Best cheap filler or gaffer tape till I do a welding course?

Budget £5

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It greggs was open I would suggest a sausage roll , but they aren’t , sooo, duck tape or tiger seal

 

Cheers.
Is duct tape better than gaffer tape?

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What about some fibreglass? Though might double the budget


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Remove seat belt, buy 4x beers and enjoy watching welding instructional videos!

 

Unfortunately, the duct tape doesn't hold seat belt anchorages very well - neither does filler.
Time to bite the bullet and buy some sheet steel and a welder - budget £250.
Or pay someone to do it for you - budget £1k.

 

Ere ya are big boy gobo cheap as chips Toolstation

 

Ah, I should have said I have a 1974 1600 with optional dog, so I can't see much longevity in the sausage roll solution

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...and within budget! I need to get it just so I can leave the tin on my dashboard, total pu$$y magnet!

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Get a bit of 3 mm thick steel bigger than the hole but that fits under the arch and drill a hole in the middle and fit a new seatbelt anchorage plate underneath. Glue the stack together with filler.
Its then a lot better than it was.
And then a lot less surprising than mine where the anchorage looked OK but came out as I pulled up the carpet. Both sides.

 

Well the gaffers in charge and I don’t want to duck any work

either or really

 

Reminds me of my first bus 10 years ago.

I'd been driving it 4 months before I investigated under the carpets!

 

And was it the road .

 

The anchor was repositioned onto the bulkhead yonks ago by the look of it, probably to get it through an MOT without welding.

 

Yes, looks like its been repaired more than once as well, with a patch around the reinforcing pad, and the carpet trapping 'lip' has been cut short too, so there is another larger but tidy patch there..


Missed the seatbelt in all the rusty holes.

I think mine had maybe 4 or 5 layers of metal separated by rust.

 

Yep....road legal with MOT when I bought it!

.....it had belly pans too.....when I took them off most of the sills,jacks, and riggers went with them!

 

Which welder? Do they run off generators? No easy access to 240v

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The only welder I have used at home is a MIG which runs off mains and they are relatively cheap to buy from places like Machine Mart. Gas welding I have only done on an evening course at local college - and needs purchase of Oxy-acetylene equipment which naturally needs no electricity but accessing gas cylinders is not straight forward.

 

Generator welders start at around £650 secondhand or £1100 new on eBay.

I wouldnt go near an oxyacetylene welder as a beginner. Too much care needed with the cylinder of acetylene and the acetylene gas. Explosions await.

MIG welding bottles are just compressed gas and dont tend to explode if they fall over.


The little inverter mig welder I bought for £200 on eBay a month or so back has been a pleasure to use compared with the heavy transformer based MIG welder I was also using. It only weighs 9kg compared with 35kg.
A generator that should run it would be about £600..

 

If you did all the prep you'd be pay little for the actual welding.