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Heath's Hatch
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, Jun 16 2013 10:23 AM
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Posted 19 March 2015 - 02:06 PM
I was in Melbourne and down at Blairgowrie on the peninsula for a 4 day holiday just a couple of weeks ago and yeah I did like it down there, mostly the lack of humidity that I liked
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Posted 19 March 2015 - 09:52 PM
Few more hours spent productively. I'm gonna start calling it an LX!
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Posted 19 March 2015 - 11:21 PM
might as well mate I think you are gonna have it spot on! Glad mine is already an LX
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Posted 20 March 2015 - 05:16 AM
It's looking better with every post 
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Posted 20 March 2015 - 06:54 AM
I am starting to think doing this would be a good idea for me... Only because you are making it look so easy. Keep it going!
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Posted 20 March 2015 - 09:28 AM
you should even change the thread title to "Heaths LX Hatch" !!
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Posted 20 March 2015 - 03:13 PM
Great work mate - been following your updates on facebook!
Come a long way since these days when you struggled to even work out how to wind windows down!
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Posted 20 March 2015 - 05:31 PM
Excellent work Heath.
Matt where the hell have you been?
Matt where the hell have you been?
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Posted 20 March 2015 - 07:01 PM
Dat photo!!!!
THe window crop appeared in so many photoshop chops...
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Posted 21 March 2015 - 04:24 PM
Whoever took that photo must be a bloody legend! Hahaha
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Posted 22 March 2015 - 10:25 PM
lol, certainly seems to be a crowd favourite.
Had a really good weekend. Another close mate of mine came to help me out with some of the panel beating in the engine bay. He has been doing up a vintage car with his brother and Peter Tommasini so he was certainly qualified to give me a bit of a crash course in shit I should have learnt years ago!
The landings in the engine bay had lifted up because of the MIG'd fillet welds, so I borrowed an Oxy from another friend and we did some hot shrinks on each side to pull them into better shape. Still need a fair bit of work but I didn't expect that the hot shrinking would even work this well haha.
With my new knowledge, I felt more confident about welding up the light buckets without getting uncontrolled buckling in the material. Using the TIG for this shit means that you can panel beat the welds which you can't do with a MIG, so I've been planishing according to whether I want areas to pull or flatten out. Mainly fused them because I spent a while getting the gaps pretty good overall too.
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Posted 22 March 2015 - 10:29 PM
Two thumbs up.
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Posted 22 March 2015 - 10:33 PM
Are you using a 1mm tungsten? I reckon you could do to turn your amps down a scratch more.
.9 mig wire is good for filler wire on panel steel.
.9 mig wire is good for filler wire on panel steel.
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Posted 23 March 2015 - 10:03 AM
When I bought the thing it came with a 2.5mm or whatever which was fairly ridiculous. I'm still possibly a little coarse with the 1.6mm Tungsten and 1.6mm Fill Rod. #5 Nozzle too. There isn't going to be awfully much sheet metal work left on the exterior of the car though...
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Posted 23 March 2015 - 10:11 AM
Nan I wish I had your patience and attenion to detail. Awesome work as usual
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Posted 23 March 2015 - 05:54 PM
looking good 
boss just brought a tig so I've taught myself to use it and there ALOT better than a mig, and I love the no sparks
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Posted 23 March 2015 - 06:05 PM
Buy a 1mm tungsten ya cheap prick.
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Posted 23 March 2015 - 07:52 PM
Yeah well you dickheads talked me into buying one of those skinny hand-held linishers and it isn't doing me much good - got buyer's remorse!
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Posted 23 March 2015 - 08:02 PM
Lol
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Posted 25 March 2015 - 11:28 AM
Haha classic! This is looking awesome Heath
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Posted 25 March 2015 - 11:41 AM
no need for small tungstens at all.
this explains what gas/ gas lenses can do to help with heat.
there is one that shows how a 2.4 mm will heat less of a area around the weld comparing to a 1.6 mm.
as the 2.4 you dont have to be in the area for as long as you do with the 1.6.
if i find it ill post it up to.
its all to do with the travel speed.
Edited by 76lxJAS, 25 March 2015 - 11:44 AM.
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Posted 25 March 2015 - 01:07 PM
OK.
You go butt weld some 1mm cold rolled with a 2.4 tungsten at 100ampps at 90miles an hour and get back to me with pics.
Then I will go eat crow.
You go butt weld some 1mm cold rolled with a 2.4 tungsten at 100ampps at 90miles an hour and get back to me with pics.
Then I will go eat crow.
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Posted 25 March 2015 - 01:13 PM
i was not implying you were wrong. sorry, i now see that is how it came across.
im not saying im the best tig welder either.
but from what i have seen etc. 2.4 and fast travel would be better than 1.6 and slow travel for heat distribution.
but ok ill do my best with pics this weekend and see how i go..
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