Wow! A Comment from the massive yourshire car restoration. Now that's a privilege 😊. Your channel is doing so, so well and you do great work, a lot of hard work has been put in to getting where you are. You deserve it, very well done. With a big channel like yours there is going to be the odd negative comment, must get irritating at times.
Hi Ben I’m one of the lads that works at Yorkshire Car Restoration your David Attenborough impression was quite funny it made us chuckle. Good luck with the build looks a lot of work.
Thanks so much, means a lot coming from you guys. 😊 your work and channel is super and you have come a long way in a fairly short space of time but I can understand how much effort it took. I'll keep watching, I think you're going to go big if you carry on, amazing how many people just enjoy watching bits of metal get welded. 😆
Hi Ben, just found your channel and binged all the videos! You certainly know your craft, no mistake. I have subscribed and look forward to future content.
I have recently done one of these, I used the entire panel as I Did not want those long joints that you have got, I found it fairly straight forward but a little nerve racking taking the plunge with the welder as it does need to be perfectly aligned.
Using the entire panel is a good choice and it fitted ok around the headlight aperture's ? I planned to use the whole panel too but seeing how well leaded and protected the headlight rims were I was reluctant to disturb it on this occasion.
Mate this is awesome. I was waiting for a new video! When I saw you take that whole front end off, to a layman it looks like “holy hell, how is he ever going to get that back to how it supposed to look”. Well done, it’s obvious you really care about the finished product. The videos are super interesting to watch, please keep them coming!
Hi Ben. You are doing a great job and explain so everybody can understand, about rust on the spider I think it is normal on a not restored 50 year's old car, at that time Spiders was also driving at winter normal, there wasn't normally not money to two cars then and you look like one there can't live without 😊 Cheers Peter Binderup
Thanks Peter, yes the car would have probably been a daily driver during the early part of it's life and used in all weathers. Can't expect too much particularly from that era. Luckily very little previous repair work had been carried out on this car so despite the rust it's nice to work on. The owner is going to have a nice example by the end of this, I think.
Hi Ben, it's nice to see you included the 'error', in my opinion it's easy to do when you're on a roll with a job, I've put things right many times ! 😆 Once again a good job. Do you use 0.8 or 0.6 wire?
Thanks, I try to keep errors to a minimum but I still get it wrong on occasions. I've had to correct my fair share of errors of the years. They can be very time consuming and are hard lessons to learn. I've been using 0.8mm wire for several years now but I actually prefer 0.6mm. I bought a new welder which is compatible with 0.6mm but I had a problem with the wire burning back to the contact tip when it first arcs. A welder defect I would say, 0.6mm was better in my opinion.
@@darrenhearn1365 I just thought there was more penetration control with 0.6mm wire. I had a brief go with a friends welder, he had a 300amp welder with 1.0mm wire, we wanted me to do some body repairs with his welder and I gave it a go. It was horrendous trying to weld with 1.0mm wire and I will never agree to trying it again. I think that tells a story of suitable wire gauge. All down to personal preference and specific welder though.
Only because I was reluctant to disturb the nicely leaded headlight rim. If replacing the whole panel then lead work would be advisable. It was an option of course but I chose what i think was the better course of action. I certainly wouldn't object to someone else's decision to replacing the whole panel if they wanted.
