Anything welding

I hear you. Once set up, MIG welding is is cake.

I just made $50 for 15 minutes of work. Built some kayak racks on the fly.

 

Building this rack for my boss's Grip truck. For holding steel pipe, aluminum tube, lumber, milk crates full of gear, etc. I'm half way done. Still have another section to do. Below is the drawing of what the whole thing will look like

 

Here I thought it was a book case

My book case looks like that Votech welding project a long time ago.

 

Yeah it does look like that. Here you get a basic idea of what we use them for at work. Different looking rack but same idea

 

Finished the whole rack this morning!

 

I need to make something like this for my garage!

 

Doooo iiittt! Was pretty easy with plans. Just a little tedious with all the measurements and getting everything to be nice and square haha

 

I have to guess it would tend to rattle or is everything wrapped in foam??

 

You talking about the rack?

 

Here's my newest purchase. I pulled the image off Google because I currently have the machine sitting in storage. Anyone familiar with this machine? It's in great shape and I didn't pay much for it. Just looking for more info.

 

Go to Lincolns web site and Down Load the operators manual and read about your Toy!!

How does it weld??

I was talking about all the supplies that end up in the rack !!

Maybe your Roads are Much better then ours here but Copper pipe and pipe fitting would make enough noise I thought my head might explode !!

 

Haha yeah I hear ya. We have pretty good roads here near where we're filming. Also this rack goes in a 5 ton box truck that is enclosed and its a big diesel so you don't really hear anything in the truck when you're riding in the cab. We stuff the racks pretty full too where everything is pretty tight and secure so it doesn't really move around too much.

 

Had my coworker weld up a stainless tank for an alcohol rinse. He's our main welder on days. 65 years old. I think it's time to hang up the torch. He welded the inside and outside corners and it still leaks.

 

Just how big of a tank ?? Back purging not possible ??

From the picture it looks like the prep work was never done

What process ?? I would guess wrong filler for the type of stainless but it might just be the picture

I would be embarrassed with a weld that bad

 

We're not a full fab shop (paint shop) so we don't have the capability to back purge. It was mig welding 11 gauge 304 with 316 wire. He basically set the welder on kill and went at it. Most of the welds aren't tied into both sides. We ended up buying a $6 plastic tote to replace this abortion.

 

I have worked with some old guys that really struggle seeing whats going on, being smart enought to admit that is a different story.
I like that, "welder set to kill" haha!

 

In this day unless you have no interest being able to see while welding is much better now then 40 years ago

 

Do any of you guys do sand blasting? In particular in a blast cabinet? I got mine all setup but have some questions so figured I'd try asking here if before asking elsewhere

 

Pretty much comes down to enough air and the correct media for what your blasting

 

I got that part figured out More have questions on dust collection and media "reclaimer" and if they were worth while. I think I have the dust collector figured out though.

Will say cleaning rusty old car parts is much nicer in the cabinet