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[sberry]

That's even better than having to do it yourself.

 

[shortykorte]

I agree,

This may put the schedule 40 pvc air line people out of business.

Schedule 40 wrapped in duck tape looks just like stainless. Darn, I have to go buy a new roll of duct tape.


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[zmotorsports]

I needed to weld a new suspension cross member in the front of my project car (1970 Cyclone). The cross member was tig welded and I wanted it to match. I've only played around with tig for a few minutes, so my SIL came over and did it.

Nice.

Looks like possibly a Mustang II style front crossmember? What are you powering it with? Those look to be polyurethane small block Chevy style mounts. Looks like a nice project.

 

[Magneto]

When my wife says "get the hell outta the way I'll weld it." I just don't argue. And you know what, she lays a better bead than I do. Love that woman!

 

[joe49]

She's a keeper for sure.

 

[Slednut]

Nice.

Looks like possibly a Mustang II style front crossmember? What are you powering it with? Those look to be polyurethane small block Chevy style mounts. Looks like a nice project.

Yes, I bought the front Mustang II and the 4-link for the rear from R&C motorsports. I'm using the number matching (not that it really matters) 351 Cleveland. I haven't figured out what I'm going to do to it.

I **** welded in the two panels that cover where the shock towers were today. I had a hard time deciding between building new inner fenders or using the panels that came with the kit.

 

[Slednut]

She's a keeper for sure.

Absolutely

 

[tarmy]

When my wife says "get the hell outta the way I'll weld it." I just don't argue. And you know what, she lays a better bead than I do. Love that woman!

Showoff...

Nice welding rig....

 

[mr_magicfingers]

I don't know if they do it anymore. But snap on and a few others offered a 1 time 50% off equipment for welders in school. Just FYI

That's useful to know thanks, but I have a decent welder already. When we bought our little farm I figured welding was one of those things that I'd need to learn in order to fix things like the old tractor, trailer and other bits so I asked a friend who does welding fab to spec me a welder and I ended up buying a Portamig 235. Probably overkill but it'll handle anything I'm likely to ever need.

https://www.weldequip.com/portamig-mig-welders.htm

 

[AngryBeaver]

When my wife says "get the hell outta the way I'll weld it." I just don't argue. And you know what, she lays a better bead than I do. Love that woman!

Does she have any sisters?

 

[jimgood]

Paper towel holder of my own design. Everything except for the spring was steel I had laying around (even the PVC pipe).

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Fork lift made specifically to lift my tool box into my race trailer. 2" x 3/16" sq. tube, 3/16" plate reinforcing the corners, 1/4" quick-attach plate.

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[MarkG]

If you've been on this forum a few years, my shop-built welding cart might look familiar. Well, it just got a new color scheme, if that tells you anything!

 

[Farmall450]

When my wife says "get the hell outta the way I'll weld it." I just don't argue. And you know what, she lays a better bead than I do. Love that woman!

Lol he wishes that was his wife.

 

[shedfullatools]

Couple brackets I threw together the other day to make a plow off a Kawasaki fit my buddy's Honda atv. Not as ideal as simply narrowing the plow frame but a lot less time consuming and should work fine.

 

[Farmall450]

Stuck some new used casters on a cheap engine stand

 

[DragPack69]

I`m "borrowing" that towel rack idea
maybe magnets on the wall mount to put it on my toolbox

Thanks,
John

 

[PCustoms]

Stuck some new used casters on a cheap engine stand

Decent welds but I recommend never welding on casters. You are going to realize why the day you have to change one!

Drill a plate, then weld the plate to your projects. Bolt the caster on.

 

[tarmy]

Decent welds but I recommend never welding on casters. You are going to realize why the day you have to change one!

Drill a plate, then weld the plate to your projects. Bolt the caster on.

Yep...

 

[bbirder]

When my wife says "get the hell outta the way I'll weld it." I just don't argue. And you know what, she lays a better bead than I do. Love that woman!

Welders do it hotter!

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[Farmall450]

Decent welds but I recommend never welding on casters. You are going to realize why the day you have to change one!

Drill a plate, then weld the plate to your projects. Bolt the caster on.

These are never going to get changed lol
They're fully greasable casters on an engine stand that moves once a year.

