Show us your welding projects

[harley jim]

Thank you Royce!

 

[Old Man Roger]

Love the rat fink.

 

[PugetDude]

Doggone good work, Jim.

 

[harley jim]

Thanks, PugetDude

 

[draco_1967]

I am an amateur welder. I took a night class through the local college, where we covered gas, stick, and mig. I have been drawing up various plans for a welder cart for far too long. There are just too many good ideas out there that I wanted to incorporate! I have found tons of inspiration looking at builds here on GJ.
I finally settled on something, and I've been working on it in my very limited free time over the last two weeks. The design centered around a heavy-duty drawer unit from an office remodel, which will hold consumables and tools.
Up to this point, I have just been doing small things around the garage for practice. I picked up an Evo cold saw and some clamps/squares from Fireball Tool to help with fit-up and keeping things square.

I still have to add little details, like a chain/strap to secure the bottle, top for the welder to sit on, hooks for leads, etc. The cart is big enough that I can add another small machine and bottle (if I decide to get into tig). I am hoping to finish up this weekend, but the end of the "good" weather may tempt me into taking the Mustang for a drive instead.

Please be gentle..."a grinder and paint make me the welder I aint!"




ETA: It is way overbuilt. I bought a bunch of material off of a guy through FB marketplace for way less than scrap prices, and I used the material that worked best from that pile.

 

[Jswain]

Looks good to me!

 

[PugetDude]

I am an amateur welder. I took a night class through the local college, where we covered gas, stick, and mig. I have been drawing up various plans for a welder cart for far too long. There are just too many good ideas out there that I wanted to incorporate! I have found tons of inspiration looking at builds here on GJ.
I finally settled on something, and I've been working on it in my very limited free time over the last two weeks. The design centered around a heavy-duty drawer unit from an office remodel, which will hold consumables and tools.
Up to this point, I have just been doing small things around the garage for practice. I picked up an Evo cold saw and some clamps/squares from Fireball Tool to help with fit-up and keeping things square.

I still have to add little details, like a chain/strap to secure the bottle, top for the welder to sit on, hooks for leads, etc. The cart is big enough that I can add another small machine and bottle (if I decide to get into tig). I am hoping to finish up this weekend, but the end of the "good" weather may tempt me into taking the Mustang for a drive instead.

Please be gentle..."a grinder and paint make me the welder I aint!"




ETA: It is way overbuilt. I bought a bunch of material off of a guy through FB marketplace for way less than scrap prices, and I used the material that worked best from that pile.

I built my first cart with a 26" 5-drawer Craftsman tool chest... and room for my Mig and Tig welders...and two bottles. Loaded the drawers with clamps, grinding discs, consumables, etc.

It was so heavy and awkward to move I eventually separated the Tig and put it on a second cart with the plasma cutter since I use them less often.

Great first project. Keep them coming!

 

[ez-duzit]

Since we're talking about welding carts. I made this one for mig, tig and plasma cutter.

 

[RMERR]

My latest welding project is a stand for my Dake 1 1/2B arbor press. After doing a resto on the press, I needed a stand. Went with some 1/4" plate shelves and angle iron legs. I had a piece of 5/8" plate sitting around for 15 yrs which I had water jet cut to shape for the top and drop through opening. I put together a custom set of cold rolled steel push rods in 9 sizes and 4" and 6" lengths so I don't have to hunt for scraps or use tall sockets. I intentionally did almost all welds from the inside/underside for an extra clean look with no visible welds. I'd show you my perfect, beautiful, precision, "machine like" welds, but..uh...they're underneath, so you'll just have to take my word for it. Yeah...yeah that's it, they're underneath...no possible way to get a picture of that...

 

[ez-duzit]

R--Nice stand and shop.

 

[PugetDude]

Nice work on the press stand. ; wish I could weld everything from the other side, too.
II want to know the story on the giant bolt on the top shelf...

 

[RMERR]

Nice work on the press stand. ; wish I could weld everything from the other side, too.
II want to know the story on the giant bolt on the top shelf...

They were instore decor/display items from an Orchard Supply store (if you remember Orchard) When they went under, a custom car shop bought them, then I bought them from them. I have a penchant for oversize objects and of course couldn't resist. They're professionally made of rigid foam, I think most of the Orchard's had them.

 

[Sumboodie]

1000 gallon fuel tank. Added ports, built legs, cut off random brackets and what nots.

 

[iagsxr]

Show us that vise stand.

 

[RMERR]

Show us that vise stand.

Sure, always meant to put it in the vise thread, just never got around to it. 8 inch Wilton Tradesman vice, steel flange, stainless pipe, welded to 1/2 stainless plate at top. Top weld filled and rounded (by a more skilled welder than me). Brush grain applied at a polishing shop. Low-profile heavy duty casters. The whole column was filled with sand before the vise was mounted. Gives it an extra 130 lbs of mass and some vibration damping as well. Steady as a rock if I need to wack on something, but can still be moved if you put your back into it.

 

[stinkity stoink]

This was a project I had to practice my metal shaping skills and welding.

 

[draco_1967]

I finished the welding card and went for a drive this weekend
I had a scrap of 1/4 rubber mat that I put on top. It rolls around the garage easily enough with one welder, and tucks nicely into the corner under the electrical panel.





The weather was too beautiful on Sunday to not go for a drive. There probably aren't too many good weather days left before the white stuff flies and they salt the roads

 

[steves_001]

Sure, always meant to put it in the vise thread.....

That is too cool! Very well done. (as are the rest of the things you've shown)

 

[zmotorsports]

I finished the welding card and went for a drive this weekend
I had a scrap of 1/4 rubber mat that I put on top. It rolls around the garage easily enough with one welder, and tucks nicely into the corner under the electrical panel.





