Show Us Your Gear, And Your First Project/weld

[bLaQ.bOi]

Post a pic of your first ever welds/projects/anything related! even equipment

so ive only started welding yesterday and heres my first ever weld!

ive started a project, in the final staged of completion!

(top secret)

ok so heres a pic of the first ever job/project i helped (in a little way to make)

Tis a gigantic thing that holds stuff (cyionide i think it was) some chemical place... was sposed to hold a gignatic amount of psi aswell... 35 thousand? if i remember correctly... ne ways it was f**king massive!

And a pic of the first weld ive done... (i didnt use any wire just burning the steel plain)

pics of my gear soon to come (noob shit... cept they gave me this l33t helmet that turns dark as soon as the arc "arcs up")

[racsov500]

yeah the face masks are sweet. Im pretty newbian at welding too, but I have made a few brackets and shit

[XtremeChief]

Aluminium

Steel

Nothing to do with cars But my welds/what i make

Edited March 14, 2007 by XtremeChief

[ali-turko]

i wish i could weld like that, mine looks more like bird shit lol

[Craved]

have to say my Alloy welding hasnt improved too much lol

Will, would you say that the Thick alloy of those truck bull bars is alot easier to work than a smaller 2mm sheet of alloy? are they done with multiple passes to increase the penetration of the welds?

[rb26s13]

thicker material is always easier to weld in my opinion and looks like just a single 8mm fillet he's doin there

[XtremeChief]

Chris, Welding 2mm and such is ok its just you have to move/step faster thats what ive learnt lol

but welding thicker material is a bit easier

the channel of the bull bar is 12mm thick and the uprights/posts are 8mm thick

i just chew it in with a chopper(to V it out) and crank the heat

yep Single fillet because its all for appearance so it looks nice and neat

ive seen bull bars made from other places and they do a root run then they do a big weave ontop and it looks so dodgy though it has less chance to crack

Single fillet done properly can be just as effective and a poor 2/3 run

Pictures 2 and 3 where over head weld using 6mm to 6mm plate

[r33_racer]

work at good ole stoodleys hey? I work at retractable tarps at brendale. Incase you dont know we have supplied tarps to you guys and still do i believe. The welding on your bodies is good, very neat and tidy...however your bodies are annoying to fit tarps to.

I aint got no photos with me atm of what ive welded haha.

[XtremeChief]

work at good ole stoodleys hey? I work at retractable tarps at brendale. Incase you dont know we have supplied tarps to you guys and still do i believe. The welding on your bodies is good, very neat and tidy...however your bodies are annoying to fit tarps to.

I aint got no photos with me atm of what ive welded haha.

Wow small world lol

ta about welding on bodies, but i dont get to do that stuff yet im a bull bar maker at the moment in only 2nd year apprentice

though one day ill have my chance to make a body

[yellowsubmarine]

yeah i agree thicker the material the easier it is to weld i work at webster twin fisher i build boats all day the toughest weld ive done is proberly 1mm aluminium and aint easy ill post some pics when get the camera ive done alot of mod 4 the 32 ill post them up in couple days c waht u think

[rb26s13]

thinner is definately harder

thickest ive worked with is around 30mm bizalloy thinnst would probaly be .6 mildsteel

Edited March 17, 2007 by rb26s13

[boot_it]

Wow small world lol

ta about welding on bodies, but i dont get to do that stuff yet im a bull bar maker at the moment in only 2nd year apprentice

though one day ill have my chance to make a body

yes it is a small world i quit being a mechanic 4 a couple of yrs and went and worked at gibson tru bodies at brendale building all the tipper trays for the pine shire council ( as they had the contract to do them)

and it was fun doin this stuff from fixing cars

the only thing i hate doin was welding the galvnised rope rails up

[rb26s13]

hahaha i think everyone hates welding gal i know i sure do!

[boot_it]

hahaha i think everyone hates welding gal i know i sure do!

yep i still have the scare,s on my arms from the shit stickin to me the next day i went and bought a welding jacket with leather arms on it just to weld gal

[bLaQ.bOi]

dammit im missin out, i dont touch anything but stainless

haha

the place i work at only deals with stainless

and about 7 percent mild

[rb26s13]

^^^^^^

wanna swap i love working with stainless

[rb26s13]

we barely do any stainless were i am now.. mainly industrial sheds and stuff like that.. 80%mild 10% alloy 10% stainless

[VB-]

for those who dont like welding thinner metal, a bloke my dad knows is a welder/teacher by trade, and some guy he worked with cut up and welded bits of a coke can to show off.... wish i saw it, sounds damn impressive

[rb26s13]

its possible coke can is goin to extremes lol but yes all is possible

[NIZ-26T]

yes in tig 4 you cut a coke can in half and weld it back together as soon as it blows thru its over