I’m currently welding some reinforcement plates to my car and before I weld the plates in place I’m drilling and re welding any broken spot welds but I’m having problems,the plates I can weld on fine no issues.
I trying to make a decision on what tig welder to take the plunge on,do I try and get a second hand miller or Lincoln tig around 160amps or buy a new Jasic 200amp tig welder ?
Im only going to be welding steel.
Today I got out my Clark mig 135te ,
I haven’t used it for a few years and haven’t really tried it on 2mm thick steel ,not sure or not if I’m getting enough penetration or strong enough welds, also I was getting brown soot,I’ve been using 0.8 wire and a Clark argon co2 mix,and a new real of 0.8...
Yes , I had a shrinker/stretcher delivered yesterday just in time try it out , I was a bit sceptical to if it would work or not as working with a Shrinker designed for smaller gauge steel,no experience forming steel at all,I made a cardboard template of the original part and thenmade a forming...
It’s from a bmw z4 gt3 motorsport car, I brought the chassis a few years ago now and unfortunately the road car rear trailing arms don’t marry up to the chassis, so I managed to get hold of one right rear trailing arm a while back and after much thought have decided to take the plunge and try...