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pretty sharp for your first project! Nice looking welds.:thumbsup2:
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2014 POTD Thread Archive
- Thread starter Smudgemo
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pretty sharp for your first project! Nice looking welds.:thumbsup2:
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Brian, if you have the facility it would be very beneficial to heat treat to stress relieve before machining. Straight machining without, may, (probably will) create stress relief during the process and cause it to move anyway.
Cheers Phil
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Yes, I built that big fillet just to burn up rods and get practice. I know it was overkill!
At first I was hitting the ends of the rod with a file. Then I tried scratching it on the concrete floor while it was still in the stinger. That worked well!
I was having trouble at the ends of the welds (edge of the plate) at first. Trying to keep the edge from blowing out. I was making two full circles and long arcing out of the weld.
I cleaned every pass real well! The slag came off real easy for the most part. The trickiest part was the inside corner. I couldn't get my wire wheel in there. I used a small stainless wire brush for that.
I'm really enjoying welding so far! I had my garage door open and a fan blowing the smoke and fumes away from me. I would like to make some type of fume extractor to vent the smoke outside and away from me.
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Thanks I am happy with how they looked for not ever welding. Not sure if it made a difference or not but the rods I used were old and never in an oven. From what i understand oven stored 7018 rods are only important in x-ray quality code work. They will make good welds if not stored in an oven.
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Regarding the PITA factor in restriking 7018 'trodes, I use my Chemetron P&H tig welder with the tig frequency unit operational. The 'freq unit lets me run 1/16 rods of other designation at very low currents as well without the need to scratch start the rod. I know this is cheating but my welding skills would otherwise be lacking.
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Tig welding has peaked my curiosity since I have been reading up on welding. I will be looking to add a tig welder to the shop in the future. I wouldn't call it cheating...I would call it using your resources!!
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Thank you very much. I am glad to be finished with it so I can move on to something else.
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Made a night time dog walking or just walking light.
Found these LED lights that can turn on either red or white:
The project part was to make the connecting piece out of a bar of stainless, a simple boring project:
That way you walk holding it on the street and in front there is a white light and behind a red light so more visibility.
Both lights are the same so when on white there are 9 LEDs and when red just one. So if it starts to wear down can just turn it around
Simple project but it came out just the way I wanted it to.
Found these LED lights that can turn on either red or white:
The project part was to make the connecting piece out of a bar of stainless, a simple boring project:
That way you walk holding it on the street and in front there is a white light and behind a red light so more visibility.
Both lights are the same so when on white there are 9 LEDs and when red just one. So if it starts to wear down can just turn it around
Simple project but it came out just the way I wanted it to.