Peter Nelson Posted August 19, 2018 Share Posted August 19, 2018 Hi All I decided to take on the trailer repair that I've been putting off for some time. The 2 cross members were rusting through on the bends on the RHS. I started seeing day light through them in one spot so i thought I better get on to it. After grinding the welds off and smashing them off with a hammer the rusted holes opened right up and a fair amount of rusted steel came out indicating how bad of shape they were in. Good thing I decided to take it on before they snapped. Initially I was put off by the thought of removing the boat from the trailer onto the grass, but it turned out to be fairly easy for just me and the wife. In the end I put the boat on and back off again by myself as the bunks were not in the correct position due to the cross members being slightly different and the bolt on brackets no suiting the bend in the RHS. In the end i cut off the u shaped bit from the bracket and welding it directly to the cross member. I had some trouble with the el cheapo mig I borrowed doing my vertical welds due to it only having 2 settings and wire feed all over the place but by my last weld I had it sorted ( a good tradesman never blames his tools, Ha Ha). All in all very happy with the end result and gave it 1 under coat, 2 top coats, tectyle on the welds and fish oiled over the top so hop that keeps the rust away. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scratchie Posted August 19, 2018 Share Posted August 19, 2018 Looks like you did a great job! Well done ? cheers scratchie!!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fab1 Posted August 19, 2018 Share Posted August 19, 2018 2 minutes ago, Scratchie said: Looks like you did a great job! Well done ? cheers scratchie!!! I'm with Scratchie.Looks like you where running on borrowed time berore a major failure occured.Hope you have many more years of happy trailering ahead. Cheers. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nolongeramember Posted August 19, 2018 Share Posted August 19, 2018 It always satisfying to DIY and I love metal work jobs. You have done a great job there and added more life to the trailer. Btw your vertical weld looks better than the horizontal. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Nelson Posted August 19, 2018 Author Share Posted August 19, 2018 16 minutes ago, Hateanchors said: It always satisfying to DIY and I love metal work jobs. You have done a great job there and added more life to the trailer. Btw your vertical weld looks better than the horizontal. Cheers mate, yeah I stuffed that one up. First time I've used flux core wire and cheap welder posed a few challenges and curse words Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deek Posted August 21, 2018 Share Posted August 21, 2018 Wow, That looks great. So, where do we sign up for repairs? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antonywardle Posted September 25, 2018 Share Posted September 25, 2018 Nice welds. Look way better than mine! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fragmeister Posted September 25, 2018 Share Posted September 25, 2018 Great job... you have to love a good repair job. Cheers Jim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barab Posted September 26, 2018 Share Posted September 26, 2018 On 8/19/2018 at 3:37 PM, Peter Nelson said: Hi All I decided to take on the trailer repair that I've been putting off for some time. The 2 cross members were rusting through on the bends on the RHS. I started seeing day light through them in one spot so i thought I better get on to it. After grinding the welds off and smashing them off with a hammer the rusted holes opened right up and a fair amount of rusted steel came out indicating how bad of shape they were in. Good thing I decided to take it on before they snapped. Initially I was put off by the thought of removing the boat from the trailer onto the grass, but it turned out to be fairly easy for just me and the wife. In the end I put the boat on and back off again by myself as the bunks were not in the correct position due to the cross members being slightly different and the bolt on brackets no suiting the bend in the RHS. In the end i cut off the u shaped bit from the bracket and welding it directly to the cross member. I had some trouble with the el cheapo mig I borrowed doing my vertical welds due to it only having 2 settings and wire feed all over the place but by my last weld I had it sorted ( a good tradesman never blames his tools, Ha Ha). All in all very happy with the end result and gave it 1 under coat, 2 top coats, tectyle on the welds and fish oiled over the top so hop that keeps the rust away. Nice job...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dunc333 Posted October 4, 2018 Share Posted October 4, 2018 nice clean 10 out 0f 10 job mate well done Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Nelson Posted October 6, 2018 Author Share Posted October 6, 2018 On 10/4/2018 at 6:17 PM, dunc333 said: nice clean 10 out 0f 10 job mate well done Thanks mate, there were some frustrating moments but very happy in the end. Glad I acted before having a trailer failure, very easy to put off these jobs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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