... just add a bevel about 80% the thickness of the material and fill with the weld bead. This makes a clean full penetration weld that you can quickly and easily grind flat. I recently built a stand for my band saw, and decided on doing miters. I built a small test piece, and after cutting the mit...

For high strength alloys there can be some unacceptable reduction in stress corrosion resistance. The attached link has a paper with a description of the process and some good pictures of the resulting microstructure and the weld zone's susceptibility to corrosion. http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fullte...

My first job out of high school was for a local company that built snares, the kind used to trap fur bearing animals. In addition to running a punch and bending up the sheet metal parts, I got to run a carbon arc torch used to cut and put a bead on the end of the wire rope of the snare. A few years ...

EtroniX - nice stand! I just joined the forum this morning, and the first thing I did was a search for bandsaw stands. You must have posted right after I did my search. I have a HF 4X6 that needs the stand replaced. I may not copy your design, as I already have casters and a bunch of angle I want to...