This week, we weld stainless tubing. After talking about scratch start tig welding a few weeks ago, I thought I’d talk about how to weld stainless tubing…a 6g stanless tube test using the same crude scratch start tig setup. It’s a Lincoln 225 AC buzz box with a diy rectifier hooked up to a...
This is Part 2 of the “making a belt guard for an air compressor” video. If you missed the first one, click “Video of the Week” in the top bar, and Part 1 should be the second one down. In last week’s video we left off with the sheet metal all tacked up and...
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...
This is part 2 of a welding project where we are making a 3 legged shop stool with adjustable height seat. In last week’s video, I didn’t quite get to finish the seat… so here goes. As I mentioned, I am using mostly materials that are just laying around the shop. So I had...
This week’s video is about a tig welding repair on a stainless steel machined part. What do you do when you are supposed to deliver parts on Monday, but on Saturday you accidentally machine a groove in one of the parts, and you don’t have enough 4″ stainless round stock to make another part?...
(Click the preview image to the right to check out my new flyer.) Not much going on in the shop today. The only welding job I have to show you is this quick detail from a drawing that is some type of lid for a solvent tank … this is the only weld on...
This week’s video shows a mig welding technique while making a dice welding project. I settled on this project because it involves a bit of layout and fitup, and outside corner joints. I think it would be a great project for welding students as well as anyone who wants to make something while getting...
This is the video on the “slider job”. Sometimes, no matter what you are doing, a job slides in that takes priority over all the rest. Thats why we call it a “Slider” It could be chopping blade for the 35 year old ice chopper down the street is split and parts are unavailable....
::Tig Welding Stainless Steel using pulse TIG:: Unless the pulse rate for tig welding stainless steel is 1 pulse per second, I hate slow pulse rates. they make my head numb. I like 30 pulses per second or more. that gets me out of the epileptic seizure range. 39 pulses per second 30% pulse...
