Anything welding

I threw in the towel finally. Signing up for a 8 week night course on advanced pipe Tig welding. Will probably sign up for the specialty alloy class after if all goes well. Time to get serious about being a combo welder.

 

Welded up some outdoor couch 'ends' for the wife. Needs a couple adjustment and then paint to complete.

 

Ah, answers my other question lol, looks like Doug fir from here

 

Yup just simple doug fir studs for now, might try and Shou Sugi Ban it to preserve it longer. But I suspect that they will need to be replaced with a better solution in the future

 

Any guesses what this is?

 

Took me six welds to get the damn spool gun dialed in. Sometimes it just fights you.

Thankfully this is a prototype.

 

Nope. It is a sporting goods assesory.

 

Some welds from yesterday. Machine was really fighting me. Been trying to get away from auto set since it doesn't always weld the best and just couldn't get the setting right. They got better towards the end of the day. But this is my favorite part in the build when i get to do all the final welding. If anyone has any suggestions please tell lol. Miller multimatic 215 with c25, .030. Frame plates were 1/8 in to 1/16 and towers were 1/4. Setting that seem to work are turning up the amps and turning down the wire speed from the recommended setting.

 

Fishing rod holder?

 

Yep.

Tripple tree.

Holds 3 rods while trolling.

 

Fishing pole holder for your fishing trawler

 

The Electric Grid does strange things when demand is high All kinds of electric motors starting

 

Had 4 of these pop up today.
What causes this ?

 

Can`t tell for sure from the picture something in the metal cooking off causing gas to rise out of the cooling weld pool .

Might be on the surface or from when the steel was made .

 

Fireball tools squares showed up.
Pretty nice.

 

Whipped up a couple book ends for the wife. She’s been asking for these for months. Does she not understand lead times?

 

And now we wait. Soaking them in salt water for however long it takes to get them nice and rusty.

 

I could be wrong but I believe they’ll rust faster outside of the water. Rust needs Oxygen to make the reaction happen and there’s not much oxygen in dead water like you have in the bucket.

 

That's what I thought as well. I'm treating this like a science experiment too, to see what happens.