Rusty Justy

[Paul Baldwin]

They certainly are fun. Pretty capable off road as they weigh sweet FA. They achieve this by being made of tin-foil however! Not helped by the fact I only had access to a welder with 0.8 mm wire. I went a bit mad on the spec too if I'm honest. I used 2mm steel on the main patches. A twat to do but I figured if any of the bits between the patches rot out in future at least there will be something to join to.  

Each bit of rot was cut back to good metal



This gives you an idea of just how thin these things are in places as the steel has been stretched and formed when the part was made



I then shaped each piece so it was a good fit and welded the new bit in :-)



I chose not to grind off the welds as it's not a show car and the original car is so thin I didn't want to make it thinner with a 40 grit linishing disk





It turned out some of the rear chassis section had had it to so I had to cut away stuff just to get at it and then replace it after.





Not very pretty I must admit but it's got a bit more metal in it than it did have :-)

After that it was on to the more challenging bits