@AKweldshop if you dont mind out of curiosity who, why and what for taught you to soak 60XX. I have read a few post where guys said it gave them better arcs by doing it but like I already stated it screws with the intended chemistry of the designers intentions and me being a purist would never cons...

I'm trying to pick a fight here, so please take this personally........Here it goes ;) If a guy is welding mild steel, and is using 6010, he's gonna have lots of hydrogen. If he is using cold 7018, on his mild steel, he will have lots of hydrogen in his weld. Same as above. But will it hurt his wel...

We repaired hundreds of these over the years. I tried to get a report from the galvanizer of his bath analysis but quickly got shot down and was told that was proprietary information. It is my understanding that the zinc coating is 98-99% zinc with a few additives for wetting and spangle. I have als...

the 3M #8514 does a pretty good job, it's disposable but you can get a good 8-10 hours of exposure out of those before they get loaded up and need to be trashed. It's a fair bit cheaper than buying and maintaining a full blown respirator and cartridges/prefilters/etc... Be careful using a full blown...

weldin mike 27 wrote:Here's hoping the first pic has been Air arc gouged. Otherwise....wtaf.

yeah we excavated down to see what the extent of the lamination was...and then hogged it out. We had trouble with chaparral too, when they opened up the new plant it was awful for awhile until they sorted things out.

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I had heard of people using baby oil to show hydrogen diffusing out of a weld bead. Being cursed with a curious mind I had to see this for myself so I set out to try to replicate their experiment. I took a 7018 out of the rod oven one Friday evening after everyone had left the shop and laid it up on...

Several years ago we had a project with some W44x335 beams on it. This section was not produced in the US at the time and we had these shipped in from Germany. As with many large sections like this, during receiving inspection we noticed that one of the flanges on a beam had a severe lamination. Due...

Has anyone her experienced the mysterious cracking issues associated with hot dip galvanizing? My first experience with this was back in 1999 or 2000 when I was a QC manager at a structural steel fabricator and was responsible for the quality and welding at two fabrication plants. The shop super fro...

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soutthpaw wrote:This is what you referring to http://www.flangewizard.com/products.cfm

Looks like that, but I think this "kit" came from the plasma cutter mfg.(Thermal Dynamics)

Jody, I'm glad that you mentioned about taking care of the arc strikes. I never gave it much thought until I played around in the shop one day and had one of my welders help me with a test sample. I chopped up several pieces of A36 3/8 x 2 flat bar and laid them side by side on the work table, had a...

Jody has one plasma video where he is making the big WTaT sign you see on his shop wall. Would help to know what machine you have to give u suggestions. Dragging on dirty metal or rusted stuff is a pain, u do better with a stand off. The varying friction of dragging makes it hard to get a steady co...

Thanks for your service and welcome.

Please do share some of your projects! Love to see what you have been up to.

Nice work for someone who is new to welding. You will do well if you have caught on this fast already.

I see lots of neat welding carts displayed on this forum. I need to take a pic of mine, I have literally almost nothing ($$$ wise) invested in mine and I love it. My F-I-L picked up a Cambell-Hausfeld pressure washer that was sitting by the dumpster and thought he(machinist) could fix it and brought...

MinnesotaDave wrote:That gas torch box is stunning - the hours spent on it show - nicely done!

I agree with Dave...awesome torch box!

That looks pretty good for #320 grit....I would have thought that you would have needed a few more finer grit stages to get it polished down that shiny...like #600, #800, #1000 and #1500

AndersK wrote:Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2015

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LOL..love the pic! ...and Merry Christmas back atcha.

The only porosity issue I had was of my own making... The ceramic tape sat in a corner without climate control for three years unused, and caused no porosity that I could detect, "But"... I failed to set the friggin' Millermatic 252 for post-flow (doh!), so every tail-off had to be ground...

Thats actually a really good point. sandwich them together and weld them up.... 6mm instantly :) yeah will look forward to seeing them mate :) chuckE said there was some dodgy gold looking coating on the bolts he used that when welded give off toxic fumes. is this on all nuts/bolts? :geek: The othe...

intron12 wrote:any comments guys?

I don't have any suggestions, but I'm watching to see what others come up with. Those are some tough places to get into...puts some pressure on you to place some nice beads first time around because there is no going back to dress anything up as tight as those places are.

I struggle with lighting up on aluminum soda cans with my Eastwood Tig 200 without blowing a huge hole in it. Just a thought, I remember someone in the Forum pointed out that some of these new inverter machines have a default start current setting that's around 35A and you have to go into the f****...

wheresmejumper wrote:"Dancing with the blue lady." All I find on a search is horror stories.


It's a metaphor for any type of electric arc welding.blue light is dancing all around you and your doing your best to keep up with her!

I like it!

I struggle with lighting up on aluminum soda cans with my Eastwood Tig 200 without blowing a huge hole in it.