Welding Tips and Tricks

Is that a nos bottle in the background? For the other toys?

yes, good eye... have my daily driver decked out with a squirt! keeps the 'P' platers around town scratching there heads when they act all Victor bray in there commodores off the lights! a man can't have too many toys in my opinion!

I only recognised it because they did did a nos install on mighty car mods. My daily driver is a push bike.

When I asked a friend of mine why he needed a second airplane he simply said "he who has the most toys wins". So far he's winning.

Len

I can only buy toys(tools) and push bike stuff, but I get a kick out of finding cheap stuff on eBay and at garage sales.

You ought to try the metal recycle yards. I get most of my power tools there.
Industry 'throws away' a lot of great stuff. I collect only the best 'used' equipment.
For the cost of replacing a power cord, bearings, brushes or maybe a switch,
I spend a couple of bucks and walk away with $300+ worth of power tool.

weldin mike 27 wrote:I can only buy toys(tools) and push bike stuff, but I get a kick out of finding cheap stuff on eBay and at garage sales.

I have a mate who ons a recycle yard, he gives me a good rate on bits and pieces. Im not too savvy with fixing machinery but may I could/should learn.

[/It was for a girl.

I actually enjoy going there. If I could find a gig close to where she lives, I'd consider parking my hat there and vacationing in the South a couple times a year.]

tamjeff
south jersey is boater heaven i would think
you would be able to find a job here with
your fab/welding expertise.
(ps ill sell you my house to boot)
craig

motox wrote:tamjeff
south jersey is boater heaven i would think
you would be able to find a job here with
your fab/welding expertise.
(ps ill sell you my house to boot)
craig

She is in South Jersey as well. As much as I love Florida, it's gotten to the point that it is so overrun by transplants, that I hardly recognize the place anymore so I may as well live anywhere. They have managed to make it a carbon copy of their North, or West coast cultures.
Damned hippies!

WerkSpace wrote:You ought to try the metal recycle yards. I get most of my power tools there.
Industry 'throws away' a lot of great stuff. I collect only the best 'used' equipment.
For the cost of replacing a power cord, bearings, brushes or maybe a switch,
I spend a couple of bucks and walk away with $300+ worth of power tool.

weldin mike 27 wrote:I can only buy toys(tools) and push bike stuff, but I get a kick out of finding cheap stuff on eBay and at garage sales.

Is how I get a lot of my tools as well. That's how I got all my old Dynabrade sanders. All they needed was seals and bearings. They didn't actually need the bearings to work, but I figured to put new ones in to return them as close to new operation as possible.

This week was super busy at work. Thanks to holidays everything was a slight behind schedule. Here's couple of photos of high purity work. Those will be electropolished later, so ignore heat tint

I was just goofin' off when I made the guitar player. A musician friend of mine saw it and offered to buy the whole band. I have orders for a couple more but no two will be alike. Cheers.
-Eldon

So creative!!!!

Markus,
Great job! I like your metal finish job.

Eldon,
Great job to you too! My father commissioned me to make somethin similar but I have not got to it yet. I made one guitar and my daughter liked it and was playing with it. I don't even know where it is now.
-Jonathan

Eldon,

Frankly, I'm awestruck.

That's very creative, and well executed.

I think you could exhibit that, in the right gallery.

Steve S

Good stuff all around.

open your gallery
that is good stuff
there is store(6) in Minneapolis that would like that stuff called "Patina" contact them with pictures
did some repair work on damaged merchandise fr Mexico couldn't belive what it sold for
Christina/Rick owners
http://www.patinastores.com/

Thanks Rick. I'll check into that.
Cheers.
-Eldon

tamjeff said
She is in South Jersey as well. As much as I love Florida, it's gotten to the point that it is so overrun by transplants, that I hardly recognize the place anymore so I may as well live anywhere. They have managed to make it a carbon copy of their North, or West coast cultures.
Damned hippies
very expensive to live in NJ
property tax, insurance, sales tax, water sewer and
almost everything else (but gas is cheap $1.95)
craig

motor mount for my old willys jeep. Figured I'd get some TIG practice in. Not as even looking as I'd like it to be in some areas, and I definitely need to work on making the puddle consistent when I resume an existing weld run.

Overall, not bad, Daniel

Good to be critical, but don't be too hard on yourself!

A little bit of sister'n.

Instead of reinventing the wheel, yet again, I just slobbed on a piece of 1/4" x 2" flat bar. This 1" x 2" box tubing is only 1/8" wall, so it can't really be relied on for anything structural by my experience. It can hold the floor up, but that's about as far as I trust it.
So. . .I grooved out both the flat bar and the box tube.


Then stitched it up. Welds have to be absolutely flush, or it will hold the decking up off the tube and I hate that, and we don't grind anodized if we can help it. The real trick is not to burn out to the edges while putting all that heat down into it, hence, welding it down in the ditch and rolling it out for better edge control.


The idea is to get penetration all the way into the inside of the box section, which also means the groove is fully penetrated.
Yes, it's a little goobery on the end but, I wasn't really trying to be precise here, and it gets welded to the tower at the ends anyway. It's done with the balled pure tungsten down in the ditch and it is then rolled up and out as it fills, stopping at flush. Still, can see the more average amount of penetration in the center stitches.


Finally, it gets tacked into the tower. I weld the plumbing chases first before I weld the box ends. This locks in the rack of the piece, so I won't have it pitching out of rack from having to weld one side before the other with it essentially free standing. It ended up at the designated 1.5 degrees per side like it was supposed to even after the box was welded.


To the rear side, the cross brace, which is just a single piece of 1" x 2", had to be set forward 2.25". I added some boot strap gussets so that it could be tied into the rear leg pipe. It's grooved and welded flush just like the sister'd brace. This makes for a better HAZ than welding the end lap, which would be a shear point in this application. The strap is curved, not a sharp bend.

Beautiful looking aluminium welds you have made. I enjoy when i know that weld appearence is a matter too. Then i realy try to do my best.

Here is couple pictures at my works. This one is 10m long and 2.20m high. inside there is same kind looking round plates (like that end) I weld whit Pulsed Fronius Mig gas is Argon/Co2 mixture material is 304L

Sort of wish I still had the focus that I had 20 years ago where I used to scrutinize every portion of the weld and make them perfect. I forget to do it these days as things become more of a general habit than treating my welds individually. While the weld in the bottom photo is pretty nice, I see where I could have made neater edges but now they have become just another weld among thousands of them. Not that this is a bad thing, and I do start out with the best intentions but, the whole scope of the project, along with demanding schedules and whatever distractions production goals manage to inflict, just jumbles everything together these days.

I imagine a lot of the old hands who post here can relate.