Well...as a fella named Eric Cartman once said: "God dam hipys" this was a verry hard day. Yesterday I was working 3rh shift from 18h yesterday unthil 7h in the morning today. Gone home and slept till 9h. And than started working on my old rusty car. Few day ago a finished front parth of the car bot sides. and also a left side of back wheel. Today left back side was left...and it was one that was most rusty. And as a real gentleman...i have decided that hardest things must come last
BEEN working from 9h today until 23:30h in the night. Done lot of grinding, cuting, sheet metal shaping(thats the hardest thing in this job for me) welding, grinding again, welding again, burning trought...swearing
, painting, puting fiber glas filler, sanding it... Well the job is finaly over one hour ago and my rusty old car is ready to roll tomorow again.
Here are some pictures of me doing it wit the ol buzboxx
Pictures are really bad,as it was raining all fucking day. That made me realy mad. I was all day in the mud, under the old rusty car...buth I made some gipsy kinda roof over the car so I managed to do the job.
Enyoj on pictures(they are bad...buth it was cloudy and some of them are late at night taken):
Well...here is a nice litle oll rusty car colapse. Before grinding it all looked so nice(forgot to picture)...just few bublles. Buth when starded to grind bubles...it was a rust disaster:
This one is taken at only sunny moment today...its warry bad picture buth you can see the big hole in front of the rear left wheel.
Tunel was full of mud and sand and rust:
And the magic begun. Oll buzzbox started to buzzing and job was done:
Most problems had with places where grip pliers could not reach and was not able to hold metal on car. In that moment had to tackle sheet. One hand holding the sheet, other hand welding. Painful to the eyes buth no other way to do it. When you tackle it...take mask again and weld it nice spot by spot.
Discowered an realy good thing...when welded under parths of sheet. On some places new rod could not reach welding position...so I had to cut them on half. Oh...why noebody said that before to me...its much easyer to weld with such 2 shorter than with 1 long rod. Because in those akward out of reach and out of neck fatigue positions it is realy hard to position the rod correctly.
Buth when discovered that metod...made it like pro.
Look of these 3 beautyfil welds pictures:
Shame on you mig bastards
I have a joke for you. What can a mig guy do when he sees qwerty welding rusty 0.8mm shett metal with ac 160 apms buzz box? Well the mig guy only can sitt in corner and cry
And be jelaous
Just kidding guys. I know you all can do it better then myself. Buth afther all night working at job and all day repairing old rusty car, must take a brake and put a smile on my face.
Wel...afther all those welding...we had to grind it all. And than put on all that base anticorosive paint.
Well not to lie to you...i made lot of burntrought holes today...its not the problem in my 0.8mm sheet metal...problem is in rusty old car body. man when you grind it to shiny new metal that is so thin you cant beleave it. Easy to burn trought. Buth...noting to big...
Those mistakes I had to correct with some fiberglass filer:
hehe at the end all looks like new. No holes
Man...I should make money with my buzzbox if I made a comercial like this: Fiberglas filler, and base paint: FIXING bad welders errors since their invention
Afther fiber hardens...outer side is sanded and later will be painted. Inner side I covered with some black underbody protection:
And that was all...car looks like new:
Now little fuynny pictures:
This is the mud I wass all day inside:
Thats my homemade rain protecing roof. Gipsy style pantent nmb:61992p. patent pending.
Well...the ground was wet before...and the car to...but thanks to that roof I worked on dry...and whats most important my oll buzzbox was not on the rain.
Rainy glases of my oll rusty car:
One more picture of that gipsy styling roof
And this lady and gentleman. Welders and weldors...this is one special person. Helps me with my welding. SHe is the master of it. Knows always what arc lenght to aply, what amperage, what rods, what position. Knows how much to grind, how to shape sheet metal, how to put fiberglas filler on it, how to paint. And so shee all days stays by mu side and watches what I am doing. I must by a helmet for her to.
Let me introduce you her:
Its my small cat and I call her Maca, which on serbian means Cat
Found her few mounts ago...it had only few days,and was abandoned,somebody droped her in garbage container. I was going back home and saw her,felt sory for her,so picked it up, puted her in oll rusty car and brought her home. Now is she helping me fix that same car
because she is feeling grateful
Look how she comand me how to do things...because Maca is a welding pro. Not some loosy beginer as me.
"hey you give me those roods...must smell them to se are they 6011 or 6013" "
Damn it smells like 6013. Not the best ones buth they will do the job"
"Now listen to me carefuly. You must set for lower amperage. Tackle weld for short bursts, being careful not to burntrought,,,and still holding enought to make good penetration. Understood?"
"Oh you amateur foul. You burned that cars body again. How manny times I said yo you be careful with those sheet metal. You nevver gonna lern it.
Give me that rod I must to it all alone"
Well... thats all folks. Hope you enjoyed.
Feel free to coment and give both positive and negative opinions on my welding.
Thats all for me on those couple days. tomorow at 12:00 I go on a business trip with my oll rusty car it would be a rocky mountain 200km road trip. will be back on forum for couple of days.