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nickW:
these are good websites

http://www.mig-welding.co.uk/

http://www.thewelderswarehouse.com/acatalog/Welding_Rods_Wire_and_Gas.html

Range Rover Blues:
To answert teh original question I would simply ask this,  What will yoou get fot eh £1,000 it might cost to repair, and how soon will the replacement itself need cash throwing at it?

If the truck is in good running order, and you are attached to it, keep it going.

Better the devil you know :wink:

lyndon:
I think your right. I will probably keep her going. Another question. I have now sourced a mate who is going to help my weld it. What sort of metal do I need to get to patch it. How thick does it need to be?

Range Rover Blues:
If it's structural then as thick or thicker than original.

UNless your mate is a good welder I would sugest buying 0.9 to 1.2 mm sheet steel for the floors and 1.2 to 1.5mm for any box sections.  Possibly 2-3mm on the chassis.

DO NOT BUY GALVANISED STEEL or any form of treated steel.  DO NOT paint it.

IIRC, (and I may have got this wrong once before)

Xylene decaying in an electric arc makes Phosgene gas AKA mustard gas, so no Hamerite

Zinc does somehting nasty too, very nasty but I don't recall what (I think before I said it was mustard gas, but I would have been wrong.  It's still bad s*** though).

gav:
just a suggestion.

but you can buy a boot floor for 60 quid from padd etc.

I have also decided to repair my boot floor. but at the moment i have just cut and welded in plates to get me back on the road, if the cars upto it ill put a new floor in it at some point.

welding zinc/galvo gives off cancerous fumes.

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