I was out with friends last night and met a guy who is a retired body man. He said that in the late 90's before he shut down his shop, he experimented with flanging panels and using JB weld, lots of it he said, to bond them instead of welding. He said it worked really well.
I know panel adhesives have been discussed here before so I don't wish to start anything about the commercial or factory adhesives, which I think we can all agree are very strong.
This fellow's position was this: without the heat involved in welding a long seam, you would be faced with far less bodywork. Just a bit of filler is needed to address the gap where one panel meets the top of the flange of the other.
I thought you might be interested to know that this is how one guy did a few repairs. He did mention the flange would never rust because it would be filled with JB Weld. Interesting also in that we did talk about welding panels. He said a lot of the same things I've learned here, like the importance of having clean metal, of cutting away all the rust till you get to good metal, proper gapping, proper preparation techniques, etc.
It was an old experiment I thought I'd share for reaction.
I know panel adhesives have been discussed here before so I don't wish to start anything about the commercial or factory adhesives, which I think we can all agree are very strong.
This fellow's position was this: without the heat involved in welding a long seam, you would be faced with far less bodywork. Just a bit of filler is needed to address the gap where one panel meets the top of the flange of the other.
I thought you might be interested to know that this is how one guy did a few repairs. He did mention the flange would never rust because it would be filled with JB Weld. Interesting also in that we did talk about welding panels. He said a lot of the same things I've learned here, like the importance of having clean metal, of cutting away all the rust till you get to good metal, proper gapping, proper preparation techniques, etc.
It was an old experiment I thought I'd share for reaction.
