Tell me what cha thik

[Abercrombie]

 

[Erie Fred]

The welds for the fork pockets look cold.
Why so much weaving on the outside edge stuff ?

 

[skotl]

Same questions as Fred - why not just do a straight weld (with less chance of inclusions or porosity) rather than the quite odd fake-tig look?

There's some obvious gaps on the seams, too (the outer seams, not the deliberate ones on the spines).

Gotta say that I much prefer this (albeit it looks cold):

to this:

 

[8ob]

Same question as Fred - why not just do a straight weld (with less chance of occlusion or porosity) rather than the quite odd fake-tig look?

There's some obvious gaps on the seams, too (the outer seams, not the deliberate ones on the spines).

Gotta say that I much prefer this (albeit it looks a little cold):

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to this:

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Lower picture looks like vertical down hand in a bit of a hurry.

Bob

 

[skotl]

One other thought - what looks like rust patterns here (but probably isn't) is a little odd:

At first I thought you hadn't cleared the rust from the edges but it seems unlikely you'd have cleaned the rest and left the edges, so I'm guessing this is soot coming from the welds. Probably caused by the "stack of dimes" technique that really isn't achieving anything.

Edit: that is perhaps a little harsh - if it's strong enough for the demands of the structure, then have at it. But if that's the look you're going for then please be aware of the downsides of this approach.

 

[Wozzaaah]

Tell me what cha thik:

You've gone through an awful lot of unnecessary time and effort just to make it look "pretty".

 

[Wildefalcon]

It does look good though, nothing wrong with making things pretty.

 

[Mad Mick]

You have a very steady

 

[Mad Mick]

Hand! Oops!

 

[Hitch]

The back and forth with the torch looks more exaggerated than it needed to be on the outside corners. Looks like the toes are left a touch sharp, needing a bit more wire to fill the joint.

For those at dont do much real fabrication, It's a good way to build up an outside corner, a little back and forth. Nice and hot to burn through the corner to get penetrative, move back a bit to build up the profile without leaving a massive hot slug of risk of burn through.

A little 'soot' like that isnt really an issue.

2mins with a 60g fibre pad to blend the edges and it'll be fine.

 

[denlow60]

Why so much weaving on the outside edge stuff ?

because people watch too much on YouTube where sometimes the wrong example is taken.

These methods do not have deep penetration because you weld on your welding pool

 

[Erie Fred]

For those at dont do much real fabrication, It's a good way to build up an outside corner, a little back and forth. Nice and hot to burn through the corner to get penetrative, move back a bit to build up the profile without leaving a massive hot slug of risk of burn through.

I was thinking more on this, and yes, if the plates were set edge to edge the corner would be pretty open.
If they were set at stop & pass, there would need a chamfer ground in one edge. (one plate "A" hits the side of the other plate "B", and the "B"
continues to the top of "A")
If they were set stop & 1/2 thickness pass, would make life easier.

 

[Hitch]

Just looks like an outside corner in 5 or 6mm plate. Easy joint.

 

[Gragson]

Tell me what cha thik​

I think you're a first and only time poster never to be seen again, trying to show off

 

[skotl]

Tell me what cha thik​

I think you're a first and only time poster never to be seen again, trying to show off

Agree

But we were very polite, yeah?

 

[Erie Fred]

I wonder if the OP trigger welded it ?