Look ma, no bumper bolts

Looks great Dennis. Original idea? Man you've gotta slow down. It's hard work trying to keep up with the Jones.

 

Dennis definitely has too much time on his hands.
I think he should get married again.

What do you guys say we sign him up on the
E-Harmony website.


j/k
Seth

 

Dennis, I love the bumper effect. I can suggest the next time you weld up the holes to try tig welding instead of mig. It's a little tougher and slower but the metal melts in better and you can get rid of the air pockets or pin holes. It might be worth paying someone to tig-weld the holes next time if you can't do it yourself. I would have thought the bumper people could have taken care of the problem though before they plated it. I just recently had $5000 worth of parts chromed at a replater for a 61 Cadillac I restored for someone. Some of it came back with pits in it. For 5 grand it was unacceptable. The second time it came back pretty much perfect. Just proves they can do it when they want to.

Anyway, your car looks great but of course you already know that. I hope to see it in person soon.

 

Dennis, That looks excellent! Nice work!

 

Sweeeeeeeett!!!

 

Thats a good idea. My company has a small Tig that I use for work so I can get it almost anytime I want to.

I thought they would have at least called me up and given me the option to pay them to fix it. I dont blame them for the problem, but with the restoration work I've seen from them, I know they could have done it. Right now I cant afford to get snooty with them because they forgot to send my valance panel back. As soon as I get that, I will register the complaint. Needless to say, I wont be using them again.

 

Are those Mercury Bobcat or Brazillian Maverick taillights?

 

Neither, the answer lies above.

 

Dennis, from down here in Bama, sure looks good to me. Love the GM tail lights,look like they were made for the car! Now, any time you want to fix mine up for me, I'll let you practice on it anytime! Hope mine turns out half that good!

 

I think it looks really sharp...but it always has. I would use a minimum 15% silver content brazing rod with flux with an oxy/acet setup at the right temp...good flow properties and no porosity, a 50% rod would be better, flow is even better. I don't have much experience in tig so brazing would be my choice.

 

The way I did it was to weld up the holes in the mounts and smooth them out first. Then attach the mounts to the car, hold the bumper in place, and tack the bumper to the mounts with the mig. Once tacked good, remove the bumper and mounts and weld the mounts to the bumper on the back side with the mig. On the next one I will probably just use the tig to tack the bumper to the mounts. I will still mig the back side. Then I will tig the bumper to the mounts through the bumper bolt holes on the front side until I have a good bead all around the perimeter of the hole. From there I will braze up the rest of the hole. The brass will be much easier to sand and will result in much less or even no depression in the surrounding metal.

 

you should be able to braze the hole up completely with a brass rod, just back it with a penny, that's what my stepfather does, I think, then you can sand the braze down with paper I would immagine, harder than lead, softer than steel

 

Better make sure it is an older penny. Sometime in the early to mid 1980's the gov't quite making pennies out of solid copper and started using zinc with a copper plating over the zinc and let em tell you, zinc melts away very quickly and at a lot lower temp than copper.

 

I'm bettin he figured that out about 3 years ago...