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BT Humble wrote:
I'm a better welder than my dad, but not by much. Those rusty 1" pipes came off a stock crate that he welded together 30 years ago, and you should have seen some of *THOSE* joins! Scariest welder is my uncle. Claimed that going to TAFE was a total waste of time. Uh Uh. So now I ask "who welded this up" whenever I have to climb up anything on the farm. It was seeing a door hinge that just simply peeled off a metal frame that made me wary. They had been heated up (stick) just enough to come together, but not enough to fuse. Oh Oh. I have visions of trailers, etc simply disintergrating. |
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On Mar 13, 7:40 pm, BT Humble wrote:
Graeme Dods wrote: On Mar 12, 7:03 pm,BTHumble wrote: Gags wrote: Nice piece of bodgy welding there. That hurts, mate. I was doing my best with the equipment I had available... *sob!* Don't listen to that nasty Gags, I'd be perfectly happy with welds like that. As Terry said, you can hide a lot with an angle grinder and maybe a skoosh or two of spray primer. I'm a better welder than my dad, but not by much. Those rusty 1" pipes came off a stock crate that he welded together 30 years ago, and you should have seen some of *THOSE* joins! My dad's a pretty good welder, it was him who taught me, well, more like "showed me" and then left me to my own devices after checking a couple of trial welds. That technique usually works for me, but not for welding it seems. He had a decent oxyacetylene welder and an arc welder as big as a tea chest and decent equipment really makes things easier. I borrowed a little $100 arc welder off a friend when my dad was over last year. He tried to get some decent welds out of it after seeing my bodgy job. His were about 100 times better but when he finished he told me to buy a decent MIG set. I would love to, but if I could afford one I could afford to pay for someone else to do my welding jobs! Graeme |
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Graeme Dods wrote:
He had a decent oxyacetylene welder Drool, personally I think oxy is far more useful for bicycle bulding than any other unless you are a very good welder, then tig. Only problem atm is gas bottle rental. Not found a way around that yet. |
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Graeme Dods wrote:
My dad's a pretty good welder, it was him who taught me, well, more like "showed me" and then left me to my own devices after checking a couple of trial welds. That technique usually works for me, but not for welding it seems. He had a decent oxyacetylene welder and an arc welder as big as a tea chest and decent equipment really makes things easier. I borrowed a little $100 arc welder off a friend when my dad was over last year. He tried to get some decent welds out of it after seeing my bodgy job. His were about 100 times better but when he finished he told me to buy a decent MIG set. I would love to, but if I could afford one I could afford to pay for someone else to do my welding jobs! I've got a couple of CIG Easywelder stick welders, about 50kg of iron- cored transformer. The second one cost me nothing, I picked it up on hard rubbish day in Dandenong last year: http://www.otherpower.com/images/sci...freewelder.jpg It's good for about 140 amps, if I recall correctly. I never need to go that high, as I only use 2mm/2.5mm rods. BTH |
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BT Humble wrote:
It's good for about 140 amps, if I recall correctly. I never need to go that high, as I only use 2mm/2.5mm rods. Very robust. Our TAFE has a few of those. The real question (for bicycle building) is how low does it go? Unfortunately, my decent quality home welder will not turn down enough to do 1.6(?)mm rods. |
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Terryc wrote:
BTHumble wrote: It's good for about 140 amps, if I recall correctly. I never need to go that high, as I only use 2mm/2.5mm rods. Very robust. Our TAFE has a few of those. The real question (for bicycle building) is how low does it go? Unfortunately, my decent quality home welder will not turn down enough to do 1.6(?)mm rods. The gauge on the front says it'll turn down to 40 amps, but I've never had small enough rods on hand to try it out. The 2mm rods were a bit of a challenge on the thin tubing, you might have noticed that I arranged the parts so that at least 1 component of each weld was a thick piece. BTH |
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On Mar 14, 9:42 am, BT Humble wrote:
Graeme Dods wrote: My dad's a pretty good welder, it was him who taught me, well, more like "showed me" and then left me to my own devices after checking a couple of trial welds. That technique usually works for me, but not for welding it seems. He had a decent oxyacetylene welder and an arc welder as big as a tea chest and decent equipment really makes things easier. I borrowed a little $100 arc welder off a friend when my dad was over last year. He tried to get some decent welds out of it after seeing my bodgy job. His were about 100 times better but when he finished he told me to buy a decent MIG set. I would love to, but if I could afford one I could afford to pay for someone else to do my welding jobs! I've got a couple of CIG Easywelder stick welders, about 50kg of iron- cored transformer. The second one cost me nothing, I picked it up on hard rubbish day in Dandenong last year: http://www.otherpower.com/images/sci...freewelder.jpg You lucky bugger. I must admit I hadn't thought of welders being thrown out (it's sacrilege!) and I tend not to look to closely at battered metal boxes. I will now though! Graeme |
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Terryc wrote:
BT Humble wrote: It's good for about 140 amps, if I recall correctly. I never need to go that high, as I only use 2mm/2.5mm rods. Very robust. Our TAFE has a few of those. I've had mine for 30 years. Theo |
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On 2008-03-14, Graeme Dods (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea: On Mar 14, 9:42 am, BT Humble wrote: Graeme Dods wrote: My dad's a pretty good welder, it was him who taught me, well, more like "showed me" and then left me to my own devices after checking a couple of trial welds. That technique usually works for me, but not for welding it seems. He had a decent oxyacetylene welder and an arc welder as big as a tea chest and decent equipment really makes things easier. I borrowed a little $100 arc welder off a friend when my dad was over last year. He tried to get some decent welds out of it after seeing my bodgy job. His were about 100 times better but when he finished he told me to buy a decent MIG set. I would love to, but if I could afford one I could afford to pay for someone else to do my welding jobs! I've got a couple of CIG Easywelder stick welders, about 50kg of iron- cored transformer. The second one cost me nothing, I picked it up on hard rubbish day in Dandenong last year: http://www.otherpower.com/images/sci...freewelder.jpg You lucky bugger. I must admit I hadn't thought of welders being thrown out (it's sacrilege!) and I tend not to look to closely at battered metal boxes. I will now though! A couple of enormous ones were thrown in a skip at Swinburne just before I left. Two problems: too heavy to rescue without a car. And the truck had already left with my belongings. -- TimC As a computer, I find your faith in technology amusing. |
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TimC wrote:
A couple of enormous ones were thrown in a skip at Swinburne just before I left. Two problems: too heavy to rescue without a car. And the truck had already left with my belongings. You could at least have told someone else about them! ;-) BTH |
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