TraditionalToolworks It's all good and I think we are mostly on the same page. Any car without a computer in it and not in a production shop will be better off TIG welded for sure! And nobody likes working on rusty cars, even if we do it for a living!!/quote] Randy, Not a bad point actually. On my ...

TraditionalToolworks It's all good and I think we are mostly on the same page. Any car without a computer in it and not in a production shop will be better off TIG welded for sure! And nobody likes working on rusty cars, even if we do it for a living!!



Randy

I ended up on disabilty after 35 years in the autoglass/autobody industry and am not aware of any production shops using tig welding on cars. I know they do in the custom field. You obviously didn't do NASCAR work in your 35 years. Pretty sure they use tig. I have a section of tig on an old '46 Che...

Just my $0.02, but welding sheet metal is not easy to do properly, easy to blow through the material. Just about everyone repairing auto panels is using tig these days. For frames, exhausts or other repairs, mig will work well. I would encourage you to get a welder to learn welding, but have someon...

Just my $0.02, but welding sheet metal is not easy to do properly, easy to blow through the material. Just about everyone repairing auto panels is using tig these days. For frames, exhausts or other repairs, mig will work well. I would encourage you to get a welder to learn welding, but have someon...

Randy, What I suggested with the UHVM would work just fine with your design, you could use wood even to create a separation between the tank and cart/table. I was merely suggesting that you insulate between them so that the tank wasn't grounded when you're welding on the table. I don't see that as ...

Thanks for the replies and I think its not too late to alter what I am doing. I am using this cart because I already had it and it was heavy duty and thought by adding some things to it, I could have a self contained cart to fab some smaller projects on. My big table works great for what it is, but ...

I have been building this table/cart and was planning to have my welder and bottles on the cart with a 30"x38" top. I have a large table that I build 25 years ago and is not flat at all but works for large projects/work bench. I recently caught a post in another forum about someone not wel...