Cappy
Would be Luthier
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Hi Everyone,
Nice lively site, lots of good stuff about MIG welding which is sort of new to me. I say sort of because I did an introduction to it on a welding course about 15 years ago but have not had much practice with one since.
Not sure how I got here whether from Google, or another welding site, who cares
Retired after 30 years at sea where I did a lot of MMA welding. One of my current interests is a narrow gauge railway in North Wales where I am involved in the workshop as a volunteer repairing the loco's so that we can go out and break them all again next season
There are many varied fabrication jobs to do and for the most part MMA works fine as the material is usually 3mm and above. Having been a bit sceptical about the penetration and weld strength with MIG welding I've rather left it alone, but as part of our remit as a preservation society and a registered charity is training, I feel that I really ought to get to grips with it. Not necessarily to train great welders, that comes from proper courses and lots and lots of practice, but to at least explain and demonstrate how the things works.
There are two MIG sets available, one a SAF 215c and the other a SIF Ideal 500. The SIF set obviously has a few more bells and buzzers and as soon as the manual for it arrives (the original one got lost somewhere
) I hope to have more of a play with it.
Also two oil filled Oxfords which both go up to 180A (AC) as I recall and recently got a Kemmpi Inverter for DC welding - terrific.
The current project is a new chimney base, to be fabricated from a series of curved strips welded to a rolled circular ring at the top (where the actual chimney fits onto) and curved elliptical base that sits on top of the smokebox. I'll try and get some pics of progress if the steel has arrived.
Well, guess I waffled on enough
Keep fizzing
Cappy
Nice lively site, lots of good stuff about MIG welding which is sort of new to me. I say sort of because I did an introduction to it on a welding course about 15 years ago but have not had much practice with one since.
Not sure how I got here whether from Google, or another welding site, who cares
Retired after 30 years at sea where I did a lot of MMA welding. One of my current interests is a narrow gauge railway in North Wales where I am involved in the workshop as a volunteer repairing the loco's so that we can go out and break them all again next season
There are many varied fabrication jobs to do and for the most part MMA works fine as the material is usually 3mm and above. Having been a bit sceptical about the penetration and weld strength with MIG welding I've rather left it alone, but as part of our remit as a preservation society and a registered charity is training, I feel that I really ought to get to grips with it. Not necessarily to train great welders, that comes from proper courses and lots and lots of practice, but to at least explain and demonstrate how the things works.
There are two MIG sets available, one a SAF 215c and the other a SIF Ideal 500. The SIF set obviously has a few more bells and buzzers and as soon as the manual for it arrives (the original one got lost somewhere
) I hope to have more of a play with it.Also two oil filled Oxfords which both go up to 180A (AC) as I recall and recently got a Kemmpi Inverter for DC welding - terrific.
The current project is a new chimney base, to be fabricated from a series of curved strips welded to a rolled circular ring at the top (where the actual chimney fits onto) and curved elliptical base that sits on top of the smokebox. I'll try and get some pics of progress if the steel has arrived.
Well, guess I waffled on enough
Keep fizzing
Cappy
