Total chaos gusseted spindles

That was fast, I got the original SPC ball joints (no grease fitting), and their going bad 40-50k miles. Up and down play and need to be replaced. Called SPC for warranty but warranty stops @ 3 year 36k. I'm going to rebuild them with the new style joints but ultimately want to switch to the Rokmen uca's. I'll be tearing into the front end soon, I'll send you a text or PM soon. BTW your welds look like art.

 

Your welding skills are def much, much better than mine. So I want to ask you some questions about welding these. I assume I need to pre heat the spindle and bounce around on the weld kind of like stitch weld to distribute the heat load, or can I continuously weld by my welders duty cycle? Also after welding is complete, I think I would need to toss these in some 5gal buckets full of sand to slow the cooling. Also, how much power are you using on your welder? I've got a Millermatic 35 blackface that I'm going to use .035 wire. I think the 4 or 5 slot out of the 6 should be hot enough. Any other suggestions, tips, or tricks would be greatly appreciated.

 

You do need to preheat. I jump around but mostly just out of habit. With the preheat some guys like to weld it all at once. I use a fixture when I'm welding everything so I'm not overly worried about anything warping. But I've done them without a fixture and not had any problems.

I have 3 different welders I go back and forth between. A millermatic 180, millermatic 220, and a millermatic 212. All have different settings. I set all my welders up by feel and adjust them accordingly. I stopped running .035 a long time ago so my welders are setup to run .023 and .030. I'm not very familiar with the tap changes on the millermatic 35 but your voltage and amperage will rely heavily on your travel speed. I run a slower travel speed than most and don't do any fancy puddle manipulations. Your best bet will be to find a way to move your torch that you can consistently do. As far as setting go. I adjust till the wire flows smooth and the toes flow in on the outsides of the weld. My heat setting are more than likely slower than most but that is made up for by my slower travel speed.

Sorry if this is confusing it hard to type out something you've kind of just refined over the last dozen or so years into a coherent paragraph. All my adjustments are made based on watching my puddle flow thru the hood. I don't do too much adjusting based on what the weld looks like after it cools.

 

I got mine off the truck today and packaged up for shipping, text you tomorrow.

 

Bunch of sets of spindles headed hour this week. This set has been set up for balljoint uca's

 

Another set of spindles headed out

 

A few more sets of spindles that got welded up over the weekend

 

Those are beautiful and I like the weight saving holes. When I grow up I want to weld like you haha.

I've been welding with oxy acetylene and I'm getting really tired of it but the house I currently live in to flip on has 115V. Do you have a recommendation for a good electric welder that I can run t reduced capacity? Not looking to buy one specifically for 115V

 

Millermatic 211 would be my choice. I have one I use between my house on the shop. Thinking about picking the new multimatic for the pad.

Oxy acetylene is actually the best way to learn puddle characteristics and hone up you rod feeding skills. It's great tig practice

 

Thanks for the recommendation, I'll check it out.
Yeah, that's what my dad said about oxy acetylene but it was a hand me down when he bought his electric welder haha

 

Hey Jason we just spoke on the phone. So just to confirm, you have the gussets in house already? And some welded up and ready to ship. So if I ordered aND paid today you could theoretically have them in the mail today? And total cost is $180 upon ordering and you return $80 when you receive the exchange core?

Peter

 

That is incorrect. I will send you a pm once I'm off work

 

Another set that arrived to its new owner this week

 

Pm'd

 

All dressed and ready for install. Thanks buddy.

 

Those turned out awesome.

 

thanks jason!!

 

Looking good. Can't wait to see that spod once you get it installed

 

Two more pairs in route to their new owners