Made my first project with my welder today

[JRD77VET]

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A sleeve hitch adapter for my Cub Cadet. I also used my "new to me" cut off saw and drill press. :seasix:

If you're wondering exactly how that is used, it's the same as the red piece in the pic. It pivots on the back of the tractor and holds various implements like this 10" mouldboard plow.
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[Datawiz]

Clean. Certainly not your first welding job. :cert:

[OddBall]

Cool

[kingpin]

Rookie. :D

[JRD77VET]

Clean. Certainly not your first welding job. :cert:

I learned to weld in Metal Shop in Junior high school ( about 40 years ago :leaving: )

Had a a job as an Ironworker plus I weld when needed at my current job too. :seasix:

[Knooger]

You should PM War Eagle for some welding tips. Hope this helps.

[JRD77VET]

You should PM War Eagle for some welding tips. Hope this helps.

He has good pricing on Hobart/Miller consumable parts? :confused5:

[Jeff '79]

:cool1:......Wanna buy a plow ?........:D

[JRD77VET]

:cool1:......Wanna buy a plow ?........:D

I already have two single bottom plows, but thank you.

Somebody should end up with yours other than the scrap man :yesnod:

[Knooger]

He has good pricing on Hobart/Miller consumable parts? :confused5:

Yes.

[Blademaker]

Cool........A helluva lot better than my el cheapo welder I use to weld up billets.

[island14]

Nice Fab work..

Stick Welder, or Mig?

:cert:

[CertInsaneC5]

Looks good. :seasix: :cert:

[Prosecutor]

Nice work.:seasix:

[JRD77VET]

Nice Fab work..

Stick Welder, or Mig?

:cert:

MIG, Hobart handler 187, .035 wire CO2/argon mix

[JRD77VET]

This one is sold, another guy wants two of them at the end of April and another cub guy is interested in one. :hurray:

I better order some more flat stock :D

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[Jeff '79]

Aren't you going to powder coat them ?

[Blademaker]

This one is sold, another guy wants two of them at the end of April and another cub guy is interested in one. :hurray:

I better order some more flat stock :D

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v78/JRD77VET/house/cub%20cadet/parts/DCP_5983.jpg

What alloy flat stock did you use?
Mild steel? 1018?

[JRD77VET]

Aren't you going to powder coat them ?

Nope, The first one gets painted white but everybody else is on their own. Too many color variations during the years of Cub Cadets these will fit. These will work on a 1961 Original to a late 70's wide frame.

IHC changed the formula at least three times ( maybe 5 times )during the run.

[JRD77VET]

What alloy flat stock did you use?
Mild steel? 1018?

Why you want to know? :toetap:


:D

[Jeff '79]

Why you want to know? :toetap:


:D

Prolly a cop......:Jeff '79:

[Blademaker]

Why you want to know? :toetap:


:D

I dunno........just curious........Home Depot sells flat stock in various sizes that are OK for jigs, etc. All mild steel.
So I'm a steel junkie......:D

[Frizzle]

:seasix:

glad to see you got your welder hooked up and your house is still intact. :D

[JRD77VET]

:seasix:

glad to see you got your welder hooked up and your house is still intact. :D

:hurray: Thanks for help, kind sir :toast:

[JRD77VET]

I dunno........just curious........Home Depot sells flat stock in various sizes that are OK for jigs, etc. All mild steel.
So I'm a steel junkie......:D

PM sent, don't want to publically give away my secrets :D

[Burro (He/Haw)]

What alloy flat stock did you use?
Mild steel? 1018?

They look pretty damn good for a weekend welder! I'm not a big fan of wirefeed however. That a LONG spool of wire. :D

I have done overlay projects INSIDE a 30" pipe building up erosion points. Drop the hood and weld. For HOURS. About the only time you lift that hood up is when the liner in the whip fuks up.

Lemme guess: ASTM A36 Carbon Steel flat stock?

[Stangkiller]

My welders name is Mike..he does incredible work...he's pretty cheap and accepts tips in the form of cases of beer.

Yours looks awesome! Unfortunately I never could get my welds clean enough, so now it's just cheaper to pay somebody to do it once.

[JRD77VET]

They look pretty damn good for a weekend welder! I'm not a big fan of wirefeed however. That a LONG spool of wire. :D

I have done overlay projects INSIDE a 30" pipe building up erosion points. Drop the hood and weld. For HOURS. About the only time you lift that hood up is when the liner in the whip fuks up.

Lemme guess: ASTM A36 Carbon Steel flat stock?

:seasix: Thanks The Hobart uses 11 lb wire spools .

Little more than a weekend welder. 4 years as an Iron Worker plus I was also "the" welder where I worked before. I weld where I'm at now when needed.

August of '09 I TIG welded for a month straight to help out the shop.

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For size comparison, here's the augers than fit in that weldment next to my Suburban
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[C5Nate]

You should PM War Eagle for some welding tips. Hope this helps.

He has good pricing on Hobart/Miller consumable parts? :confused5:


Really?

Didnt know this.

I need a new liner for my Hobart!

[Frizzle]

Nice work there Jeff....

I know who to visit if i need some welding done. :D

[JRD77VET]

Really?

Didnt know this.

I need a new liner for my Hobart!

I don't know :dunno: I was goofing in Knooger and he answered serious. :leaving:

[JRD77VET]

Nice work there Jeff....

I know who to visit if i need some welding done. :D

That's right :seasix:

[kingpin]

Nice work there Jeff....

