This is Part 2 of building a boom arm for a mig welder. A millermatic 250 mig welder to be exact. The aim is to remove the wire feeder components from the welder and install them in a separate wire feeder cabinet that will hang on the end of the boom. This is a...
This is Part 2 and it is welding the top half of this heavy duty aluminum fixture. I am not exactly sure what it does or why it was designed out of aluminum, but it obviously holds some large round part that needs to raise up and down and spin. Sometimes it’s good to...
I got a thick aluminum job in the shop and also got a new Lincoln Powermig 350mp with push pull gun. Pretty freaking awesome. I wish I had the time to really tweak the setting before tackling this job with a new setup like this but this part needs to get done asap. Deadlines.....
This weekly welding video is about building a boom arm for a mig welding wire feeder. The reason for the boom arm is so that I can have a 35 foot radius where I can mig weld without ever moving the mig welder or the gas cylinder. That means whenever someone pulls a trailer...
Mig like Tig like ZT fab is what this weekly video is all about. Over at WeldingWeb.com there is a long thread on the topic “Mig like Tig”. There is a guy with username ZTfab who can make some of the prettiest “stacked dime” mig welds you ever saw. Personally, I would really like...
Tig inverters are amazing. A tig welding machine the size of a small lunchbox that can tig weld and stick weld up to 140 amps? That’s crazy. And Since 140 amps is plenty of power to burn a 1/8″ 7018, there are very few things that can’t be welded with one of these little...
Flux Cored welding is often looked at as being inferior to bare wire mig. But it ain’t wrong… it’s just different. But still good. Most folks only exposure to flux core welding is what they have seen in a small garage or muffler shop. Maybe that’s why there are so many misconceptions. Here are...
As of Feb 2012, there is a merit badge for welding for boy scouts. This is Part 2 of a short series on Boy Scout Merit Badges for welding. There are lots of things for the scout to know, but this video is geared toward the practical exercises listed in the welding merit badge...
This week’s video is about mig welding techniques for making edge welds. I got to thinking how I could make this video a bit more interesting because, frankly, a weld bead on the edge of a piece of metal is not that interesting. So I thought “What is a common application for an edge...
