Arc Welding Anyone?

[the_lone_wolf]

£30 is cheap...


but not as cheap as an old microwave and some hacking:

http://hackaday.com/2006/09/21/micro...en-arc-welder/

http://www.dansworkshop.com/electric...arc-welder.htm

Originally Posted by SoulKiss

Want to go halves ???

I'd never use it but would still have one :P

Lol... I need to use your spring compressors, just keep putting it off with other jobs.

Originally Posted by the_lone_wolf

£30 is cheap...


but not as cheap as an old microwave and some hacking:

http://hackaday.com/2006/09/21/micro...en-arc-welder/

http://www.dansworkshop.com/electric...arc-welder.htm

Somethings are best left un hacked and I'm not happy about making something like that from something that cooks a spud in 12 minutes.

[SoulKiss]

Originally Posted by Grinch

Something are best left un hacked and I'm not happy about making something like that from something that cooks a spud in 12 minutes.

But if you put 4 together you can arc weld a spud in 3 minutes

Originally Posted by northwind

I went and got one of these this afternoon, I think I may have given away my lack of confidence by also buying a fire extinguisher

Lol... so what you welded so far?

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

Step 1 IMO is get a bit of plate... learn how to strike arc (they call it stick welding for a reason ) and learn how to run a good bead, fill crater etc etc ... then start trying to join 2 pieces.

Run a good bead? Fill crater... fill a hole?

[northwind]

I may put a plug on it at some point

[yorkie_chris]

Originally Posted by Grinch

Lol... so what you welded so far?



Run a good bead? Fill crater... fill a hole?

Bead is the actual run of weld... you want it nice and regular in pattern and width.

When you lift of at end of bead it'll leave a crater at the end, you need to get hang of moving electrode down a little in angle and pause to fill it in and finish the weld off nicely.

Originally Posted by squirrel_hunter

Which then leads nicely to my next question; how do you weld?

[the_lone_wolf]

Originally Posted by Grinch

Somethings are best left un hacked and I'm not happy about making something like that from something that cooks a spud in 12 minutes.

ya big jessy

Originally Posted by the_lone_wolf

ya big jessy

Maybe... but I'm still alive. Not getting a darwin award.