<VV> welding up drilled spot welds

Ramon Rodriguez III corvairgrymm at gmail.com
Mon Nov 28 18:24:38 EST 2011


Hello all,

     First let it be known that I'm a lousy welder using a flux core wire
feed (220V) unit.  For the very first time I am replacing a panel and I'm
trying to do it more or less the proper way.  The panel I'm replacing is
the "nose", including the "grill" area and the front valance on a 65
coupe.  I removed the old panel and also the better panel from another car
by drilling the spot welds.... let me tell you that was not as easy.  So
now I'm installing a panel with all the spot welds drilled out onto a car
that also had the spot welds drilled out.

     How do I go about filling those holes?  Any tips or tricks?
Fortunately all the holes will be behind the bumper and under the
weatherstrip but I'm trying my best to make it a quality repair.

     The panel I'm installing turned out to barely be any better than the
one I removed (the old panel was all bent up etc, the new one is full of
holes near the bottom), but having it off the car affords me the
opportunity to do a better repair job before installing it.

-- 
Ray "Grymm" Rodriguez III
Lake Ariel, PA
1966 Corsa 140 coupe (daily driver)
1965 Corsa 180 coupe (under construction)
1965 Corsa 140 coupe (for sale/under construction)
1963 Monza PG coupe (daily driver)
1962 Monza PG coupe (under construction)


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