. Helps me a great deal. Thank you!
Great video, thanks, used it to repair some rust for the first time, and it worked!
You make it look easy! In fairness, if I can knock out that level of quality on the MGB I'm restoring, I will indeed be laughing! Thanks for this great video.
Love the video - looking forward to watching the back catalog as well as the new stuff!
REGISTRATION MARKS on template/patch
(I forget this way more frequently than is good for my health)
Making a template, i recommend "registration marks" to help put the patch in with the intended orientation.
Needed when a patch is close to symmetrical -- so it still fits close to correctly -- and I "correct" a mistake and only then realize I had the patch flipped or rotated.
This is a great video man, thanks for taking the time to make it.
Appreciate you passing on your knowledge and expertise.
Brilliant lesson in patch repairs Matt, trouble is I don’t have mig or tig and have to use electric arc which is a real pain!
Very usefull tips that i can transfer to work on my MK5 Transit
Very helpful indeed. Tools of the trade and experience. Great information. Will help with upcoming project on Dad's 53 PW. Thankyou.
Taught me some new tricks. Appreciate that
You make it look so easy that anyone could do it but the reality is that it's years of fabrication and burning rods, great content, one of my favourite channels.
so many great tips in here mate, never knew about changing the gas mix to more argon also good tip on using new sand flap disks to keep the heat down - much appreciated
That’s superb welding I must say
Really good little video. Cheers for taking the time to make it.
Another great vid Matt full of very useful easy to understand information. Cheers Malcolm
Thanks for sharing this. Very helpful.
Ive never welded before, and i cant wait to get the equipment and learn. I have a rusting 180sx thats getting worse, and i cant afford to send it to someone. So my only hope of saving my car is doing it myself.
Im terrified. But im gonna try.
Gotta try these things! Good luck mate.
I see youve got a EF in the background... Its my rusty EF that brought me here
Same!! 😂
Brilliant learning video thanks for your time. Hopefully I can attempt to weld my TORANA.
Wow i thought I could do this job easy! But I learned a lot of good tips. 😬 thank you and keep up the good work. David from Scotland
Thank you matt for this video. Helped me out bigtime! 👍🙂
Holy crap! That’s awesome. Thank you for your knowledge and wisdom! 🤟🏼❤️
That’s a good repair Matt I much prefer that over a lap joint tbh,if this was let’s say a sill repair patch obviously you don’t really want to leave the metal bare and exposed on the inside so how would you go about rustproofing you’re repair inside that sill ?
Nice job.... also its good to see you using electric tools and not thise noisey air tools👍
Thank you....clearest panel patch video I have seem....lots of good tips.
Nice job explaining, you did a quality job with the vid. Thanks.
This is literally like art
This is a nice video you cleaned up the welds really well
Always learning. Keep them coming. Cheers.
Will do, Cheers
Excellent how to video. You have great fab skills. I really enjoyed watching. Thanks
Might be picking up an old Celica with like on rust spot on the rear wheel arch .. cheers for the vid might give it a go
Great work matt! But please for your own sake use guards on your grinder 🙏
Matt, great little video and one of the best explanations on how to make a patch and weld it in. Some make it a black art but your explanation is excellent.
I always cut my patch with round corners. the panel doesn't pop up in the corners with the warpage
Yep 100% man. Heat stress is always followed by shrinking, and this situation is amplified in the corners
Im with you all day long,always avoid sharp corners,they are not your friend.
@@martydegier9279 That makes sense, but what are you using to cut, a plasma cutter? Feel like it would've taken him much longer to do rounded corners with a grinder