Welding Tips and Tricks

Hi Everyone,

I work as a fabricator and site welder contractor for our local Council (City Hall I think you'd call it).
I take on everything from repairing and upgrading market stalls to fabricating stairs, landings, handrails etc.
I make industrial gates and fences to order (though don't do domestic wrought iron type stuff)
I own a BOC (British Oxygen Company) MIG 320 amp 3 phase, which seems to tackle everthing I throw at it. I'm not sure who makes it for them but I've had it for 5 years now and it's performed perfectly.
I also have a Genset petrol 200 amp arc welder for site work, which again seems to do everthing I ask of it.
I got into welding in the building trade purely by accident when and illness I had meant I had to give my driving license up for a 12 month period and lost my job - not very useful as a motor mechanic. I was offered a job as a steel fabricator by a local builder over a chat about his dad's clutch, and that was it - I'd changed careers. The skills I had learned as a mechanic transferred easily into the building trade, and I've been doing that now for 14 years.
I have an interest in motorsport, and compete at club level in various trails and autotests which occasionally means I have to do a bit of patching up following "incidents".
I also have a 50 year old Morris Minor saloon, which heeds an occasional bit of love, but otherwise is in good order, and I use it for classic car tours in the summer months.
Look forward to chatting to you all.

We have lots of folks here with similar interests and a few from the UK so you should find yourself in good company, well fairly good anyway. I'm sure you'll have something we can all learn from as well as something you'll learn along the way.

Len

Welcome!

Isn't that Morris Minor a wood-body car? I'd think that's a bear to keep up with. (Or am I thinking of another vehicle...)

Steve S

Welcome to the forum.

Hi Otto,

No its a saloon, I had one of those a few years ago and it was immaculate, a 1964 I think, but had to sell it to put down a deposit on a house.It really was A1, and would fetch £15000.00 these days
Mine isn't A1 but but is plenty nice enough to use on Classic Runs & no rust underneath!!
No power steering, no servo, drum brakes, no synchro on 1st - who needs all that stuff, it's still great fun.
Daft thing is, I always buy my cars that need no welding if I can as I prefer to weld chunky jobs rather than car bodies these days.
My autotest car is a 2003 Fiat Seicento 1.1 sporting, which normally suffer from rust quite badly with our salted roads, but somehow I've managed to find one rust free. Spins on a sixpence (nickel?) with the handbrake and outcorners just about everything else on the road.

welcome aboard

Welcome, most people say it's an accident that I started welding and want to know when I will fix it. Welcome to the group.