Gamble97
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- Jan 3, 2006
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small town,
Illinois
Made this out of .063 aluminum. Plasma cut out all 8 pieces and took my sweet ass time cutting, measuring and trying to get everything as close to my measurements as possible. Not really going off anything just memory.
Well needless to say it welded up like complete shit. I brushed it, used acetone, but for the life of me it just wouldn't weld really well. I'm wondering if using the belt sander contaminated the metal at all?
Really made me made, so I finished welding all but one piece and decide to take a flap disc to the entire thing. Think it will still hold up? I know everyone says your not supposed to grind down aluminum welds but I've seen people do it for making dashboards and making it all look like once piece.
I think I might just weld over the entire thing again just to be sure it will hold. Then sandblast it and paint it or just sell it to someone that wants to powdercoat it.
Thoughts/ideas/advice??
This is where I stopped tonight.
Well needless to say it welded up like complete shit. I brushed it, used acetone, but for the life of me it just wouldn't weld really well. I'm wondering if using the belt sander contaminated the metal at all?
Really made me made, so I finished welding all but one piece and decide to take a flap disc to the entire thing. Think it will still hold up? I know everyone says your not supposed to grind down aluminum welds but I've seen people do it for making dashboards and making it all look like once piece.
I think I might just weld over the entire thing again just to be sure it will hold. Then sandblast it and paint it or just sell it to someone that wants to powdercoat it.
Thoughts/ideas/advice??
This is where I stopped tonight.
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