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Practicing for a brazing cert, copper to copper using Harris Stay-Silv white flux and Safety-Silv 45 brazing alloy

Have to do 3/8" and 2" tubing
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I got my welding cart done. I work for a bus company and need the security this setup gives me.
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Open your pic in "Paint", save it in correct orientation and reload. Default windows viewers often load sideways, didn't used to but hey MS has to justify an upgrade somehow!
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A little weld detail from those Honda manifolds, and my newest toy (RogueFab M600) to play with! ImageImage

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What is that? A hand powered hydraulic coal scorp?
Stone knives and bearskins.....and a NEW EVERLAST 164SI !!!
That's my newly shared work welder.
At home I got a Power Tig 185 DV. Nice, but no plasma cutting... Nice tight arc after a second.
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nelson wrote:What is that? A hand powered hydraulic coal scorp?
It's an air/Hydraulic tubing bender!

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Saturday job putting in this 5" sched40 crossover. Took me 15 hours including pumpout and re-start. Was a tied joker at the end of the day but still made it out for oysters, steak and beer at about 9pm. The first beer was for my good mate Exie!!

As a point of interest, the elbow on the right is of chinese manufacture. Supposed to be sched40 but actual wall thickness was between sched 40 & 80! And the big thing is that it wasn't 90* !!! What's up with that? You can see the 5G butt is alot wider than the 2G butt, that's because I tacked it on the outside 2.4mm gap (3/32") and had about 8.5mm (11/32") gap to fill on the inside to square it up. Beware crap from China!
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Saturday job putting in this 5" sched40 crossover. Took me 15 hours including pumpout and re-start. Was a tied joker at the end of the day but still made it out for oysters, steak and beer at about 9pm. The first beer was for my good mate Exie!!

As a point of interest, the elbow on the right is of chinese manufacture. Supposed to be sched40 but actual wall thickness was between sched 40 & 80! And the big thing is that it wasn't 90* !!! What's up with that? You can see the 5G butt is alot wider than the 2G butt, that's because I tacked it on the outside 2.4mm gap (3/32") and had about 8.5mm (11/32") gap to fill on the inside to square it up. Beware crap from China!
I know what you mean about the 90's, we did a lot of 316 pipe work and the elbows were pretty good, got into some duplex and the material seemed really thick for schedule 40, nice looking work there!
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That's a big problem here too. I've had fittings so bad that it's like welding togeather different diameter pipe. Or there not round. That sucks when you have to clock a fitting in a certain position but the one you are up against is out of round in a different direction than the other.
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I've been slack and haven't posted much lately.

Getting lots of little jobs now for my motorcycle racing mates. Below is a battery/electrics box for a race bike. Made with 3mm scrap aluminium, filler is 2mm 5356.

Not weldporn by any means, but finding that 1 pps gives me that 'metronome' I need to make my beads reasonably even.

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MosquitoMoto wrote:I've been slack and haven't posted much lately.

Getting lots of little jobs now for my motorcycle racing mates. Below is a battery/electrics box for a race bike. Made with 3mm scrap aluminium, filler is 2mm 5356.

Not weldporn by any means, but finding that 1 pps gives me that 'metronome' I need to make my beads reasonably even.

Moz
Hey Kym, nice small fab work there, good to see ya again ;)
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MosquitoMoto wrote:I've been slack and haven't posted much lately.

Getting lots of little jobs now for my motorcycle racing mates. Below is a battery/electrics box for a race bike. Made with 3mm scrap aluminium, filler is 2mm 5356.

Not weldporn by any means, but finding that 1 pps gives me that 'metronome' I need to make my beads reasonably even.

Moz
Hey Kym, nice small fab work there, good to see ya again ;)

Thanks so much Richard.

One of the great pleasures of welding is to be useful enough to help your friends out.



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Woo hoo! Passed the weld test for my R stamp! First project is on Friday. Chasing cracks on the tube sheet on an old steam boiler. I'll try to post some pics.
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Poland308 wrote:Woo hoo! Passed the weld test for my R stamp! First project is on Friday. Chasing cracks on the tube sheet on an old steam boiler. I'll try to post some pics.
Congrats Josh, I'm sure it's well deserved!
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LtBadd wrote:
Poland308 wrote:Woo hoo! Passed the weld test for my R stamp! First project is on Friday. Chasing cracks on the tube sheet on an old steam boiler. I'll try to post some pics.
Congrats Josh, I'm sure it's well deserved!
Amen, and well done!

I've passed my IX qual, and qualified some procedures. We're still waiting on the NB audit to give us our "R" stamp. Coming soon, to a theater near you.

Also, I now have to qualify on aluminum for a particular repair (and write a procedure, and qualify it)... Damn it!

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It seems there's no end ever in sight. But people with goals live longer. So it evens out. :)
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Congrats poland308 on making a test! Iv done my fair share of r stamp work and I'm always amazed on how much paper is involved.
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Picked this little job up yesterday. Delivered today. Everything went just as planned which was nice since it usually doesn't go that way for me. Especially on aluminum. It was very dirty and oily but it cleaned up good. It's an oil pan for chevy aveo. I didn't think to grind off the weld where the plug goes back in but the mechanic said it was fine. Had a little porosity at the starts but after I ground it out the next weld was fine.
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Tig/stick 14" pipe tie-ins took a picture just off the bottom .
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Bingo wrote:Tig/stick 14" pipe tie-ins took a picture just off the bottom .
That looks nice, way to get it done
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thank you sir.A blind squirrel finds a nut every once in a while !
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