Thanks, I live on Long island NY so makes sense for shipping purchases.  Did they run a sale I missed?   The price for the front bumper is $360.

I'm looking at the invoice from 11/20/2014.

$360 each $720 minus 15% cyber monday $108, $62.94 S/H for a total of $674.94.

I would call and see if he would still do the 15% off.  Super nice guy, Dave if I remember right.

49 minutes ago, siteunseen said:

I'm looking at the invoice from 11/20/2014.

$360 each $720 minus 15% cyber monday $108, $62.94 S/H for a total of $674.94.

I would call and see if he would still do the 15% off.  Super nice guy, Dave if I remember right.

That is correct, Dave Patton

thanks for the info.  Am going to call him today

Hey Guys, haven't posted in awhile...not much to tell.  Mostly I have been practicing welding.  My sheet metal is very thin - 16-18 gauge.  I ordered 20 gauge but they gave me this crap. Definitely not 20.  I will make sure I get the correct one when I do the actual work.  I am feeling better about my spot welds! As you can see I have been experimenting. First day there were a lot of burn-through.  Rookie! Mostly I have been playing around to get the feel of the welder and see how the metal reacts. Looking to weld my first patch next week.  

 

Practice is good. You'll get it

On 6/13/2018 at 6:45 AM, gotham22 said:

I really would like to do it myself. My concern is I don’t have a garage (car is always covered in the driveway).  Not sure what fire precautions I need to take welding in my driveway next to my house. I don’t have a ton of room  

I actually love love trying to do new things and I have been reading up on mig welding. Plus thI satisfaction of doing something yourself is amazing. 

 

 

I am a mechanic, but not a restorer, and I have decided to weld and fix all my rust issues on my 240 and fully restore it. I have the room to do it. I can see if you dont have the room to do it may make it more daunting, but where theres a will theres a way. 

10 minutes ago, DC871F said:

I am a mechanic, but not a restorer, and I have decided to weld and fix all my rust issues on my 240 and fully restore it. I have the room to do it. I can see if you dont have the room to do it may make it more daunting, but where theres a will theres a way. 

My apologies if we covered this somewhere else, but I don't like to hang the car with all the suspension on it. It nearly doubles the weight of the car and adds a lot more stress on the attachment points. My 2 cents

32 minutes ago, Patcon said:

My apologies if we covered this somewhere else, but I don't like to hang the car with all the suspension on it. It nearly doubles the weight of the car and adds a lot more stress on the attachment points. My 2 cents

We did, and you put a little fear in me so its all good now.

I looked at the attach points and nothing moved.

29 minutes ago, DC871F said:

We did, and you put a little fear in me so its all good now.

I looked at the attach points and nothing moved.

Excellent. I don't remember what I ate yesterday...

 

 

1 hour ago, gotham22 said:

My sheet metal is very thin - 16-18 gauge.  I ordered 20 gauge but they gave me this crap. Definitely not 20.  I will make sur

Your practice welds are just fine, try running a bead with every setting the welder has, run them right next to each other and label them so you start to get a feel for what is too much and not enough. Your machine will have a chart that will get you in the ball park but it's better to know by sight and feel.

Re the quote above, you know that 16-18ga are thicker than 20ga.  20ga is more difficult to weld than what you are practicing on, much easier to blow holes through, it can be difficult to run a bead on 20ga, a better way is a number of spot welds or tack welds untill you have a bead made up individual welds.

Looking good!

What he said. The higher the gauge number, the thinner the metal. If you're having troubles with 16-18 ga, then 20 gauge is going to be even more difficult.

Love the practice sheet. I think everyone who ever messed with a welder has one just like that!

Out of curiosity... Is that MIG, or flux core?