“Not sure what is going on with this repair but I guess the porcupine look is in. Keeps the drunks from leaning up against it and scratching the paint too.”
Those are studs that were welded on to the sheet metal by a special stud welding gun. The studs are then used to pull out dents in the sheetmetal. What happened here is someone attempted to fix some dents, but for whatever reason they stopped working on it before finishing the body repair. Rust set in on the bare metal probably with in a day of this attempted repair. Some time later someone said these studs are a safety issue, and bent them over with a hammer, in a attempt to break them off.
Jay
Those are copper-coated pins/studs used in a stud welder to pull the sheetmetal from the face instead of bumping it from behind with a hammer and dolly. They are normally cut flush with the sheetmetal using dykes/sidecutters, then the sheetmetal is ground and body filler applied, sanded, primed, and painted. It’s unusual that someone would leave them attached, even for the backyard hobbyist.
tj
yeah, what they said.
Mark
But still it was a very white trash thing to do. Bend em and forget em…
verygood@this.now
It’s an old stickpin map of Rommel’s campaign through Africa.
Dave
I have seriously thought of welding a few hundred of these studs to keep people from getting too close, or leaning on my car.
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Those are studs that were welded on to the sheet metal by a special stud welding gun. The studs are then used to pull out dents in the sheetmetal. What happened here is someone attempted to fix some dents, but for whatever reason they stopped working on it before finishing the body repair. Rust set in on the bare metal probably with in a day of this attempted repair. Some time later someone said these studs are a safety issue, and bent them over with a hammer, in a attempt to break them off.
Those are copper-coated pins/studs used in a stud welder to pull the sheetmetal from the face instead of bumping it from behind with a hammer and dolly. They are normally cut flush with the sheetmetal using dykes/sidecutters, then the sheetmetal is ground and body filler applied, sanded, primed, and painted. It’s unusual that someone would leave them attached, even for the backyard hobbyist.
yeah, what they said.
But still it was a very white trash thing to do. Bend em and forget em…
It’s an old stickpin map of Rommel’s campaign through Africa.
I have seriously thought of welding a few hundred of these studs to keep people from getting too close, or leaning on my car.