The back end of the quarter panel took a bit of thrashing into shape but it was no match for my 2lb. ball-pein persuader.
Now I was all for fitting the closing panel, but by this time John had started to chunter about being starving so the two of us sloped off to the chippy leaving Matt to tidy the progress so far.
Looks OK when dressed with a flap-wheel
Dinner time, John really looks forward to the chippy all week - Matt likes it too!
Matt chugging down some cloudy lemonade
Apres les pomme frites avec goujons de poisson (chips and fishy bits in batter) it was time to close the gap at the rear........fnarrr fnarrr!
I had peas as well so my "gap at the rear" was preparing to open.
Of course there's another nearly-fits panel for the job, why wouldn't there be?
John offers up said panel
Fits like a dream, a slightly disturbed strange smelling one.
Just a small patch left to drop in now, John's bringing some steel sheet next time out.
Welded shut inside and out
Belt and braces; join is joggled (step-overlapped), seam-welded on the outside and tacked inside. In case you're wondering, the seam-welds are actually many small stitches done in seperate sections of the join until they all merge together.
It's more time consuming and not as neat but a continuous seam-weld would produce far too much heat and distort the thin steel of the panel. If a job's worth doing it's worth overdoing.
Needs dressing but will look sweet when smoothed and painted
Door pillar bottom to sort next time out......
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