Hi Guys

I've decided to do some restoration work on my 1985 190E, and as with any restoration, there are some rust holes to patch up.

I enjoy working on cars very much, so I invested in a Mig welder, a tank of shielding gas and some fresh metal. naturally before I put the welder to the car, I spent some time practicing with different setups, and my results were quite awesome, so this past weekend, I took on the task of patching up a big hole in my baby benz.

Now like I said, I'm no expert, but I like trying new things, and since my car is in storage for winter, I can do all sorts of things with it. What I'm looking for is anyone who has any experience welding these cars. The metal is proving to be a bit tricky, and I heard talk that German steels is galvanized, mine does not look like it.

I ran into a specific problem, which I ran into on very thin metal before, what happens is as soon as I move the welding tip over the metal, it vaporizes. In some cases I expected this since rust got the better half of my car, but, it was happening a little too often. Adding some more metal cured the problem in some areas, but attaching that new metal to the old is not as easy.

Would anyone have any tips or suggestions on how to deal with this? My first patch came out not all that awful, but it was much too time consuming.

Thanking you in advance

xp

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1985 190E 2.3L - a constant project.