Re: 51Packard's....51 Packard
Posted by Charles On 2012/9/19 20:04:35
9-19-12
Not much progress to report. I took BH's excellent advice and practiced some welding. Not much change over what I have been laying in the car so maybe I am just terrible at it or I have it dialed in.
On the outriggers, I thought they were riveted, but I will have to check again. I actually have an arc welder that I am loaning my maintenance department while I use their MIG. It is wire fed, not a stick so I don't know if that has enough oomph either.
I started to cut more off the car and put some layout lines where I will cut the trunk floor. I wanted to take apart the corner seam where the rubber seal goes, but it started falling apart from rust so I cut into the fenders a little to mimic what is on the replacement panel.
Whenever I get the new panel in, if the trunk does not close the right way still, I don't know what I'm going to do.
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Not much progress to report. I took BH's excellent advice and practiced some welding. Not much change over what I have been laying in the car so maybe I am just terrible at it or I have it dialed in.
On the outriggers, I thought they were riveted, but I will have to check again. I actually have an arc welder that I am loaning my maintenance department while I use their MIG. It is wire fed, not a stick so I don't know if that has enough oomph either.
I started to cut more off the car and put some layout lines where I will cut the trunk floor. I wanted to take apart the corner seam where the rubber seal goes, but it started falling apart from rust so I cut into the fenders a little to mimic what is on the replacement panel.
Whenever I get the new panel in, if the trunk does not close the right way still, I don't know what I'm going to do.
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