Incredible welds

man good looking welds. makes me want to pratice alot more for sure.

 

I just found this picture... here's an example of what I was talking about before regarding the fillets all going the same direction. This was on one of our old center sections.

 

Here's a hack job I did on a generator bracket I made this week.





Surprise! It's actually going to be used on a hot rod.



-Brian

 

This thread makes me want to throw everything in the garbage and hide in the shop and do nothing but weld for the next year.

 

HAHAHAHa no kidding. I wish my best welding was half as good as Bass's "hack jobs".

 

I got into working on cars and welding right around the same time, about 5-6 years ago. I pretty much decided last year I'd MUCH rather be melting metal than wrenching on a car. The camaro is sold, the buick is sitting untouched on jackstands, and I go through bottles of Argon like it was going out of style

 

mine...not good, not too bad..

 

Damn..


Damn.

 

is that the best you can do? hahaha

 

I know what a loser right!! First he ruins a chassis by bending a pan hard bar, then he shows some bird shit welds!!
Love
Jimmy White
P.s. Nice welds dude!! I am proud of you, you have come a long way...

 

Brian, do you you bevel your pieces for penetration? I always beveled when mig welding, but find when I tig that I just use alot more filler. I have stopped beveling on my latest stuff and I am happy with the penetration. You should have tig class...I will be there.

kurt

 

You don't need to bevel for fillet welds, whether it's stick, tig, or mig.

 

Why don't you ask your mom? Wait....that wasn't my best work either.

Jimmy, that made me actually laugh out loud! haha

Thanks for the compliment....but you are my welding hero! Your welding makes me strive to be a better welder.

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Bingo. What he said Kurt.

 

Pops has been buggin me to get in on this,, so here goes.

This whole piece was welded pointing all the fillets to the center.



Finished beam, every seam is welded 360 degrees, both sides, lots of wire!

 

Now this is a picture i would hang on my wall

 

bass.
i hate you.

i need to go practice.

thanks for the pics everyone.

 

a front end i just built

 

shock mount as well

 

Bass: Really nice stuff! With enough practice and relentlessness, maybe I'll be able to seld like you some day. Seeing some of these welds is an inspiration to a TIG newbie like me.

Dale

 

Looks like some of mine !!!! Thanks, Mike

 

OK, after looking at this thread I'm going out to the garage and put a .45 round in my welder.
My welder is the problem, right!?! Thanks, Mike

 

Hell, sometimes I weld the part TO the workbench!!!! Thanks, Mike

 

Ok, got a question. I've been welding for over 25 years and though I wouldn't consider my welds art, they're decent. I've seen a lot of mig in the last few years that are done more or less as a series of spot welds. I've always run a mig flat out either straight or with a zig-zag or figure-8 pattern depending on the situation. I've watched some guys produce some nice clean mig welds that have the stacked dime look of tig. I've played with the technique and found that it is actually very similar to pulsing with tig. So, what do you guys think about this? I was taught in school to keep the weld as hot as possible while maintaining control. We were not taught to pulse tig back then either.

Bob

 

Hot bob you wanna hear something.A friend of mine went to wyo tech to there fab school.They made him pulse weld or spot weld you will call it.he paid thirty grand to spot weld.He comes to my house and shows me his weld peices and im like wtf.buttons in every tack.i was taught like you ,to put the hammer down.

 

Don't think Ive heard myself say "Damn" & "Wow" as much as before I saw this thread...you guys are artists!

So...do you guys take the welder to bed with you at night?!

 

Hot Bob & Madmiller, I think using multiple spot welds is the common procedure for welding thin metal like the sheet metal used for bodywork. Preferably even avoiding welding in the same place for very long at any one time. If you "put the hammer down" on light gauge sheet metal you may well end up serious distortion. Heavier gauges.. let er rip...

 

ol dawg i agree with you on thin metal, a tig is the way to go if not, spot welding with a mig is to.The class he took at wyo tech was chassis fab so no sheet metal was being used.

 

Madmiller -- Holy cow!! That's right, you said chassis fab. I gotta agree with you. Spot welded chassis are a bad thing.

 

I'm not talking about light gauge stuff. I'm talking about pulsing mig on structural components. Is it being taught in the welding schools? Is pulsed tig? I wouldn't really consider Wyotech to be a welding school though admittedly I don't know much about them. Still, the fact that they are teaching it makes me wonder.

Bob

 

My wife is going to hate it when I get me a welder... I'm going to have crap all over the
back yard.. It's going to look like my grandfather's house, he was always build stuff out
of steel.