After making some 8' cuts on 1/2" plate I knew there had to be a better way . A friend told me about a track torch he used in vocational school . After looking at them online and trading welding for a small south bend lathe decided to build one . The main gears are crankshaft and camshaft gear ...

Pics of revised line burner added another gear box and its going to work well . I took it to work today and used it with the hypertherm 65 the cuts are amazing did some 90deg cut and some bevels on 1/2" plate all the pics are from last night with the Avortec xc100

Here's my first attempt at YouTube vid
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VI0EvTRgc ... mv-googled

I would love to see some of your work very interested in the process of welding on a firearm . Welding crosses so many professions it would be hard to cover them all . I think the guys here are sharp so throw your stuff out there I'm sure they can help and i will keep watching for you're posts.

Ryan

When I do floor boards or something like that I will clean the best I can with out thinning the metal to much .then when I weld the seams I weld with spot welds,like pull the trigger for one second then move the gun to the edge of the spot pull the trigger one second then move .kinda stack the spots...

Forgive some of my welds had a little trouble with my balance very windy and turns out that I had a metal chip in my eye from the day before. They are effective for that I was doing (dust tight).

Ok here's one that I biult in place made from 3/16" ar235 all of the welding was done with 6011 and the Lincoln eagle on the truck .My cut man was on the ball .

No sorry I don't But I would like to figure out a better way measure my triangles . Here's what I do now , i measure the base , measure the length of the point 90 deg from base and the distance from that 90deg line to one end of the base . Problem is with interference with the part and my square .I ...

I had to raise a valve off of our grain cleaner to get more fall on a spout ,mocked up what I wanted and tried to build as much as i could on the back of the service truck . Everything is harder 100' in the air. I keep playing with 6010 for this kind of work but alway seem to end up back at 7014 .it...

This is my buzz box made by hi lo . I got it from a friend that bought it for 5$ at a auction sale just for the leads . I put a new power cord on it and a disconnect to turn it on and off and have been useing it for 10 years now . Last night I burned some 1/4" rod with it at 325 amps at least t...

Just got a quote on a lincoln 256 with double tank rack and the good spool gun that can adjust the amps from the gun 3600$ I just bought a 256 for work and I really like . I'm not looking for a cheap Machine but a good value machine . I also have a miller dealer fairly close so may be I'll check on ...

Ok that one is busted , maybe its because I have glasses with some built on uv protection .
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Ryan

I got one welders with brown eyes don't get welders flash I have brown eyes and have never gotten it and every body that I've know to get welders flash has had blue eyes , not that I know a lot of full time welders
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Ryan

Do you guys think that using a needle scaler counts as piening .
I've had people tell me that peining was good to do when welding cast , nobody could tell me why and now I know.
Great video
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Ryan

Does it trip while attempting to weld or just power on not welding ?

Thanks for the reply yea I'm scratch starting the arc my switch is not hooked to any thing I'm welding 14 ga and switched to 1/16 red electrodes now I want to try some small filler how much smaller I'm not sure so I will get a little assortment of sizes I'm having a little trouble lately with sharpe...

Yes it is I almost retook the pic because they were in the picture . Ok here's the story my first bigger mig was a snap on that died after welding a16' grain truck box with 4' sides I built the box/ truck to sell so at that point most of my money was in that and needed a welder , then seen a ad for ...

Found a nice 8" bench grinder at our local farm sale 42$ so it needed a stand . A bench grinder needs to stay put and to be Easy to sweep around so here it is before paint

Done

Ok sounds good just got the fridge cleaned up and going to get the light fixture at lunch
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Ryan

Ok few problems today I think I can blame it on my crappy clean up . Mill scale and freshly lubed snap clamps Would that contribute to tungsten degrading quickly ? So I could sleep tonight I built a tray for my service truck after work tonight and cleaned everything very good probably to cold on the...

Ok thanks Steve I think I might of made it 8 minutes between sparpenings today , doing a little better. I was wondering how long they lasted for you guys . I turned down the amps today and tightened up the arc and that helped a lot after a bunch of practice runs I even welding up a pin hole in heate...

Thanks for the replys great input
I will move on with your advice
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Ryan

That do u guys think about using a old fridge for storing rod filler and wire if I put a 100 watt bulb inside and leave it on or have any better ideas .Its got to be better than a shelf in the shop I'm in Michigan and the humidy gets pretty high from time to time
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Ryan

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