Two things:
a. If you do outer rockers, you should count on doing the inners, as
well. Might as well do them as long as the whole thing is apart. It
works best to have them there instead of having to wait through a long
weekend, or longer, to finish your project.
b. Oxy acetylene will work fine if you are patient and have some skill
in that area. What you are proposing is doable but is a little higher in
the scale than wire welding for the average enthusiast. The best, an
cheapest, material is a plain coat hanger. Before the comments flood
me, I mean the wire kind and not the plastic, cardboard, or wooden
kinds.
This type of welding is inherently different that MIG. It takes
a little longer for the pieces to "get hot". Therefore, if you are
welding you can get the entire car too hot as the heat will travel great
distances. Work slowly w/ judicious use of some sort of a heat sink. A
small fan will work wonders for you, and your car. Just remember that
all that heat must go somewhere and the atmosphere is its last choice.
.
Larry Dickstein
bugide@juno.com
On Sun, 06 Jul 1997 02:45:51 -0400 Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>
writes:
>I have to do a sill replacement, probably outer only. Due
>to the what-I-know-and-own excuse, I expect to be doing
>it with oxy-acetylene. Lyndsey Porter's book shows it done
>this way, so I am confident.
>
> What sort of wire and techniques should I use for
>the job? I am a careful welder but not well versed on
>as many situations as I'd like to be.
>
>--
>Trevor Boicey
>Ottawa, Canada
>tboicey@brit.ca
>http://www.brit.ca/~tboicey/
>
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