Re: Rotating Welding Rod Casings or Stand....a WIP for the Stick Welding on thin shee

Then gathered another set of C-Purlins :

Another batch here of C-Purlins that I have fitted in to each other to form a casing which will be welded together. If you can see in the background the first set of C-Purlins that I have welded already, like what I said, I was not able to take pics of how it was welded, but it was a full welding on its metal connection.

Anyway on this second batch of C-Purlins, I started welding using the spot welding on the first casing.

Re: Rotating Welding Rod Casings or Stand....a WIP for the Stick Welding on thin shee

TO CONTINUE :

The cleaned and finish spot weld.

On the second casing, I applied the welds differently, I used the stitch welding approach

Re: Rotating Welding Rod Casings or Stand....a WIP for the Stick Welding on thin shee

OK then all my rod casings have been welded, will set them aside for a while and start working for its base.

Found some two 1/4" thick scrap plates, cut them to the required size, used a flap disk sander to remove some annoying rusts, then welded them up together.

Here are two close ups of the weld, beveled the plates, made a root pass then applied two weld cappings, the top and the underside. LOL, sorry again no pics of the underside.

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Fisrt WIP post for 2012 ...buena mano ..... metalworking.:attack:

Re: Rotating Welding Rod Casings or Stand....a WIP for the Stick Welding on thin shee

EHE HEHEHEHE, Oo nga ano, buena mano for the metalworking thread !!!!!

Well I started working on this project last week of November last year and have accumulated lots of pics stored in the camera, decided to start posting kasi nag kakahalo halo na mga shots plus mabusisi mag upload sa photobucket, minsan nakakalito, specially when re-sizing. LOL

Re: Rotating Welding Rod Casings or Stand....a WIP for the Stick Welding on thin shee

And to continue with the WIP :

Cut some 1" X 1" X 3/16" ao that I can make a base frame for the flat panel base.

Here's the metal frame spot welded from the underside, hehehe, sorry again forgot to take a shot but anyway it will be shown when I start welding the flat panel base to the metal frame.

These two are just the same shots only of different angles. HMMMM problem with showing metal WIPs, they all look brown and rusted, walang ka kulay kulay. LOL

Re: Rotating Welding Rod Casings or Stand....a WIP for the Stick Welding on thin shee

These three pics are just close-up shots of the underside spot welding.

Then started welding the topsides of the plate and the angle frame but realized that doing full welds warps the angle bar frame so i decided to add supports underneath..........

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These are shots of the underside with two angle bars added and welded for support not for the plate but for the sides of the angle bar frame.

Re: Rotating Welding Rod Casings or Stand....a WIP for the Stick Welding on thin shee

Then after completing the underside support, I continued welding the top plate and the angle bar frame and here are the results of my full welds :

All sides took three weld passes and decided to retain and show the nice weld weaves instead of grinding them all down. I really enjoyed doing these weld manipulations on thicker metal for I am sure no holes will be punched. Oh by the way the rod I used here is a 6013 standard size Nihonweld and using a 90 AMPS in the welder's gauge.

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After completing the welds on the top plate and the angle bar frame, I started to work on the sub base frame of the plate where a wheel bearing possibly will be attached and welded with supports, I said possibly coz I am still trying to figure out what else to use so that the top base will rotate smoothly.

Got some of my excess T bars, this are used for fabricating steel window casements, anyway cut them up with my DEWALT abrasive chop saw.

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And after cutting to an specified length, again started cutting them again in the middle with somewhat 18 or 20 degree slant.

Purpose of the second cut was to be able to form an octagon base frame which will require me to do again lots of welding on every joints.

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Started the assembly of the sub base octagon by applying welds on all the metal joints.

And on this assembly, I used the 1/8" special Nihonweld 6013 welding rod.

TO be continued !!!!!!!!! nakaka pagod ng mag post, sakit na shoulders ko, tomorrow again.

THANKS for viewing !!!!

Re: Rotating Welding Rod Casings or Stand....a WIP for the Stick Welding on thin shee

starting 2012 with a BIG BANG !!!

mukhang metal works ang mamumukadkad this year....

Re: Rotating Welding Rod Casings or Stand....a WIP for the Stick Welding on thin shee

Nice welds and presentation bro ... looking forward for more pics ....