Weld actually can weld
 

I know that most of you just know me as a post whore... and probably many of you visualize me as a guy that just talks the talk but can't walk the walk. Of course - there's a few Lat G members that have been the direct recipients of some of my limited skills... but that is few compared to the many members here that know me. :D

So I started this just to show that sometimes - between posts - I have 24 hours a day - 7 days a week - 365 days a year - to do exactly whatever it is I feel like doing.... and I started a project on my brother in laws blown '69 Camaro. A new sub frame - complete wiring - some interior work - slick the firewall - new inner fender closeouts - and whatever else he comes up with for me to do. :unibrow:

All of this will be done in time to take the car to Santa Barbara Wheels and Waves show mid May.:woot:

The sub was fitted - modded - and is now at the powder coater. The inners where modded and are at the sand blaster so I can finish and paint. Was easier to just drop them with the sub and have 'em come back clean as a whistle.

Here's the firewall tacked in - which I started this AM -- cleaned the firewall (pays to have MANY different tools to do this QUICKLY!). Had to break for some caloric intake... so posting this while sipping soup. I started this morning and have still maintained a running email dialog with Ironworks... put a deposit on a new arbor for the front walkway - had the guy here to reinstall a 10" duct for my barbecue vented hood (relocated it in the roof when I had a new roof put on the house)... so cleaned the firewall to bare metal and got 'er tacked in. So nanner nanner. :lol: :woot:


The car - via the rearview mirror...


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Fat tired old skool pro street....


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Hanging on my NEW Rotary lift.... the old one is now owned by Youthpastor!


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Very nice work,from the guy with one of the best last name's.I alway's knew you could use the tool's in your Garage.:thumbsup: :thumbsup: Scott

About time you come out of retirement & get your butt to work!!

Can't wait to see it @ wheels & Waves.. One of my favorite shows.. close down State street for it.. Will you be attending the show MR. Weld?? Let me know.. Sorry I missed you @ Del Mar.. but have been stuck @ the shop going thru a re-model..

OXOXOXO

PS. Opened the boxes you sent over.. all looks good! Thanks

Funny part about it is --- I do more car ****zzzzzz a day or in a week than most do in 6 months... I just don't bother to post it up. In the last two months I've replaced a guys fuel tank and made his fuel lines - did some suspension work on a buddies '55 - been to Barrett Jackson - Grand National Roadster Show - RTTC 2 - Del Mar - tore this POS Camaro apart and did the set up for the sub and some mods... Helped a buddy with some EFI work -- and there's more that I can't even remember!


EEEEEEEEEEEHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA


Guess maybe I should just get back to debating whether or not I should click the shocks up two or down two.... :rofl: :rofl: :woot:

Weld -- I knew you had it enya. :thumbsup: :D

Wow TIG welded sheetmetal. You are the man.

But why does a man of your stature need a lift. I'm just sayin.:D

Cause his neck has a permanent kink in it, that only allows him to look up slightly. There is no need to look down.

You forgot to add that your having a 32 built.

Very cool.
Mr. Weld does have tools and can use them as well! Good job Greg.:thumbsup: :cheers:

So it's 6:15 --- and I've showered already and dressed to go out to dinner - and the DSE plate is now FULLY TIG welded in.

All in a days work!

EEEEEEEEEEHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAA:woot:

Dinner? Get to work slacker!:lol:

show us some pics of some welding. Shoot a 5 year old can tack the panel on.

Got anymore sisters!:lol: :lol: :lol: EEEEEEEHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAA

Yeah 'cause I don't have a clue....

Well you never showed that you had a clue before, why start now!

Yeah -- I can't do body and paint either.... That's why I have to have my stuff built by someone else. But I did manage to slick this firewall.


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there ya go!
more pics please

It's real hard for me 'cause I've never done much and I get real nervous....



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I've never clipped anything either.....



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I knew it had to happen eventually, small man syndrome. :D

Maybe one day I'll turn into a real hot rodder....



EEEEEEEEEEEEHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAA:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Greg, we all know you can weld, is that firewall in primer or ready to paint yet?

Just as soon as I finish adjusting my coilovers two more clicks I'll have her in primer. :unibrow:

.... and I send all my stuff out to be modded.... oh... except when I can actually do the work myself... :D

Bob... is that TIG welding okay for you?


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now all you need to do is remove your mis leading tag phrase.

NEVER! :rofl:


'Cause I'm still learning... Just when I think I've got it down - I log on here and see some truly amazing work!
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Just razzing you, never thought you couldn't do any of it.
You have done more than I have done. My damn job gets in the way of me practicing .

Hey! We're friends -- I know you're razzing me.

Razzing me doesn't bother me at all... I'm the first one to drop a grenade in the middle of someone else's thread... it's the know it alls that have built maybe one car in their lifetime I get tired of.

You guys sexting yet?:rofl:

Now that's funny!:hail: :rofl:

I get a little wood on the ball here and there.

Seriously, great work! Kelli was wondering if you are adopting a great cook and a lush in the near future?:lol:

I do all the cooking 'round here... Gwen can't burn water.

You'd have to switch to wine... I have lots and lots of that. Very little beer! :D

Besides -- I promised Tyler that I'd adopt him first... but he has to agree to dye his hair brown - or black - or blonde - or red... ANYTHING but blue! :rofl:

Nice Greg, "Perfect practice makes perfect" .:thumbsup:

That's never worked for my golf stroke!


Although I'm not much better at building cars either. :willy:

Love the tig work :unibrow: , definitely a skill on my list to learn, especially for the next project.

Bob asked about pics of the TIG of the DSE panel... 'cause anybody can tack weld (true). I took one to send via text to my BIL (his car).... So just to show that yeah I can TIG -- doesn't make me a "welder" -- and I actually do this very seldom so a guy that does something every once in awhile - is never going to lay down the perfect little stacks of dimes that a guy that does this daily can do... but mine will 'hold'... The curve is easier to do in the "UP" position so the torch is being held upside-down and I'm adding fil from the top.


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^ I think you're being modest Greg. That stack of dimes is a homerun in my book...:thumbsup:

Thank you... but really -- this is just barely getting by in my book. It's just hard to do "occasionally". You have to have such a steady hand and such a steady feed of the fill to really make 'em smokin'. I don't have either of those skills. And like I said earlier -- I rarely post up what I'm doing. It's just not interesting. But it's fun for me! :cheers: :woot: Beats working for a living that's for sure! :unibrow:

Great work Greg.:thumbsup:
Better than what I can do for sure. Practice, practice.

Tell me more about the Mid May Show in Santa Barbara please---Sounds like I need to come hang out at that one---

Big Fresh Wanda