Sox flood restoration

[PeterG]

Another old rust bucket brought back from the brink of disaster. This time, its a 90w Sox flood. More to follow once shot blasted and powder coated...

[Kev]

Looks good are you doing your own welding? This is something I would love to know how to do

[Slyspark]

Looking forward to seeing this completed!

[FrontSideBus]

A grinder and paint, makes me the welder I 'ain't

[PeterG]

Looks good are you doing your own welding? This is something I would love to know how to do

Skills exchanged; I built something for the welder in the workshop and he did some welding for me in return - both getting stuff done without it costing either of us a penny which is nice. He uses a tig welder which will weld anything - copper, brass, steel, stainless, aluminium, even cast iron. For the tabs which hold the glass and that snapped off for example, that is copper tabs I made welded on to steel. Very useful. I plan to buy a tig welder at some point and do a welding course as its so damn useful and there are so many tuition videos now youtube for how to weld and tig is the bollocks. It'd be impossible to restore all this stuff without welding being involved. Tigs run off 13amp mains too which is handy

[PeterG]

Looking forward to seeing this completed!

Its going to join the pile of stuff I take to get shot blasted and powder coated - I always do job lots as it works out cheaper so that pile will be going off in a couple of months when I get time to take it over and have more items added to the pile. I'll be sure to post pictures once its done.

[PeterG]

A grinder and paint, makes me the welder I 'ain't

lol tell me about it. It was a disgusting job grinding the rust out of this. So filthy. Industrial mask required. Its all welded up now the rust is cut out. Next stop is corrosion engineers to get shot blasted, filled and power coated so its like new, then re-assembly. Will take me a while as I always wait until I've got a big pile of stuff to take for shot blasting etc as it works out cheaper when you do bigger lots.

[FrontSideBus]

With no gloves on, just make sure you don't touch the tungsten with the rod, you'll have an exciting time lol.

[Slyspark]

We'll need progress shots I think!