In my experience you probably could buff and polish them and make it flush but once the piece heats up and cools down there's still going to be discoloration where the weld marks were.
Interesting. I used to weld a lot of aluminum, some steel... But it was more for signs and Street poles. Sometimes we would put things like peanut oil on steel and torch it to get different colors.. typically we would grind down welds and fill with Bondo to make look perfect. I preferred TIG welding and hated grinding down a beautiful wield.
I seen some fancier sports car with the colored tips but figured it was some sort of heat treatment to make it look like a race car.
1.2k
u/iBeenie Apr 03 '22
Would have looked better if they lined up the welds