 

[joe49]

Nothing wrong with welding on casters, just don't go crazy welding, a couple of short welds are fine and easier to remove.

 

[TheEquineFencer]

When my wife says "get the hell outta the way I'll weld it." I just don't argue. And you know what, she lays a better bead than I do. Love that woman!

Aww *** on...I bet you can lay a good "Bead" with a woman like that around...:hitit:

 

[AngryBeaver]

 

[mr_magicfingers]

Just had confirmation that I have a place on my welding evening class. Every monday evening for the next 10 weeks

 

[Griff93]

Had to machine and weld some parts the other day. These are 304 Stainless. I needed the piece of tubing to be perpendicular to the other part so I fixtured them on our buildpro table. It made this pretty easy. I had to make three of these so setting up something made sense.

2018-09-25_11-21-10 by Griffin93, on Flickr

The table also made it easy to rotate these to get into a good position.

2018-09-25_11-21-54 by Griffin93, on Flickr

I need some stainless practice but these are certainly good enough to work fine. I mostly weld carbon and aluminum.

2018-09-25_11-22-15 by Griffin93, on Flickr

 

[thejimmy]

Just had confirmation that I have a place on my welding evening class. Every monday evening for the next 10 weeks

Great!, I'm sure you'll enjoy the class

 

[stsmytherie]

Dolly for my Porsche restoration.

 

[jeepinerdeep]

Handtruck for my new inverter.

 

[Firstram]

Decent welds but I recommend never welding on casters. You are going to realize why the day you have to change one!

Drill a plate, then weld the plate to your projects. Bolt the caster on.

We travel with a box of casters that have been welded on and cut off countless times. 4 tacks about 3/8" long on the meat of the plate (2 on each opposing side) can be removed by cutting 2 with a cut off wheel and breaking the other 2. These are heavy duty casters with at least 1/8+" plates which helps.

 

[Whiskeymike]

Handtruck for my new inverter.

Is that a 205? How do you like it?

That seems real top heavy. Feel pretty stable?

 

[jeepinerdeep]

Is that a 205? How do you like it?

That seems real top heavy. Feel pretty stable?

EM215. Mig only. Took advantage of the $200 rebate last month.

It welds nice, I bought it to run .030 wire on up to 11 ga. have not tried the 115v tap yet. I have a Lincoln Wirematic transformer machine if I need to burn all day. I played with the sMig feature, which I could have done without, and admit it works nice.

Yeah it's top heavy. But not totally unstable. You can lean it 6 inches in any direction and it will right itself. I tested it as I was tacking it up.

The whole reason I bought this machine was to move it around for oddball projects. My shop is built like a bank barn and I don't have a 50a 240v outlet downstairs. If I want to run it around the yard and come in the basement to stitch up some sheetmetal, I can. Also if I put the cap on the cylinder, the whole works will lay down in my truck bed if I want to take it to a buddy's place.

All the handtruck style carts have serious trade offs. If it was a shop machine only, I would have put it on a traditional cart no doubt.

 

[mr_magicfingers]

Hello again. I've now done 2 evenings of my welding class and starting to understand the first tiny bit about welding so I'm here for some critique. I brought a few scraps of steel home from class to do a bit of practice on. some 3mm and some 10mm. I've been playing with wire feed speed and, despite watching many youtube vids, still can't quite get the perfect frying bacon sound, so interested to know what folks think of these first few welds.

Getting the wire feed right and also my own hand movement steady is the hardest part, that's why I'm just running bead after bead over the previous ones to try and get that movement practiced. I find it hard to get a steady bead all the way along and have to change hand position part way which is where it goes off line a bit.

I did a bit of infill on a couple of beads, as I found I'd gone off line a bit and went back to fill in some sections to make them more even for the next pass over the top.

My setup is a Portamig 235 with 0.8mm wire and 5% CO2/Argon gas mix.

10mm plate
https://imgur.com/a/pYXH4iR

3mm plate
https://imgur.com/a/ZJQfw6U

 

[cspcrx]

I took a 2 hour class at a local welding supply shop and had a similar problem. On longer welds I would get lost and go off line. Its like my eyes adjust to the brightness or something and I can no longer see my path.

