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Thanks, guys. Last couple wks have been busy with family visits & other stuff. I'll try to post more regularly now.

As I said, sandblasting an already rusty cab revealed even more rust damage than I knew about. I used a 4 1/2 in grinder with HF cutting disc and began triming back the rust damaged parts. As I recall, on the drivers side that included the lower front door post, floor pan up into the lower firewall, lower kicker panel, rear cab corner & inner & outer rocker panel. Some rust damage extended pass the limits of my new patch panels, for those extended pieces I used sheet metal made my own patch extensions. Also front & rear floor braces were gone as well.

I know my methods are not the current way of doing things, but I was determined to use my existing experience (from years past) along with tools I already owned to keep my project moving forward. Here, I refering to my cutting away of the rusted metal to allow for approx. 1 " overlap of the new panel (whenever possible) This allowed me to use self tapping screws to bolt every thing together tightly.

Apparently I didn't take photos of the cut away, but the photos of the installed patch panels prior to welding should show my results.

Ment to show brazed panels in next post. Since, as I said earlier, I wanted to keep job moving along with skills & equipment I already possessed, I chose to braze panels in. I already had a torch & full bottles of gas & air leftover from the old days. After brazing, top & bottom, I removed metal screws & brazed up the screw holes.