What are y'all working on today?

Carbon Steel. Wall thickness is a little skinny for SMAW, I haven't really had much luck with mig and water tight welds. Probably a loose nut connecting the mig gun to the floor....

The tubes are poked through and welded to the plate on the back side. Then the plates are welded into the headers. I have a fixture designed for pressure testing the tube sheet weldments before they are welded into the headers.

 

On the ground cable ?
Don't understand where the gun connects to any floor ??
DCEN ?

 

Thought I might as well put my to-do list for the day up...
Design and price a 50'x50'x18' shop
Design and price a 26'x40'x10' with attic, man cave
Finalize Prints on a 40'x36'x14' shop
Also have a few cattle barns and a building for the fair grounds to work on... if I get time

 

What ratio do you run in the Tig welder?

 

I think he's talking about the guy using it

 

i run 11 with a 2.50 magnification cheater lens, sometimes i run 12 and the cheater with the aluminum mig welder

 

thats not a muffler, thats the end of the collector that the headers slide into, 1 on each side. no mufflers on this car

 

yep its a built 434 chevy small block with a carb and nitrous, he scaled back his 1500HP claim today and said well its at least 1000, 800+ on the motor than add the nitrous. Just going by what he is telling me, I'm just the welder, did the motor mounts, tranny mount/cross member, and headers

 

For tig I run straight argon, er70s-6 and scratch off a copper plate.

For the mig I run 75/25 with .035 super arc L-56. If I switch to 95/5 I could probably get into spray transfer and I hear that can help with making water tight welds. Some one else told me excel arc 71 with co2 was the only way to fly.

I have the most time in on SMAW with tig being a close second. That probably why I get best results with them.

I got a scrap ticket approved for the refractory. These babies are coming home with me on thursday.

 

Something like that...

 

I swapped a carb on one of my 346
I got the new adjusting holes drilled and the oiler for my Sachs 133
A big thanks to another member for the helping me out on the bar you know who you are

 

That's a little more realistic, but still a stretch. Least he is aiming high.

 

My favorite is tig. I want to get a new machine that will weld aluminum.

 

That is the main reason I bought a Tig was to weld aluminum.
The magnesium came later due to the advantages in repairing saws.
The other thing is that Tig is such a nice clean looking weld.

 

I cant stick to save my life, learned to tig in the military in the early 80's and have been doing it ever since for a living, alum,cres,titanium, nickel based stainless steels also do alot of alum and steel mig

 

Nice looking welds. I cannot do anything that nice looking. I just weld for a hobby.
I have a Miller synchrowave 250 with a water cooler on the back and a thumb wheel for current control.

 

nothing wrong with that set up, i have never used the thumb wheel controller

 

The thumb wheel is what I learned with so it is all I know.