Patching Napoleons Hat

I mentioned before that the front of the chassis is in a bad shape. The Napoleons hat is rusting a lot around the master brake cylinder. After sanding and sandblasting the below damage is became visible. A lot of holes but the connection plate for the cylinder is still in good shape.



The best way to fix this is to buy a new hat and remove the old one completely. But I decided to cut a few corners and weld a patch over the holes. First I cut a template out of some cardboard.




With the template it's very easy to cut the metal from a large sheet. Below you see the result with the holes that I use to weld the metal tight to the napoleons hat.



Before I started welding I sprayed the patch metal and the hat with zinc spray. Than it was time for welding and sanding.



The result was quit satisfactory, but with some lead loading I can make it even better.



Ready for paint!.

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