{"id":334,"date":"2025-05-12T12:17:51","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T12:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beer.org\/blog\/?p=334"},"modified":"2025-05-12T12:17:51","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T12:17:51","slug":"tedious-welding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beer.org\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/05\/12\/tedious-welding\/","title":{"rendered":"Tedious welding."},"content":{"rendered":"

I remember when welding patches and rebuilding quarter panels was fun.\u00a0 The end goal of this truck is not a restoration, but merely to have a structurally solid with non-rust-bucket vibe.\u00a0 As such, I can take a few liberties with how things are put back together, but it’s no less tedious.\"\"<\/p>\n

Rebuilding the wheel-arches is another thing altogether.\u00a0 I’m trying my hand at some hammer forming with a wood\/metal buck but I don’t think that’s going to turn out well.\u00a0 \u00a0I used a 1-7\/8″ trailer hitch ball to make a forming attachment for my air-hammer.\u00a0 Unfortunately, it wasn’t hardened so it just mushroomed at the end and also hardly made a dent in the sheet metal.\u00a0 Back to the drawing board.<\/p>\n

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I remember when welding patches and rebuilding quarter panels was fun.\u00a0 The end goal of this truck is not a restoration, but merely to have a structurally solid with non-rust-bucket vibe.\u00a0 As such, I can take a few liberties with how things are put back together, but it’s no less tedious. Rebuilding the wheel-arches is… Continue reading »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beer.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beer.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beer.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beer.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beer.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.beer.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337,"href":"https:\/\/www.beer.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions\/337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beer.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beer.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beer.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}