Welding Tips and Tricks

Greetings from the snowy hills of Colorado.

I'm an old guy who has been puttering with welding off and on for several decades.
I have a Lincoln TIG welder that I really like. Well, until I played with a new Miller Dynasty 200 with the wireless foot pedal. However, I'll stick (ha-ha, never used it for stick) with my Lincoln. I did a lot of TIG welding on my helicopter airframe and on aftermarket drag bike frame.

I was building a helicopter designed around an Allison turbine. One day my wife told me if I wanted to finish my helicopter, I'd have to get a full time job. I said let me give that some serious though, no thanks. So I had to sell my beloved Allison turbine and now I'm building a street rod which I can do without having to even work part time. I built the frame and all the brackets are CNC Machined, most are surface ground and than TIG'ed in place. I use mostly 4130 tubing for the round items like suspension and misc. bits.

Thanks,

Doug

welcome to the forum Doug
glad you stopped by....
John

Welcome to the site Doug. Drag bike huh? You around Bandimere? (Morrison)

Welcome to the forum Dugg.

Hey Fat Bob,

Yup, I was at Bandimere off and on for several years. Mike Berry got me into racing bikes as I had a Suzuki GS1100 that looked a little like his only several seconds slower.

I then stepped up to a TracDynamics frame and bigger motor and went into Pro-Bike at Bandimere. I quit when they combined the bike class with the car class as they never did like bikes anyway.

Now I building a '27ish roadster and shooting for a completion date of Y3K.

Thanks for the welcomes,

Doug