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Post by chils on Sept 28, 2020 19:53:29 GMT -6
Welding skill is simply practice. I taught many immigrants how to weld MIG in 15minutes so it isn't difficult to learn.
I welded and fabbed in shops for 20 years. 13 years of steel, aluminum, and stainless in trailer wreck rebuild shops nearly daily. I still learned some stuff recently when welding with flux core wire feed. YT is awesome for this.
Get a welder and start sticking stuff together.
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Post by Leftympfrmde on Sept 29, 2020 6:59:33 GMT -6
welding isn't hard to learn; just a pain to get it right. I've done TIG, MIG and stick welding in the past; enough to make it passable, but no expert.
I'd love to get a MIG set up and learn how to weld stainless proficiently! hell of a find, Chils.
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Post by drez on Sept 29, 2020 7:02:27 GMT -6
welding isn't hard to learn; just a pain to get it right. I've done TIG, MIG and stick welding in the past; enough to make it passable, but no expert. I'd love to get a MIG set up and learn how to weld stainless proficiently! hell of a find, Chils. SS is why we bought the TIG. Funny part homebrewing was the catalyst for the tig. |
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Post by chils on Sept 29, 2020 7:19:30 GMT -6
welding isn't hard to learn; just a pain to get it right. I've done TIG, MIG and stick welding in the past; enough to make it passable, but no expert. I'd love to get a MIG set up and learn how to weld stainless proficiently! hell of a find, Chils. SS is why we bought the TIG. Funny part homebrewing was the catalyst for the tig. Thanks Lefty. All the SS I welded in the trailer shops was MIG spool gun. We didn't run tons of SS so it was always just in the spool gun to allow for easy switch over from aluminum. You can also stick weld SS. I've never welded TIG just because I never worked in a shop that had one.
Aluminum pretty much has to be in a spool gun because the wire is too soft to push thru a MIG gun liner. Spool guns only have to push the wire thru ~6" of liner. I probably welded more aluminum than steel in the trailer shops. Sometimes hundreds of feet of beads at a time when doing reefer floors.
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Post by drez on Sept 29, 2020 7:37:25 GMT -6
SS is why we bought the TIG. Funny part homebrewing was the catalyst for the tig. Thanks Lefty. All the SS I welded in the trailer shops was MIG spool gun. We didn't run tons of SS so it was always just in the spool gun to allow for easy switch over from aluminum. You can also stick weld SS. I've never welded TIG just because I never worked in a shop that had one.
Aluminum pretty much has to be in a spool gun because the wire is too soft to push thru a MIG gun liner. Spool guns only have to push the wire thru ~6" of liner. I probably welded more aluminum than steel in the trailer shops. Sometimes hundreds of feet of beads at a time when doing reefer floors.
I remember in college I was making a tracking antenna for my Sr project and me being me I had to do all the work myself and not offload some of the stuff to the mechanical department. The frame I was making was out of 1/4 AL flat bar. I had to bend it and did that by cutting the back side to help. I ended up using some aluminum stick rod to weld the crack back up. Not sure where my dad got it but that was a trip. In the end it worked out and was find but those were some ugly welds! |
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