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lake_harley:
Started welding up my chassis today. Got about 25% done in about 2 3/4 hours. Did 1/4 of the diameter, starting at the center of a joint, welding outward to the radius of the coped joint. I don't know if that makes sense, but I got a tip on how to do the welding and that method seemed to make sense. I did "mirror" welds, alternating sides to even out or cancel warping of the chassis. When I had my fabrication business going we regularly used a similar method. It seems to have worked out again since I can still freely rotate the alignment bar going through the mock-up block into the 3rd member. The next session planned will be another ~25%, and at that point I'll probably pull the engine block since the chassis should be fairly "locked" at that point. Eventually I'll roll the chassis side-to-side and even upside-down to finish welding to avoid welding standing on my head. I do much better welds when my position is more natural.

Lynn

lake_harley:
Got another ~25% of the welding done on the chassis yesterday. Alignment bar through the engine and into the rearend still rotates freely so apparently the chassis isn't being warped during welding. ;D Just short of 6 hours TIG welding at this point. Seems I walked around the chassis about 100 times to do the welding evenly from side to side!

Lynn

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