Originally posted by fordsy

Welding upside down? Haven't tried that.

On vertical welds i use vertical up movements mainly. I'm still not the best at it. Horizontal i do backhand. I haven't had to do any overhead welds yet.

Its best to do vertical down welds to reduce lumpy welds and lava landing on your feet, move the gun faster when doing 'downs', welder settings remain the same .

Cool. I'll give it a go on my next vertical weld. I have plenty of seam welds to do so i should get some good practice in.

I've finished stripping the drivers side wing. The area around the arch will go so i left that paint there.



Got sick of the sound of the grinder (even through ear muffs it gives me the brace and bits) so i switched to the welder. I've finished the seam welding around the strut and firewall on the passengers side.




And i've done the strut top. Good penetration on the seam welds.


After years of wearing black gauntlet's, i've switched to TIG welding gloves with leather palms. Much better feel. The yellow thing keeps my hair from catching fire.

when you say you do vertical up's what technque do you use? the weave or cristmas tree? or the 4's ( i prefer the 4's straight up cut down to the left weve over and repeat, but as said waste of time to be onest just more grinding and not need on 0.9 mm steel

Today's welds were all vert downs. I use curved zig zags cause the metal on cars isn't really that thick.

yeah the verticals downs look great, only isue ussing the weave is it doesnt penatrate as well but on car work on this thing stuff it doesnt matter, work loving the process

Well today was a rock solid waste of time. I dug out my spare passenger wing and stripped it back only to find the bloody thing has a ding in it and has been bodgied along the front in a previous life.

I'm having tomorrow off from the car as i start work a little earlier. Friday will be the footwell and A pillar on the passenger side.

Looking good as always Steve. Nice panel work btw. How much do you charge an hour? Need some help with the MK1![:x)]

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Originally posted by whooligan

Nice work with the stitching there, Steve. I've got a pair of pants I need turning up when your finished up with the shell.

Will you be home on Saturday morning? Might pop around in the "Escytec" and pick up that booster if you going to be home.

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I'll be home but don't make it too early. I don't knock off on Friday night til 2am so i'll be in bed til about 10.30. I've got a couple you can choose from. I'll get them out of the roof later today.

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Originally posted by Chippa666

Looking good as always Steve. Nice panel work btw. How much do you charge an hour? Need some help with the MK1![:x)]

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The payment I normally accept for working on cars is incinerated meat, sauce and cold drink.