Welding Tips and Tricks

Fair enough. Same as the facebook group, we do't need to keep trouble around.

Haven't touched a welder ln two months, feels good to be back to it

Nice Anders. Apparently you have too much money because you spend all your time traveling the globe instead of welding. Doesn't look like you got rusty in your time off

Thx Jeff, was thinking about your comment on welders 10 minute breaks when posting this

Some pieces from the last couple weeks



A test coupon for dialing in some settings

Some gaps I have to deal with


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Nice work 5th Street

fifthstreet, do you ever sleep???

motox wrote:fifthstreet, do you ever sleep???

Honestly I don't think he does.

I nave been doing some more playing with back purging and am very impressed with the difference it makes. The weld on the right was done with purging the left without. The weld just ran better and was much easier to control, the big difference is the back side.
316 ss
1.250 tube with .050 wall

Mark

Well they say a picture tells a thousand words, seems they're right.
Great side by side comparison.

ex framie wrote:Well they say a picture tells a thousand words, seems they're right.
Great side by side comparison.

+1
Still good to "see it for yourself" and experience the difference

bigfabdaddy wrote:

motox wrote:fifthstreet, do you ever sleep???

Honestly I don't think he does.

Haha thanks guys my job likes to keep me busy and I like it that way.

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bigfabdaddy wrote:
motox wrote:
fifthstreet, do you ever sleep???


Honestly I don't think he does.

Haha thanks guys my job likes to keep me busy and I like it that way.

whats most impressive is how constant the welds are from piece to piece.
craig

"funny thing happened on the ay to the forum"

Not today or yesterday either but last year about this time.

Happy Friday!


A solid week by Mike Zanconato, on Flickr


Ted C by Mike Zanconato, on Flickr


Ted C by Mike Zanconato, on Flickr


Scott R by Mike Zanconato, on Flickr


Scott R by Mike Zanconato, on Flickr


Steve M by Mike Zanconato, on Flickr

Fixed a dock support for a friend that took a direct blow from a 24' pontoon boat last year

before after

just some ugly black steel ducts...


been actually enjoying doing some really long welds using silicon bronze filler on uncleaned hot roll sheets, compared to the usual super nice stainless stuff I usually work with.... making some duct work for a customer. Am trying to do some nice stacked dime beads, but maybe it's just me, but it's kinda hard to keep the butter-soft filler to keep in a straight line... of course i still suck, but practice practice practice right? of course my boss keeps reminding me that no one is gonna see it, just make sure it's a good no-leak weld... (of course like an idiot I took off my long sleeve shirt at one point and down to a tshirt and managed to give myself a bit of 'sunburn' on my right arm... put that shirt right back on, i'm not used to doing such long welds)

77cruiser wrote:Not today or yesterday either but last year about this time.

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nice job! what is that, kind of an extended Tri-Y setup with almost no collector? interesting! what did it go into?

A coupon I ran at home to test out settings

A piece from work yesterday


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A coupon I ran at home to test out settings

A piece from work yesterday


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Settings. ^^^^^^^ That's what happens when you get them right.

5th Street Fab wrote:A coupon I ran at home to test out settings

A piece from work yesterday


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Looks perfect!

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raticus wrote:

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nice job! what is that, kind of an extended Tri-Y setup with almost no collector? interesting! what did it go into?

If you look at the pic showing the full system, the collector is there I have a V band clamp.