Replicating Factory Spot Weld Appearance

[m22mike]

Yea, piece of a bolt !

Mike

[m22mike]

68bird400HO
Here are a couple of shots of the wheel well lips I did with the tool pictured in the previous post.







Today I made another tool that I like even better, the fe male bushing i used has a tighter ID and the male part of the tool is the end cut off a car door hinge pin.
I also put a nut into the bushing to control the squish out on the back side. Check it out.









Hope this helps, have fun.
Mike

[Nova Jed]

Wow! That looks really good! I like it! Nice car too!

[Mr70]

Factory details are the Mother of invention.

[68bird400HO]

I have to agree, that does look really good. Especially the ones made with the newest tool. What did you use for the female side on the one you just made?

[m22mike]

It was just a bushing I found in my junk, just cut off what I needed. This bushing has a thicker wall and it does not distort the metal as much as the first on I made.

Mike

[bkhpah]

After spot welding new NOS quarter panels on one of the Camaros we had at legend judging with a 15K tower spot welder, one of the judges did not like a few of the accurate reproduced assembly line style welds. He claimed a few were not as "round" as he would like to see. He then told us about recreating the welds with a No.2 pencil. That way the fake welds would look more consistant. Any idea now many No.2s' you can buy for 15K?...What were we thinking?...BKH