Welding Tips and Tricks

Funny when the shiz really hits the fan, how quickly people scatter.

Braehill wrote: About half way through my day, I found that somebody had shut off my explosimeter, and me normally being very calm and cool, my co-workers got to see a whole new level of pissed off when I found it off. I promised to beat them to death if they ever touched my meter again while I'm welding something. That's twice in less than a week that I got threatened with anger management classes. I'm really losing my tolerance for stupid.

Sorry no pictures in the plant, I can weld but the camera is not explosive proof, I find that a little funny.

Len

Probably should have killed one as an example to the others....

Your welder is explosion proof but not the camera....

...must be a cool new type of welder that throws cold sparks down your back on a hot day - pretty nice

Here some pics at todays work. Mig welded inside/outside by Fronius mig pulse.. I was so sceptic could i do this welding (normaly these can be rolled) no it was that 5g and about 6.80m weld both side but it went bretty decend and passed the tests I love do this challengin welds but then when you are realy in that job and feel the heat by poor weld/fit and know it will tested. But im off the hook once agen

Excellent work, Aleksi!

You appear to be rebuilding the front jacket, at the 5th wheel plate, and the front head is next?

What service is the trailer? (LIN, LOX, LAR, CO2? LHY?)

Steve S

Otto Nobedder wrote:Excellent work, Aleksi!

You appear to be rebuilding the front jacket, at the 5th wheel plate, and the front head is next?

What service is the trailer? (LIN, LOX, LAR, CO2? LHY?)

Steve S

Its a Jet-fuel trailer. Yep front head is next, but first i weld one (dont know what is it called Eng) that whic slows liquid from moving so widely inside that tank. Everyday that trailer owner comes to see what im doing. Im pretty bleased whit that bead appearence eaven its not so relative then having sound weld, but i know that next time the owner sees it he will see the welds and i think he will see me litle bit better welder Its was challengive to weld that 4-7clok not have weld build up too much. Learned ton from this project and it hasnt end yeat. There one pic more ( no tenssion to show off but im just happy for my hand work so far:)

In English they are called "liquid load splashy stoppers" lol joking. In Australia, they are called baffles.

weldin mike 27 wrote:In English they are called "liquid load splashy stoppers" lol joking. In Australia, they are called baffles.

Whit my GOOD Eng i would been writed it something like you mentionet

Your English is probably better than most young Australians.

Yep, Baffles.

The only trailers I work on that don't have them are liquid Hydrogen. That stuff is so light, it doesn't need "sloshy-stoppers". I suppose liquid Helium trailers don't have them either, but I don't know, as we've not yet seen any.

Steve S

Here is my first attempt at aluminium and my first actual welding project from scratch. I wasn't going to post it because I was embarrassed lol but it does the job and I can only get better I guess

Cosi,
I don't see anything to be embarrased about there. Looks great to me! It is nice to see the alum welding carts as opposed to all the steel ones. What welding machine do you have there? That's not one sold in the States that I am aware of anyway.
-Jonathan

Here some Stainless mig welds. Looking my old welds (iphone) and same kind joint and its great to see the difference. And i try write some of the settings down to later use. New Pulse/Syn machines has so much extra adjusts to arc chartericks for different situations.

Superiorwelding wrote:Cosi,
I don't see anything to be embarrased about there. Looks great to me! It is nice to see the alum welding carts as opposed to all the steel ones. What welding machine do you have there? That's not one sold in the States that I am aware of anyway.
-Jonathan

Thanks Jonathan!
The machine is a Unimig T&R Multi 250k
http://www.unimig.com.au/catalogue_prod ... ategory=85

@Aleksi86

Very impressive. Stainless can be a real pain with all that movement. Looks like you've got it mastered!

Trev

Unfortunately the turnaround I am involved in had a break due to a serious accident but this gave me a few days to rest.
I saw a video of a guy doing it so I figured why not?
First try:

Untitled by Taz00, on Flickr

The contamination on the base metal is because I did not purge the hoses after not having used the welding machine for almost a month and this was the first thing I welded.

That technique gives a unique look you just can't get any other way. Very nice

I fabricated this bridge for a walking trail to go over a little creek. I don't have any starting pics I never thought to take any

Looks great.

BWR...how much of that bridge was done in the field? In the forest preserves around here they pre-fab them and put them in with a truck/crane. I have been wanting to build something like that for the creek that cuts my property in half. Very cool and I'll be it was fun.

Thanks guys, and yea it was a blast building it. It had been a long time since I done that kinda work, it was a good change of pace. We built it in the shop and then hauled it over and set it. The only welding I did in the field was the anchor plates.

Here's a project I did a few days ago. My employee managed to break the shaft and bend the pillars on our disc. So I ordered new shaft, and new pillars. Pillars not in stock at the factory nor had they any date as to when they were going to make new ones... Nice...

So I ordered the shaft, and put the front pillar under my 30 T shop press and straightened it and welded some reinforcements to it. The rear one though, was bend AND twisted. So I cut the middle section out, welded 2 pieces of 15 cm X 2 cm thick plate to each other, cut the sides in the shape of the pillar and used the cut of pieces for reinforcements.

The disc is back in business

Nice repair!

That's one of the great things about being a welder/fabricator. "We don't have that in stock" is just an inconvenience, not a problem!

Steve S

Since this is a what I welded today column and does not specify things like a 12" offset on a 60" pipe 500' up on red iron, here is what I welded (repair) today:
http://s558.photobucket.com/user/mcoste ... sort=1&o=0
http://s558.photobucket.com/user/mcoste ... sort=1&o=1
http://s558.photobucket.com/user/mcoste ... sort=1&o=2
http://s558.photobucket.com/user/mcoste ... sort=1&o=3

mcostello wrote:Since this is a what I welded today column and does not specify things like a 12" offset on a 60" pipe 500' up on red iron, here is what I welded (repair) today:
http://s558.photobucket.com/user/mcoste ... sort=1&o=0
http://s558.photobucket.com/user/mcoste ... sort=1&o=1
http://s558.photobucket.com/user/mcoste ... sort=1&o=2
http://s558.photobucket.com/user/mcoste ... sort=1&o=3

Sorry, none of the above links worked for me...

TRACKRANGER wrote:

mcostello wrote:Since this is a what I welded today column and does not specify things like a 12" offset on a 60" pipe 500' up on red iron, here is what I welded (repair) today:
http://s558.photobucket.com/user/mcoste ... sort=1&o=0
http://s558.photobucket.com/user/mcoste ... sort=1&o=1
http://s558.photobucket.com/user/mcoste ... sort=1&o=2
http://s558.photobucket.com/user/mcoste ... sort=1&o=3

Sorry, none of the above links worked for me...

For me neither. I tried copying the rest that is not blue to my address bar of my browser but didn't work either