Anything welding

My old brain forgot and left my Arc One Out in the Truck.

It seems the batteries did not enjoy the cold I hope I did not kill them for good.

The coldest this winter of course .

 

Appreciate the kind words!

 

Also, very nice looking welds. I wish I had the skill (or patience!) to make welds like that!

 

All it takes is an understanding of what your looking at then make it happen on a constant basis.

Arc time to sharpen the muscle memory!

 

Badass. Nice job. Cool to see your welding and fabrication skills come so far in a short time

 

Thanks!

I'm my biggest critic and I was telling myself it could've been better; still strong as heck though!

 

Hey, that means a lot coming from a fabricator!

 

Awesome! Damn shame it's gonna be covered by a spare. Maybe it will be visible through the rim.

You need to have some decals made up to give with the parts you produce.

 

Dude, decals are a great idea!

 

Mastering the Circuit die cutting machine after learning plasma is simple.

The units are cheap AF on the marketplace.

 

Can confirm. They're so handy to have, too, I use ours all the time. It's the little "cricut air" thats only four or five inches wide but you can do really long rolls of stuff.

 

If you're not interested in going the Cricut route, I've had good luck ordering from stickermule.com for our program's logo stickers.

 

Broke down and picked up this little unit today.



going to have to jump through hoops to get my cylinder swapped out. local welding shop would not touch it, falsely claiming the company on the neck ring was still in business and was based in oregon, Nice to see there google skills are good.. the company was based in rockford Illinois, and was bought by airgas 8 years ago. the tank is customer owned an has been since I was born.

So I had to drive halfway across town, to airgas, an try to swap it out for a tank of C25, nope they no longer swap gases so I had to get a tank of Oxygen. ok so swap it out and make sure the neck is slick. So now I have a 250cf of oxygen which I hardly ever use. but, local welding shop I first stopped by will swap gasses long as it is customer owned tank.


But I am kinda thinking of swapping out my 125cf oxygen instead, and get the acetylene filled at the same time.

 

Sucks about the oxygen.

My LWS even took in a 19-year past expiration bottle (that I got free from a friend) that I exchanged and I only got charged a hydro test fee on top of the exchange cost.

Cheap way to add another bottle to my account.

 

Speaking Greek to me, will need to research that later.

Completely new to anything decal-related.

 

Couple practice beads with the new welder in 1/8" mild steel.





bottom was the first one , started off badly on the right , and started smoothing out to the left. above that is the second bead and above that is a butt joint.



tweaking the wire speed just a a touch, and relearning how to lay a straight bead. bottom one got a bit wonky



A little better view of the butt joint, after I started I just pushed the nozzle in a straight line, mainl;y wanted to just follow the gap between the two pieces



Back side of the plate.

 

Take a piece of metal.

Take a ruler, straight edge, whatever and with a permanent marker, draw a line across it. Then another above or below it.

Draw lines that parallel each other on the entire face of your steel between about 1" apart (all evenly spaced).

Follow these lines as you run a stringer.

This is how I've taught several first-timers to 1. Get used to running the gun and 2. Learning how to watch and guide their arc

 

About 6 degrees F
as an update after enjoying a few days inside where is a little warmer.

Once it got warm it seems to be working fine.

I treated it to new outer and inner cover plates .

 

What kind of marker I tried using one and the ink burns off.

In the olden days we center punches holes to follow or soap stone.