Hello all,
Been reading here for a few weeks, finally got round to registering.
Been looking to get started with welding for about 6 months now. The mig-welding.co.uk tutorial site, is one of the better ones out there, and has given me the motivation to get started on things in earnest.
Being a Transit owner, it has become quite a hobby of mine over the last 6 months or so taking it to bits and attempting to put it back together. It is well overdue for some welding work, and I was never particularly convinced of the legitimacy of the latest MOT that came with it.
I have until the end of May to get it licked into shape. I will no doubt be posting various pictures of the mess that it has become, and hopefully the pictures of vaguely succesful repair attempts.
Here's a few to start, spent today uncovering this horror, as had noticed the driver entry step was beginning to feel a little soft underfoot.
http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd199/wildgoosey/DSCN2673.jpg
http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd199/wildgoosey/DSCN2672.jpg
A bit about me..
Live in South Oxfordshire. HGV driver by trade, but spent 4 years in the Navy as an aircraft mechanics after leaving school, so would like to think i'm not totally ignorant to engineering principles, although have had very little to do with proper metal fabrication to this point.
Look forward to frustrating you all with tedious welding questions you've heard thousands of times before.
All the best.
Been reading here for a few weeks, finally got round to registering.
Been looking to get started with welding for about 6 months now. The mig-welding.co.uk tutorial site, is one of the better ones out there, and has given me the motivation to get started on things in earnest.
Being a Transit owner, it has become quite a hobby of mine over the last 6 months or so taking it to bits and attempting to put it back together. It is well overdue for some welding work, and I was never particularly convinced of the legitimacy of the latest MOT that came with it.
I have until the end of May to get it licked into shape. I will no doubt be posting various pictures of the mess that it has become, and hopefully the pictures of vaguely succesful repair attempts.
Here's a few to start, spent today uncovering this horror, as had noticed the driver entry step was beginning to feel a little soft underfoot.
http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd199/wildgoosey/DSCN2673.jpg
http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd199/wildgoosey/DSCN2672.jpg
A bit about me..
Live in South Oxfordshire. HGV driver by trade, but spent 4 years in the Navy as an aircraft mechanics after leaving school, so would like to think i'm not totally ignorant to engineering principles, although have had very little to do with proper metal fabrication to this point.
Look forward to frustrating you all with tedious welding questions you've heard thousands of times before.
All the best.
. That's pretty typical transit rot, fairly easy to sort though and very accessible. A little tip if you want to link your pics in your post, when you compose your message, the icon 3rd from right which looks like a pair of grey mountains against a yellow background is the insert pic one. Get the location of your pic from photobucket, click that icon and paste the location in the space making sure the http:// bit gets deleted or you'll have that twice and the link won't work.
