Patching the A pillar

11/18/2017

So about an hour of trimming and I have a pretty decent patch ready to tack. I started with a piece of 2 inch tape over the hole and rubbed a pencil over the edges of the hole to mark the tape. Then I pasted the tape on some cardboard and defined the outline of the hole in pencil. Then I cut the tape and cardboard to the line. I traced around the cardboard onto 16ga metal plate. I did a rough cut with an angle grinder and a metal cutting blade. Then I trimmed the metal to the marker line. Back and fourth to the car about a dozen times to trim and refine the piece with the grinder and a metal file.

Now the hard part. I need to get patch to sit right in the hole while I get the first tack in place.


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