Re: [Chrysler300] Taking the G apart, (or any other car) & Welder question

[John Spiers <spiers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Christopher - 
   
  Great tips, especially the glass/grinder one.  I've been there.  Also, carpeting/fabric are not a good mix around electric drills, but you'd see this combination normally when installing rather than disassembly.
   
  As for your last word, us Yanks would normally use Limey. I had a '62 Morgan +4 for 11 years, and as fun as it was, it was more like a garden tractor mechanically than a car.  
   
  As for Pommie, here's a bit from www.m-w.com (Merriam-Webster):
  Main Entry: Pom·my 
Variant(s): or Pom·mie  /'pä-mE/
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural Pommies
Etymology: by shortening & alter. from pomegranate, alteration of Jimmy Grant, rhyming slang for immigrant
Australian & New Zealand, usually disparaging : BRITON; especially : an English immigrant 
   
  Question about welding equipment - I've not welded anything significant since High School shop class, and will be tackling the rust replacement on my '64 Newport and Ram K convertibles this year.  I have read up on techniques, closely inspected John Hertog's procedures on a few Ks. 
   
  I plan on a MIG welder purchase, which for this type of work, appears to be the best application.  Am I correct?  I have also been told to buy the most powerful unit I can afford - highest amperage, longest duty cycle, etc. I do have 220v single phase electric available.  Are there any particular brands better than others?  I would prefer a USA-made item - there are a number of US brands now made in China, and I don't mind paying a premium to keep an American working.
   
  Happy New Year
  John Spiers
  Lake Worth, Florida

christopher beilby <thelastbestgenius@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
  Ray Jones has perhaps offered the most helpful advice re working on any car 
- and may I add it is indeed often insightful (that is not what you get when 
you drink too much Tequila) to read more than one manual on how to do 
things.  Recently removing lower suspension arm on my 71 El Camino saw 
Chiltons Auto repair Manual offer a most difficult and stressful hard option 
versus a far easier method suggested in another guide - so having more than 
one guide can often save grief.

The one thing that many repair guides may not offer up is how flammable the 
underfelt is under our period car's carpet, and how fast the hessian under 
the leather in our seats is. So never unless no other option use the oxy on 
seized seat bolts under your front seat edges, and always be wary using an 
angle grinder near carpet underfelt - often just the sparks are enough to 
set the underfelt smouldering, then on fire. And then of course is another 
far more obvious final thought - do not use oxy on rear bumper brackets if 
gas tank is near, or ideally if still in car   !!!
And one final one - be aware if grinding welds or rust repairs - metal - ,  
that the material you spray off the grinder can and will stick into any 
glass it hits - by melting into it if still hot. If bad, the fine metal 
sprayl can ruin your glass, even if you are able to scrape it off with say a 
razor, it will leave pits, pock marks - so always make sure no glass in line 
of grinding, and that also means make sure metal spray cannot hit glass 
wound down in doors through openings on door or quarter insides !!

So there it is - learn what you can before starting, and better still as 
well, if know someone who has done it before, ask if any tips or clues - 
like if going to use the oxy to heat something, get someone show you how to 
set the flame, what tip to use, how to heat the threads without melting them 
and accidentally making ity harder to undo the nut.  And then in a couple of 
weeks, when you have done a bit, get the video "The Gods must be Crazy" and 
go to the bit where they are in the middle of nowhere in Africa, and the 
poor sod is working on the Land Rover under the tree - you will then know 
what frustration is, that working on difficult things is, can do to you.

yours from Australia where I parked two of my 300Cs beside each other ready 
to swap rear springs, and then went on worked on three other cars instead - 
all of which likely were more stressfull than doing the spring swap.  At 
least none of them were pommie!!




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