I know who to visit if i need some welding done. :D

:iagree:

Except I know who to invite. :D


One day I'm gonna get one of those big boxes with a plug and a dial, put on a pair of sunglasses and weld some shit together. :yesnod:

[Blademaker]

:iagree:

Except I know who to invite. :D


One day I'm gonna get one of those big boxes with a plug and a dial, put on a pair of sunglasses and weld some shit together. :yesnod:

Sunglasses don't do shit.......trust me on this one.

[JRD77VET]

Sunglasses don't do shit.......trust me on this one.

Read that in a book? :lolsmile: :willy:

:leaving:

[vtelvr]

One thing I've always wanted to learn how to do. Envious of you guys that can weld!

[kingpin]

Sunglasses don't do shit.......trust me on this one.

I was being facetious knife thrower. :slap:

[JRD77VET]

One thing I've always wanted to learn how to do. Envious of you guys that can weld!

Have a Vo-Tech school near you? Great place to learn to weld. :seasix:

[Blademaker]

Read that in a book? :lolsmile: :willy:

:leaving:

Naw, my stupid ass neighbor decide to weld up some perches in a steel bird cage. Thought sun glasses would do the trick.

Oops.

He got back from the ER with eye drops for 3 days. :D

[JRD77VET]

Naw, my stupid ass neighbor decide to weld up some perches in a steel bird cage. Thought sun glasses would do the trick.

Oops.

He got back from the ER with eye drops for 3 days. :D


:slap: :kick: :nutkick:

[vtelvr]

Have a Vo-Tech school near you? Great place to learn to weld. :seasix:


Yep. And I have told my wife that I wanted to do it. Not that I'd ever care to make a career out of it(nothing wrong with it) but would love to know how.

[Blademaker]

I was being facetious knife thrower. :slap:

:p bullshit :D

[JRD77VET]

Yep. And I have told my wife that I wanted to do it. Not that I'd ever care to make a career out of it(nothing wrong with it) but would love to know how.

I learned to weld in 7th grade so that became a big help on the farm :seasix:

[kingpin]

I learned to weld in 7th grade so that became a big help on the farm :seasix:

It's funny you say that. It was in 7th grade machine shop where I saw a friend of mine get burned with a torch from his wrist to his elbow when the guy in front of him turned around with the torch in his hand.

Freaks me out a little since.

[Burro (He/Haw)]

4 years as an Iron Worker
We give the Iron Workers at work shit for the welding they do. None of them are qualified in B31.1 code welding. All of their work is AWS D1.1. All fillet welds all the time. The minute you give them an open root they are screaming for the Steamfitters help. :D

Since the bulk of my work is pipe, we TIG most of it. That's for 308 and 316 SS.

Carbon Steel A106 Gr. B pipe is 6010 root, and 7018 out.

25 years of this welding crap did pay off. Im now working with the Weld Engineer at a Nuclear plant planning weld packages. As you can imagine, the welding program is very tightly controlled.

The weld test itself washes a LOT of "Welders" out.

[JRD77VET]

It's funny you say that. It was in 7th grade machine shop where I saw a friend of mine get burned with a torch from his wrist to his elbow when the guy in front of him turned around with the torch in his hand.

Freaks me out a little since.

Metal Shop in Junior High School even had an aluminum melting furnace. We had all kinds of ways to maim ourselves

[Burro (He/Haw)]

Not that I'd ever care to make a career out of it
100K/year is easy if your good. I'm talking Nuclear good, not "Jim-Bobs Hitch's and Ho's Weldin' and Shit Repairs" :D

[JRD77VET]

We give the Iron Workers at work shit for the welding they do. None of them are qualified in B31.1 code welding. All of their work is AWS D1.1. All fillet welds all the time. The minute you give them an open root they are screaming for the Steamfitters help. :D

Since the bulk of my work is pipe, we TIG most of it. The root and hot pass are TIG, the fill and cover are stick. 7018. That's for 308 and 316 SS.

Carbon Steel A106 Gr. B pipe is 6010 root, and 7018 out.

25 years of this welding crap did pay off. Im now working with the Weld Engineer at a Nuclear plant planning weld packages. As you can imagine, the welding program is very tightly controlled.

The weld test itself washes a LOT of "Welders" out.

Congrats on the welding package work :seasix:

I did 99% of my welding in the shop on the miscellaneous side ( structural was the other side ). I used to be certified in ARC welding flat, vertical and overhead ( I forget the exact specs, it was the early 80s I did this )

I hear you on "welders" not passing the tests. When we need a welder at work, it's a pretty simple welding test ( steel, aluminum & stainless steel ) but those guys just melt metal, not weld.

[Burro (He/Haw)]

The Steamfitters have some Post Maintenance Testing that's very difficult. This happens AFTER you pass your hire on welding test and you're out in the field welding.

Some systems require radiography testing. That's X-Ray. The weld has to be pretty much perfect. No slag inclusions, no cold lap, no undercut, no porosity, no fish eyes, no nothing.

All this testing is a good idea in my business. You have a weld fail on the primary side of the reactor coolant system and you're pretty much fuked. :D

[vtelvr]

I think my sophmore year of highscool, we had a week or so in shop class that we learned how to stick weld. I found this extremely cumbersome, and with the VERY subpar equipment we had to use, mine never turned out so good. I think I would like to try the wire welding to see if I am any better at that.