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It's timeless. On the left of the weld is original 550 Spyder aluminum from 54-55, on the right is brand new aluminum, hard to tell a difference!
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I can see you guys walking up to a 550 in 1956 after it won the Targa Florio and telling Porsche how shitty their welds are. Here are some Factory welds. Given what Porsche did with these welds I think the ones we are doing are ok. Not to mention you're missing the point of body welding, most of what you are looking at gets ground down and goes away. So while welding up some plumbing or exhaust where the weld will be exposed for the life of the fixture it might matter how pretty the weld is, when doing auto body, even aluminum, you weld, then grind so what matters is weld penetration and when you weld both sides you get maximum penetration.
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I can see you guys walking up to a 550 in 1956 after it won the Targa Florio and telling Porsche how shitty their welds are. Here are some Factory welds. Given what Porsche did with these welds I think the ones we are doing are ok. Not to mention you're missing the point of body welding, most of what you are looking at gets ground down and goes away. So while welding up some plumbing or exhaust where the weld will be exposed for the life of the fixture it might matter how pretty the weld is, when doing auto body, even aluminum, you weld, then grind so what matters is weld penetration and when you weld both sides you get maximum penetration. Just to clarify I after many thousands of hours of aluminum welding thought for sure your welds pictured were oxy welded. As many stated that was the norm until the late 60s early 70s and the bead charitistics looked to verify it. My statement was not to give any hard feelings. |
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