Nice table
I'm planning on making me one after ive put up a fence, built a brick bbq, layed a load of decking..... oh, and bought a welder i don't think i can bring one home from work

Both great looking welds compared to mine. But ive only done about 4/5 attempts so far... I think i'm making my weld bead to wide, on 1/4 plate ive got a 8-10mm weld. It must be strong but it's looking too big. I would like to test my Mig uphill welding just to know what i'm doing is right but i'm p...

Well, i did the test tuesday morning and it went well. I was that far into what i was doing i forgot to take a picture :shock: and after the pointers from you guys it was the one thing i wanted to do.... Since then i have been doing some uphill mig (not for a test (yet)) and it's easier than i thoug...

MrO If the requirement is a 1/2" fillet, I do not feel you would get there is two passes. If you did, you would have to step up to a bigger wire or run extremely high amps. Food for thought. -Jonathan Sorry, i perhaps didn't explain it well (i did think it meant a 12mm fille was required, and ...

Thanks again folks...

The paperwork asks for a fillet thats of a size suitable for the parent metal which is 12.5mm / 1/2"

Hi Paul s

If you were doing this weld ie: root and cap, would you put any weave into the cap? cheers, MrO It would depend on the set up. What is your bevel and gap in the plate? I can do it either way. Most would do stringers. It is up to you or how they want it to be done. As long as it is not over 3/4"...

ive used the steel blade type (blades cost around £80 but can be sharpened loads of times) designed to run with cutting fluid...

Ive also used the abrasive type with blades at about £35..

The steel one is the way to go in my opinion...no blade flex... the vice is super sturdy

Hi Jonathan, i think you got your conversions about right as 1mm is just under 40thou... Im currently working on the production of dumper trucks www.thwaitesdumpers.co.uk when i used to work in this kind of trade 16/17 years ago we used to use 1.2mm wire which i found more suitable to heavy guage we...

Thanks for the welcomes, and the reply ;) I now have the Miller app on my iphone 8-) (i hope to be around here a bit more often) It now seems i read the sheet wrong and it isn't a 12mm fillet with a root and single cap, which i thought it was a bit strange... I could be wrong but thought 3 runs was ...

Hi folks, I am having to do an in house weld test at work, the welds (mild steel) required are: 90* outside corner downhand, (4mm plate) easy and completed 8-) 6mm fillet in the horizontal position, (6mm plate) easy completed 8-) 12mm fillet in the horizontal position (12mm plate) - with a root pass...