<VV> welding up drilled spot welds

[Michael Kovacs]

Good luck welding. there is the weld called a "rosette". You weld around the 
circumference of the holes , one to another.  I'd  just clean up the welds and 
use some fibreglass stuff to fill them in. Good old bondo may work and be 
faster.

 MIKE KOVACS




________________________________
From: Ramon Rodriguez III <corvairgrymm at gmail.com>
To: virtualvairs at corvair.org
Sent: Mon, November 28, 2011 6:24:38 PM
Subject: <VV> welding up drilled spot welds

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.