{"id":132,"date":"2004-11-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-04-01T16:57:17","modified_gmt":"2011-04-01T16:57:17","slug":"bel-air\/smoothing-firewall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/?p=132","title":{"rendered":"Smoothing the Firewall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/BelAir\/2004\/11\/Firewall_PS.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"275\" alt=\"Firewall_PS.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now that I could get at the firewall I made a start on getting rid of the join along the top edge and a load of the unused holes. I had read that there was tar based sealer between the 3 layers of metal and that it was hard to weld but gave it a go anyway. Before I got the welder out I tried melting it with a small torch, but nothing came out. When I started welding, It spattered and the weld fell off as it melted and burnt the sealer. I worked my way along letting it all burn away and covering me in blobs of weld as I went.   <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/BelAir\/2004\/11\/Firewall-DS.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"287\" alt=\"Firewall-DS.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p> Once I had lumpy weld at intervals all the way across, I went over it with the angle grinder and smoothed it, then filled the joins with weld.With the sealer gone, it welded easily and I filled it all the way along, swapping from side to side to keep the heat down. Another go with the grinder left it all looking good, so I moved on to filling the holes that I dont think will be used. I cut some small patches for the bigger ones and the smaller ones I filled with weld. It looks awful in the pictures, but it needs hammering flat (It was dented before I started) and a very thin skim of filler and it&#8217;s done.  <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/BelAir\/2004\/11\/Firewall-XL5.jpg\" width=\"443\" height=\"290\" alt=\"Firewall-XL5.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/BelAir\/2004\/11\/Firewall_PS.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"275\" alt=\"Firewall_PS.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now that I could get at the firewall I made a start on getting rid of the join along the top edge and a load of the unused holes. I had read that there was tar based sealer between the 3 layers of metal and that it was hard to weld but gave it a go anyway. Before I got the welder out I tried melting it with a small torch, but nothing came out. When I started welding, It spattered and the weld fell off as it melted and burnt the sealer. I worked my way along letting it all burn away and covering me in blobs of weld as I went.   <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/BelAir\/2004\/11\/Firewall-DS.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"287\" alt=\"Firewall-DS.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p> Once I had lumpy weld at intervals all the way across, I went over it with the angle grinder and smoothed it, then filled the joins with weld.With the sealer gone, it welded easily and I filled it all the way along, swapping from side to side to keep the heat down. Another go with the grinder left it all looking good, so I moved on to filling the holes that I dont think will be used. I cut some small patches for the bigger ones and the smaller ones I filled with weld. It looks awful in the pictures, but it needs hammering flat (It was dented before I started) and a very thin skim of filler and it&#8217;s done.  <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/BelAir\/2004\/11\/Firewall-XL5.jpg\" width=\"443\" height=\"290\" alt=\"Firewall-XL5.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}