Welding Tips and Tricks

A flying bridge for a 28 foot boat. The first set are the original build to the customer's specs. He wanted all the lines from the bottom structure to continue into the top and the front legs had to land on top of the bottom pipes for control wire accesd. After completion he decided it was too tall. I had to cut it down 8 inches. I added kickers to match the bottom. Those are the second set of pics.
Also some interior rails that were built in place at a beach house in Panama City Beach.

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Beautiful work! How long did the boat railing take you to build?

I had about 40 hours in the boat including the rework. Thanks, also. I like the boat work.

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I had some pictures of railings for a home in Sandestin Resort. It was an interesting design. Built In the shop and installed by us

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My daughter recons I need more exercise so she bought me a flatpak bike to ride in front of the tv at night instead if drinking beer and eating chips. My objection was more to questionable quality and suitability coming from a flat box, she assured me she researched it thoroughly and it would be suitable for me. She said if I peddled hard enough maybe I could make it to the beer fridge.

I assembled it, turns out it was made for the vertically challenged. So I took it to the shop, cut it up and re-welded it with 3/4" sched40 pipe extensions to the seat and handlebars. It fits me now and works. The peddle radius is still a little small, the peddle arms I need to look at closely as they may be die cast. The seat needs to be re-worked as currently it messes with my junk. The friction brake on the wheel is noisy. Overall the ergonomics is a fail but it was cheap right?

cold
i suggest a camelback for hands free beer distribution......
craig

Set up your phone to take video first, I want to see what happens when the physical activity releases the carbonation.

No way. If the government find out they might reintroduce the carbon tax


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Heya guys here's a big flag pole I built a while back. It was somewhere around 130" tall. The center holds some type of light

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You have beautiful welds, and you know it. Why don't you contribute here and help us out, to get where you're at?

5th
you must buy filler by the truck load!
craig

tungstendipper wrote:You have beautiful welds, and you know it. Why don't you contribute here and help us out, to get where you're at?

Sure ask any questions you want and I'll do my best to answer them.

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Some new cantilevered, rolling gates ready for installation. All aluminum construction.

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Warren
awesome!
do you have a close up of how your joining pieces in the top photo
are made?
craig

motox wrote:Warren
awesome!
do you have a close up of how your joining pieces in the top photo
are made?
craig

And why does it look like every other vertical piece isn't welded?

We alternate the welds. I really dont know why, it's just how we do them. We hand twist 3/8 aluminum rod to make the twist. The owner of the shop designed this fence. Its callec coastal dune fence and we sell a ton of it. All hand made.

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Warrenh wrote:We alternate the welds. I really dont know why, it's just how we do them. We hand twist 3/8 aluminum rod to make the twist. The owner of the shop designed this fence. Its callec coastal dune fence and we sell a ton of it. All hand made.

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That's cool, would like to see how the twist is done, nice fab work there.

We have one guy on the torch and one twisting. It does take some practice to get tight twists and keep it even across a 7 foot panel.

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Stainless diff cover to replace the stock aluminum one, and 4" side exit titanium exhaust

Ok,ok, it’s far from perfect, but it was a rush job to change the baffles in a stainless exhaust for a customer.

Normally, a simple enough job, cut open the end of the silencer, modify and re-weld.

But - I’m unpacking all my kit after moving out to Madeira in Portugal, and I’m still setting up my workshop, so I haven’t got all my grinders etc to hand.

Also, it was the first time I’ve seen my TIG in two years, let alone lifted the torch in anger. The stainless exhaust was badly contaminated, so the weld blackened, but we got the car out today, ready for a car show on the weekend.

We will be revisiting this again - the customer wants more power and noise, but his will keep him happy until I’m better prepared.

Just a little fantasy piece I have been working on for the past week or so - "The World is Nuts" - not quite finished.

Good job. All though I won't let you get close to my tool box.

That's pretty sweet how do you make the hands there almost anatomically correct

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Mike,
The hands are the hex-heads of those bolts, sawed off and welded back on end-wise (at the appropriate angle). The fingers are made from sections of large carpenters finishing nails. I did some low-amperage long-arcing to heat them to the point where I could easily put a bend into 'em, then cut out the curved bits that matched what I wanted and welded them on. The rest of that is simply built-up work, melting it all in as I went. I just kept adding on until it seemed right. In general, just lots of patient work.

PS I cheated and looked at my own hands for shape and pose.

Grab some tweezers and crank the welder up to warm nice work

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