Just to illustrate how time slips between your fingers like sand on a hot summers day on the beach the next step was to go dig out the garage vacuum cleaner.
Residual grit from the media blasting down in the bottom seam of the door plus grinder dust needed to be removed.
Followed by fine tuning the fit of the patch into the now gaping hole in my door.
Nice and it actually was.
Using my magical welding magnets, I tacked the corners and then centres.
In order to prevent warping I carried on slowly, allowing it to cool between sessions.
During this time my long suffering photographer got in from work.
So I gave her a POS mask to wear while trying to get a pic of me striking an arc.
Success.
After all the welding, I ground the welds flatter, then proceeded with a hammer and dolly, trying to reshape the corner which had been damaged at some point in the past.
Eventually, etch primer and done.
Hardly visible, and I suspect it will be a skim of filler job eventually, but two long skinny dents from the past.
That concludes the welding on the outside of the passenger door.
Next job will be the rust on the insides of the door.
Time for a rum and Pepsi Max now.