Anything welding

Oops I see where you live say no more !!

My price might be a little off but I could buy a 48"x96" sheet of 1/8" have it sheared into 8" strips the 8" pieces bent to 3"x5" L for a lot less then $100.00

It is just the market where you live.

Just be real careful and let the wheel make the cut just guide very slight pressure

Don`t use low end cut off wheels

 

Any brand cut off wheels that you recommend?

 

I have used Metabo Sait and the Air Gas House Brand Radnor all with good luck

I think I might have even bought some from Lehigh Valley Abrasives before they moved to Michigan

Just take your time and be careful if your uncomfortable find another way.

 

It feels sooooooo good to be laying beads again. I finally got my welder setup. Quickly threw together a cart and started working on my driveway gate. My welds look nasty but a little practice and my technique will come back.

 

So far so good with 220v.

I'll find out how well the 115v works tomorrow when I weld on the gate hinges at the end of my driveway.

 

One thing I have learned over the year don`t go cheap on Casters.

Things that don`t roll easy get real frustrating because I tend to move so many things in the course of a week

 

Can't wait to see pics of the gate in its final home...

 

I agree with you on casters. But in my case the casters we're free and they look like it will roll good

 

I was planning on installing it this morning but it is now raining like crazy.

 

Finally got a break in the rain and got the gate mounted. Now it's time for dinner.

 

Thanks. It's almost done. I finished the left side with wood pickets and tomorrow after church I will finish up the right side with a section of rod iron fence.

I still need to order the actuator to open/close the gate automatically.

 

My welds are getting better.

 

Good job for a process you don`t care for!!!

 

I just have to love companies buy a new piece of welding equipment put the operators /user manual on the shelf in the Purchasing agents office .

So that the employees in the field /shop never see it.

Theses products are changing all the time more then likely billed $1000.00 this last week for welding machines working just like they should.

Take the time read your manual .

Buying used machines most all manuals can be found a down loaded online Get the ones of machines you might think about buying

Do your homework !!

 

Just found this series of videos. These jigs are very useful looking. I don't know why I never built something like this years ago.

I looked at the prices of these, looks pretty reasonable.

I pretty sure I'd just build my own.

They advertise that the jigs are machined to perfect tolerances. I think I could make my own and be close enough. I'm a fabricator, not a machinist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4hJbWWjzJs

Check out the vids. He has an awesome fabrication table, but I think its overkill for most of us.

 

Yes but being a Fabricator means you can do machining work but choose not to !!

I know I find it so very boring I don`t mind turning down a shaft prior to build up and then machining back to original dimensions

The same with milling slots for adjustments

But all day every day my brain would explode.

 

I've seen the " thousand yard stare" the machinist get around here.

Not for me.

 

Any tips on MIG welding stainless exhaust pipe? Using 308L wire, 75/25 argon/CO2 mix. Puddle ran down the joint on me. Turned the heat down a bit but still had the tendency to flow too much.

 

What size wire is that? Smaller wire would be easier to control.

I don't do much stainless mig welding, if I do, I just use the 70s, carbon steel wire that already is in my welder. The weld isn't stainless, but