Anything welding

I'm looking for another argon supplier in my area but all I can find is Roberts Oxygen. I have nothing against them, I just want to shop around and see if there is something with better service and prices.

I tried "welding supply" in Google maps. What else could I search for?

 

10AM? I start at 7 on week days haha but the grinding is done with the garage doors shut at least. But yeah gotta try to be respectful of your neighbors for sure.

 

I make so much noise since I’m in the garage pretty much daily that I won’t want to become a nuisance lol

 

Question for all you knowledgable peeps In here. What's the difference between HREW tubing and DOM Tubing?

 

The googles would be able to give a more in depth answer, but it’s just how it’s produced. Erw has a weld seam where as dom doesn’t. Dom is a bit stronger.

 

...and a lot more $...

 

Yeah. Where I buy it it’s $5 a foot for 1.75x.120. $123 a stick

 

Made a couple hundred bucks this morning.

 

I decided to build a couple of my campsite grills using TIG style MIG welding. My machine does it just fine, but it still takes too long for me.

 

How does that take too long? With the correct heat and wire speed that can’t take more than 3 seconds?

I was welding up some arms yesterday and just for fun timed myself. The first arm I dragged all the inside ribs and the second arm I welded as I normally do. The results- dragged arm- 1hr 55min and the other 1hr 53min.

 

I seldom drag my welds. Always push works for me. there is no thinking involved. i have to spend too much time making perfect cursive e's. Its just not that important to me.

in addition, I wanted to prove that the machine is not getting all the credit or that style of welding. My 20 year old transformer machine can make those welds just fine using .035 70S.

Also, when I'm doing production work with multiple identical welds, I can't use 2 welders to get the job done faster using that style welding.

Don't get me wrong. I love the look, I even like the look on my projects, but seriously, who else but the people in this thread are going to care?

 

I weld like this cause I care... helps me sleep better at night

 

As was mentioned before, it’s become the standard in the Motorsports industry. Stacked dimes = welded well. Now we all know a smooth weld is just as strong as the stacked dimes look, but customers like the pretty stacked look.

 

These are probably the nicest weld on my new bumper. Mmmmm.

 

A shame you have to paint it.

 

Looks beautiful. Im trying to keep up with all the metal welding terminology, I am admittedly very unlearned when it comes to that. When I'm welding glass at work, I either do a straight bead if my rod fits my gap perfectly or I weave back and forth if I need to fill a gap larger than the rod I'm using. I like the way it looks when I weave it (before I swipe it out smooth), it resembles the type of welds in the photo above.

 

Holy Cow!
I was behind about 40 pages due to me being slack on this thread.....
all caught up now so I feel I can ask my question

Building a plate bumper out of purchased plans ( been told its a knock off pelfreybilt ) so its got 1/4" internal support / frame, and the rest is 3/16"

my question is about shackle mounts.

how thick do I really need? I ask this because I run a Lincoln Mig pack 140 @ 120V with .030 wire and Gas.

i'm a bit concerned how I would weld on 1" thick shackle mounts. is 1/2 too thin? is 3/4 OK?

I'm asking the experts here because I have a tendancy to go overboard without knowing why ( using 1/8" where 14ga would have been fine )

also should I get long ones that go through the bumper so I have more surface to weld on? or would those short ones you just weld to the front of the plate steel be good enough?

**pic for the likes**

 

1/2” is what I would do if I were welding with 120v. Some manufacturers use that and it’s fine. 3/4” is ideal, 1” is overkill. Make sure you get long shackles that pass through and are welded on multiple surfaces as opposed to just welding something to the face of the bumper.

 

I whipped up this cage for a buddies Honda 2000 that is getting into SCCA road racing... was kinda fun to do something different, probably over built

 

Very nice work