Anything welding

Third beer in. You may have a point hahahaha

 

As you love the building of Carts why not one of each ??

I think it would make you happier .

 

Lol it just helps with organization

This cart is meant for TIG only, and since I don't have a dedicated TIG welder, it'll only get pulled out when I hook it up to my multiprocessor

Being compact was the main goal as you can see by the comparison



By the way, these little caps from Amazon helped clean up the square tubing on the big cart

 

That's looking really sharp

 

Thanks man! Maybe I'll build something for myself now lol

 

You should!

I always look for ways to organize shit; my tables become a "catch all" and providing a spot to put things in helps with that

 

My cousin is coming over tomorrow who is an excellent wood worker who wants to learn to weld. He's extremely organized so maybe I'll pick his brain.

Ended up doing an oil change on the daily instead lol.

 

Oh yeah I finished the blocks lol. These were "smaller" for a Hilux. As usual I built them with the customers requested specs. He requested a smaller center section and over all top and bottom plate size. Standard sizes are 5.5"x2.5" with a center section of 5x2. These are 4.5"x2.25" with a 2x4 center section. Not much room on the sides so burned up the edge on a few spots. Gotta work on that.

 

It still falls under practice welds so your excused on minor errors!

 

Lol yeah still gotta work on it though. If the next person asks for 2.25" wide blocks I'm saying no! Lol

 

You could always get some chill blocks to help
Something to help pull the heat away
Or
Start practicing pulse

 

You are allowed to do what you can to control the heat.

A nice piece of copper flat stock clamped to the tube makes a great heat Sink!

I have done that many times!

 

When I was in school I made a purge block

 

School yes I do think that was sometime before The dinosaurs .

My class was the first year to get those fancy new Mig and Tig welders.

 

Yeah but a house back then was like 20$ and bread was .05 cents

so
You had SOME advantages

 

I bought my house for $30 and a 12 pack of beer in 2011

 

Has anyone ever heard of “dual shield wire” or “dual shield welding”. I stumbled across it on the internet and from what I’ve seen it seems it’s a flux cored wire along with running an inert gas.

Has anyone used it or know of when something like this would need to be used?

 

Yep.

Just flux that uses gas.

 

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CqTN0fCACHW/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

 

It's usually used when good penetration is needed on thicker iron. It's easy to use since risk of burn thru is almost non existent. I could not think of an instance where it would be the "go to" welding style for a home fabricator.