Tips On How To Mig Weld Thin Metal Auto Body Panels #welding #fabrication #howtoweldforbeginners

Here's some tips if you're having trouble mig welding thin sheet metal.


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[stephencrossingham]

Thank you so much. The best advice I have heard on welding car bodies! I put your advice into practice today and, what a difference. Solid, neat welds with good penetration and, never blew a single hole! It has given me so much confidence to press on with my project. Thanks again. 👍

[SolarTara]

I started welding on my car this year. I had watched a ton of video, and basically it all boiled down to using the lower settings to get my welds, but so many preached tack / stitch welding. Well instinctively as I got on with the car, I started turning up the settings because I noticed it wasn't giving good penetration at all.. Finally, a video that puts it into perspective and confirms what I was doing. Thank you for this! I wish more people mention this

[timcoppinger]

Man that was an interesting demonstration, I especially liked the use of aluminium behind anything with gaps, great video.

[chrisadkin]

No wonder there has been a high demand for your welding classes! Love your channel.

[ernied]

I’m a beginner and I’ve watched a lot of videos but I just learnt the most from yours in a fraction of the time I wasted on the others. Thanks so much.

[reverseuniverse]

This has been the most helpful mig panel vid I’ve watched and I’ve learnt valuable lessons here in 7 minutes over other vids
Cheers for the help mate ☕️👍

[jtp]

great video. I do have a question that nobody seems to be able to answer. After you weld in the new panels how do you protect the patch backside of the weld from rusting?

[royster]

Brilliant tip, I'm fresh out of a welding course and was playing with thin metal a lot to see what the paremeters were. Heat and blow through being the issues, but some great tips on more is better. Thanks.

[Sustainavore]

This is incredibly useful. I am brand new to welding and am planning to make my own flares for my sprinter van, and this answered a lot of my questions.

[Themrjakecollins]

Where was this 2 years ago!! This video sorted out my sheet metal welds. Solid advice.

[mikefrost]

I needed this advice about 3 months ago. Would have stopped me warping the crap out of the side of my van when I repaired. Great tips. Cheers Matt!

[davecoate]

Thank you Australia here, love your work!

[daveci]

Thanks Matt. Been watching your videos for ages, only recently got a welder and this has come at a good time!

[Grumpy-sywr]

Thank you so much. I've been trying ways to get my welds to run much cooler, because of the mentioned hole blowing, only to end up with big lumpy welds. Never occurred to me to crank it up a bit as you just showed. I shall give it a try tomorrow. Lots of rust patches to weld in.

[Jim-fexz]

That's some very good tips all around but especially on grinding. I caused more warpage grinding than welding before I figured it out! Thank you for the great tips!

[johnmac]

good tips .. glad to see Stewart keeping an eye on Matt

[matthewjones]

Well amazed!I've just tried this and wow how much better is my welds . Thank u

[nicnatmat]

Thank you for this absolutely wonderfully concise, informative video.

[MohdHameediBinOmar]

Thank you so much from Me Malaysia, now I can practice my welding skill and built a lot of handmade bush, washer, and retaining bar plates for my cub bike bigbike tire concept customization!

[Maverick]

I agree 100% with what he’s saying. Done it myself this week on my Miata “resto-mod” project. Turn the voltage up a bit. Short bursts. Less heat overall, less warping, better penetration. The suggested settings are more than likely if you want to run a continuous bead so keep that in mind. This technique that we’re using by increasing the voltage is for better results when stitch welding only. If you try to run a bead you will blow through. I’ve done that too.