Welding Tips and Tricks

Jeff, do you back purge those kegs when welding the fittings?

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.

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
Some welding content
The steel parts are 0,9 mm thick, thinner at the rear dome after all hammering.
Welded with minimum of filler and then planished.

Another Metalshaping project.

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.

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

Anders
what did you use to form the letters in the steel?
craig

Bench shear, jig saw and files. All hand crafted

anders
then you weld the the letters to the plate?
nice job by the way!
craig

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.

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!

Thx mate.

It's been in my mind making one for sure

Another box made, at least it has one weld in it....

Anders
is it 3003 or 5056?
looks sharp!!
craig

Looks real good Anders, you are quite talented!

Thx guys

Top and bottom is 1050A 1,5mm
Shroud is 5052

AndersK wrote:Another box made, at least it has one weld in it....

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Ya I saw this on Instagram! Nice job I like it a lot!

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