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Old 03-30-2020, 04:49 AM
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The cold tack method is what I have always used.
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?
I find they are a bit softer and also I make sure to get them blue while grinding as softens them up a bit more.

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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
Thank you.

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Looks fantastic, Marcus. I like hearing your experience and advice with MIG. It makes a lot of sense.
Just seems logical to me to what is going on.

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Thank you as well. I have not heard of that pulsing technique for MIG.

What is this timer for automatic MIG pulsing you mentioned?
Something my MIG has. A spot timer for doing plug welds and I switched the tigger so I can just leave it held in and only stops when I release. Same that my TIG has as well.
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Old 03-30-2020, 09:51 PM
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I check this forum daily and am sorry I have not been following your great project Marcus. Being self quaranteened for 14 days due to traveling 1400 miles in USA I have spent the last 3 days catching up starting at page 1. What a treasure of info you have shared. Feels now like you are my neighbor. I am going to encourage my grandson to read thru all of this. You certainly have deserved all of the accolades you have received. What you do helps all of us to aspire to better metal shaping.

Looking forward to the rest of the story.

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Old 03-31-2020, 04:45 AM
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I check this forum daily and am sorry I have not been following your great project Marcus. Being self quaranteened for 14 days due to traveling 1400 miles in USA I have spent the last 3 days catching up starting at page 1. What a treasure of info you have shared. Feels now like you are my neighbor. I am going to encourage my grandson to read thru all of this. You certainly have deserved all of the accolades you have received. What you do helps all of us to aspire to better metal shaping.

Looking forward to the rest of the story.

Phil Planck
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Many thanks for your comments Phil.
Glad I was able to help a bit get through these interesting times that we are now facing. I have gone back to submitting more pictures and thoughts on things I do to help in some small way give people something to read and think about to pass the time.
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Old 03-31-2020, 06:54 AM
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I have gone back to submitting more pictures and thoughts on things I do to help in some small way give people something to read and think about to pass the time.
I think that is nice of you.

Did I read right, above... where you said you get the weld blue when grinding? Thanks.
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Old 04-01-2020, 04:41 AM
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I think that is nice of you.

Did I read right, above... where you said you get the weld blue when grinding? Thanks.
Yes that it right. Best to use a grinding disc and not a flap disc to do this. The colour will disappear as you do lighter passes.
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Old 04-01-2020, 07:01 AM
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Yes that it right. Best to use a grinding disc and not a flap disc to do this. The colour will disappear as you do lighter passes.
Thanks. I have something I can try that on safely. Discoloration when grinding is something I have striven to avoid in the past, so I had to ask.
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Old 04-02-2020, 05:36 PM
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Thanks. I have something I can try that on safely. Discoloration when grinding is something I have striven to avoid in the past, so I had to ask.
As did I.

I did everything to minimise distortion in the beginning and it was a very time consuming process. But as I became more confident in correcting welding distortion, I looked for faster methods.
The given reason why oxy is better than TIG that is better than MIG argument is how malleable the steel is afterwards. The slower the heating the better basically, but the more distortion you have to correct afterwards. So in the beginning removing the extra distortion took longer even though the metal was easier and more uniform to move.
Remember any process should still have good fit up and the correct shape before welding even starts to minimise the shaping needed and also to easily understand where the change in shape came from after welding. Exceptions to this is where I know a shape needs more shrinkage along the edge to be welded, I know that the welding will do that so will let the weld do it rather than correct it twice.
The bluing was also just a thought along that process of annealing where a long slow heat and cool leaves it more malleable afterwards. I have been doing it for a few years and it is purely based on that thought and my observations if it made a difference or not. I feel it does so continue to use it providing I can get a dolly behind it to correct any extra change from that heat.
I just kept this to myself for fear of being ridiculed, but finally decided to share it and let people hopefully try it before making that judgement and make their own minds up about it.
I do thank everyone here for not at least publicly debunking my thoughts the instant I put them out. It is just my ideas based on what I think is going on and the results I have observed. Each process still has its benefits and I will continue to use the TIG as well. There is a lot more satisfaction from doing that process and prefer it still on large low crown panels or where time is not a factor. I like learning new skills and getting a better MIG technique was part of that on sheet metal.
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Old 04-02-2020, 09:09 PM
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I sure appreciate you writing that. Followed all of it. Sharing details like that without fear of ridicule is possible once a guy is confident with his ability to deal with the metal at hand, without adhering to textbook logic every step of the way. Having a feel for it is everything, and every day is a heat dynamics class.

In case you were wondering, I think your work is spectacular. I get what you mean about factoring in warpage in places, and about the rate of cooling. Interesting stuff to me, just hadn't run across that theory until I saw your mention of grinding it blue. That and the weld you showed was delicious and nutritious.

So you know, I am not into Jeeps at all but my initial comment was face value. I concur wholeheartedly about providing some metal work as visual fodder for the guys who didn't get to do any on a given day. Even if, as in my case, the posts are more of a comic strip at times... it is a nice thing to do for folks.

Keep it coming, please. Thanks again for your thoughtful reply. I have not yet made it back to the panel I want to try the grinding tip with, but I see room to improve so am going to find out what it does for me when that time comes.
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Old 04-03-2020, 10:22 PM
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Because the tray is now wider, the curve doesn't match the stock width bumper, especially as the bumper curve tightens towards the ends. I have notched out the flange back to the new bend line.


I start bending the flange flat using the mallet and then a panel hammer.


I also hammer from the back hitting directly on the old bend line to force the ridge on the opposite side up into the crease.


Using nothing more than an old wood splitter head I turned into a stake, I slowly bend the flange along the new line. Even though I cannot see where it is once I move away from the edge, I watch the reflection which shows exactly where it is bending. Doing light taps to start with means it is easy to adjust where it is bending.


Even bending over a wide straight edge, I can still produce a shallow curve.


Previous tension in the panel and the tighter curve towards the end, has made it bend. Some of this will straighten once I cut the excess material away using a cutoff wheel due to its heat shrinking it.


Once I cut the flange to an even width again, I used a chaser to hammer along the bend line to crisp up the fold. This also causes some stretching to further straighten the flange. Using a shrinker on the edge rather than the fold line will also straighten it. For straightening this flange, stretching at the fold does the same thing as shrinking along the edge.


Overall the tray is narrower than stock by 20mm-3/4" to compensate for the extra depth of the grille and width of the tray.


Mockup with the hooks in place in front of the grille.
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Old 04-04-2020, 05:12 AM
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Very nice Marcus.
Thanks.
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