Best Bead Contest

[COPPERHEAD85]

Thank You Sir!
You have some major talent yourself my friend!
Lets open a fab shop and build nothing but Ranger stuff!
First thing on the list would be V-8 swap headers that fit!









And A really sweet stripper pole for the fab shop!

 

[Iron Ranger]

At the moment, I'm tinkering with some "ranger parts" that are very overpriced in the real world, but easy to make.

The way I see it, there's 2 types of welders: The ones who can and the ones who know how. The ones that can are everywhere, the ones that know how are much more rare. Most guys on this site know how to weld.

First thing I'd like to mass produce is a ranger flatbed. Because we all know that the first thing on a ranger to rust apart is almost always the box.

 

[Ranger#1]

cudos to the tig'ers one day at the moment once i add fill it all goes to shit

 

[86 slo-vo]

i found a few pictures of my mig stuff, done with the shops 115v miller with .023 wire

and completed bumper

 

[86 slo-vo]

nobody else?

 

[t0x1k]

Gimme time. I gotta fab up a cross-member for my truck, so I'll post up that on Wednesday.
In the meantime here's a very old weld on a Lincoln 80a flux.

 

[Toreadorranger]

Lincoln 175 (220v)

 

[kunar]

nothing crazy, but i sure impressed myself with these. front mount receiver i did with a 220v hobart wire feed

 

[sean9721]

Here is some diamond plate I welded. Its not my best. I'm currently building a BBQ for a coach at my school. After I finish that hopefullyI can get on the TIG and get some pictures.

And my collection of bend tests. I have not failed a bend test for certification yet.

 

[Iron Ranger]

Ah.....the bend test. I haven't done one of those since 2006. Any stainless ones in there?

BTW, the aluminum TIG bead looks good. Just a little more heat and smaller dabs of the filler rod will make it right as rain.

Like this:

But, then again, this is 1/4" aluminum..............

 

[sean9721]

Thanks for the pictures. No stainless bend tests. The diamond plate is smaller than 1/4". I still have some that I can practice on. Once I got good with aluminum, it was the end of the quarter and I was put in stick vertical. Before school lets out I plan on practicing more on the diamond plate.

 

[Iron Ranger]

Remember to clean all around where you are going to weld. No dross or shiny(shiny looks good, but really messes with the TIG bead). After you plasma cut your pieces, grind all the edges with a fiber disk or flapper wheel until all the torch dross is gone.

Don't use a grinding wheel. The wheels are held together with resin and carbon fiber(carbon really not good!!)

By the size of your weld bead, I'm gonna say that the diamond plate is 1/8" thick. That's perfect practice material.

 

[sean9721]

I used a cut off wheel to cut the pieces and a wire wheel to clean everything. But sometimes I get lazy and dont feel like cleaning all the way.

 

[Iron Ranger]

Wire wheel is just as bad as a grinding wheel, because bits and pieces of the wire imbed themselves into the aluminum, causing "floaters" that never go away or melt.

Hope I'm not sounding like a know-it-all. Just trying to give some tips for the best possible result! Clean aluminum, rythm, and patience will make you good at it everytime!

 

[sean9721]

Hope I'm not sounding like a know-it-all.

You're not. But I am gonna say something to my teacher about the wire wheel on aluminum issue and see what he says.