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Marcus. I don't know exactly what you're doing. You can produce stainless bumpers. Screw them with decorative screws. Install sensors in some screws. 2 problems in one solution.
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The bumper is 110mm deep channel with 40mm flanges and 3mm thick. It curves all the way getting tighter at the ends. Do see that being made by hand anytime soon.
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If you have produce a U-shaped 110mm bend on the bend press, the 40mm ends can be cut and bent with radius and welded as needed. 110mm bend 3mm stainless steel is possibile bend hand. "Hard hand".
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I need to have somewhere to put some recovery hooks and thought using the mounting bolt dimples could work once modified. To get the hooks to sit completely level I had a steel block clamped underneath right on the edge of where I wanted the crease to form. Then hammered down with the brick bolster. Directly under the tray will be a heavy bracket going back to the frame and also for mounting the bumper too. Next I finished off making the tray wider to match the grille. Normally I would have added a single wider piece at the V to flat transition, but knew it would have moved the place I wanted the tow hooks to line up with the bracket. So added a strip on the outside of the dimple area. This was welded with the MIG in one pass but manually pulsing the trigger, never allowing the orange colour to disappear from the weld before adding more. I always check the penetration on the back to see if any spots need to be added to before any grinding has taken place. This way you have more weld thickness on the front side to protect against a blowout. Can see where it was colder at the start of the weld and I had to add some. If you do the slow spaced tack technique you are facing this along the whole weld. I never have my welds crack when planishing as I believe this technique largely removes the problem of the MIG where rapid heating from cold causes brittleness. For the first time I thought I would try the automatic pulse, or spot timer, on my MIG to see how that would compare. I just held the trigger and had the timer set to 0.5 second intervals. Full penetration but way too much weld even though it was the identical setting to the last weld where I did it manually. Good news that it didn't blow through anywhere though. I will try a lower setting next time. Steel is 1.2mm or 18 gauge. Width now correct across the grille.
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Marcus
Thanks for showing your Mig welding method. I am going too get some scrape pieces out and practice your method. See if I can get it to work for me. One question: Do you always use that method on sheet metal???
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When using the MIG I do unless there is no access behind to stretch out the shrinkage after welding. Then you have to limit the distortion as much as possible using the cold tack method.
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What is this timer for automatic MIG pulsing you mentioned?
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Looks fantastic, Marcus. I like hearing your experience and advice with MIG. It makes a lot of sense.
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WOW!
Marcus that front pan sure looks good. Your eye for scaling up the size is perfect. Thanks for sharing your pictures and thoughts. Steve
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I do it that way to limit distortion just as you stated. I have yet to have a weld crack while plannishing, but damn the weld is hard. Are your welds any softer using your pulse method?
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