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 weekly video is about Tig Welding 4140 Steel to 1045 Steel. The customer supplied a drawing to modify 20 snap ring pliers and weld some jaws on the end that were machined out of 4140. Inconel 82 tig rod was used because I have had a lot of success with inconel 82 in...
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...
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...
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...
In this weekly video, I am fabricating a belt guard for an air compressor. Normally, I don’t sweat things if my air compressor goes out. That’s because I have several electric grinders. 4 and 4 1/2″ 90 grinders, straight grinders, Dewalt, Milwaukee, Ryobi, Makita, and even a Harbor Freight straight grinder that will hurt...
For some reason, I have wanted to try welding a bike frame for quite a while. Every time I go into a store that sells bikes, I check out the welds. You know what I’m talkin’ bout. I even check out the welds on the tanker truck next to me on the freeway… And...
This week’s video is about tig welding pipe using socket weld fittings. Years ago, I welded a ton of socket welds. And mostly, they called for Tig welding because most of them were done on nuclear plants. Socket welds are a much quicker and less expensive way to install pipe than using butt weld...
