Welder power rating for welding large amounts of 5mm+ steel

[Paul G]

Could you fish out a few photos and detail of those please? I am just about to set into a resto on the scooby

Sorry, but I've tried everything. Red carpet, sweets, biscuits, chocolate, they just won't come out.

They'll be out at the weekend I'll wager. They have a Lotus 20 to support.


Paul G

 

[sardine]

Car ramps with someone working underneath are not a job for the amateur welder.

 

[Freddy0309]

Maybe they prefer savoury rather then sweet?

 

[Paul G]

Maybe they prefer savoury rather then sweet?

I'll try cheese.

 

[Kent]

Car ramps with someone working underneath are not a job for the amateur welder.

Or a China man on a 14 + hour shift and piece work- just judging from what I see today like

 

[Freddy0309]

I'll try cheese.

Best try some crackers and port as well just to be sure

 

[Kent]

Sorry, but I've tried everything. Red carpet, sweets, biscuits, chocolate, they just won't come out.

They'll be out at the weekend I'll wager. They have a Lotus 20 to support.





Paul G



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Ok Paul I will have to wait till you manage to get the landy started up. I used to run them myself

 

[Shedendman]

Looking at those ramps and the amount of steel needed,i would guess theres going to be some cutting list,have you thought about what your going to use for this?
If/when you do buy the plans be interesting to know the material costs

 

[knighty]

You buy cheap your get cheap results. If you spend good money with a reputable uk seller they will throw in extras that you need including masks, all you need to do is ask.

Hobby welders a are just that, occasionally glue two bits of metal together to get you out of trouble. Any professional welder worth his salt won't entertain one but to the dabble welders out there it's a cheap way for them to dip their toes in the water without shelling much out

I don't think buy cheap = cheap results is fair

I strpped the wet tigmig down, not much more than the cover off but it was well built... didn't look close enough at components to check brands etc.. but nothing stood out as bad/cheap, I'm sure a professional £2000 welder is of better quality and has better components

at the same time, I've used my tigmig in anger and it's done everything with ease

my welds are pretty good with it, good enough to look professional unless you get up really close and look in the corners etc..

my professional welder mate said the welds were as good as his with his professional welding set

I've got a decent Cobra set (can't remember model off the top of my head), and a SIP ideal 500 to compare the tigmig too, and it's bloody good for £180


professional welder needs a professional set to use all day every day, but for the OP welding up some ramps, and using it once in a while a tigmig would be perfect


also... lets face it, there's a good chance the tigmig people bought a professional inverter mig and simply copied it, it's pretty normal in china

 

[mangocrazy]

Looking at those ramps and the amount of steel needed,i would guess theres going to be some cutting list,have you thought about what your going to use for this?
If/when you do buy the plans be interesting to know the material costs

The guy I spoke to said budget around £400 for steel, but I think I can probably reduce that by buying the steel off a fabricator I know in Sheffield. He buys vast amounts so gets really keen prices. As for cutting, I guess I'll need to buy a chopsaw or similar. It looks a bit too much for an angle grinder and metal cutting discs...

 

[mangocrazy]

Car ramps with someone working underneath are not a job for the amateur welder.

If I honestly don't believe I can do the job to the required standard, there are some top quality professional welders I can farm it out to less than a mile away from me. It's me that will be under the car, and I have a highly developed sense of self-preservation.

 

[Paul G]

Ok Paul I will have to wait till you manage to get the landy started up. I used to run them myself

Landy ???

 

[Kent]

The guy I spoke to said budget around £400 for steel, but I think I can probably reduce that by buying the steel off a fabricator I know in Sheffield. He buys vast amounts so gets really keen prices. As for cutting, I guess I'll need to buy a chopsaw or
similar. It looks a bit too much for an angle
grinder and metal cutting discs...

Or give that fabricator a cutting list?

 

[Kent]

Oops. Quick look it's a catrum or something? Just clocked the wheel without looking fully ( on phone as usual)

 

[mangocrazy]

Going off topic slightly, what do you do with those ramps when your not actually using them ?


I made a set of 4 wheel scissor platforms that lift a car 500mm but at least, if nowhere else, they can be stored under the car.

Paul G

Good point... They'll mainly be used for a car that lives in France and gets used as and when we visit. In the interim the car would probably sit on them. I'm not completely sold on these ramps; if someone can point me at something better I'll take that. I like the idea of scissor platforms, it's just a case of what jacking points you use. This is a 1980s car, a Lancia Beta Spider, and it's not overly endowed with jacking points.

 

[daleyd]

This is a 1980s car, a Lancia Beta Spider, and it's not overly endowed with jacking points.

Or indeed metal of any sort if my aunties one she had was anything to go by, it seemed to be constructed of reformed cornfalke boxes rather than steel (fabulous looking and sounding though!)

 

[PhillipM]

Or give that fabricator a cutting list?

...and the plans, some notes, and go to the pub and come back to pick your new ramps up.

 

[Paul G]

Oops. Quick look it's a catrum or something? Just clocked the wheel without looking fully ( on phone as usual)

It's my baby. Shaped by Thor's own hand and polished by a million butterflies wings.

 

[arther dailey]

So regarding costs making these ramps, would there be some one on here who could calculate the cost of rods if it were to be done with stick? just as a matter of interest as surely you would use quite a few.thanks Arther

 

[daleyd]

So regarding costs making these ramps, would there be some one on here who could calculate the cost of rods if it were to be done with stick? just as a matter of interest as surely you would use quite a few.thanks Arther

I'm no pro welder but I think the cost of consumables would be fairly insignificant compared to the cost of the steel. Don't forget if you go down the mig route you'd have to source gas as well so could work out more costly if you only had this one job to do.