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MARTINSR · 07-11-2018, 10:42 AM

Last night as I went to bed I got to thinking about the first time I welded up holes in the original doors on my truck around 1976. I had borrowed one to chop the top. I found the holes in the doors that needed to be welded up and had no torch so bought the cheapest set up you could buy, a propane/oxygen thing like this.

It made enough heat to braze was about it, so I brazed those holes up and finished it off and it stayed that way for years and years. I forget what the torch was called but "Oxi" was in the name like "Oxiweld" or something like that. I was about 18, and soon after, within less than a year I bought my Craftsmen torch I use today still.

Brian

07-11-2018, 10:42 AM	#1291
MARTINSR Registered User Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Boise, Idaho Posts: 6,003	Re: What did you do with your truck today, Part 3 Last night as I went to bed I got to thinking about the first time I welded up holes in the original doors on my truck around 1976. I had borrowed one to chop the top. I found the holes in the doors that needed to be welded up and had no torch so bought the cheapest set up you could buy, a propane/oxygen thing like this. It made enough heat to braze was about it, so I brazed those holes up and finished it off and it stayed that way for years and years. I forget what the torch was called but "Oxi" was in the name like "Oxiweld" or something like that. I was about 18, and soon after, within less than a year I bought my Craftsmen torch I use today still. Brian __________________ 1948 Chevy pickup Chopped, Sectioned, 1953 Corvette 235 powered. Once was even 401 Buick mid engined with the carburetor right between the seats! Bought with paper route money in 1973 when I was 15. "Fan of most anything that moves human beings"