i think i just spent the last hour looking at "Whitlock"'s website... man, it's pretty much only pictures... but it is as if every thing i look at is a new idea, in a new way that i can hardly believe hasn't been done before because it just makes sense... has any body else checked out this guys site? www.wreckedmetals.com ? Now i see why this guys is a quality hamber... damn the guy can weld!
www.wreckedmetals.com ? Now i see why this guys is a quality hamber... damn the guy can weld![/QUOTE] not trying to nock anything but that just looks like a mig weld pulsed
^sheesh, man. way to be a negative nancy. the guy does some nice clean work, and all you can say is, "oh that's nothing." way to be a good sport.
looks kick*** Tig to me... but i'm happy when my bubble gum stick's i think the guy builds super cool stuff.
Pulsed Mig?! GTAW for sure. You're going to have to be one hell of a Mig welder to get nice, flat beads like that. Tig Tig Tig.
i guarantee you that is a MiG weld look at the dot in the center of the beads .. i know my welds homie there too tall for tig too.. p/s i use tig for a living. pulse weld with a mig .. is one overlapping tack/ pulse of the machine over the other
I MIG like that pretty frequently. However, I think that's TIG in the pics. Pretty easy to tell by looking at the undercut on the long side of the gusset. The frame kickup is obviously MIG'd. Both are very clean work.
That shock mount is tig'd you will get a small dot like that in the center of your stopping point. The weld up the frame rail and the steering box gusset are mig'd but not the shock mount. I don't care how good you are you just can't get a mig weld to sink wash down flat like that. If you look close you can straight see the difference between the two welds.the tig weld only has dots at the stopping points 3 of them, while the mig weld on the frame has them all the way up. Either way the finish work is *****in though. I'm a big fan of putting holes in stuff myself. sure does help make functional stuff look cool.
What he said, to get a mig to undercut like that the heat would have to be so high that there is no way it would be that color. It would also never be that shape. The holes on the foward weld were caused by puling the puddle just a little to far, they more than likely arent very deep and are no cause for concern. Not nit pickin the guy, nice stuff for sure. Practice goes a long way toward good welds, mig or tig. Knowing how to set the machine doesnt hurt either!
I'm not knocking the guy at all the work is really nice .. but to me it looks like just a mig weld . i mean i wouldn't mig a frame on a kick where it counts ,then switch over to my tig to do a gusset ..... dont make since and . i prefer tig but making a mig weld look like that is simple .. his work is nice thought
Lots of builders use mig only. Tig for aluminum but not much of that on a rod. A few years back everything was done with stick welders or gas and thousands of well built cars were produced. Use your mig a lot and you will get good.
I actually use more tig than mig but it depends on what you are working on and what you want to do with it. Both have their bennies.
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