Welding Tips and Tricks

5th Street fab, please refrain from posting your work. You are destroying my self esteem. Lol

exnailpounder wrote:I built a rocket stove. They are cool for 15 minutes and then....I gave mine to my best friend to take to his campsite. He amazes the neighbors by cooking sweet corn on it. He's having fun with it so it was worth it to build for him. If I still had it, it would have been cannibalized into something else by now.

Apparently you are not a camper like I am, this will allow me to make breakfast and use my pocket iso/butane stove for my coffee, while camping, then can leave camp to ride the dirt bike w/o having to snuff out a campfire in a burn ring beforehand. Probably get several hours use out of it.

exnailpounder wrote:I built a rocket stove. They are cool for 15 minutes and then....I gave mine to my best friend to take to his campsite. He amazes the neighbors by cooking sweet corn on it. He's having fun with it so it was worth it to build for him. If I still had it, it would have been cannibalized into something else by now.

If you could make a rocket stove chill a can of froths, then you'd be in business.

some things i made for my shop and some stuff i have made for some customers the past 2 weeks.

You do beautiful work


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Some 2x.250 wall Mild steel control arms I'm welding for a buddy of mine. You boys that weld pipe have my respect, that thick stuff is no joke!

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GreinTime wrote:

Some 2x.250 wall Mild steel control arms I'm welding for a buddy of mine. You boys that weld pipe have my respect, that thick stuff is no joke!

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Yeah, buts it's nice to crank up the heat and burn it

Some stuff from the last 2 weeks.



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Beautiful stuff!

zank wrote:Beautiful stuff!

Thanks zank. Love your stuff!

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5th Street Fab wrote:Some stuff from the last 2 weeks.



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Gotta get a napkin after this one... Hot damn.

How the F do you get consistency like that? Looks like a (curse word) robot welded that stuff.

What's your settings? I want to be like you when I grow up.

I don't get how people weld with stickout that short. I can't see a thing when I try and do that!

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Weld porn overload.
Nice work.

I couldn't weld like that in my dreams! Damn! Beautiful work 5th Street

I better go practice some more...

electrode wrote:I better go practice some more...

As if you weren't going to practice more. No welder on here doesn't need more practice nor do they not practice.

Thanks guys. I don't have any settings really it's just a transformer syncrowave 250. Just 7-10 on the balance. I hate having a long stick out on aluminum, don't know why. It just takes hood time and learning to read the puddle. Anyways thanks for looking!

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@5th Street Fab

I noticed in one of your pics an aluminum flange for an NPT plug. Is there a brand of flange or bung that you prefer? I am looking to source some to have in stock for adding drains to pontoons.

Jakedaawg wrote:@5th Street Fab

I noticed in one of your pics an aluminum flange for an NPT plug. Is there a brand of flange or bung that you prefer? I am looking to source some to have in stock for adding drains to pontoons.

I'm not sure it's whatever my work has on hand.

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I haven't posted a weld in a while, and this topic is getting buried, so here goes.

It's a socket weld (rare for me these days) done in the position you see it with all the crap in the way. 309 rod, as it's 3/4" stainless pipe to a mild steel valve.
Steve S

Otto Nobedder wrote:I haven't posted a weld in a while, and this topic is getting buried, so here goes.

It's a socket weld (rare for me these days) done in the position you see it with all the crap in the way. 309 rod, as it's 3/4" stainless pipe to a mild steel valve.

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Steve S

Nice socket weld! You used the gap-o-let right? That weldment doesn't look like it needs any mistakes. I wish I could do your job I had to weld a goddamned sink in a bar today...I hated it

exnailpounder wrote:

Otto Nobedder wrote:I haven't posted a weld in a while, and this topic is getting buried, so here goes.

It's a socket weld (rare for me these days) done in the position you see it with all the crap in the way. 309 rod, as it's 3/4" stainless pipe to a mild steel valve.

socket weld.jpg

Steve S

Nice socket weld! You used the gap-o-let right? That weldment doesn't look like it needs any mistakes. I wish I could do your job I had to weld a goddamned sink in a bar today...I hated it

Did you get some good payment or sneak a little while you were there though. If so then probably worth it in the end. I mean you could be 20 ft down in the mud and 3 feet of water figuring out where the hell that tape measure went.

Gap-o-let? I just cut the threads off the pipe section you see (Originally a threaded nipple. I was expecting Rego valves, with FNPT both ends). I then loosely fit these ITT valves (this has a mate exactly opposite) for the standard 1/16" minimum pull-back for a socket weld, used my electrician's level to set the valves at 30*, and a quick tack on top. Squared them up with my TLAR (That Looks About Right), and welded them out.

Steve S

If it looks straight and level then nobody is going to check and see if it actually is.