Inner dogleg to seat panel - HOW MANY SPOTWELDS?!

[Mr Margaret Scratcher]

There's got to be an easier way than this, surely?

[Lind]

Buy a bus with good doglegs? (joking)
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[sled]

there is a MUCH better way to do that.

it looks like you're trying to remove the old dogleg flange thats underneath the seat pedestal? If so then you should be grinding out the spot welds from the underside, which will leave the seat pedestal undamaged. Currently you're going to have an absolute mess of a time welding up all those huge holes.

you need a 1/2" belt grinder with QUALITY belts.

this is the tool I use. with 3M curbitron 2 belts.

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drive your split.

[Bulli Klinik]

I hardly drill spot welds anymore for the reason you’re showing in the picture. My preferred method is to use a rivet gut with a panel splitting tip and break the welds apart from the inside out. By rivet gun, I mean the ones used in the aircraft industry to buck solid rivets, not a pop rivet gun. If the welds are very solid and the panel tears, I would cut off the flange and TIG in a new one. I don’t have time for all that sanding and dust.
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Mike K
Bulli Klinik
Colorado Springs

[Mr Margaret Scratcher]