My Daytona Coupe (cobra) scratch build

[MAStuart]

Does anyone have any pictures (welded side and back side) of what an ideal aluminum torch weld should look like for metal finishing. It would be nice to have something to compare to and shoot for. Mark

[MAStuart]

Hammerworks thanks again. I now have about 5 feet or less including this 3 foot of weld on my roof panels and the practice did on scrap under my belt . Im sure I will improve by the time this project is done. There is lots of welding to be done. The only way to have less welds is to make bigger panels and I am new to this too. Mark

[anders nørgaard]

Originally Posted by MAStuart

Thanks Larry But I am confused! Page 5 of what? Anyone else have any links or post to finishing aluminum after welding. I did several searches and came up nothing.

Hi Mark,

Your welding looks fine to me. I can't give you much advice since I haven't welded aluminum myself... yet

When some of the other guys said "page 5" they meant Randy's reply in post #50 on page 5 of this (your build) thread

And here is what Randy said

http://www.metalmeet.com/forum/showp...1&postcount=50

[larry mullen]

Anders/mark
I shouldhave gave a better explanation of what post and page .
Thanks larry

[anders nørgaard]

Originally Posted by larry mullen

Anders/mark
I shouldhave gave a better explanation of what post and page .
Thanks larry

Well Larry... page 5 of this thread was the first place I looked, so I think the explanation was OK

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[MAStuart]

Anders Larry I had one of those moments . Weld is weld. I was thinking finishing torch weld and forgot about that post about tig weld. Thanks

[MAStuart]

Side view . Two front half welded and the rear halfs welded . Still have to trim the front to the back and weld them. I think it is coming along good.

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Shot from the rear and up kind of high. It has quite alot of shape to it but does not look like it.

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From the front . My son is pushing down on the one corner and you can see the other side has razed up off the buck. I will have to work the weld area some more to get it to relax more.

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I have to go now and help a buddy move a car . When I get back i will take some pics of my weld finishing job to get some input on how to get a better job done. Mark

[anders nørgaard]

Your roof panel looks fine to me Mark!

Remember the "two finger rule!" If a panel can be held in place by just pushing with two fingers, the fit/shape is good enough to weld it in!

[jlrussell4]

Yeah buddy! I know the roof panels have a lot of shape in them. They look real good to me.

[bobadame]

Looking really good.