Help! My welding is pants! my 160en keeps burning back and melting the wire onto the screw in tip and now the thread is fubar'd in the very tip of the swan neck. Now I can't tack my chassis together until I get a new swan neck *&%$.
I am trying to tack 3mm tube together so the welder is set to...
Sam - I am building a tube chassis for a carlton, will have a small chevy up front as I intend to go drag racing eventually!
Luke - if only I had known a month ago....!
Sam - what are you building there?
I bought a tube notcher for use with a drill from the uk but I didn't think much of it and sent it back, so I got this one off of ebay, the guy is in the states but it wasn't a problem for him to ship it I just had to pay the duty on it before it could be...
hello, my Clarke 160En is currently set up for gasless, I want to convert it to use gas (CO2 Argon mix) - what will I need (apart from the gas!) and how much is it likely to cost?
mwncidur I went to see the guy I am hoping to get to supply me my tubing just before xmas, 1 5/8" dia was just over 10 pound per metre
Aero that bender looks cool!
Hi all, hope everyone had a good xmas and new years.
I had another go at this tonight and I am still struggling!
hopefully i have attached pics of my latest efforts. I still can't get the weld to penetrate! I seem to end up depositing weld on top and if I move the torch slowly I get a big...
I am going to (hopefully) get the guy who supplies the cds to bend it as it's what he does for a living! I borrowed the clarke tube bender to knock up some templates - crinkles and thinning of the tube are what I got but I was doing it quickly
as part of my project tube chassis I have a body shell that will need new sills and rear arches repairing. I can get replacement panels for these areas no probs, but I would like to replace the suroof glass with a welded in steel panel. Any ideas where I could get one made? It has a visible side...
3mm tube part 2
Hi again, I had another go at this today, I changed the settings to 3 and 'MIN' and achieved what I thought were some nice neat looking welds and created a right angle piece. I then did the strength test (put it under my car and pulled on the other end) and it broke! I had a...