Ford Escort MK1 Restoration Near Side Centre Chassis Repair. Scratch Built Panel. Car Restoration.

[@retiredtruckersgarage.7606]

i would say your probably more skilled than some who beat metal for a living,great stuff dave.

[@alunhuang-wright3030]

That's the best use for a Magnaclean I've ever seen.

[@DavesGarageuk]

😉

[@Jim_M_75]

Thought you were going to go with Fitzee's method of making it from a few bits. You did it the "hard" way and it turned out spot on Dave, cracking job. Really impressed with the two hammers to make the bulges, lovely sharp edge to them.

[@richardmounfield7822]

Made that look easy Dave. looks great .

[@st170ish]

Nice work mate 👍 Oh and Bob is identifying as Aunty nowadays 🙄 😆

[@DavesGarageuk]

😂😂😂

[@samsudeenjainulabdeen912]

Nice work

[@robinstewart4729]

great work dave

[@h_dave6303]

Ingenious planning and execution. Nothing short of perfection. Keep it up.

[@ingvarchristiansson6165]

This is really good stuff. Please continue. Best regards Ingvat Christiansson

[@stevehill4615]

Nice job Dave, liked how you formed that metal, I learnt a good idea from your video.

[@davidgreen7841]

Dave Dave Dave....... Your skills are 🔥🔥🔥👍 Great work as usual.

[@bobfrankish972]

What an absolutely stunning job Dave! Just shows what can be done with some good skills and simple tools. Fitzee would be proud of you!

[@DavesGarageuk]

☺️☺️☺️

[@marty3469]

Neat little repair job there ,👍

[@v8man350]

Fantastic job Dave great fabrication job 👍🏻 thanks for sharing.

[@Jut123]

Great work, I love the way you “pressed” the square shapes in to the outer panel, I will be using this technique in the future 👍

[@dominicrafferty7717]

Brilliant fab work in a home garage with basic tools, like your work , well done.

[@leer798]

Top work dave

[@Squintanditsmint]

Cracking job, well thought out, looks brilliant.

[@billsheehy1660]

Nicely done👌

[@stusoldcars4248]

Great fabrication work. 👍👍

[@bigsquatchsasfoot1964]

Absolutely amazing metalwork skills Dave very impressive , I love watching you patch that old Ford back to life 👍

[@pattiboychannel311]

Very nice👍

[@johnmcphee2201]

top job

[@andrewwallace8700]

Having watched a good number of your videos Dave I have to say I'm impressed with your fabrication skills, very nice. But, in this video I think you may have gone more for form over function...that part is a key strengthening piece joining the two parts of the chassis rail together and you have rightly overlapped two pieces to form that strength, but then you've gone and butt welded the fabricated item to the remaining chassis rails, which in my mind completely undermines the 6" of overlapped material.... why not overlap at both ends instead, it would have been considerably stronger I would have thought and given your level of skill it could have looked reasonably standard, not that is an issue for this build I suspect....Keep up the good work, very much looking forward to seeing the car progress... the pace has dropped now that I'm not playing catch-up with the videos! CheeRS!

[@DavesGarageuk]

Thank you for that, maybe I could add some gussets for extra strength. Good shout, ta. 👍🏻

[@TK42138]

Nicely done sir!

[@DavesGarageuk]

Thank you 😊

[@michaelbottomley2520]

Going to be a good project Fit Cosworth engine

[@DavesGarageuk]

Thank you, cossie engines are too expensive, I did mess about with a 2.1 Pinto with a cossie head before, but the cost got out of hand.

[@michaelbottomley2520]

@@DavesGarageuk yes I know they are how about a ST 170 engine ??

[@DavesGarageuk]

St170 engine on standby

[@nealthomas5943]

Cracking job again Dave, what mm holes do you drill for your spot welds cheers

[@DavesGarageuk]

5mm same as the hole punch on my joddler

[@nealthomas5943]

Cheers👍

[@Bikedealer4U]

Great job as always Dave, can I ask what thickness steel do you use on the chassis bit’s and also on the normal panel bit please

[@DavesGarageuk]

Thank you, a mix of 1.2mm - 2mm

[@Bikedealer4U]

@@DavesGarageuk thank you, I have started watching fitzee’s chanel that you refer too, he’s great, I also watched a few bad chad videos, this one in particular on how to but weld with no warping. Very interesting technique kzbin.info/www/bejne/iZ3SoKqcqLt4Z9U