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That would have a affect to it, there still usable but as you are having issues with being consistent, im betting thats not helping. I have used brand new rods and have had the same issues, gets frustrating.

 

You could also toss the rod into a rod oven or other heat source to dry them out.

 

Well I have probably 6 or 7 lbs of this rod left, and about 10 lbs of 6011 at my disposal to practice with so until I actually weld an actual project with stick the old rod will do.

I also tried aluminum stick the other day, holy cow the entire rod is gone in about 10 seconds! It makes pretty welds though.

 

Just joined this group and saw this. I like to weld. And do some occasional blacksmithing when it is not to hot outside to fire up the gas forge. Just started into metal work a year or two ago. Can't wait to weld up a bumper for my new (to me) Prerunner. Here is a pic of the last thing I made up. Needed something to shoot at with the pistols when I had some guys from work come over to blow off some steam.....and blow up some homemade tannerite. Just some old leftover angle I had laying around. And yes I was careful with the galvanized coating.

 

Normal Highschools have football, band, dance ect. We had a welding team that built projects and took them to contests in San Antonio, San Angelo and Houston Texas. This past year i graduated and this was our project of the year we ended up winning Houston and placed well in the other two. A group of 6 including myself and our welding instructor made this 35ft Hydraulic Float trailer for a sponsor. Trailer was custom built for his needs on the job and includes a unique ramp design and yes we did build this from Scratch. Took 5 Months to build.
Weighing the trailer at the scales in comfort texas.





Above. Two Deep cycle marine batteries to power the 8k winch/air compressor and yes it is a warn HD Powerpack winch
VVVVV Us after all the shows. Im the one on the bottom row, right black shirt holding the plaque, and wearing shades.


Never did sports in highschool, this was my substitute! haha

 

cool! What process did you guys use to weld it?

 

Glad to see Industrial Arts is alive and well in some schools. Awesome job and congratulations on your trailer build.

 

We Mig welded it together using a Millermatic 350p machine. We used ER70S-6 Wire and 92/8 Shield gas. The whole trailer was pulse welded for deeper penetration and a gorgeous weld.

Still Like the Red though!!!!

 

Thank you sir, Im proud to be appart of it and going to shows lets me see other students projects ect. This program is what made me decide on what i wanted to do after i graduated and also made me wanna build my bumpers ect. I love welding and metal fab.

 

Man Im so Jelly. I wish my Highschool had something like that. Even living in the mountains and at a small school we dont even have a shop class. I did take and Autocad class though which helped me out at the metal foundry I worked at this summer.

 

And I thought the picture of my little learn to blueprint for welding book was something else... ha, man that trailer is so bad ass!

 

Realized today i cannot weld anything pretty but parallel planes and ugly tacks.


Also, this is the 1000th post in this thread!

 

We used google sketchup to do our projects. Ive found it more user friendly. it sure is a pain converting it to autocad for the burn table plasma table we had lol

 

did you guys do any FEA on the trailer or just overbuild it like crazy?

 

Can you rephrase the question?? WE built the trailer from scratch and took a normal 35ft float and made our own twists on it to make it unique. From the tool box on the top of the towers holding the batteries to how we did the spair tire ect.

 

Finite Element Analysis. He's asking if you used any software to determine areas that might need more or less structure due to the stress loading.

 

No we did not, Our instructor has built float trailers before, this being the 5th in 7 years. We did beef up the bridgework underneith on this one because of its length. Has 15k axles. But no we didnt use any software to do that, our school barely wants us to use google sketchuip.

 

Cool just wondering. I think it would have been outside the scope of a high school project anyway. It came out really good though!

 

thanks! Making the ramp work on hydraulic cylinders and chains-sprockets was a hell of a challange though....

 

Here is the newest tool I'm working on for the shop. It's a steel roller It's built around the SAWGoffroad roller dies. I thought about the HF unit but after the upgrades needed I felt it would be better to just built one myself

I need to machine out the holes to 20mm then I can fully weld this bad boy up and start rolling steel.