Anything welding

I was thinking of attaching a small piece of lead with adhesive on the backside as a counterweight.

It's what we do with a pouch on the back of our helmets -





Not as necessary when using a bump or carbon fiber helmet and monocular though -





The black one is a kevlar, ballistic rated helmet though, and running duals makes it heavy real quick.

 

Will those things stop a bullet?

 

The TW will, depending on the caliber.

It's why they're required at our night shoots or room clearing shoot houses I used to participate in.

 

Nice. Stay safe out there!

 

Badass!!! I wanna attach an auto darkening shade to one of those and use that as a welding hood lol!

 

Dual wield MIG guns

 

I am sure we have all been there!!

The vision degrades so slow you don`t really notice till it gets really bad

Another thing it also degrades how well the sensors detect the Arc which might be more important.

Something I never really had to think about till about 12 years ago.

 

So I completely forgot this thread existed

A little while ago when it started getting cold I got to working on my old beater car project. Needs rockers, rear subframe patched, etc. No biggie, I had an older Craftsman flux welder that I thought would work for the sheet metal fab. Yea, I was wrong. So, I was on the hunt for a 120V MIG gas setup. Came across the Eastwood 140 which at the time was $389 shipped to my door. Add a cheap HF cart and the initial $335 for the gas bottle and I was ready!



Did try and dial in some settings on an old junk mower blade and some scrap sheet metal. Turned out pretty good actually.



As a note, I work in industrial maintenance, so welding is not foreign to me. However, we use 480V millers. But, setting up the 120V Eastwood was easy.

Went right to making patches for the car, using various methods. Had to make everything by hand as there are no patch panels for this car anymore. The curved piece was tricky, and had an inner and outer, but I made it work with just a small bench top vice.



Outer:



Yes, you can see some ugly looking patches on the inside rocker, but it was a great place to practice and most of it was done with the Flux before I gave up. The outer piece went on so it'll hide that sin...




So, there's my little "welding intro". Honestly, this thing should be scrapped, but I like a challenge. After this car is done, I'm probably gonna do another one.

 

Where are you all getting your lenses from? I'm having a hard time finding some for my miller digital pro hobby hood.

 

Locally.

 

Yeah, I might run to my local weld shop.

 

Only thing I've always disliked is that they close 'early' by my standards.

Some places at 3pm, some at 5pm.

 

Since I use Arc One Hoods mine need to come from a dealer that sells Arc One products .Mine cover plates are 4"x5"

i bought a few Boxes over the years I should have enough to last.

Remember there are cheap plastic and Polycarbonite

Any of the online Welding Supply vendors Should have them as well i know Cyber Weld does

 

I need to look harder on cyberweld. I suck navigating their site on my phone.

 

I have a hard enough time making a phone call on the stupid phone.

Then having to go outside to use the phone makes it worse

 

Nice. If you don't already have a body flange tool, you should check them out. Harbor Freight has one. They make a ledge for welding in repair sections. It makes the grinding and body filler so much easier. I have used this tool and loved the results.

 

I was just looking at that too. Might be taking on a firewall tub job and going to get fancy making new panels. Time to dust off the bead roller too.

 

Pretty pumped on these. First time ever welding aluminum.

 

So, what do y’all know about sheet metal work? I’d love to build a couple of toolboxes to go under the flatbed, but it seems like sheetmetal work is a whole new frontier, possibly beyond the reach of a home gamer. Any suggested reading?

 

I learned to weld on sheet metal long before I was building anything structural. It’s definitely a different skill set but the same principles apply: just enough heat for penetration, not enough to blow through your material. The sheet metal is less forgiving that heavy steel so you’ll have to get used to adjusting your settings in small increments to get them just right. A toolbox is “just a box” so you can make due with overlapping seams and spot or plug welds and use a seam sealer of your choice. That’ll make the job easier but obviously not as pretty as fully welded and dressed joints.