Anything welding

Also if anyone has any tips for make bends less than 90 so say a 45 or 60. Any way to easily measure it while still in the break?

 

Practice, practice.

Vertical up, 3 pass on single v with 1/4" gap.
2 passes:


3 passes:

 

magnetic based angle finder is what I've been using.

Also used one like this and lay it on the piece and the brake (i cut one end down to 2" or so to fit the "brake" side) Just have ot remember to halve your desired angle with that one since its only reading half the bend (ie when it reads 22.5 the total ange is 45)

$20 GemRed 82305 Digital Angle Finder GemRed Protractor Stainless steel 7" 200mm (Black Button)

https://www.amazon.com/GemRed-Digit...993419&sr=8-19&keywords=magnetic+angle+finder

 

Practicing tig on some stainless tubing today. Only had one ugly burn through

 

Get a heavy ruler that you can mount to the upper or lower beam of your press. Then you can measure the travel and by trial and error you can figure out your travel vs angle. Start will less than required and slowly increase your travel until you hit your desired angle. Then by hitting the same travel you will have repeatable angles.

When you use a proper brake press it uses an eccentric adjustment to change the travel of the upper beam. So we just dial it in bit by bit until we hit the correct bend angles. First piece or two is all trial and error. By having a ruler on your press you can do similar adjustments.

 

Thanks man this was my first attempt at tubing it’s definitely a little harder

 

So @jc11taco89 and I split an Eastwood Versacut 40 amp yesterday and to our surprise it was like 90 bucks off on their site. Like 480 shipped. FucknA

 

Best of Luck !!

 

Thanks. Just for screwing around and general fun. Should work just fine. Gonna order the Trail Gear winch mount with the frame mounts as a cheater for a front bumper. We'll see if that comes out half decent. Still pretty new to the fab seen

 

Notching with cheap tools today

 

Is that the HF notcher?

 

I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess "yes".

 

Mee to just was curious, I was thinking of getting the bailegh one but I though about it and sense I now have a plasma cutter I'm thinking I could trace out the notch and cut it with the plasma? ? Is my logic flawed on this or does that seem plausible ?

 

Yes

 

I wish I had a plasma

 

Tip for you. Only notch part of the tube. So cut the tube to length first then notch. It will save the hole saw as you are only cutting half as much material. Plus you will not have those very thin pieces that will burn back as you weld it. And use lube. I use lube for broach bits.

 

Very plausible. There is a site that you can print notch patterns from somewhere on the web(forgot the name)

 

Yeah I was just testing it. The notcher sucks and the hole saws are garbage.
But for $50 total and a few notches I gotta do, fack it.
I'll probably buy quality hole saws later. I can make the notcher work better with some adjustments

 

http://metalgeek.com/static/cope.pcgi
I've tried it successully. It's a PITA with just cutting wheels and grinder.

 

Much easier with a plasma.