shenion
Tool Pack Rat
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- Stone Mountain, GA USA
Been playing with arc welding and have gotten decent with flat and vertical. I have this motorcycle jack that has casters on one end but fixed wheels on the other. Makes it a pain to move the bike. So decided to add some casters. Could easily MIG it, but, hey, why not do some real stick work.
Added the brown L-steel. The casters and steel are from a bed frame; just temporary, will pick up some good ones or add upper supports.
Used 3/32 6013 rods for side extensions. Worked well. Was first try at horizontal. Easy
While working on it, mail came with 5lbs of Forney, 1/8" 7018 rods from ebay. Hmm, bigger rods, different type, need to try those.
Rather than try them on some scrap, decided why not. Put one in holder and guessed at the current. Laid some nice beads, man they are nice over the 6013's. The cross piece was welded with the 7018's.
1/8" is a bit big for this 1/8" steel. On the opposite side, i decided to clean up one of the welds of the side rails to the cross tube. Had a gap in the weld. Used the 7018's and promptly blew a big hole in the tube. Must have been fairly thin.
I did find I can crank up the start current and use a lower current on the 7018's. Would work better on thin metal (nice feature on Airco.)
I bought the motorcycle jack at Northern Tools. One of my weak moments At $59, figured why not, would raise bike to make it easier to work on. Did not need it
Well, it paid for itself last week. Had to pull tranny/transfer case out of Jeep to replace clutch slave cyl. Looked over at the stand and realized it would be a perfect tranny jack. Jacked it up, strapped tranny to it. Unbolted everything then rolled it straight out. Worked perfect. Almost as easy to go back in
Added the brown L-steel. The casters and steel are from a bed frame; just temporary, will pick up some good ones or add upper supports.
Used 3/32 6013 rods for side extensions. Worked well. Was first try at horizontal. Easy
While working on it, mail came with 5lbs of Forney, 1/8" 7018 rods from ebay. Hmm, bigger rods, different type, need to try those.
Rather than try them on some scrap, decided why not. Put one in holder and guessed at the current. Laid some nice beads, man they are nice over the 6013's. The cross piece was welded with the 7018's.
1/8" is a bit big for this 1/8" steel. On the opposite side, i decided to clean up one of the welds of the side rails to the cross tube. Had a gap in the weld. Used the 7018's and promptly blew a big hole in the tube. Must have been fairly thin.
I did find I can crank up the start current and use a lower current on the 7018's. Would work better on thin metal (nice feature on Airco.)
I bought the motorcycle jack at Northern Tools. One of my weak moments At $59, figured why not, would raise bike to make it easier to work on. Did not need it
Well, it paid for itself last week. Had to pull tranny/transfer case out of Jeep to replace clutch slave cyl. Looked over at the stand and realized it would be a perfect tranny jack. Jacked it up, strapped tranny to it. Unbolted everything then rolled it straight out. Worked perfect. Almost as easy to go back in