I need to learn how to weld

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It says £594 inc VAT
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£495 exc VAT

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R H Davey Welding Supplies. I sell new and used welding equipment in the Hampshire area. I take on welding jobs in the evenings, ally casting repairs are one of my specialities but I can weld pretty much anything. PM me with your requirements.

Some of my services: (See my for sale threads)
Engine mount/chassis repair
Solid Beam Mounts BACK IN PRODUCTION
Harness bars

you'd be surprised how long a clarke holds its value if looked after, plenty on the mig-welding forum after them.

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Bring on the Trumpets.

Sealey Mighty mig any good???

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Thanks and Thanks.


I�d love to have the spare cash to buy a welder like that Jim, but I have no space to keep one at the moment, and it would be a slight waste in my hands as I rarely need to use a welder at home, as I tend to take anything that needs welding to work and use the decent one there.

Tonight I got round to getting the passenger side seat bars in and the mounting brackets. I was going to have the passenger seat further out towards the door but after tacking in the mounts and trial sitting in it it became apparent that it would be very unpleasant for the passenger hitting their head on the cage, so I�m mounting the passenger seat the same way as I am the drivers. There should just be a nice little gap between the tops of the seats all being well. I hydrate 80�d the new welds and gave the other welds another coating of it too.

I�m going to order some blanking grommets to fill the holes in the floor from where I drilled out the spot welds holding the crossmembers down.

I�m busy tomorrow night so not much will be done but Wednesday I plan on starting to fettle the dash. I�m in two minds whether to just scrap it altogether and mount the clocks behind the steering wheel and make something to mount the required switches and gauges to, or whether to cut it down the left hand side like many others have done.
The dash is bloody heavy as it is and a major pain in the ass to have to keep lifting in and out whilst I work on the car.

I�m also in two minds about the heater matrix. I don�t have a heated windscreen yet so need some way to clear any condensation. I am tempted to cut away as much of the housing as I can and mount a couple of 120mm pc fans to the matrix and make some ducting or something to direct the air up to the windscreen. I just don�t know whether the fans will have enough air flow to make much difference, I could also scrap the matrix and use a spare pc watercooling rad that I have in its place which may work out easier.

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Tonights welding is slightly better than yesterdays i think.

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Goldie the track car.

Stephen, you really need to crank up the amps for your bracket to tube joints, I can't really see what the tube ends to sill plates look like but I expect it the same story there too. Penetration is key with mig, and acutely raised, rounded profiles like you can see in the pics indicates the weld is more sitting on top of the metal than sinking into it and properly fusing with the parent metal.
It's easy to fall into the trap of welding too cold, especially on cars as all of the bodywork burns through so easily, but on 2-3mm material you really do need to turn a 130 amp mig up pretty high to achieve a satisfactory result. If you melt through something you can always clean it up and reweld it, but metal that isn't well joined, especially when it comes to seat mountings or other safety critical stuff is bad news my friend.

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R H Davey Welding Supplies. I sell new and used welding equipment in the Hampshire area. I take on welding jobs in the evenings, ally casting repairs are one of my specialities but I can weld pretty much anything. PM me with your requirements.

Some of my services: (See my for sale threads)
Engine mount/chassis repair
Solid Beam Mounts BACK IN PRODUCTION
Harness bars

That would'nt be a bad idea chap

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R H Davey Welding Supplies. I sell new and used welding equipment in the Hampshire area. I take on welding jobs in the evenings, ally casting repairs are one of my specialities but I can weld pretty much anything. PM me with your requirements.

Some of my services: (See my for sale threads)
Engine mount/chassis repair
Solid Beam Mounts BACK IN PRODUCTION
Harness bars

A little, i've got the dash bar, door cross bars, and the little vertical bits on the b pillar hoop primed with etch primer. The triangulation to the struts has been primed, top coated and lacquered. Whilst i was there i got round to getting rid of the last of that sound deadening tar stuff, so i painted that to match the engine bay colour and lacquered that too.

I decided to sack off the heater matrix, all in the name of saving weight.

I've spent most of today stripping any un-necessary wire from the looms, which is an awful lot so far and im only half way.

The dash has been cut in half and all the necessary bits trimmed to not catch the dash bar or door cross bar.

I think thats about it for this weekends progress, oh yeah, and i ground out some of the old welds for the seat bars and put in some fresh weld, checking for penetration on some spare 3mm steel before doing them.

I'm in a rush to get down to the pub tonight so will update with the few pictures i took when i get chance during the week.

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Goldie the track car.

Alright mate been onto the supplier about the polycarb and they only do a bronze tint and not the slight green tint sorry. I will be updating my thread and the for sale thread soon if you want a look at them. There is only fronts fitted at the minute tho

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Yeah Mr. Bean style would have been epic fun.

Cheers Chris, i'm still a little unsure what im going to do about the windows, i know the motors will never work again though as they have no wires now.

Birk, i spoke to my dad the other night and he isnt happy lending the welder out but said you are welcome to come round and use it at my house if thats any use?

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Goldie the track car.

That's ok Steve, I understand, I've gone and bought one, hopefully it will do the job, 150/5 sealey mig, £400 worth according to some sites, hardly used with wire and a bottle for £100. Just need to practice when I get done gas.

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