I recently wrapped up my weld repairs on the project Shadow 500. Welding and shaping with my oxy-acetylene torch has been a pleasure. Here's a quick before-and-after comparison.
Here in this..... curved bolt-holey area (I have no idea if there's a technical term for this part of the frame), I welded a strip of steel at one bolt-hole curvy area two where it spanned straight across and somewhat past the other bolt-hole curvy area. I then heated the strip with my torch, and hammered it inwards to where it ran along the existing metal. As I went along, I hammered the edges over, and welded.
I then simply filled in the remaining open areas with welding rod. At this point, parts of the surface of the repair area looked like the surface of an iron meteorite. Hahah.
But it cleaned up nicely. Well, kinda nicely. I could clean it up a little more, but an angle grinder can remove metal very quickly. I'm worried that I'll grind the metal too thin. I'll finish this up with a little auto filler. After that, on to rust removal elsewhere and then painting.
