I used to think that the Hogan intake manifold we buy at work were absolute art but I have to admit, some of you guys have the "gift". Anyone near Houston need a job?
Yeah, that guys puts down the best aluminum welds I've seen. I love this thread. The talent here never ceases to amaze me.
This thread makes me want to lock myself in the garage with my TIG for like a year until I have something worthy of this thread.
Yea those "Marcellas Manifolds" are rather impressive !!! Heres a 6.1 Hemi intake I built for one of the Nascar Sprint Cup Drivers personal '70 Challenger.... as well as a few of my turbo manifold... just some random stuff I had downloaded from my phone...sorry for the crappy quality pics...lol
depends on what day it is or what shop Im in...lol.. I use the PT 275 mostly.. the PT 185 with pulse on occasion and a dinosaur miller 250 on my lil hot rod...
When I was working for Chrysler I did a lot of work on a synchrowave 350, now I mostly use my dynasty 200 DX.
I don't have any pics but when I was spray welding crane outriggers with 660v 3phase and .045 wire you could get a half inch bead that was nearly flawless like the metal grew together, almost as smooth as machine welding. There was no spatter or slag, just an occaisional spec of glass would form on the surface of the weld from impurities. it wouldn't crackle just a light hiss with a spheroid kernel of metal plasma about a 1/4 inch in diameter that would levitate in the arc field like a sun in space. The wire would dissappear in the arc. you couldn't see the metal going to the plasma ball but you'd move the plasma around and could see it flow metal into the weld puddle but it never got smaller
That's insane...anyone who has welded knows how hard this weld is to pull off. I'm inspired to go plug the Lincoln in, fire up the Oxy/Acetaline rig and pull out the Mig...all I need is something to weld.
you want to see some pretty welds, check Joe's page out, hes very good http://www.myspace.com/myfunart
I know they are nowhere near the caliber or in the same ballpark as you guys but Im workin on it! This is a great thread please keep it goin!
a DC welder using a low Hydrogen rod...once you get the shelf set all you do is lay in the next row. I passed a vertical test in 1973.. but have not used a stick weld since then. I know I can't do it now.
Beautiful work by all! I used to work power plants, and worked on steam line repairs and replacements. The pipefitters on one job had to weld a chrome-alloy pipe, 54" diameter, with a 3" wall thickness. The pipe had to be preheated to 750 deg. TIG root pass, al the rest done with stick welders, 7 stories up on the side of the boiler, in the middle of winter. A guy's shift might consist of building up 3/8" on 1/3 of the circumference, laying on his back or stomach as needed. (a 3"-deep V is about 2" wide at the outer diameter) Here's a sample we cut out of the weld cross section on a similar, smaller line that was 1-1/2" thick wall -- what you see is all weld metal. Most of the imperfections you see are just because it isn't polished all the way. To be able to lay down a hundred pounds of rod without an inclusion is a special skill!
heres my contribution. not as pretty as some i've seen on here, but it's the best i can do with what i've got.
I've seen that guy post some stuff on a couple of welding forums, hot stuff for sure! That's a mean machine.
lots of nice welds on this thread, I TIG all my stainless systems here is the smallest weld I do on an X I made for an O/T Marauder
my alum gas tank. welded with a hobart that is about 30yrs and takes up 1/4 of my garage ( i need a new SMALLER welder)
Housing end on the 9" I put under my 56 last winter. 30 years ago- Mom says " son I will scrub floors at night to put you through college" my response, " nope I wanna go to welding school" Well its kept a roof over my head & food on the table! John
This is a heat exchanger I made for a friend to use in a brew pub. Used to cool the boiling beer wort. It is all stainless steel. I know it's not great, I'm self taught and could use some guidance at times. I find it useful to drink about two beers before doing this.
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