Countryboy07
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Very NICE!!!! If I ever get a TDI, I know who I'm calling for some fancy stuff!
-French
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Hell yeah! What year is yours?you have a miny honda bike too :lolly::lolly:
heres mine
Hell yeah! What year is yours?
cup walking???
Nope, all freehand drop by drop. Butt welds on the header pipes are the only ones I lay wire weld. I still need to work on that more though.....cup walking???
Thanks! But nope, just a very old and beat up vertical bandsaw with a 12" disc sander to clean it up.Did you use a cold saw for the cuts? If so what speed? They look perfect...
Haha, something like that. I'll work on anything to pay the bills; I just happen to be the only guy in a 500+ mile radius that tunes up tdi's so that keeps me very busy. I just started on a very fun non vw project today actually; I present.....Awesome fab work! Or would it be w-e-r-k since it's mostly VW stuff? LOL
6"x40" ram, 18hp flat twin briggs, 24gpm 2 stage pump, and about 1000lbs of steel haha. It's going to have a log lift and at least a 4 way wedge on the end. It will be a horizontal only trailer unit when all done. There's a 3500lb torsion axle hiding on the other side of the beam. I overbuild the fook out of everything so this should fit in well
Yup, I fusion weld all butt joints in .065" 304SS tube. Looks better, faster to weld, and more than strong enough for exhaust tubing. Oh yeah, it's all back purged.the cobalt exh looks fused..are ya back purging for strength?
the cup walking question wasnt if you were doing it as much as why arent you. i do aeseptic food grade welding and we purge and cup walk almost everything now..its the ''new'' standard for food plants i think..but it looks really cool on stacks and exhaust
yer stuff looks real good tho...most of what ya see on these truck forums looks like someone blew thier nose on it
gary
Holy crap! That makes what I'm doing look like a toothpick maker. Where in the hell do you cut logs that big haha? The biggest I think I've ever cut around here is about 30".Sounds like a plan!!! Here's one that Dad and I built up a few years ago. It's got an 8-way split, hydraulic log lift, and the 6-way wedges are on another hydraulic cylinder so you can raise and lower to center in the log if you want.
Not the best pics, but these few might give you some ideas.
--Eric
I normally do, but I apparently slipped on the habit there. If I remember right, that was the last weld of the project done at about 4am after a 16 hour day and a 6 pack haha. I think "zombie" was a good description of the mindset at that point LOL.Looks good... you can avoid cratering by swirling your tungsten out of the puddle. :Cheer:
Forgive newbie TIG welder here, but I thought cup-walking was achieved by having constant contact between the alumina nozzle and the metal being welding then walking the cup down the weld in a zigzag pattern? It kinda results in an SSSSSSSSSSS pattern.difficult to explain...but
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lotta good tig info on there about it ...if i git a minute ill give it a shot explainin it