What Gauge Of Sheet Metal For Auto Floor Repair
- #one
Anyone like to gauge at what it is?
Its Vauxhall, so non exactly a well congenital tank 
The car needs a plate welding over a floor seam(not a principal chassis rail), so would it be best to just clear the rust, and weld a piece of sheel steel over the hole from the outside(overlap joint) ?
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malcolm
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- #two
0.8mm to one.0mm would be my estimate for thickness.
The aproach would depend on how long you want to hold onto the motorcar. If it's non more than a couple of years simply plate over. More than that it's worth cutting out anything that's rusty then plating over. I often go for a butt welded repair, though a lilliputian overlap of 5-10mm would make the repair much quicker aqnd easier.
- #iii
funny you lot saying near cutting information technology out malcolm, years ago me and my cousin used to respray and flog the odd car or two.(when we were about 20) If it was a prissy car and one of us was going to take information technology, every bit of rust was cut out new plate welded in, footing to perfection etc. That way y'all knew it would terminal. If it was something to make a quick couple of quid on, it was a patch over the rust, a quick dent in with a hammer and a skim off filler and a quick respray. You knew it wouldn't terminal that mode merely it was merely existence sold on for a couple of quid
- #four
Im planning on holding onto the car for quite a while. And id adopt for the repairs to look proficient and non similar patchwork,lol.
So its all-time cut out the rust into say a square/rectangle shape, and then butt weld the repair sheet in?
I was thinking it would be around 1mm thick, then it may need on/off stitch welds to stop it bending? Using mild steel sail the same thickness as the original metal?
If i retrieve rightly car repairs have to be fully seam welded to laissez passer mot?
- #five
Chances are y'all can get a floor pan to weld in, might be worth looking at. if not then some 1mm thick sheet would be fine
- #half-dozen
You cant get a repair section for the chip that needs repairing, and so it'll be a hacksaw and a piece of sail steel. lol
The seams at a 90deg bending too, so one section will demand welding vertically, and the other either lying upside down, or mayhap weld that from the inside of the automobile(and then ive not got to prevarication under the section,lol)
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- #8
Tis indeed mate.
You'll know me off png btw 
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- #9
Thought it was you.
Welcome Sir.
- #10
Cheers mate.
If you lot fancy paying me a visit and giving me a few welding pointers please practise, lmao.
Even tho you alive quite a distance away.
- #11
Ok, cleaned up all the hole that needs plating over at present.
Would it be best to weld the plate from the Inside of the machine? Which id prefer and so i can be above what im welding.
Or the outside?(under neath the car)
- #12
Ok, cleaned upwardly all the pigsty that needs plating over at present.
Would it exist all-time to weld the plate from the Inside of the car? Which id prefer so i can be in a higher place what im welding.
Or the outside?(under neath the car)
Have you fabricated the repair patch to fit within the hole or are you overlapping the hole.
- #xiii
I haven't made it however, got to pickup a sheet of 1mm steel tomorrow.
Im hoping to make it and so it fits flush in the pigsty, and then seam welding it all the way circular.
Only if i decide its easier overlap it, then its probably all-time to weld information technology on from the outside to stop mud/water collecting in the gap between the new/old panel?
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- #fourteen
If your overlapping it so I'd become from underneath for the very reasons that y'all've suggested. And then comprehend it in etch primer, give information technology a flake of top coat and so embrace in underseal.
- #15
Think im going butt weld it, from above.
It looks a flake awkward to weld from underneath with the car on axle stands.
malcolm
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- #xvi
Butt weld from higher up is probably going to exist easier than an overlap from underneath. Skilful selection.
- #17
Yeah.
Ive merely got to get a mate on "fire watch", keep an middle on the carpets
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