I bought a Clarke 151TE a few weeks ago and have been laying down runs of weld on scrap metal since then which has overall went well. However, soon after I had a proper little task for the welder.
The underbrace of my car was hitting on the 3-inch downpipe, originally I had planned to just get longer bolts and some spacers or washers, but I decided to weld on spacers to the underbrace so if I need to remove it in the future it's just 1 piece and overall looks nicer.
Anyway, I got hold of some 20mm diameter pipe with a 1mm sidewall, cut 3 half-inch peices to use as spacers, welded them on and ground down the welds. Unfortunately I only took 3 pictures, none of them before the welds were ground down.
Here they are....
Before
After cleaining off all the crap with a flap disc
With spacers welded on and welds ground down
I know I really should have got some pics before I ground down the welds, but I never even thought about it, however as some will be able to tell from the last pic, I need to practice laying finer welds as before I ground them down there was a bit too much weld on there. Think I need to slow down the wire speed or move faster.
Setting used was 2-min, for the first one I used 2-max, but on the edge of the brace I almost burnt though. 2-min gave good penetration without that issue.
Any advice, info, etc appreciated. The underbrace is not structural and purely for stiffening the chassis.
The underbrace of my car was hitting on the 3-inch downpipe, originally I had planned to just get longer bolts and some spacers or washers, but I decided to weld on spacers to the underbrace so if I need to remove it in the future it's just 1 piece and overall looks nicer.
Anyway, I got hold of some 20mm diameter pipe with a 1mm sidewall, cut 3 half-inch peices to use as spacers, welded them on and ground down the welds. Unfortunately I only took 3 pictures, none of them before the welds were ground down.
Here they are....
Before
After cleaining off all the crap with a flap disc
With spacers welded on and welds ground down
I know I really should have got some pics before I ground down the welds, but I never even thought about it, however as some will be able to tell from the last pic, I need to practice laying finer welds as before I ground them down there was a bit too much weld on there. Think I need to slow down the wire speed or move faster.
Setting used was 2-min, for the first one I used 2-max, but on the edge of the brace I almost burnt though. 2-min gave good penetration without that issue.
Any advice, info, etc appreciated. The underbrace is not structural and purely for stiffening the chassis.
