Anything welding

I rarely weld left handed, but can if need be.

 

I always light my cigarette with the left, 'cause I'm holding my beer with the right.

 

I am really happy with my Primeweld 225. They are regularly out of stock, but that condition goes away pretty quick. Coronavirus impact...? Amazon Prime has them same price as direct.

https://primeweld.com/products/tig-225x-ac-dc-tig-welder

There is a discussion forum on WeldingTipsandTricks you can follow.

https://forum.weldingtipsandtricks.com/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=14803

 

Me too

Everyone likes hanging out with the "stranger".

 

Just finished up this guy. Probably a little excessive with the gusseting.

 

Cool!! IMO you can never over build something that's safety related!

 

I just made one too a couple weeks Ago at work. Worked on it while i was caught up and waiting on my fitter. Yours looks good!

 

Nice, square is the way to go! You can kinda see mine here from mobtown, who also does square.

 

That is a personal thing.

It depends on just what you do if your into hanging upside down welding vertical up doing things like that being able to use both hands is good

Also keep in practice welding with a mirror

 

@deeezy

 

Not much going on with me at home, but I after my kids got bored of hanging out with me, I distanced myself to the garage and made these little limit strap mounts. Lol

 

Looks pretty good. Is the weld cracked in the last picture?

 

negative, it’s just a ground down weld but not all the way.

 

A friend snapped his pto shaft in half on his tractor so I fixed it. Also repaired the HDS welds on it

 

Are the mig welds for balancing?

 

Hey guys, I think I'm going to be doing some exhaust work on my own due to the pandemic lockdown. I'm re-routing the pipe and replacing my rusted-out muffler with a new one of the same type and size.

What's the best approach for welding to stock exhaust? My options are MIG w/ .030 ER70 wire, or DC TIG with 316 stainless rod. The TIG setup doesn't have a foot petal, I think I just draw an arc from the surface and go.

The new muffler is "aluminized steel," whatever that is, and the new hangers are 304 stainless.

I have enough spare material that I can probably tune in either process, but I have zero experience with exhaust work, and near-zero experience with welding in general. But I want to figure it out, starting with selecting the right process for the job.

 

Are you under the vehicle while on jack stands? Car hoist?

Regardless, I can not imagine ever doing exhaust work on a daily driver using TIG welding.

MIG weld using the spot weld methode and be done.

 

I will be on my back on a creeper. But my plan is to do most of the welding on my workbench, and only work under the truck to do the initial tack welds when required. I might lack experience, but I have plenty of time to figure out how to get it right, and I am stubbornly methodical.

I was actually under the truck today, working on a different project, but the first time welding on my back, or on any vehicle for that matter. It turns out I don't have the right kind of clothing to keep the splatter from burning through to my chest. Ouch!

Thanks for the insight, this is really helpful. I will look for another excuse to break out the tig torch in the future, but for now I'll start reading up (or youtubing up?) on mig welding for exhaust. Wish I had paid more attention when I was at an actual exhaust shop last month. But nope, I brought a laptop and was browsing TW instead. But... the world wasn't ending back then either. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

It's not too bad with tig as long as you're careful. If you are good with a grinder, or belt sander if you have one, then do your best to get the pieces of tubing to butt up against each other very well. The metal is very thin so burning through is easy. With a torch switch it's especially easy, so do some practice joints first starting low amps and work your way up to a speed and heat you're comfortable at without burning through. If it's stainless you can get away with not purging it or using filler if you can get the pieces to fit so well that there is no gap between them but both are strongly recommended

 

Yeah burn gotta definitely have something thick on so you don't get bunt by splatter when welding on your back. If there is a way for it to find ya it will.