john hennessy wrote:
you need to cut it back to, as you put it, good metal, thats why it's called good metal!
do the job right or don't do it at all!
Hi John,
I fiddled around with a variety of different attempts to do this job quick and easy and none of them worked, not even the copper bar trick, so I ended up cutting back to good metal and doing the job right
. Still found that welding the patches in with a flux core mig was a challenge but worked at it until I found a method that was successful. As you can imagine that entailed real short bursts...bzt, bzt, bzt, bzt.....as I moved around the patch from side to side to side.
It was 34 degrees C here today (that is 93 degrees F for those of you that aren't ambidextrous!!), which is pretty warm for Canucks, so I was wearing shorts in the garage as I was welding. As I was kneeling on the concrete, leaning in the door to weld, I put some cardboard down to pad my knees. Well, you can guess what happened as I concentrated on welding the patch. Luckily I smelled the fire before it got to me, didn't even lose any hair off my legs. Note to self...find something fireproof to kneel on when its hot out.
Bill