What welding projects are you working on? Are you proud of something you built?
How about posting some pics so other welders can get some ideas?
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That stool looks pretty hard.
You should get a bottle of stool softener.


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Just a couple welders and a couple of big hammers and torches.

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If that is what I think it is then there will be sitting on another chair , a long time :mrgreen:
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Was welding some 1,5 mm to 4 mm diamond plate tonight. I dont have much time with ali but this went easier than I first thought. Beveled the edges down to half thickness of the plate and pushed the sheet up to top level. 100 Amps, melted down the excess sheet and used little more than a half rod of 1,6 5356 filler for a half meter weld.

Looking alright?

Should I do a fillet weld on the outside or just put some sealer after the cap is welded in? It will sit under a car.
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AndersK wrote:Was welding some 1,5 mm to 4 mm diamond plate tonight. I dont have much time with ali but this went easier than I first thought. Beveled the edges down to half thickness of the plate and pushed the sheet up to top level. 100 Amps, melted down the excess sheet and used little more than a half rod of 1,6 5356 filler for a half meter weld.

Looking alright?

Should I do a fillet weld on the outside or just put some sealer after the cap is welded in? It will sit under a car.
I'm intrigued.
What's it actually used for?
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There will be a fuel tank on the diamond plate. A catch tank will be hiding behind the alu shell. Will put a fitting thru a grommet on the domed part and connect fuel line there.
The alu shell is only there to keep dirt out.

This is the joint I did
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Editing my post. Sorry was not trying to hijack this thread. I should have read it clearly before I posted pictures of a couple of "my" projects. Pics = deleted.

Lets start over.... I love that stool. Nice work! I wish I could do that.
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No worries mate, I just kept mine in a single project thread to find it easier. Dont mind at all if anybody posts anything else.

Thanks for the stool comnent. As I use to say, if I can do it so can you.
Just some planning, patience and simple tools needed. Even made this with a broken toe, steel toed shoes was the most comfortable to wear at that time so why not doing something fun to forget the pain :lol:
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More tank work tonight. Welded a 316 1/4" BSP fitting.
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Hey Anders! I'm curious about your settings. I do a good bit of welding on beer kegs for homebrewers lately so I weld alot of thick fittings to 18ga.SS. What were you running?
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Sheet is 1,5 mm
Using a pedal, max 45 amps
1,6 mm 2% thoriated
Gaslens with #4 cup
1 mm 316 filler.

I start with the arc focused on the fitting. When it gets wet, angle down and start adding filler when sheet and fitting start to fuse together.
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Jeff, do you back purge those kegs when welding the fittings?
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AndersK wrote:Jeff, do you back purge those kegs when welding the fittings?
I do. I bought an argon bottle just for that purpose. I have made various purge boxes for sparge tanks and HLTs ( kegs with the top cut out) and have a nice setup for intact kegs. Been working out great. Welding thick to thin can be tricky...need to move fast but stainless welds so nice is has gotten easy. I love welding stainless. Your work looks nice.
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Had an idea for a work light I had to get out of my head.
Made it from aluminum and steel. It has a 5,5W LED light in it and is fully adjustable in all directions
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Some welding content ;)
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The steel parts are 0,9 mm thick, thinner at the rear dome after all hammering.
Welded with minimum of filler and then planished.
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Another Metalshaping project.

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AndersK wrote:Not any welding here, just wanted to show a box I made for my gas torches.
Made in 1,5mm aluminum with stainless handle and hatch.
Once again, I could by a cheap box but what do one learn from that?
I could have welded the lids so the rivets is just for the cool factor.
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This box is awesome. I tried metal spinning on my lathe to make an 18" Venturi and it was a disaster.

Can you guide me to a video of the process to form metal like these boxes? The details are incredible.
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The technique I use is called hammer-forming, used on both the box and the Porsche clock.

Good resources are Ron Covell, Peter Tommasini and David Gardiner among others.

Ron has a movie dedicated to hammer forming:
http://covell.biz/hammerforming-techniques/

The details on the lid are made differently though.

1. Make a die of the shape you want. Can be of metal, wood, plastic you name it.
2 Make a "sandwich" bottom-up : The Die, the sheet to form, a urethane pad or hard rubber, a thick steel plate
3 Place that sandwich in a press and squeeze.

Below is an example I made with a steel die in 0,5 mm stainless
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Anders
what did you use to form the letters in the steel?
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Bench shear, jig saw and files. All hand crafted
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then you weld the the letters to the plate?
nice job by the way!
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Yes, they are spot welded. If you zoom in you can see the darker spots.

Laser cutting would had been a lot easier but this was just a fun weekend project at a Metalmeet in Norway.
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AndersK wrote:Not any welding here, just wanted to show a box I made for my gas torches.
Made in 1,5mm aluminum with stainless handle and hatch.
Once again, I could by a cheap box but what do one learn from that?
I could have welded the lids so the rivets is just for the cool factor.
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Looks brilliant mate, like a heavy duty flight case!
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Thx mate.

It's been in my mind making one for sure :mrgreen:
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Another box made, at least it has one weld in it.... :roll:
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is it 3003 or 5056?
looks sharp!!
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Looks real good Anders, you are quite talented!
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