Today we want to talk to you about one of the most critical things you can do during restoration; body panel gaps. What you want to do is assure that you have even gaps going around your hood deck lid doors most importantly you want to make sure that during reassembly you’re not chipping fresh paint.
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How to Get Perfect Body Panel Gaps
Today we want to talk to you about one of the most critical things you can do during restoration; body panel gaps. What you want to do is assure that you have even gaps going around your hood deck lid doors most importantly you want to make sure that during reassembly you’re not chipping fresh paint.
How to Gas Weld Aluminum Sheet Metal
Today we’re going to show you a quick tutorial on aluminum welding using the DHC Torch Kit . We’ll be showing you the process on some thin body aluminum. These test panels here are .035 3003 Aluminum which is common in automotive body panels.
How to Make Perfect Rosette or Spot Welds with your MIG Welder
The terms “Spot welds” and “Rosette welds” are often interchanged in the DIY automotive world but they are two different things. A true spot weld is when two panels are pinched together and joined through an electrical current to fuse them together. A rosette or plug weld is when you […]
Top 5 Best Tools to Have in Your Garage
We live by a certain saying around Eastwood and that is “You can Never Have Too Many Tools”. It’s true, we’re always looking for new tools to make a job and our lives easier. We’ve done a pretty good job over the years of putting together an impressive catalog of unique tools that will make your friends jealous. I decided to go through our long list of tools and give you my top 10 must-have tools that you need in your garage or your tool box.
How to Balance Car Tires
Today we’re going to show you the process for balancing your car or truck tires at home using an Eastwood Electronic Tire Balancer. This balancer will show you where to apply clip one or stick-on weights. You can balance wheels from 10 inches up to 24 inches in diameter and wheels that are one-and-a-half inches to 20 inches wide covering most wheels available today. The maximum tire diameter for this machine is 34 inches and it operates on 120 volts with a balance range of 0.25 to 25 ounces or 1 to 999 grams.
How to Build a Weather Pack Electrical Connector
Wiring and electrical work on your car can be a mysterious and frustrating thing to troubleshoot. When repairing or restoring the wiring in a classic it is sometimes better to take a bit of modern technology to give you a piece of mind. In the 1970’s Packard Electrical created the […]
How to Repair Broken Plastic Tabs
When working on metal it is quite easy to repair broken or damage tabs or brackets. You simply clean the metal, fire up your favorite Eastwood welder and melt the metal back together. You get a strong repair that will last forever. When repairing broken plastic it isn’t that easy. Sure you can melt it up and stick it back together but it won’t have any rigidity and will fail again at the repair. With more and more vehicles using mostly plastic for assembly we wanted to show how you can permanently repair broken plastic tabs, brackets or other plastic parts on your vehicle.
How To Bend Metal With A TIG Welder
Bending metal can be pretty simple with basic hand tools if you’re doing thin materials, but once you get past sheet metal and into thicker materials over 1/8″ it can be difficult to make sharp bends in metal without extreme force. In the past heating metal with an Oxy-Acetylene torch was one of the few ways you could bend thicker materials with ordinary shop tools. This method was common when every garage had a set of torches on hand. In today’s world a gas torch is less common as most use a plasma cutter or electric welder to cut and weld metal. In this tutorial we show how you can turn your TIG welder into a heating device and bend thick gauge metals with your TIG welder at home.