Talk About Anything Thread V1

I don't blame ya man.

Probably the first and last time you worked all year until this time next year lel

Doug wrote:

Probably the first and last time you worked all year until this time next year lel

watchit punk

after working about 13 hours over the last 3 days i was not paid when promised. I am not pleased. Trip to scrapyard may be on hold for a bit.

That super sux.  Hope it works out for you.

Nice Signature BTW...
And happy 500th post. I remember when I got mine, a few months ago! LOL

Where are you working at Rich? Like at home you mean?

I was welding up a storm yesterday, had to do a bit of repair on a bale feeder and a bunch of repair on a gravity wagon for my Papa. Good times hahaha.

Welding... I welded some patches into a truck frame. Started with 6013s. Seemed alright... except for I havnt welded verticle or overhead for years. But I guess it will hold... next got 6011. Man. Its like 2 different people did the welding. Set down some pretty nice welds with the 6013... 6011 on the other hand. Chicken. Poop. So embarrassing.

Yeah overhead and straight up and down stuff sucks cause it always turns out drippy looking. But I've kinda gotten better at it so sometimes I get a nice swirly bead.

It wasnt just overhead and verticle, the flat welds looked like crap too...
Back when I was doing more vertical and overhead welds, I did pretty well. 1 of 2 who got d1.1 certs for all positions.

Running the 6013 overhead, while not the best Ive done were alright.

6013 is what I am practicing with to get use to my new to me machine.

I was working for a dude down the road.

I like 5/32" 7014. Crank the amps up to 105, sometimes more, and it makes some nice welds. Haven't done much vertical or overhead though, I usually shift whatever I'm welding so I can do horizontal.

I try to do that as much as possible too. But sometimes you can't, like with a gravity wagon hahaha. It is much nicer when you can though!

I do pretty good upside down, when I am standing up. If I'm laying it just drips and spatters. The worst, it is, the worst, when I'm laying that is, LOL.

I hate overhead because I have a flux core...

All the spatter just loves to make it into my helmet and down my sleeves.

Only experience I have is patching exhaust while laying under my car. Everything else I shift

Ive been wanting to do a gas conversion on my ProCore but too cheap for the argon and unsure how well CO2 welds.

Dad has a Lincoln ProMig or something like that. 75/25 CO2/Argon welds nice. Don't think the gas is too expensive once you have a bottle.

The conversion only has 1 reg. Dont wanna get too too fancy for how little I use it and how much it costs to get set up. The kit is like $190, probably the same for a filled Argon from AirGas.

Too tired to work today. Blah....

I need to get another welding gas bottle for my "handy mig". Need to get my other one for the tig filled.

I think if I had 3 id be set.

I was doing an oil spray on my car at the shop today when I spotted some rot on my sub-frame:



That's not so good. But some cutting and welding and we're good to go again!



Not too bad! The terrible looking welds on the right are mine, guess I'm pretty rusty with the MIG.

Chicken poop!

Looks like it will last till you pawn it off on some other shmuck!

That's the idea! Hahaha, it should hold up pretty well I think, especially after the oil spray.

Yeah I think so... I need to oil my Jeep one of these days.

Looks like it will hold.

Hopefully! The rest of the chassis is in great shape so it'd be a shame to let the sub-frame rot away.

The monte carlo I tore down had a steel subframe like that, but my impala was aluminum. Both are built on the W chassis.

Yeah ever the newer Impalas have the aluminun sub-frame. Would be nice to not have to worry about it rotting haha.