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Welding 001, we're not to 101 yet, 100 more classes to go. That is the repair of my original disc brake mount. When I pulled it off, it had a broken bolt, when the attempt to remove it failed, basically the drill bit walked even in my drill press, I was forced to replace it. I did have a...

Not wishing to take this way off topic but it does involve the car being it's in the garage. The garage slab sits on-top of a bed 57 stone, 4 courses of CMU block deep. We had "hollow" pockets 3 years ago and a small crack appear, about 2" long, at a zig-zag in the foundation wall. Last week...

Umm, err uhh... Just got off the floor with my Morons of America Union Rep, local 6-7/8 and he said my helmet was solar powered. He called to ask me about a replacement flash bulb for his phone camera. Needless to say, you can imagine my surprise when I walked outside of the garage and it was...

Good video. Been searching them for a couple weeks now, that's how I bullied myself into doing the work after saying, you can do that dummy. But as life has taught me, I might have jumped a bit quicker than normal meaning, I run this thru my head repeatedly while staring at the project. After...

Made the purchase yesterday. Bought the smallest bottle and gas and it appears the sales associate realized how old I looked and gave me the "on the 17th green price". I haven't putt out yet so... Have a couple questions given the first test was so bad, I won't describe it and pictures are...

I expected that answer but hoped it would have been a harder '71 or '72. Think I'll just get the '71 and go from there. Purposely adding nuts and bolts to the "leftovers" box is better than mistakenly adding or running out. Bagging and tagging as you mentioned, started with me using...

Everything set for work to begin but one thing, no shielding gas as of yet. Not that I haven't attempted to find it, I guess it's just a bit of a shock realizing I can't just buy the gas in a deposit secured bottle at the local ARC3, bring it home, perform the work and return the bottle when...

Looking ahead to reassembly, that's if I can force my memory to remember what went where while avoiding the dreaded "remaining fasteners box", I've started searching body bolt kits. Many of the nuts and bolts removed are a bit worse for wear than comfort allows but haven't ruled out cleaning...

Never welded, fully realize soldering doesn't count so, that's the plan.

I picked up the Lincoln Weld-Pak 90i today. I'm hoping this will serve its purpose given it's not the most powerful one available. Rated at Max 1/4" thick metals, I believe it will not be too difficult to take care of the couple patches needed between the front apron and rear trunk quarter...

After assessing, reassessing, rereassessing and rerereassessing the first cut was definitely the deepest for the pucker factor. Now all I need to decide is welding options. Been looking at MIG and I also saw a reasonably priced spot welder online but the plug weld would eliminate the need for...

Tanks! Keeping them where they are is most convenient with moving around under the car. Although, that may change when I get ready to pull the pan, something that I'm kind of working myself into doing. Actually, every project of late seems to require a bit of mental gymnastics "psyching"...

I've supported the car off the ground like most with jack stands. I'm using 3 pairs, one pair at the rear suspension sub-frame, one at the firewall area of the sub-frame and one pair under the center of the strut rod crossmember. Believe me when I say, I should know or remember the answer to...

Sheeeeet, ain't that the truth! Started with a simple front suspension and steering rebuild myself and the car ended up on 6 jackstands! Now, there's probably a chance we're going to miss a second year of cruising season. Was hoping that we could make it by July, but the project has stalled...

Will do. Actually, the support bracket you cleaned was as acid burned as the apron. I believe it was maybe here, earlier on in the thread or maybe another thread entirely, things kind've run together at times. Anyhow, there was a guy someone named that makes them new. Jumped on that quicker...

Saw your post in my topic and had a look see with what you're talking about. I'm looking at a more isolated repair on the lower part of the apron 'cause I didn't want to mess with the upper alignment, structural and hole fabricating. It's also all original with no wreck damage and no rust...

Believe it or not, the description on the Top Flight website explained it was manufactured in the USA. That was one of my first identifiers. I actually tried to confirm who was making them for Dynacorn but came up empty handed. I was actually hoping for Daniel Carpenter given what I have...

Chuck, Thanks! I was able to pull up the pic and saw the price tag but that's all I could get before the door slammed shut since I don't and won't ever again do Facebook. Really! Not to get off topic by too much, it was a horrific experience when it first started and haven't been back...

By the way, thanks for the pics Hemikiller. That shows what I was trying to explain. I have found several of the earlier driver's side but the one or two that I did run across were sold or boo coo bucks and not worth it since I'm not looking for a concourse car. Well, if that's the case, I...

Was hoping you'd say that. Kinda thought that myself after looking around other options.