1st Gen Lunchtable Thread - General Discussion

Another trailer fix for next week; how is it vehicle frames are always pristine out here but trailer tongues and other shit rust and break to shit

 

My blackbird came out too shiny on the paint. Didn't do a matte finish but seeing those I should have. Planes are really easy, been looking for a Concorde next. Have to finish my Shelby cobra first though, and I still have a dozen waiting to be built. Veryuch a winter hobby.

 

Decent

 

Fuck yeah!

That pay increase too is gonna be money

 

I would hope it's in the form of money lol

 

Slang, keep up old man

 

I mean you never know, could just get offered a pizza party or get an atta boy and a $25 gift card to Starbucks

 

"We're family here"

 

In about a year haha

 

So I welded for the first time over the weekend. I was going to just play around and weld some scrap, but ended up doing all my slider frame mount gussets. They look pristine if I do say so myself
I'm addicted now, got to find a machine for myself..

Heard decent things about the titanium series from HF, theres an apparently never used Titanium 170 on facebook with a cart for 400, thats a pretty decent deal right?

 

I've heard the Vulcan is very good too. 170 should be good enough for anything up to 3/16, personally. Does that deal come with a bottle for gas? Or are you planning on running flux core/innershield?

 

Come on @time623 you know the rules

 

Personally, I'd recommend a PrimeWeld MIG180.

I've done everything from 18 gauge up to 1/4" with it.

It's a great value coming with a spoolgun for aluminum, a torch that uses tweco consumables, and a 3 year no questions asked warranty.

I personally run a CUT60 for a lot of CNC plasma cutting as well as their bigger brother MIG285 without issue.

I've played around and welded with my friend's HF Ttitanium but for the money, the PrimeWeld is a much better buy. That and you only have a 90 day warranty with Harbor Freight.

Here is when I used to run a MIG180 that I'd intentionally try and push passed duty cycle all on 3/16"

 

All I did were the triangle gussets, plates and tubes were done by a professional
Don’t mind the half assed primer job

I’m pretty proud of them though
Had a great teacher from the Az TW group

 

Hell of a job for being the first time man. Nice job!

 

Great work!

 

Hoping to get a tank and skip starting on flux, but thats also much more palatable to do on a cheaper machine. Once we're talking about 6-7-800 welders then the extra couple hundred on gas starts to hurt a lot more.

 

Damn those look good