Reworking the Fan Mount on my bow fishing rig and I had 4 3/8" holes to fill in on some 3/16 plate. Since its been out in the weather its pretty rusty so I wire brushed it to clean it up as best I could, but it was still not too clean. So I opted for some 6011 1/8 rod to fill in the holes. Well I had to use some sort of backer, So I just used some scrap steel, looking back this was mistake 1. I think I would have been better off with some brick or something. The scrap got welded to the bottom of the plate, nothing a hammer couldnt fix but not the best way about it. Mistake 2 was not putting enough weld metal on top of hole so I ended up having to fill in a bit more.

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This time I hit it with the wire wheel and switched to tig and just worked around the hole dabbing in filler and filled the hole. Then a little clean up with the grinder and some paint after it cools down and it will be good to go back on the boat.


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