Thanks all.
Bstard, you make a good point...
I think I'd have run the cut along the bottom of the door skin the same height all the way along the little up and down bits just make it hard work
In hindsight, I think I would do that too. I would have just taken one straight cut all along and butted one straight edge up to it. There are reasons why it was done like this but actually it would have been a lot easier to overlook those reasons. Benefit of hindsight as always, and I am learning!
(reasons for the stepped cut were...
1. I was keen to keep the majority of the weld line as far down the door as possible. So I cut quite keenly above the rot but made the measurements and then cut quite hastily before considering it all. So I then had to leap up a bit at the far end to take out additional rottage I had overlooked in my measuring.
2. At that point I debated whether to run an entire new cut line along at the higher level, but I figured that trying to cut an additional cm off a now unsupported edge of a thin panel that is ridiculously long would probably result in it bouncing up and down as I cut through the middle area and that could create a messy cut line. The first cut it was all quite taut. The second, it would be free to move up and down.
So I opted for the slightly harder way, and in fact it wasn't too hard to deal with, but it definitely would have been a tad easier to stay straight. All of this that I have done has been done through a fog of nervousness and apprehension and with no real sense of what comes next. So I've made some really obvious errors in places that are all good education for next time. Elky said to me the other day "are you quite a clumsy person?" and by nature I am not at all, but when I'm nervous I'm all over the place, and this has been a nerve wracking experience at every step with lots of things I would do better in future
)
Bstard, you make a good point...
In hindsight, I think I would do that too. I would have just taken one straight cut all along and butted one straight edge up to it. There are reasons why it was done like this but actually it would have been a lot easier to overlook those reasons. Benefit of hindsight as always, and I am learning!
(reasons for the stepped cut were...
1. I was keen to keep the majority of the weld line as far down the door as possible. So I cut quite keenly above the rot but made the measurements and then cut quite hastily before considering it all. So I then had to leap up a bit at the far end to take out additional rottage I had overlooked in my measuring.
2. At that point I debated whether to run an entire new cut line along at the higher level, but I figured that trying to cut an additional cm off a now unsupported edge of a thin panel that is ridiculously long would probably result in it bouncing up and down as I cut through the middle area and that could create a messy cut line. The first cut it was all quite taut. The second, it would be free to move up and down.
So I opted for the slightly harder way, and in fact it wasn't too hard to deal with, but it definitely would have been a tad easier to stay straight. All of this that I have done has been done through a fog of nervousness and apprehension and with no real sense of what comes next. So I've made some really obvious errors in places that are all good education for next time. Elky said to me the other day "are you quite a clumsy person?" and by nature I am not at all, but when I'm nervous I'm all over the place, and this has been a nerve wracking experience at every step with lots of things I would do better in future
)
