Welding Tips and Tricks

Working on my wiggly foot.

Awesome!

Steve
i'm glad you are on our side........
craig

zank wrote:Working on my wiggly foot.

I think excellent modulation not random wiggly

Me too I want to participate to this tig performance I consider this as a fine form of art , something I cannot do myself but I wish I could but it is possible so well done..
Essenti

motox wrote:Steve
i'm glad you are on our side........
craig

I hadn't thought of it that way, until the recent events in Orlando. I know stuff and own books that would raise red flags if I were on a watch-list. Fortunately, I bought those books long before the NSA got curious about everything we're curious about.



Steve S

I knew a guy once he had a cook book he never kept in the kitchen.

Poland308 wrote:I knew a guy once he had a cook book he never kept in the kitchen.

Would that be, "The Anarchist's Cookbook?"
I used to own that one. I loaned it out and never saw it again. Also never saw the borrower again, so it was a good trade.

Steve S

thats a good one steve S

Yeah. I think that's the most common way people acquire it. Never understood how stealing from someone who may have absorbed some of the knowledge from the book was a good idea !!

Don't forget the " kitchen improvised " range of books covering primary explosive - bulk charge - thermite - napalm & many other crowd pleaser's ! I obviously know nothing about this stuff as in the UK even Tannerite would be classed as a terrorist weapon of mass destruction ! but sometimes old WW2 concrete structures & tree stumps get in the way on farm land !

noddybrian wrote:Don't forget the " kitchen improvised " range of books covering primary explosive - bulk charge - thermite - napalm & many other crowd pleaser's ! I obviously know nothing about this stuff as in the UK even Tannerite would be classed as a terrorist weapon of mass destruction ! but sometimes old WW2 concrete structures & tree stumps get in the way on farm land !

Don't forget about one of the best things that the British ever invented......the grandaddy of combat stablized explosives:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMX

Somehow (Incredibly!) Bill Clinton managed to one up it with his mandate to invent an environmentally friendly explosive; Octanitrocubane being the end result and, amazingly, it packs 25% more explosive power via the addition of two more oxygen atoms:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octanitrocubane

Disclaimer:
High energetics will turn you into a cloud of pink, atomized goo. Don't try this at home kids.

RamboBaby wrote:

noddybrian wrote:Don't forget the " kitchen improvised " range of books covering primary explosive - bulk charge - thermite - napalm & many other crowd pleaser's ! I obviously know nothing about this stuff as in the UK even Tannerite would be classed as a terrorist weapon of mass destruction ! but sometimes old WW2 concrete structures & tree stumps get in the way on farm land !

Don't forget about one of the best things that the British ever invented......the grandaddy of combat stablized explosives:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMX

Somehow (Incredibly!) Bill Clinton managed to one up it with his mandate to invent an environmentally friendly explosive; Octanitrocubane being the end result and, amazingly, it packs 25% more explosive power via the addition of two more oxygen atoms:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octanitrocubane

Disclaimer:
High energetics will turn you into a cloud of pink, atomized goo. Don't try this at home kids.

I don't remember how I got started following this guy's blog a number of years ago, but he writes on lab and process chemistry, and the articles are written to be within reach and understanding of the layman (or at least a curious and overly-inquisitive layman...)
The blog being titled: "Things I Wont Work With" sets the tone for the whole series, and his commenting reader base adds even more color and entertainment to the various entries.

The one that your comment on high energetics made me think of was on a Munich research lab playing with interesting unstable chemistry.
http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/ar ... ole_oxides

The various articles that he's written are all fairly entertaining.

I welded up a light-duty steady rest out of aluminum tubing (0.75"/0.0625" wall) left over from folding kayak building projects. Nothing fancy but I felt it was a good chance to practice several skills: 1) welding aluminum 2) welding small diameter tubing and 3) coping tubing. My welds won't win any awards but I managed to weld the coped T-joint without much distortion on the inner wall so it still slipped easily over the 0.625" tubing. The rest slides easily but "locks" into place once a little pressure is applied to the horizontal rest. If I find the rest slips on the vertical post, then I will add some sort of clamping mechanism. For now I like how I can swing it into position and swing it away once done.

I have other ideas but needed to see if my skills were ready for thin wall small diameter aluminum tubing. Based on this success, I plan to use more aluminum tubing to make a set of custom dog transport barriers for my car to transport our 3 dogs safely w/o needing crates.

I cut and tacked together the pieces of a mirror cell (holder) for a telescope I'm making. The flavor I'm making is called a suitcase dobsonian. The telescope pieces come apart and nest together into a box (suitcase) to make transporting it easier.
Here's a close-up of one of my tacks. Dave

My first what I welded today.

Nothing special, just a pair intercooler pipes to replace the troublesome rubber ones.

Not a fan of leaky NPT connections so I welded up the tri-clamp adapters in this bag filter housing. Hopefully I'll have time to install it on our membrane filter skid this upcoming week.

Nice I like the Dixon fittings, I also use Andron...

Started making a cart for use when washing and sanitizing some machine parts...304L 1.5 x 1.5 .125" wall. I like making stuff like this, once I start building I don't move it, good practice for welding in all positions.

My latest bike repair job - creating a new lug on a motorcycle headstock (lug mounts the front subframe on the bike) after the previous lug had been snapped off in a crash.

Main challenge was controlling heat while welding in situ. Cleaned up broken piece, lit up on it at 110 amps using AC squarewave, 30% cleaning and 120Hz. Used 2.4mm 5356 filler. Simply lit up fast, built up a little, then let cool, repeated process. Then shaped and ground ready for drilling and tapping.

Not pretty, but it worked and I didn't so much as melt the grease in the head stem bearings. Happy enough.


Kym

Nice job of stacking beads, well done Kym
Regards
Ralph

Nice repair kym

Awesome repair on an assembled piece. '06\'07 GSXR 600?

ScottFc3s wrote:Awesome repair on an assembled piece. '06\'07 GSXR 600?

Thanks Scott. Close....it's a 2006 Honda CBR600RR.

This is as happy as I've been with my welding. Not because it's particularly good welding, but because I am finally doing with my welder what I set out to do when I purchased it - making repairs and modifications to my motorcycles. It makes me very happy to be putting damaged bikes back into service.

Cheers,



Kym

MosquitoMoto wrote: because I am finally doing with my welder what I set out to do when I purchased it
Kym

Awesome bro, I sure hope that I get there. I got a welding test in the a.m. and the lady told me to come ready to work because she plans to throw me right into the fire if I pass. But that's just to pay the bills. I want my own fab facility.