Is that what your running into? If so I would love the hear what others do for this.

For me I just started doing shorter runs and have had much better luck.

 

[metal1313]

They look decent to me, just seems like you need more practice to get used to the movement

I had a little project this weekend, welding some plates to a push mower deck that tore out the front wheel mounting bolts. My beads were strong, but looked like ****. I couldn't see a thing, like my helmet was too dark.

 

[sanddan]

I took a 2 hour class at a local welding supply shop and had a similar problem. On longer welds I would get lost and go off line. Its like my eyes adjust to the brightness or something and I can no longer see my path.

Is that what your running into? If so I would love the hear what others do for this.

For me I just started doing shorter runs and have had much better luck.

Try "pushing" rather than "pulling" the weld. I've always done MIG that way, lets me see where I'm going during the weld. Dragging or pulling the weld blocks seeing the weld puddle for me.

 

[cspcrx]

That is what I do, my instructor was big on pushing my welds. He also stressed getting my head in place and setting my support hand by tracing my weld before laying it. Just seems like the longer I got I start to lose the contrast. I am also going to try some type of hood behind my head to keep light from coming in the back of my helmet to see if that helps. Adding the magnifier lens helped some with that.

It all could be my lack of experience.

 

[jeepinerdeep]

Hello again. I've now done 2 evenings of my welding class and starting to understand the first tiny bit about welding so I'm here for some critique. I brought a few scraps of steel home from class to do a bit of practice on. some 3mm and some 10mm. I've been playing with wire feed speed and, despite watching many youtube vids, still can't quite get the perfect frying bacon sound, so interested to know what folks think of these first few welds.

Getting the wire feed right and also my own hand movement steady is the hardest part, that's why I'm just running bead after bead over the previous ones to try and get that movement practiced. I find it hard to get a steady bead all the way along and have to change hand position part way which is where it goes off line a bit.

I did a bit of infill on a couple of beads, as I found I'd gone off line a bit and went back to fill in some sections to make them more even for the next pass over the top.

My setup is a Portamig 235 with 0.8mm wire and 5% CO2/Argon gas mix.

10mm plate
https://imgur.com/a/pYXH4iR

3mm plate
https://imgur.com/a/ZJQfw6U

Blow that mill scale off with a grinder next time. It will make a big difference.

 

[AngryBeaver]

Hello again. I've now done 2 evenings of my welding class and starting to understand the first tiny bit about welding so I'm here for some critique. I brought a few scraps of steel home from class to do a bit of practice on. some 3mm and some 10mm. I've been playing with wire feed speed and, despite watching many youtube vids, still can't quite get the perfect frying bacon sound, so interested to know what folks think of these first few welds.

Getting the wire feed right and also my own hand movement steady is the hardest part, that's why I'm just running bead after bead over the previous ones to try and get that movement practiced. I find it hard to get a steady bead all the way along and have to change hand position part way which is where it goes off line a bit.

I did a bit of infill on a couple of beads, as I found I'd gone off line a bit and went back to fill in some sections to make them more even for the next pass over the top.

My setup is a Portamig 235 with 0.8mm wire and 5% CO2/Argon gas mix.

10mm plate
https://imgur.com/a/pYXH4iR

3mm plate
https://imgur.com/a/ZJQfw6U

Looks pretty good for only the second class.

both welds look a tad on the cold side... Now, that could mean you are moving too fast. it could also be a tad too much wire speed for the heat. try bumping the amperage up to the next notch, or dropping the wire speed down to the next setting.

usually argon/co2 mix is 20 or 25%, 25% being the most common. I've never heard or even seen 5% mix. this could be part of the "problem" also.

looks good, I'd bump the amperage up a tad and let er rip', oh and definately grind that mill scale off. with coper wire and argon/co2 mix that is a must do thing. not so much with flux core wire

 

[letMeIn]

Blue motorcycle lift was bought on Amazon for ~$50, I made everything else to help me change wheels on my car in very tight garage... Learning to Tig weld, so welds are not the greatest, but Im learning by building tools to make my life easier.

 

[LXCam]

That's a slick idea bud. I've cussed my fair share of tossing on big heavy rims and tires and lining them up. I'm gonna have to do something like that myself.

Good job!