1950 Willys Truck re-rebuild by 50wllystrk

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Well how cool is this, I do what I enjoy, I post the pics, and others enjoy what I do. Yes, absolutly, this frame will be wayyyy better than 26 years ago. I did what my abilities allowed back then, a meer patching over the bad areas.

I gotta figure some are wondering, why the detail when it's just a frame? I'm refering to the near perfect grinding, trying to recreate the frame braces like the original, ect. My thought, I try to imagine this has to be close to cosmetically perfect, does it have to be? nope. But, lets say I do a project that is needed to be cosmetically close to perfect. There is no better time to practice a skill than now, as opposed to when I need it to be near perfect.

In the last set of pics I ended with weld filling the rusted through smallhole in the frame. Be forewarned... the hole was about a 1/4 inch in diameter, but, as you try to weld it shut the material surrounding the hole can be very thin itself. This is when things can suck, this is the nicest word I can say online.
I didn't take a class, maybe there is a term for it, but I call it a chaser weld. This is where you try to weld the edge of the hole, and the hole gets bigger. Grrrrrr, patience my friend, keep trying, sooner or later you should get to some material thick enough to start a weld build, then you can fill back to where you started and close the hole.
Does the idea of putting copper or brass up against the back side of the hole? oh yeah. Just too many times its not an option due to no spacebehind the weld area to do this.
Here's the weld cleaned up, now I have a good clean base to start adding liquid metal.(weld beads).