- Location
- Welshpool Powys
Idea to run a welding thread post pictures of projects etc
The Welding/Fabrication Thread
- Thread starter Kevtherev
- Start date
- Location
- Acton Scott, South Shropshire
Raining at Welshpool? 
Cab-over Pete
Member
- Location
- Kenilworth, Warwickshire
If this is running up to you posing the pics of welding my steel toe caps together and fusing the slip clutch on the mower then you can bugger off.
- Location
- North West Wales
Shall we kick it off with a few things…
Bucket floor and cutting edge
Riddle bucket
655 side window repair
couple garden gates
and finish off with a hated job…
Bucket floor and cutting edge
Riddle bucket
655 side window repair
couple garden gates
and finish off with a hated job…
Pistonbroke
Member
What rods or wire do you use to weld onto the bucket edge? Bodged a repair on one here and the weld pool was just boiling and spitting with 6013 rods but that's all I had.
- Location
- South wales
I could show you my attempt at welding vertical supports to hold a concrete panel but it’s far too embarrassing however I did weld a load of angle on stantions to sit the panels on 6” thick heavy panels none of my welds gave out !!!!! Yet
Should add I don’t claim to be the best I’m still learnin, that was done off a gennie too with a cracking little arc welder
Should add I don’t claim to be the best I’m still learnin, that was done off a gennie too with a cracking little arc welder
J428TGS
Member
I know very little about welding but I use 7018 rodsI could show you my attempt at welding vertical supports to hold a concrete panel but it’s far too embarrassing however I did weld a load of angle on stantions to sit the panels on 6” thick heavy panels none of my welds gave out !!!!! Yet
Should add I don’t claim to be the best I’m still learnin, that was done off a gennie too with a cracking little arc welder
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who/s the best ? that's boring anyway. as long as a weld is strong and does the repair well what does it matter if it photogenic or no. Endless pictures of showing off lots of regular jobs is just back slapping not learning useful tips etc.
that looks good repair welds ...iirc i heard somewhere that a good mild steel weld of a half an inch will lift 1/2 a tonne ?
2wheels
Member
- Location
- aberdeenshire
proper hands.
- Location
- Welshpool Powys
Use a low hydrogen rod is what I use.
Get them off Spaldings unsure of type and number will look for you.
- Location
- South wales
Thankyou I’d like to think I’m getting better at it
Dave W
Member
- Location
- chesterfield
Last weeks job. Cobbled some profiled rings into a bearing housing for flail mower
- Location
- South wales
For a moment there I thought they were for David wnker
Dave W
Member
- Location
- chesterfield
- Location
- North West Wales
Just Mig weld it on, with rods you would need low hydrogen really I think something like 7018? Someone on here will know more about it. These were just bog standard economy Sparex cutting edges for skidsteer buckets and were not stupidly hard to cut. Normal mig wire is a form of low hydrogen. Just welded it 4 inches at a time here and there to spread the heat and it still bowed slightly!!!
one of the first mod /repairs i did when i was 17 to a cross shaft adjuster on a Ransomes plough
the red oxide bit
learnt how to/ the basic bit at YF club classes.
the red oxide bit
learnt how to/ the basic bit at YF club classes.
Tommy
Member
- Location
- North East Wales
Did this a while ago. Rebuilding a worn out key way, the shaft was about 4” in diameter so would be mega bucks to get a new one
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- Location
- North West Wales
Seen them done where the groove is filled in with welding, machine the shaft down and re cut the keyway 90 or 180 degree from original position