I might try out a short length of box section and see out it goes with that first.
I have to do something other than making these from scratch. There is no way I'm going to make 40+ of these from flat sheets.
Hi,
I'm looking for some u plates or channel section to make up a job lot of a project I'm working on.
I am currently cutting, bending and welding flat steel plate to make my own but its very long winded and counter productive if I can get what I need off the shelf.
Ideally sections of...
Thanks alot for the info.
I may be able to increase the radius a little and possibly reduce wall thickness to 1mm for this particular job I am currently working on.
I have been looking at the ridgid benders this morning as a possible solution. They look like they would be upto the task even...
Hey Guys,
Need some advice on a half decent tool under £200 (if possible) manual/hand bender perhaps, that will form a piece of stainless steel tubing to the following specs.
Stainless 316 tubing-
0.7mm-1.5mm wall
upto 12.7mm (1/2") OD (possibly even 15mm max)
20mm minimum radius
180degree...
Funnily enough, I was talking to a guy at work about how wolf use to be highly respected tool company. Unsurprisingly your not seeing the same level of quality in newer wolf products. I think to get a comparatively specced genny with total brand reassurance your looking at £500ish??
I can...
Its about the same noise level as the briggs I use to have. I'd call it average noise for its size as a very rough answer.
Is your honda a 3Kva continuous?? My briggs was a 3 and that only just held the revs at low settings!
I should be able to throw up some welding results using the wolf...
thanks guys, I actually went ahead and bought one of these gennys. I know it was a gamble and its early days but so far, it seems to be doing a good job. Atleast for the very lightweight panel work I need it for.
It can handle my low 1-2 settings without breaking a sweat which is good because...
It has AVR just checked. Apparently my clarke need something like 1.4kvA @ 55A? I appreciate its the initial arc starting that knocks the generator most though. I was more curious to see if anyone has used a wolf gen like this one for welding..
Hey guys,
Quick question on this wolf generator - http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Wolf-WP3500LR-3200Watt-6-5HP-4-KVA-Petrol-Generator-/370752973929?pt=UK_BOI_Industrial_Tools_Generators_ET&hash=item5652996c69
Do you think it would be ok for powering my mig welder on low settings? Only really...
I used a 3.8kva briggs and Stratton a few years back as I was in a similar position to you. I had a small garage with no power with a car that need some body panels. It was ok for welding thin stuff but anything much more than that it would bog down the genny and mess up the weld, so I quickly...
Ok, taking into consideration everything that Delgado and neo have said I decided to make a few changes to the bar.
Cleaned up the metal a bit and flattened down the tack welds in the middle and put them in each corner of the box section.
Corner piece of box section or single gusset...
Hi Delgado, not funny at all you make perfect sense. I'm not sure why I didn't do it like that to begin with. I will cut a corner piece out of the box section I think and do it that way. Like you say minimise the stress by loading up the face edge of the bar.
thanks alot guys, I'm reasonably pleased with it. Although tried to weld in a lambda boss today and blew a hole into one side of the boss. oops! Got half of it welded ok and the other half is ugly so I have decided to cut that out and put in another one. This time I will keep the weld more...
ok, I'm now using a different method, trying to minimise heat with big pauses between welding tacks but high power for high penetration and flatter welds. This is the join I attempted to weld today straight pipe to elbow. I'm going to redo the flange join using the same method.. What do you think?
Hi everyone, Thought I'd post up a picture of a 3" stainless exhaust pipe to flange that I attempted to weld today. I hav'nt welded anything for ages and most of what I have welded in the past has been mild steel. This was my first attempt at stainless. I used .8mm 308lsi welding wire with...