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Offline drewcrane

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Re: Hack Job Pictures
« Reply #135 on: February 21, 2013 - 06:03:11 PM »
I found a good one a fairly recent car they glued 1/4s on and did not replace the inner 1/4s ,just a shame what people do and the paint was like skim milk :villagers:




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Re: Hack Job Pictures
« Reply #136 on: April 27, 2014 - 08:49:00 AM »
Some ugly patches under the bondo.








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Re: Hack Job Pictures
« Reply #137 on: September 14, 2015 - 04:26:33 PM »
that's hard to look at.
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Re: Hack Job Pictures
« Reply #138 on: October 26, 2015 - 06:35:02 AM »
Gotta love this one.
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Re: Hack Job Pictures
« Reply #139 on: October 26, 2015 - 09:23:09 AM »
That's awesome !!
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Re: Hack Job Pictures
« Reply #140 on: October 26, 2015 - 10:16:37 AM »
wicked...  :ylsuper:

no way I could ever get that road legal here   :grinno:
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Re: Hack Job Pictures
« Reply #141 on: October 28, 2015 - 07:36:32 AM »
wicked...  :ylsuper:

no way I could ever get that road legal here   :grinno:

I don't think it's legal anywhere.  :o
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Offline Chryco Psycho

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Re: Hack Job Pictures
« Reply #142 on: October 29, 2015 - 09:52:53 AM »
Legal here for sure  :2thumbs:

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Re: Hack Job Pictures
« Reply #143 on: October 29, 2015 - 09:57:23 AM »
Okay in the US after 25 years old. No worse than some rusty rat rods on the road now.
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Re: Hack Job Pictures
« Reply #144 on: October 29, 2015 - 08:13:50 PM »
Haha, the front tag brought to mind the song by Madness, 'One Step Beyond'  :smokin:
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Re: Hack Job Pictures
« Reply #145 on: February 20, 2016 - 06:56:51 PM »
Under the undercoating... some ugly patches.
Forgot the holes for the heatshield, can't find the drill, aah, just weld it.... :bigsmile:


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Offline glovemeister

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Re: Hack Job Pictures
« Reply #146 on: February 20, 2016 - 07:37:43 PM »
Why are those patch panels ugly? The high welds?

I can see how some of those pictures should use some additional grinding, but my understanding was to leave the welds a bit high so that the material isn't thinned out to much through grinding operations?
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Re: Hack Job Pictures
« Reply #147 on: February 20, 2016 - 08:13:22 PM »
In my opinion, (and I am new to welding) it's not so much the welds (even if I would have grinded them) as is the location and choise of patcharea, the wheelhouse one is right over a seam, and its welded over the cutout, so it creates a rustpocket on the other side. The torquebox is a crooked patch in the middle, with a big rusthole above it, why not make it straight to the edge.... The third one has some bad welding I think, and no one bothered to drill the holes for the heatshield...
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Re: Hack Job Pictures
« Reply #148 on: February 21, 2016 - 12:08:46 AM »
I think the welds are ugly because the welder was too cold; as in the power was not set high enough. Depending on the type of welder and it could be that they were using a stick welder or using flux core wire. The point here is that the weld material (stick or MIG wire) is not being allowed to melt/flow into the surrounding metal so it just stacks up. Welders call this "bubble gum". Normally, you would grind it down, however I suspect if you did on these it would be very thin and would easily crack, break.
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Re: Hack Job Pictures
« Reply #149 on: February 21, 2016 - 12:17:52 AM »
Who give's a rat's Butt hole about that patch work.

Remove and replace these is what I would do.

Hack job work is ugly and many here see it when we restore our cars.
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