<VV> Welding up holes from drilled spot welds

[gswiatowy at rochester.rr.com]

A friend of mine showed me this trick when we installed a trunk floor in a 67 Dodge drilled out of another car.

He had me hold a piece of brass below the holes whille he welded.
Mainly it was an 8 inch brass drift pin with about a 1 inch head.
I had on a welding glove for protection. 
Also used a few other pieces of brass in odd shapes for where I couldn't reach.
The weld would not stick to the brass.

Gary Swiatowy



> From: Ramon Rodriguez III <corvairgrymm at gmail.com>
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> 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