Bought a welder, showed up yesterday.
08-16-2011, 07:53 PM
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Bought a welder, showed up yesterday.
I have been planing on buying a welder for many years now. After doing much research for a very long time. I decided to perches the Miller 211. What do you think? I have not welded sense late 1998 and I am excited to get practicing.
Other then showing off my toy. There is another purpose to this thread. I would like to get impute from fellow YT members about my welding skills and or lack there of. I will be posting up future pictures of the practice welds that I will be making. Thank you for any constructive criticisms you may have.
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08-17-2011, 08:20 AM
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Nice Keith!
Now you can finally get to making some armor! ( or whatever else comes to mind )
Lemme know if you want me to save a few pieces of steel for your practicing. We have a few sch. 40 pieces of scrap at the house or in the office, im sure.
There was a guy on Craigslist not too long ago selling DOM tubing. not sure if he's still there though.
Now you can finally get to making some armor! ( or whatever else comes to mind )
Lemme know if you want me to save a few pieces of steel for your practicing. We have a few sch. 40 pieces of scrap at the house or in the office, im sure.
There was a guy on Craigslist not too long ago selling DOM tubing. not sure if he's still there though.
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Nice Keith!
Now you can finally get to making some armor! ( or whatever else comes to mind )
Lemme know if you want me to save a few pieces of steel for your practicing. We have a few sch. 40 pieces of scrap at the house or in the office, im sure.
There was a guy on Craigslist not too long ago selling DOM tubing. not sure if he's still there though.
Now you can finally get to making some armor! ( or whatever else comes to mind )
Lemme know if you want me to save a few pieces of steel for your practicing. We have a few sch. 40 pieces of scrap at the house or in the office, im sure.
There was a guy on Craigslist not too long ago selling DOM tubing. not sure if he's still there though.
08-17-2011, 10:27 AM
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Thats awesome, first step for that winch bumper you had drawn up awhile back
we have alot of steel pipe lying around at the shop most of the time
we just took alot of it to the steel mill last month so we dont have alot atm but it does pile up quick
we have alot of steel pipe lying around at the shop most of the time
we just took alot of it to the steel mill last month so we dont have alot atm but it does pile up quick
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I have plans to build front and rear bumpers, sliders and a roof rack that mounts off of the sliders and rear bumper. I have some plans in my head to use the roof rack as a roof top tent platform for my ground tent. In the end my longbed may turn out to have an exo cage.
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first day of practice
So I finally got some welding practice today. It has been 13 years sense I last held a welder of any kind in my hands. I am looking to have my practice welds critiqued by some experts.
To start things off I will explain the details of the welds. I was practicing on some 3/16" hot rolled steal. I was using the 120v plug for the welder. I was using .030 flux core with a feed speed of 40 and the voltage setting of 10. I am not sure what the actual voltage is as the welder and chart do not explain or translates the setting into volts.
I started off with some spot welds. The first few I did not stay on it long enough to get a good bead. The later had a decent bead, but too me it did not seem to have good penetration.
I then started on a two inch bead. the speed I was going seemed to b a little fast and again I was not convinced of any penetration. I was happy at how smooth it did look for my first bead in 13 years.
This time I tried slowing down a little. I was happy with the puddle although it did turn out to weave over the join.
too slow vary ugly
I think more bad penetration.
here is the back side.
took some strong beating to break the joint apart. I placed one half in a vice and beat it from the bottom UN-welded side of the joint. For as crappy as I thought my welds were. I was surprised at how much effort it took to break the joint. My thoughts were confirmed, I had poor penetration as you can see.
My second attempt came out better in the end. I beveled the edges and welded the two pieces in a T shape. let me know what you think of these three beads and what may help out some. Also I was not able to break this one apart so I could not check for depth of penetration.
Here is the back side. It the best I could do to show the heat penetration.
as you can see I warped it. Shows the lack of attention in the past 13 years. LOL.
To start things off I will explain the details of the welds. I was practicing on some 3/16" hot rolled steal. I was using the 120v plug for the welder. I was using .030 flux core with a feed speed of 40 and the voltage setting of 10. I am not sure what the actual voltage is as the welder and chart do not explain or translates the setting into volts.
I started off with some spot welds. The first few I did not stay on it long enough to get a good bead. The later had a decent bead, but too me it did not seem to have good penetration.
I then started on a two inch bead. the speed I was going seemed to b a little fast and again I was not convinced of any penetration. I was happy at how smooth it did look for my first bead in 13 years.
This time I tried slowing down a little. I was happy with the puddle although it did turn out to weave over the join.
too slow vary ugly
I think more bad penetration.
here is the back side.
took some strong beating to break the joint apart. I placed one half in a vice and beat it from the bottom UN-welded side of the joint. For as crappy as I thought my welds were. I was surprised at how much effort it took to break the joint. My thoughts were confirmed, I had poor penetration as you can see.
My second attempt came out better in the end. I beveled the edges and welded the two pieces in a T shape. let me know what you think of these three beads and what may help out some. Also I was not able to break this one apart so I could not check for depth of penetration.
Here is the back side. It the best I could do to show the heat penetration.
as you can see I warped it. Shows the lack of attention in the past 13 years. LOL.
