How to Fill in Holes with a MIG Welder

Video Transcript

" Hi I'm Mike Rogers and we are making this video for expertvillage.com on the uses of a mig welder. The next technique to show you is the means of repairing a hole of a piece of steel that is perhaps in the wrong position. So we have a hole here and whats happen is for some reason perhaps we are removing this piece of steel and we are going to use it for something else or perhaps we just made a mistake and we have drilled this hole in the wrong place. Let show you how to fill this hole and start over. For this process we would need a piece of metal other then steel and I tend to using this little block of brass, you could use a piece of aluminum or apiece of copper or a piece of anything that is not steel basically. This you are going to place underneath on a pad. I got to line nice and flat by using spaces underneath the steel just to get this lay fairly flat where we are going to do the repair. We then put on the clamp. We come to use the clamp to hold everything in a nicely into position. Okay there we have the hole welded and as you see because this is the brass underneath it would easily break away and leaving a whole nicely filled. Now we need to clean this off with a angle grinder and we punch and drill again. Okay so next we use our angle grinder and to take this back to smoothness. So there you have it the hole is gone. So we can then repunch this to create a hole where it should have been in the first place."