Stick Welding and Thin Metal Questions
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Comments (16)Before you go to a lot of bother give the dealer a call and price them, you may be surprised. Also Google for it and see if its sold online or Ebay. Sometimes you get lucky and sometimes there are a lot of spares out there flying around for around half the price of a dealer. Auto body shops use a product called FUSOR, its a brand name but synomamous with the glues they sell for plastic body panels. You just roughen up the surface on the back side (gouging with a knife blade or file end ect works best) then spread on a layer. Then you press in some fiberglass mesh like they use in drywall corners. Screen scrap works too. Then you spread on some more over it. Finally you fill the crack on the outside after beveling it out like a weld preparation. When dry you can smooth the back side some and sand then paint the front side and it should be fine. No matter what you do though it won't be as strong or long lasting as a new hood if you can get one....See Moresculpture welding
Comments (8)What I've done to teach myself metal work, other than a class in stick welding in an apprenticeship, is to surf the welding forums and get some books and get a welder and do the deed. Nothing teaches welding like doing it---a common theme at the welding forums. We have Harbor Freight here in the states that sells Chinese and other Asian tools at inexpensive prices to help the beginner, do you have a similar vendor? Their welders are not great but if you can't find used welders, well, you gotta start somewhere. I suspect you'd learn fastest with a MIG welder. Do not skip the safety aspects of welding. Scars stay with you for life (I got more than a few) and your eyes are the most important to protect. Get a self darkening helmet first, before you get the welder, and use it. And cotton clothes don't melt, polyester and other synthetics do---melt to your skin. And be a "recycler" to find your metal. Just look for metal in your daily wanderings, and drag it home. Get an AC cutting setup and cut it up, don't be cheap on this set up, invest in a good brand. You can blow yourself up, and your house can burn down, if you mess about with pressurized gas. I'll give you a couple web sites to take a look at, they are US based, maybe you can find some more local ones. Somehere on these forums you will find links to metal sculptors doing just what you are asking about, I don't happen to have any links to them. Don't hesitate to step out and start something new. I think that's how anything good starts, but be very careful with metal work, you can really hurt yourself and the folks around you. Copy and paste these into your brower's address window: www.hobartwelders.com/mboard/ www.shopfloortalk.com/forums/index.php. Use the search feature to look for information before you post questions, most questions have been explored somewhere on these forums. Good metal working! Tom Here is a link that might be useful: Welding Web...See MoreNew to welding want to weld my metal bedframe
Comments (3)I don't know the shape of the bed legs. If they are tapered, you'll have to cut them off near the top and get angle iron or square tube the same size and thickness to splice in the amount you want to extend them. If this seems too complicated, cut the old legs off and make new ones of pipe with the same diameter as the width of the rail it will attach to. Try to find rubber chair leg tips to fit pipe before attaching it to rails. Hope this helps, Mike PS: Tell hubby this old vet says thanks a bunch for being there for us. We're really proud of this generation of military personnel. My hat's off to Him!!!!!...See Moremethod for welding cast iron?
Comments (23)Hunter, If you tub is a real old tub, it was probably a sand casting, and old sand castings are very dificult to weld. We do restoration work, and we had an old six piece metal fireplace harth, and the horizontal top (the mantel) was cracked, and a small 1 1/2" x 6" piece was broken off. None of the local shops around hear would touch the project. I ended up at our local CC talking to the dir. of the weling program, who turned the repair into a live project for one of the welding classes. We had three welds, 2 aprox 4-6" and the other Aprox 2". The metal mantel was aprox 9" D x 60" W. We were concerned that the heat from the welding would crack the top, so they chose to use TIG, and placed the mantel on a LARGE steel bench. The 1st weld went great, then as it was cooling, we started to get additional cracks in the top due to the cooling. We then placed lots of sand over the mantel, and had several students using Oxy Acc. keep the sand warm, along with the exposed portion of the mantel. The rest of the repair went extreamly well, and it took about 20-30 minutes to slowly cool down the repair work. One of the kids had one of those digital point thermoters, so we used that to monitor the cool down process. Since then, we've done some of our own repairs, using about the same process and have had good results. I hope this helps...See Moregonefishin
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