The weather was too beautiful on Sunday to not go for a drive. There probably aren't too many good weather days left before the white stuff flies and they salt the roads

Nice job on the welding cart. That turned out awesome.

I also agree that we may not have too awfully many nice Sundays remaining for drives. Car looks great with the mountains in the background. Where were you when the picture was taken. Kinda looks like Provo Canyon.

 

[draco_1967]

Nice job on the welding cart. That turned out awesome.

I also agree that we may not have too awfully many nice Sundays remaining for drives. Car looks great with the mountains in the background. Where were you when the picture was taken. Kinda looks like Provo Canyon.

Thanks! That was at the mouth of Little Cottonwood Canyon.

 

[royce]

Simple coat rack
Valve hand wheel for a base
1-1/4" pipe column
3/8" square headed screws for hooks
Ball bearing finial

 

[harley jim]

Got to have a cooler when you go hunting!

 

[larry4406]

Nice grill!

Do you have a build thread on this?

Can you show how you did the ratchet and pawl mechanism (picture from the other side)? Is the fire box just plate welded to the bottom of the tube steel frame?

Grate made from stainless steel?

What is the size of this thing?

 

[txvwnut]

Nothing too fantastical just a rear bumper to match the front one I made a few years ago.

 

[Crazyjake8493]

I finished the welding card and went for a drive this weekend
I had a scrap of 1/4 rubber mat that I put on top. It rolls around the garage easily enough with one welder, and tucks nicely into the corner under the electrical panel.

That cart looks great! Nice job.

 

[SMOKEYBEAR]

Made a transducer mount. All 316 stainless.
I'm no boat guy so bear with me with any questions about this. Got the drawings and that's that.

Superb. You could accidentally find yourself busy if the boat people see that. There are minimal to zero good options for transducer mounting. I'm in the bass boat world, and after no luck finding what I wanted or needed, I made my own. There are some one size fits most with multiple adjustable brackets, but nothing as sanitary as the one you made. Whoever gave you the drawing was sharp too, its important to have the transducer parallel to the ground, not the lines of the boat. A bad mount on the wrong angles will give the transducer "blind spots".

 

[sqznby]

Superb. You could accidentally find yourself busy if the boat people see that. There are minimal to zero good options for transducer mounting. I'm in the bass boat world, and after no luck finding what I wanted or needed, I made my own. There are some one size fits most with multiple adjustable brackets, but nothing as sanitary as the one you made. Whoever gave you the drawing was sharp too, its important to have the transducer parallel to the ground, not the lines of the boat. A bad mount on the wrong angles will give the transducer "blind spots".

Thank You, I appreciate that. It was fun to make, I love working with SS it is a real joy.
I'll let my boss know, he's actually a genius and a good friend. I live in a boat building community and sport fishing boats are pretty popular here. I for one, don't want a boat

 

[BlueBomber]

Another plasma torch art project from the same rusty oil tank as my coyote. This is a gift for my wife's hot rod owning aunt, who also has a dalmation. I did it with an actual picture of her pooch, Penny, projected onto the side of the tank. This one had to be white, so it got rust converter primer first.

 

[slodat]

Handheld plasma is definitely a challenge, at least for me. Yours looks great!

 

[BlueBomber]

Handheld plasma is definitely a challenge, at least for me. Yours looks great!

Thanks! It helped that I kept the projector on during the cutting process, so basically I was just tracing lines.

 

[LXCam]

Thanks! It helped that I kept the projector on during the cutting process, so basically I was just tracing lines.

That’s exactly what my straight cuts look like when I’m free handing.


Nice job BB, I really like it.

 

[jblnut]

I've been working toward a solid wall on the shop lean-to lately and today the kiddos were home as it's MEA weekend .....


They found an old piece of junk from oh so long ago and asked me to bring it back to life so I cleared a spot on the welding table between the chainsaws and the gas cans so I could work.


Oh look a decent pair of handles .....


I told them they were tall enough that they could help so they jumped right in !!


I built this seasaw stand deal a loooooong time ago and I had a 12' board on it. All I could find was a 10' treated 2x6 so I flipped the mount upside down and it worked out well.


What with the rebar handles and the peeling paint it seems right at home next to the auger swing set. All we need now is one of those 4' diameter Merry-go-rounds that seemed to always be rocket-shipping kids into the stratosphere to be a complete legit playground !! Oh .... And a couple buried tires to climb on lol

 

[XJSuperman]

Damn those are gonna be some tough kids. From that playground alone they'll be twice as tough as their classmates, and the rest of their generation.

 

[jblnut]

Damn those are gonna be some tough kids. From that playground alone they'll be twice as tough as their classmates, and the rest of their generation.

Agreed. For the most part there are no real sharp/pointy edges where they can get too so it's still a bit soft lol.

Annnnnnnnd Leo is wearing pink Crocs

 

[harley jim]

Those kids will remember that for life, they do need the merry-go-round!

 

[Copymutt]

Simple repurpose of old file bits mig weld to working faces of forged tongs.

 

[Copymutt]

Wife needed a missing antique wheel for an 1800’s table restoration. Scrap bucket for the win.

 

[Old Man Roger]

Agreed. For the most part there are no real sharp/pointy edges where they can get too so it's still a bit soft lol.

Annnnnnnnd Leo is wearing pink Crocs

It’s salmon man, salmon..lol

 

[slowtwitch73]

That playset looks Irwin Mainway approved lol.

 

[sqznby]

Made another one of the burners.
I know it's not welding but, whipped up some of these.