Anything welding

Should be plenty. The stock bumper is way thinner.

 

I have found the simple way to clean the metal dust is a wire wheel.

Since one hopes the direction of the wheel is away from anything good.

It works for me as I have a wire wheel on all my benches.

 

Depends how often and how fast your going when you back into things .

I don`t worry about weight so if I had .250 wall or .375 wall I would use either sometimes one uses what one has.

 

Has anyone else on here stopped on the side of the road and picked up a piece of iron? I feel like a vulture but, damn, materials is materials.

 

I've been eyeing a crutch laying up on a ditch bank for a week. I want to stop and get it and cut it down for my kids to play with. I did find a nice hitch insert with a 2 5/16" ball on it in the middle of the road one day on the way home from work. I also lost a nice socket set years ago when one of my service truck doors came open and I didn't know it. Evened itself out, lol.

 

Don`t be sharing our secrets now everyone will be doing it!!

I am pretty sure most welders have done this on numerous times.

If they did not it bothered them for weeks.

 

Wife and I were at a busy intersection around a mall area and there was a 4ft piece of 1/8" 2x2 angle laying there. I jumped out and grabbed it.

 

I also found a blue tube with welding rods in it, it has "7018" wrote on it with a sharpie, I saw it, turned around and grabbed it and with the writing on it I for sure knew it was mine but had no idea how it got there. The hand writing looks just like mine. Went home and checked where my portable welder is and my rods and sure enough, my tube was where it should have been. Turns out the one I found was full of stainless rods

 

Oh yeah. Out with the wife on the way to town and can't snaggleberry. That piece you see gets logged in the brain file. ...1/4 mile up the road, right side just before CR2022. Snag at next chance.

 

No issues, just need away to ground while welding on truck.

 

Spend money I don't have on tools I don't need.

 

Completely Normal

I just clean a spot to get a good ground Put on a C Clamp hook the work clamp to the C clamp .

On all kinds of equipment

I have been doing it that way since before the Dinosaurs

 

I’ve done that with a pair of vice grips too.

 

Braided copper ground strap tied around whatever with a clean surface and clamp the welder ground to that

 

Welded so much aluminum and stainless in the trailer shops I never even thought about a magnet, just need a good strong clamp. Never had any problem until they fell apart.

 

Sure, but why not thicker? Mine is a piece of channel thats 1/4" on the face and probably 3/8" on the corners.

Ive nabbed a few bed frames. They make good scrap for home projects.

 

Sometime you can find those frames around a Southern rest area.

 

Their generally useless cause they are really hard to drill through and are an odd shaped 90 degree angle, but for small welding projects they come in handy to have around.

 

Oh yeah, I use it as well. Makes good hangars for hoses and generally any low stress angle use area. After working in trailer shops for 13 of my 20 years of wrenching and routinely drilling up to 3/8" thick stainless I can drill thru diamonds lol.

 

Most aftermarket rears are a 3/16” body, 1/4” mounting plates to the frame, at least 1/2” pass through shackles, and I forget the hitch size.