Welding Tips and Tricks

Needed a portable welding table that could be tucked away when not required. Decided to make it so that it could straddle one of the MIG machines, so as to minimize additional floor space. Needed to be able to weld standing-up or sitting-down so chose a bench height of 850mm (33") which I find works well, and I have good clearance underneath for sitting at the table.

Frame is 50 x 50 x 6mm RHS (2" x 2" x 1/4" wall), and I had a 1200mm x 900mm x 10mm pattern plate laser-cut to size with 50mm radiused corners. Total run-out anywhere across the table is less than 0.5mm so I'm very satisfied with the result.

Seems to do the trick, and I can easily move it anywhere in the shop.

I am thinking about something similar to that for my table build. I want it to be portable and functional. Looks very nice.

Excellent space management

Very nice! I am really interested in that mig gun, can you provide more info?
-Jonathan

I am like Jonathan, that is an interesting looking mig gun. What brand is it?

It looks similar to ones offered by Fronius. I would LOVE to have one of those guns....I would love a machine and gun better
-Jonathan

As long as they don't ban the guns!

Superiorwelding wrote:Very nice! I am really interested in that mig gun, can you provide more info?
-Jonathan

Hi Guys

The Welder is a German Manufactured EWM Phoenix 355 Concept Pulse TKM machine with a PC2 Torch. The torch allows adjustment of multiple settings (such as welding current and wire-feed speed) or selection of up to 15 different programs for the current job. Let's say It am running Job 80 (AlSi), with a mix of different material sizes. I can have a setting for tacking, one for In Position, and one for Vertical Up, maybe one for a root pass.

Start off with the "Tack" setting to get everything together, then a single press takes me another program setting to do the next weld (maybe a root pass), another program for fitting a thicker plate to the job. No need to go back to the machine.
It's got some other great features including a 'lift-wire' start. E.g. with aluminium, press the trigger and the wire feeds out slowly until it just touches the job, then reverses to draw the arc, then as soon as the arc is established, starts feeding wire into the weld.

If you've got too much stickout before starting a weld, no need to get the cutters to trim the wire, just hold the wire on the job and pull the trigger, the spool feed instantly goes into reverse and draws the wire back. With the stickout is correct, release the trigger and then just start welding as normal.

Settable current range is 5Amps to 350Amps, with wire feed from 0.5M/min to 24M/min (1.6feet/min to 78 feet/min)

And it's Synergic. Call up the job type, and then either set the material thickness, desired current, wire speed etc, and all of the other parameters change automatically.

All-in-all it's a pretty impressive machine.

Cheers

Trevor

That's pretty sweet.
How durable is the screen?

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79jasper wrote:That's pretty sweet.
How durable is the screen?

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I haven't ever had a problem with it, it all seems to be pretty robust. Mind you, I haven't thrown it from a great height, but it certainly has been designed to work in a fairly harsh environment. I've seen other operators throw them around a bit more roughly that I would, without problems. I just treat it the same as any torch. All good.