Welding Tips and Tricks

Otto Nobedder wrote:

5th Street Fab wrote:... I finally got a bottle of helium at home...

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Sweet!
I have the incredibly rare blessing of completely unlimited access to helium. One of our clients provides whatever we ask for because I use it in leak detection.

Steve

Lucky man! I got to finally use some at work today. I'm hooked. Now if only they would get it for everyday use!

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Today i made two simple cordless drill holders and weld four adjustable legs for an assembly table made for line assembly of kitchen ovens. All make with 304 stainless steel scarp from ovens productions, the square tube for the legs are just 1mm thickness tig welded

Last 2 weeks or so. Happy Father's day





























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This was terrifying but so exciting! I posted earlier the beginnings of this, now it's all done, just need to add some sensors and pressure references, maybe a brace to the block. Last week I finally got off my ass and bought the plenum metal, and went to my friend's shop with a big press with my angle and rod to bend it. It worked well with the experiment with the coolant tank so I was cautiously optimistic. But even with 3003, it is just too much length with a single pressure point. The 1.5" solid aluminum bar bent before making much of an impression on the sheet (3/16" thick). I called several audibles, one was a steel jack handle, that crushed. Finally we found a 1.5" solid STEEL bar, I cut it to length and that finally worked. It almost seemed like it wasn't going to, it was bending a lot but wasn't yielding and when it bottomed out in the angle, it straightened out the bend. PSI is a bitch, I'm from an RC airplane model background and I should have an appreciation for load distribution but it's still hard to picture intuitively.

Alls' well that ends well, I'm SUPER stoked with the end result, I was cautiously optimistic that my skill level was now where it needs to be but I always tend to attempt things when they're at least a notch outside of my comfort zone and sometimes ability but that's what makes it fun...

That looks fancy and like you did a heck a job welding that all out.

D that looks nice and clean!

Thanks a lot guys!

I put a lot of effort into today's welding.

My filler tooling cabinet is complete finally and out on the floor.

Beautiful work as usual


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How many times have you had to patch the flighting on those augers? Nice work.

some practice with an aluminum box

crimas wrote:some practice with an aluminum box

Nice looking welds

Finished a new welding positioner project that I have been working with a local machine shop on. Ran some tests, works well. Played around last night running some autogenous welds with the torch strapped to my steady-rest. These were done at 2pps. Different amp settings for the different spots. I guess its a pen holder for my desk at work. haha.

jernigan78 wrote:Finished a new welding positioner project that I have been working with a local machine shop on. Ran some tests, works well. Played around last night running some autogenous welds with the torch strapped to my steady-rest. These were done at 2pps. Different amp settings for the different spots. I guess its a pen holder for my desk at work. haha.

Looks great, would like to know more about your rotator build

Awesome looking beads..

Double post.

Some aluminum on some intercoolers, and some titanium from Ticon in one of their sample kits!

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The titanium came out nice! Sucks having to wait for it to cool down though.

Oscar wrote:The titanium came out nice! Sucks having to wait for it to cool down though.

The whole thing was done consecutively alternating joint to joint. I think it's 4" sections maybe?

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GreinTime wrote:

Oscar wrote:The titanium came out nice! Sucks having to wait for it to cool down though.

The whole thing was done consecutively alternating joint to joint. I think it's 4" sections maybe?

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Even more impressive!

Super nice consistency on the coolers there Sam!....inverter or transformer machine?

Nice TI work as well....jealous.

dunkster wrote:Super nice consistency on the coolers there Sam!....inverter or transformer machine?

Nice TI work as well....jealous.

Those are done with a Dynasty 350 inverter. I'd like to try one with a Syncrowave, just for shits and giggles.

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Oscar wrote:

GreinTime wrote:

Oscar wrote:The titanium came out nice! Sucks having to wait for it to cool down though.

The whole thing was done consecutively alternating joint to joint. I think it's 4" sections maybe?

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Even more impressive!

I don't pay for argon I think I was at 35-40cfh with a postflow of 18 seconds out of a Monster16. I didn't think to turn the preflow up, or I probably could have gotten even less discoloration on the restarts.

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what do you do when work is slow and nothing to do for a few hours, you bend and weld up a brushed stainless mailbox to replace the broken plastic one that was on a rotting pole leaning into your driveway... and throw a quick name letter on it in the last 5 minutes of the day using the notcher and a cut off blade on the grinder... of course the rental house is still nasty but there's a nice shiny mailbox! ha...