Welding Tips and Tricks

I got bored and wanted to practice some stick welding( don't weld as often now that schools out for summer) so I decided to go to the scrap yard I found an end of an old big propane tank that had about a 24" diameter and some 3" pipe so I made a firepit for about $15 and now plan to sell it for about $100 hopefully

Nice!

Find a cheap replacement bbq grate and tack a few tabs to hold it, and take the price up $50?

Seriously, a lid for it so the user can extinguish a fire quickly if the wind comes up/keep the rain out when not in use would be a selling feature.

I really need to do some rearranging and wiring here so I can do a bit of hobby welding at home. Everyone's projects make me a bit jealous that I don't weld outside of work, and I've got a couple old crakerboxes gathering dust.

Steve S

Otto Nobedder wrote:Nice!

Find a cheap replacement bbq grate and tack a few tabs to hold it, and take the price up $50?

Seriously, a lid for it so the user can extinguish a fire quickly if the wind comes up/keep the rain out when not in use would be a selling feature.

I really need to do some rearranging and wiring here so I can do a bit of hobby welding at home. Everyone's projects make me a bit jealous that I don't weld outside of work, and I've got a couple old crakerboxes gathering dust.

Steve S

You mean like this?? Haha thank you! And I installed my plug for my shop(garage) myself back around Christmas

I want to build stuff ... that's an awesome firepitt.

Zach_T wrote: You mean like this?? Haha thank you! And I installed my plug for my shop(garage) myself back around Christmas

mbmalone wrote:I want to build stuff ... that's an awesome firepitt.

Zach_T wrote: You mean like this?? Haha thank you! And I installed my plug for my shop(garage) myself back around Christmas

Well whatcha waitin on??

Zach_T wrote:I got bored and wanted to practice some stick welding( don't weld as often now that schools out for summer) so I decided to go to the scrap yard I found an end of an old big propane tank that had about a 24" diameter and some 3" pipe so I made a firepit for about $15 and now plan to sell it for about $100 hopefully

Great performance,you can put racks skewers.
such as the picture: Toni

Toni,

Those are sweet! Did you make them? Make a die, to stamp the leaves?

If those are your work, I'm impressed!

Steve S

I do the same. I bent up 12 drawers out of 20 ga and grabbed the stick w/6013 x 5/64. Made a mess on the first few
Did 6 with the stick @ 45 amps and then.......busted out the Lincoln 140 with .023. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Lil better

Antorcha wrote:I do the same. I bent up 12 drawers out of 20 ga and grabbed the stick w/6013 x 5/64. Made a mess on the first few
Did 6 with the stick @ 45 amps and then.......busted out the Lincoln 140 with .023. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Lil better

Way better....

6013 is %@#$%&!!!!!

AKweldshop wrote:

Antorcha wrote:I do the same. I bent up 12 drawers out of 20 ga and grabbed the stick w/6013 x 5/64. Made a mess on the first few
Did 6 with the stick @ 45 amps and then.......busted out the Lincoln 140 with .023. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Lil better

Way better....

6013 is %@#$%&!!!!!

Ok I feel really stupid right now but what does you and Antorchas comments have to do with this? I must have missed something.
-Jonathan

I think Antorcha's post was refering to the title "Got bored today" and built some drawers and John's was just another senseless post to bash 6013.

Len

Braehill wrote:I think Antorcha's post was refering to the title "Got bored today" and built some drawers and John's was just another senseless post to bash 6013.

Len

Huh, ookk
Here I was re-reading this thread trying to figure out what I missed.
-Jonathan

Nice work.