Thanks for the comments. I had some trepedation about showing my welds, but oh well. I'd someday like to try MIG, but as a retired guy, it won't be mine. It may have been better, but from my Oxyacetylene welding when I first started years ago, I came to really enjoy that method of melt, dip, move fo...

Hi. I wanted one last post, as I now can attach pictures. Here's one of the welds of the 1/16" inch wall square tube to the angle iron (1/8"). Battery table and control panel stand A 001.jpg These angle irons are the base of the table and stand for the battery and control panel, shown here...

CLOSURE: Well, I finished this job, looks alright. Sorry I can't show pictures, still don't know how. A couple added items made it much easier, for me. I did clamp a heavy piece just above the weld area to help soak up the heat on the thin square tubing. Second, my Lincoln TIG precision 235 has pul...

Thanks for the welcome, very much. Have received posts from Alaska to Germany in just one day. Posted a TIG question about thin wall square tube to thicker plate, already had many suggestions I've used, and ready to move ahead. Thanks again.
Jeff

First off, thanks for all the input - very helpful. I've done about 5 test runs, getting better. My first trials were a mistake. I just used a short (1" long) 1" square tube - too frugal, no where for heat to go, melted through easily, not a good practice. Now using foot long square tube, ...

The small table will hold the battery over the transmission on the engine stand. Each of the table's four legs will be welded to a short angle iron on the bottom. These angle irons will in turn rest on the longitudinal engine stand frame rails, with the other vertical side of the angle iron over the...

I fortunately practiced this, and gave myself a C-. half good, half blow through. At least I didn't ruin the project. For an engine stand, I've got a little table I welded up of 1" sqare steel tubing, 1/16" tube wall. I'm now ready to weld the bottom of the table legs to 1/8" angle ir...

Hi. I'm a retired engineer, and welding, machinist and engine work are my main hobbies. Husband of 48 years, father, grandfather. I first did a fair amount of oxyacetylene welding many years ago to hopefully learn some hand/eye coordination, to ultimately end up with a TIG unit. After oxy, I bought ...