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15th January 2020, 20:51 | #1 |
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Welding projects
Recently bought a tig welder for home (done quite a bit over the years and always wanted one) and started a couple of small projects. Got a couple of bigger projects in the pipeline like fitting a roll cage in a friends trackday car and fabricating myself one once I've finished another project (yes I've got a lot on at the min!)
Just about got an engine stand finished which cost about £10 because the steel was an absolute bargain! Takes a v6 without much trouble, which is yet something else I need to sort... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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Before fabricating a roll cage, weld up some test pieces using the tube that you will make the cage from.
Put these in a vice and try your best to destroy them using a 4lb hammer, if the welds break or show any signs of fracture, start over again until they are strong enough. Sounds like I preaching but I have seen some potential disasters on bike / trike frames. You gotta be 100% when lives could be at stake.
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15th January 2020, 21:11 | #3 |
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Thanks, already on top of that, been practicing positional welding and various angles of jointing tubes with the correct material with the set for a while now. I've had quite a few joints cut, etched and inspected by our metallurgist to ensure sound welds. We're lucky that we've got such facilities at work. I definitely wouldn't take something like that on if I wasn't 100% confident of a quality job.
I've seen plenty of disastrous "attempts" myself and wonder how they ever thought it was acceptable...
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Welded cars! I always remember seeing an Austin 1100 that had been a cut and shut job that broke in half going over a hump back bridge. The front end with two occupants ended up in a field on the offside and the rear half (with the occupants still strapped in) just rolled to a stop on the road (both occupants with their feet tucked up under their chins! They just stepped out without a scratch! I don't know if the recovery truck got paid once or twice!
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