72sselcamino
Mar 15th, 02, 2:20 PM
I know this might sound silly, but I just came home from Home Depot. I was looking for sheetmetal to repair around my windows. I found galvanized, and what they were calling sheet steel. Both in 22ga. Can you use the gavanized to help prevent further rust, or does it need to be the steel. What is the proper guage to use. Thanks, Cal
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daveseitz
Mar 15th, 02, 3:40 PM
Don't use galvanized when welded it gives off a poisonious gas. As far as gage I will use 16 or 18 gage and some places 14.
lankus
Mar 15th, 02, 4:53 PM
I found 22ga sheet at Home Depot(non-galvanized). I've been using that, but sometimes I think it's a little too thin.
ABC.71CHEVELLE
Mar 17th, 02, 9:54 AM
Pep Boys have patch kits with sheet metal.
STEEL
Mar 17th, 02, 5:58 PM
Try looking in the yellow pages for sheet metal shop. Thats what I did, I took a scrap piece of sheet metal from my old quarter panel so they could determine the thickness.
Chuck
btlinder
Mar 18th, 02, 9:27 PM
As dave said do NOT weld on galvanized.
As far as sheetmetal try a local body shop. He lets me root through his scrap pile and pull out whatever I want. I've gotten some panels to practice welding on and some nice ones to cut patches out of. It saved me a bunch of $$ in repro patch panels.
B~
dselko
Mar 18th, 02, 10:39 PM
Most of the body is made from 20ga sheet metal. You should look for cold rolled, not hot rolled. Hot rolled tends to have mill scale on it and is not really what you are looking for. Best suggestion is to find a race car shop. They have to fabricate all kinds of stuff and much of it is steel.
elcamino72
Mar 18th, 02, 10:56 PM
I get my sheet metal from a local auto-body supply store. I think my local auto-parts store even carries sheets of it.
I'm sorry, but it's been a while so I'm not sure what a sheet runs.
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mr409
Mar 19th, 02, 8:15 AM
The best thing is to cut metal from an old hood or fender. It's the best metal you'll find and it will match your existing metal so no surpises when trying to weld it.
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