Greetings from Glasgow

[rdover]

I'm a occasional welder who learned to weld because as an 19 year old I could not afford £2k to fix up my VW Beetle so I bought MIG for £200, scrounged some door skins and got stuck in. Weld testing was percussive and my style was messy but effective.

Some 20+ years later and I'm still restoring cars (a 1912 Alldays & Onions at the moment) and owning a Landrover means I get plenty welding practice anyway

I fund my car habit (Landy, 6x6 Volvo and Edwardian) with a wee business called Difflock.com with it's own lovely wee technical forum which is where I learned of this amazing resource.

I use a US made ReadyWelderII which runs off my car batteries and is basically a gas/gasless 350A welder that fits in a briefcase and is the size of an electric drill. I bought it on a whim but have found it to be a great piece of kit for pinning things back onto 4x4s in the middle of a forest.

Now all I need is tips for welding the wooden body back onto my Alldays and I'm sorted

Richard

 

[English Steve]

Now all I need is tips for welding the wooden body back onto my Alldays and I'm sorted

The hardest bit is finding a supplier of ash filler rods

Welcome Richard Some very interesting stuff you have there - pictures please, especially the Alldays.

 

[rdover]

The Alldays at Biggar 2008 (soon to be getting a new 5 seat body)

and my Volvo TGB13 6x6 (aka Volvanimal) at Crieff Hydro 2006

 

[Coo]

welcome !

Crikey two extremes of motoring there.

Welder sounds interesting - runs off 12v ?

 

[TurboShed]

Nice pics, an hello. Yep the 12 volt welder sounds interesting!

 

[rdover]

The welder is good. I have to be honest here and say for the record that I bought in a pallet of them to sell on to pay for my own one. I know there's a bar on advertising here and don't want to step on toes .... but I suppose some techy info is in order

It runs on 12v - 40v, but is best on 24v which is why I carry in my ex Mil Volvo. Because its DC there is not need to have a big box to clean up a rectified 240V power source and for simplicity the wire reel is held within the handle so only power cables go in and out. It has a thumb wheel for wire feed/power control and comes as a cold start (traditional mig) version or a Hot Tip constantly live which is cheaper.

Take a look at www.readywelder.com for more info. I'm no expert but I prefer it to my SIP 130 turbomig. I simply keep a pair of batteries under my workbench and recharge them every so often. I think it's brill!

 

[rtbcomp]

I used one of those welders to weld up my Landrover battery box, just disconnected the +ve and connected the welder to the exposed terminal.

 

[chrisg3103]

looks rather an interesting little welding device!
were you at the selkirk raly per chance? (sunderland hall) had military and vintage cars all over so id imagine its right up your street

 

[rdover]

I was too late to enter the Selkirk rally unfortunately.

 

[farmerboy4]

alright richard, howz things

Welcome to this awsome forum with loads of info.
Ive have seen richard in action with this welder, he fixed my snapped gearstip in the middle of a feild.

BTW ive still not recovered from you trying to run me over at drumclog

Andrew

 

[Drains]

Some 20+ years later and I'm still restoring cars (a 1912 Alldays & Onions at the moment) and owning a Landrover means I get plenty welding practice anyway

Hi Richard. Welcome to the forum.

An Alldays and Onions! One of Birminghams oldest companies I believe. When I was an appo, Alldays Peacocks, as A&O had become, were a competitor of ours, making industrial fans. Apparently they originally started in the 17th or 18th centuries, I think, making forge bellows.
Many of the people at our place had trained at A&P.

I visited their works once and saw my first cnc plasma cutter, controlled by punched tape! Very impressive bit of kit. It dot punched hole centres too.

They folded in Brum in the mid 1980's but still continue in some form in Weston Super Mare, (just before our operation was closed down by our parent company, Howdens of Renfrew).

Dodgy History lesson over...

Cheers!