Making panels.......

Yes looking good

Your learning some good lessons as you make these parts, that in itself is very good, and worth all the time and effort you are putting in

Thanks Tony, if it wasn't for your posts on here I never would have started :-) 

I have now welded on the second main spar and dressed down the welds where required, only one piece left to make and then the R/H side will be completed. Also made a couple of repair pieces for my Mini bodywork and using what I have learnt doing the subframe I managed to knock up a rear quarter repair and weld it in place in a couple of hours - smokin!! 

Here goes:

Heres the area to be repaired, it's the lower part or the 'Rear Quarter':



As I had cut the old damaged area out a long while ago I had to fid a pic on the web of what the finished article should look like, a quick search on google pulled this up - perfect.

Started with a template made from an old cereal packet (made a mistake when cutting it, I missed of the folded edge on the RH side but spotted it before I cut the metal):





 Next cleaned up some spare sheet steel:



Folded the repair piece:





Sorry no step by step pics, I started with the curved fold (the wheel arch profile) and then the bottom and RH folded edge. To get the wheel arch profile I simply folded a piec of card over the existing wheel arch and marked the curve and then transferred this curve to the correct part of the template.

Next I joddled the edge using my latest Home Made edge setter (don't get exited but it works).






Thats a piece of 4mm plate to create a flat surface and a piece of 2mm to create an edge, seems to work fine for 1mm repair pieces, which is about right for Mini bodywork.
Clamped the piece in place and made some adjustments:









Then hit it with the welder:





I rushed a bit with this and did not plan the welding, the top and right and side is OK but I should have been a bit more careful with the bottom edge, what you can see is the penetration, which is good however it will now be a B*** to clean up so I may have to use filler :-( I'll need to filler the top weld anyway so no real dramas. Just need to dress down the edges and paint.........Job done :-) 

First i have to say Tony you are the bomb with welding and sheet metal.
I have an 1979 Chevrolet Monte Carlo that needs some TLC here and there, especially undersides of both doors, there has been some previous repairs which resulted in doors sticking outside the car at the underside, i am not quit sure how to repair this so i wanted to ask here if i can get some advice on how to tackle this problem.
Have a Kemppi kempomat 150 mig welder with 0.6mm wire, working at the dutch railroad i have plenty spare parts for the welder cause the whole company uses Kemppi.

Its a simple welder, current and wire feed and thats it, welds like a dream when welding the normal houshold stuff like a tonybmw bench bender.
Have bought myself some hammers and dolly's and only need some sheetmetal {again from work} to get started.
Please let me know if its okay to ask my questions here or if i need to go elsewhere for information
Thank you
John

If its questions about making panels then I guess here's where to ask. Just Googled 1979 Chevy Monte Carlo - nice car :-)

Thanks all, its a relief i can ask away here, the welding on my oldy is as a stone on my stomach, if i have the time i will make pictures of the parts i have questions about, working full time and a wife who is handicapped doesn't leave me with a lot of spare time so i hope you all have a little patience with me

OK here's the last bracket to be made on my Subframe:



As you can see I already made a template and cut out the metal (1.5mm for this one).

Here's what a good one should look like:




Its got a complex fold so I cheated by making a cut:



Here's all the folds done:




After a bit of adjusting here it is in place:




I then welded in the corner pieces:







And here are the finished pair:




Just got weld them all up and make the last bottom skid plate.

Krum

It looks as though you are grinding the welds with only a grinding stone, if you use a flap disc to finish off you will be able to obtain a smoother finish

That said, your welds and cleaning off are more than good enough, and given the thickness of the steel that you are welding too, there is certainly not a lot of room for error

and you certainly have the right technique in preparing and tacking in the panels

Okay lets go, this first picture is the part where the door slams shut and the lock hooks onto the torx pin sticking out.This is the same on both sides.


Second picture is the door sticking out like a wing, previous restoruins have made de outerdoor panel distort somewhat, i can live with the distortion but not with doors sticking outside the car, there is some rust at the underside of the both doors.


Third picture is 2 rusty spot besides the rear window , i know the glass has to come out and its glued in anybody got tips on safely removing thiss glass, the two rusty spots ar 1 at each side of the glass.


There are more spots needed welding but those are easy to reach and with the info from this thread i think i can do those.
Any info on how to tackle those spots is more than welcome
Thats it for now its a lot i know and thank you guys for helping me out.