Arc Welding Anyone?

please please remeber not to remove the mask whilst you remove the stuck stick from your weld... the reason being when you knock the metal of the stick, it will ark as it seprates... another good way to get ark eye.. which as so many have pointed out,

Imagine laying in bed at night with somone slowy & silently drilling out your retenas with a blunt drill bit.... yea that about sums it up...

Auto visors work well for sitck welding as it helps you strike an arc better as you can see where the stick is, its how I learnt, but I think the masks are 100£ odd quid..

Make sure you cover your arms as well or you will get sunburn and its not funny!

[northwind]

Sunburn? Ace! "Been on holiday" "No, I've been in the garage"

I fully intend to post up my terrible first efforts- might be getting ahead of myself there, it's possible I won't even rate "terrible" but fail-posts are always fun. Got an old steel-frame mountain bike and an old gate to play with, something tells me I'll end up welding the bike to the gate and the gate to myself.

[yorkie_chris]

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/SOLAR-AUTO-DAR...d=p3286.c0.m14

Dunno about the quality like...

[the_lone_wolf]

Originally Posted by northwind

Got an old steel-frame mountain bike and an old gate to play with, something tells me I'll end up welding the bike to the gate and the gate to myself.

it took all my self control not to laugh out loud when i read that

anyone know if they're still doing these?

have a little idea i'd like to fabricate for my bike trailer but it'd be better welded than bolted (not to my actual trailer obviously, an extra

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/SOLAR-AUTO-DAR...d=p3286.c0.m14

Dunno about the quality like...

looks pretty cool, for £30 you can't go wrong.

Originally Posted by DoubleD

looks pretty cool, for £30 you can't go wrong.

Its £38, that's as much as the welder!!

There is nothing wrong with the basic ones

Is arc good enough in terms of strength of welding. I dont know the difference between this and mig/tig but have been thinking about something like this over the last few months to play with as well.

[jambo]

Originally Posted by northwind

Got an old steel-frame mountain bike and an old gate to play with, something tells me I'll end up welding the bike to the gate and the gate to myself.

Originally Posted by the_lone_wolf

it took all my self control not to laugh out loud when i read that

I failed and laughed out loud in my office, must be home time, I'll be soldering lots of wires tonight which, in this of all threads seems rather tame


Jambo

[SVGrandad]

Originally Posted by northwind

Sunburn? Ace! "Been on holiday" "No, I've been in the garage"

I fully intend to post up my terrible first efforts- might be getting ahead of myself there, it's possible I won't even rate "terrible" but fail-posts are always fun. Got an old steel-frame mountain bike and an old gate to play with, something tells me I'll end up welding the bike to the gate and the gate to myself.

You are more likely to cut the bike into several pieces than stick it to the gate. Tube is not the easiest form to weld to.