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[Strouty]

Looks good Bill.

 

[Bigblue&Goldie]

Great job Bill, your skills are really developing. Now put some paint on those bad boys!

 

[bczygan]

Great job Bill, your skills are really developing. Now put some paint on those bad boys!

Drilled mounting holes (Uses existing bolt holes on the cart).

Used a file to remove small amount of spatter (It helps when you dial things in and get almost none).

Wiped down and first coat applied!

Bill

 

[bczygan]

Painted:

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[4 FN 27]

Painted:

Bill

Very nice Bill!!!

 

[shortykorte]

Bill
Thanks for the idea to make some trays. I’ll be doing that for sure.


Shorty Korte
Always remember quality in QST

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[larry4406]

Bill - nice trays and addition to your cart. Are all edges welded or did you use a metal brake and just weld the verticals?

 

[Bears Fan]

Okay Mike now your just showing off **** welds!



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bczygan nice little trays

 

[bczygan]

Installed:

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[bczygan]

Bill - nice trays and addition to your cart. Are all edges welded or did you use a metal brake and just weld the verticals?

Box and pan break and welded and ground the corners.

I really like working with sheet metal to make things. I've gotten careful enough scribing and bending that things bend out just right.

I really need/want one for home.

And I may move the trays down and fab fold down trays for each side to hold tools I'm working with. I just need bigger pieces of sheet metal of the right gauge. Might mount the handle, that I removed, on the front or another fixture of some kind. Also need an electric strip and hook for an extension cord and a mount for a light.

Can't wait for the cut off metal place (ALRO) to open up again.


Bill

 

[jeffmoss26]

nice work Bill! I have may given you some grief before but I am proud of you on this one!

 

[bczygan]

nice work Bill! I have may given you some grief before but I am proud of you on this one!

Jeff,

It is you and the guys on this board, that have had a great effect on me, influencing me and helping me gain a great love for working with my hands and brain connected. After a life on the drawing board, it is so satisfying to actually make things, even with all their little imperfections.

I'm still the idiot who does things backwards without common sense and with my priorities upside down.

But I do now share a need to create things. It is when I have the most fun.

Bill

 

[Farmall450]

Welded up 2 of these to hang a ladder (or two) from 2x material (likely trusses).

 

[MWMWMW]

I’ve been changing the fuel tank on an old heater. My welder haven’t been very good and spattering everywhere. This means it’s too hot correct? I have a cheap welder and on the lowest setting it’s still spatters. See photos below. What do you think I could change to avoid this?

They can be grinder down nicely though, but I’d prefer no spatter (less grinding).

 

[nadogail]

IMHO, Somebody tried to skimp on prep. Paint is hard to weld through.

 

[MWMWMW]

IMHO, Somebody tried to skimp on prep. Paint is hard to weld through.

Agreed. I tried to prep thoroughly, but I’ll try to prep better going forward.

I did some test welds on a fully prepped piece of steal with various settings and the spatter is the same. I’ll keep playing with the settings. Could the feed speed be too low?

 

[Bunk]

Is your gas turned on? Assuming you're using a MIG...

 

[NYBODYMAN]

Could be a gas issue^^

 

[MWMWMW]

It’s a cheap gasless MIG welder. I don’t have any gas to turn on.

This is the welder: SUNCOO 130 MIG Welder Flux Core Wire Automatic Feed Gasless Little Welder Portable Welding Machine 110 Volt Yellow https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07GN7V552/?tag=atomicindus08-20

 

[txvwnut]

Assuming your using flux core wire I’m going to say you don’t have enough heat to get the puddle to flow into the steel. Try some test beads with heat up and the feed down.

 

[Nicks garage]

If it’s flux core.. do you have the leads swapped over? Flux cored welding is positive earth I think? Either way it’s opposite to welding with gas

 

[leog]

My Hobart requires the leads to be swapped for flux core use.

leog

 

[leog]

My Hobart requires the leads to be swapped for flux core use.

leog

 

[Bob Heine]

I have a cheap welder and on the lowest setting it’s still spatters. See photos below. What do you think I could change to avoid this?

MWMWMW, a flux core wire feed welder, by its nature, spatters more than a MIG welder with shielding gas. There is no way to avoid the spatter completely but I suspect you are using the spool of wire that came with your welder. If so, you can reduce the spatter by using better quality flux core wire. Lincoln Electric has a top-rated wire that is available at lots of places like Home Depot and Amazon. Look for Lincoln Electric ED030584 NR-211 Fluxco Wire.
Home Depot:
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Lincoln...-for-Mild-Steel-1-lb-Spool-ED030584/100341072
Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08248S3Z6/?tag=atomicindus08-20

 

[ClappedOutBport]

It’s a cheap gasless MIG welder. I don’t have any gas to turn on.

