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Yes, very nice work. The one tool you may want to consider adding to your collection is a spot welder. It works so nice in the wheel wells and trunk drops, returns as you call them, as well as many other areas with the complete tooling kit. This is the inside tongs for wheel house flanges. No grinding of a plug weld to clean up.
Once I have the panel fitted, I mark and remove the edp and any other paint where I want the welds.
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Mitch 1970 Chevelle SS 1966 Chevelle SS 1967 Camaro ss/rs 1938 Business coupe, street rod 2000 FXSTS, original owner, 13k miles |
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I have seen those Mitch. Ive considered it but I like being able to clamp panels together with vise grips and do the plug welds. The ones GM used were strong enough to basically act vise grips. Over the years ive become proficent at getting my plug welds to look like spots. Doesnt always work, and when it doesnt i grind and then go back and create dimple that looks like a spot. Ive also noticed unless you buy a professional large unit they wont create the large deformed dimples along the bottom and up the back of the rockers the factory did.
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