This is the welder: SUNCOO 130 MIG Welder Flux Core Wire Automatic Feed Gasless Little Welder Portable Welding Machine 110 Volt Yellow https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07GN7V552/?tag=atomicindus08-20

Is your polarity right? That sort of spatter looks exactly like wrong polarity spatter. https://makemoneywelding.com/how-to-set-your-mig-welding-polarity-settings/

 

[fordkid88]

I'm also thinking this my be an AC transformer issue, those cheap little fluxcore welders usually have an AC circuit to keep costs down and this will cause horrible splatters

 

[Bob Heine]

Guys, these entry level flux core welders, like the Harbor Freight one I started with, have no provision for gas so the polarity is fixed. You would have to tear the machine apart to disconnect the cables and reverse the polarity. The entry level and top end MIG welders that have provisions for shielding gas do have simple polarity switching setups. I also believe the lowest cost wire feed welders use transformer rather than inverter power supplies. Has anyone tried one of the $15.99 (free shipping from China) inverter arc welders on eBay?

https://www.ebay.com/i/313066838926...0TRgpgN9kiA2rrW3tojr3HPpPHS-r1lxoCSuYQAvD_BwE

 

[ClappedOutBport]

Guys, these entry level flux core welders, like the Harbor Freight one I started with, have no provision for gas so the polarity is fixed. You would have to tear the machine apart to disconnect the cables and reverse the polarity. The entry level and top end MIG welders that have provisions for shielding gas do have simple polarity switching setups. I also believe the lowest cost wire feed welders use transformer rather than inverter power supplies. Has anyone tried one of the $15.99 (free shipping from China) inverter arc welders on eBay?

That ebay listing is a scam



No provisions on Dad's Lincoln 210 mig for changing polarity without tearing the machine halfway apart. Doesn't mean it's correct for flux core.


If you look at the machine he posted, it does appear to have interchangeable outlets so...

 

[MWMWMW]

Just double checked - yes I’m using flux core wire.

Next time I’m in the garage I’ll do some tests on properly prepped steel and report back.

Thanks!

 

[MWMWMW]

My Hobart requires the leads to be swapped for flux core use.

leog

What is a lead on the machine and how can it be swapped?

 

[MWMWMW]

MWMWMW, a flux core wire feed welder, by its nature, spatters more than a MIG welder with shielding gas. There is no way to avoid the spatter completely but I suspect you are using the spool of wire that came with your welder. If so, you can reduce the spatter by using better quality flux core wire. Lincoln Electric has a top-rated wire that is available at lots of places like Home Depot and Amazon. Look for Lincoln Electric ED030584 NR-211 Fluxco Wire.
Home Depot:
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Lincoln...-for-Mild-Steel-1-lb-Spool-ED030584/100341072
Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08248S3Z6/?tag=atomicindus08-20

I’m on my second roll of wire but it’s just a cheap roll from amazon. I’ll the Lincoln Electric roll for my next one and see if it changes anything. Thank you!

 

[Farmall450]

Guys, these entry level flux core welders, like the Harbor Freight one I started with, have no provision for gas so the polarity is fixed. You would have to tear the machine apart to disconnect the cables and reverse the polarity.

This ^^^

Turn down the voltage (or up the wire speed).

 

[AngryBeaver]

Made a new set of forks for the little skid steer. used some 3" channel i had laying around as a frame and added a piece of 3/8" flat bar to the top of the fork slides. eventually I'll cut out notches so the fork stops engage.

 

[welder4956]

It’s a cheap gasless MIG welder. I don’t have any gas to turn on.

This is the welder: SUNCOO 130 MIG Welder Flux Core Wire Automatic Feed Gasless Little Welder Portable Welding Machine 110 Volt Yellow https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07GN7V552/?tag=atomicindus08-20

That's the biggest issue with self-shielded flux core wire used on a short arc machine. Switch to shielding gas and solid wire and the spatter plus trapped slag will go away. Don't forget to change the polarity to DCRP when switching to solid wire.

 

[scout4bta]

Needed a class 3 hitch for the Wagoneer, nobody sells them anymore and couldn't find a used one. Came across a hitch for a Cherokee for the price of the metal, a good place to start. The Cherokee hitch ended up being a inch short on both sides plus the flanges went to the outside, So the only thing that I was able to salvage from the Cherokee hitch were the end pieces. Since I couldn't weld on the top area of the tube, reinforced all the other welds with 4 stringers and added a reinforcement on the inside.

 

[scout4bta]

The Cherokee mounted the hitch with a series of bolts inline. The Wagoneer had 2 mounts at the rear also used for the bumper and 2 mounts at the spring mount.

 

[f150skidoo]

I've needed a small secondary welding table for a while and I thought of building a super simple table but that's not my style. I always have wanted a fixture table and always thought the tab and slot style was neat but rarely needed one. But I have a small job coming up that fixturing would make life easier so I decided to build one. After a cutting bunch of test pieces I was confident that my CNC plasma could cut the 5/8" holes accurately enough without reaming. So I bought the plans for the top uploaded the dxf files and let the machine work away cutting the 1/4" plate. When I was assembling the 2'x4' table all the parts fit very well together and I checked the table for flatness with a straight edge and feeler gauge and the biggest gap I could find was 0.016". Since i'm short on shop space I need the table to fold up as compactly as possible and out of the way If I need to put anything large in the shop. So I built a base the would tilt the top on edge, The table with base weighed 260 lbs.

 

[smalltown]

F150skido. That's a Super build. Great that it stores with taking up precious space.

 

[Southern83]

The folding top is a great idea!

 

[Mike.ASC]

I must say, that is awesome! Where did you get the plans from?