Edmondo arriva a casa nostra! Edmondo the doka comes to our house!

Discussion in 'Restorations' started by Poptop2, Jun 1, 2014.

  1. Poptop2

    Poptop2 Administrator

    If I crack it Mark. You gotta have a go. It really is something I have always struggled with.
     
  2. MorkC68

    MorkC68 Administrator

    We've got some scrap steel at work I can use - Gusbus will be done before xmas (handed over to Chelle for curtains) I might just have a go next year and get practising in my dinner break :D

    Who knows, we may both get good at it fairly soon!
     
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  3. Zed

    Zed Gradually getting grumpier

    Blat, blat, blat - one every 0.5 seconds or so. I wasn't even looking when I did this one. ;)
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  4. Poptop2

    Poptop2 Administrator

    I will get it done, but doubt I will get GOOD!
     
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  5. MorkC68

    MorkC68 Administrator

    You never know :lol: as Zed & Para have said, and Ive noted, get practising!!
     
  6. Poptop2

    Poptop2 Administrator

    I had a natural ability in Mathematics. Football and golf. I have a natural inability for welding and public speaking. Strange but true.
     
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  7. Poptop2

    Poptop2 Administrator

    Are you using Argon these days Steve?
     
  8. Zed

    Zed Gradually getting grumpier

    Argon mix like everyone uses.
    Here you go, to cheer you up, this was me on the drive some years ago, learning not to try and weld upside down, on a corner, outside in the wind, in the winter!
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  9. Max max on a 150 welder is around 4 to 6mm thick steel :lol:

    So either the welder is carp, or you are ;)

    Like @zed said, if you were closer I'd pop round and give you a welding lesson, or 6 ;)

    What's the wire speed max setting on that welder? And are you still on gasless wire?
     
  10. Zed

    Zed Gradually getting grumpier

    :eek: :lol:
     
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  11. Ill never get as good as a coded welder as i dont do it often enough and i often weld in less than ideal enviroments with less than ideal steel
    I have got to a level though where my welding is strong enough for structual work on a vehicle

    Keep the pics coming though malc as this thread has proven that the late bay its not all judgmental
    And there are plenty of people available to offer advice,support and help

    You payed £20 an hour for a guy to weld your westy to the standard you are doing now
    Id put money that by the time you have finished that pick up you could charge £30-£40 an hour to do others welding
    Ive seen the complications you have overcome in your past and the skills you have learnt to achieve that
    Ive no doubt in my mind at all that you can achieve the same with welding

    One thing that has not been mentioned yet is your gas flow
    I was once told in an indoor enviroment the gas flow from your torch should make the flame from a lighter lean over but not blow out

    That sort of goes out of the window when your welding upside down on a summers day with the sun on your face and the wind blowing across you when your joining 30 odd year old german steel to very thin modern repro panels
     
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  12. Someone was going to say it but it wasent me or zed:lol:
     
  13. Welds can look a bit rough until you clean them up :)

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    My welding back in the day of film cameras, when I never photographed things as you had to pay for them to be developed ;) was pretty rough... but being 35 means I've been welding with a MIG for 18 years :eek: So don't beat yourself up, you're trying to weld a particularly rusty doka... And I was going to take a hell of a lot more metal out than you have to get it back to good!! :)
     
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  14. :lol:

    Malc can take it :) And he should know I'm not being mean, just giving a firm guiding hand ;)
     
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  15. We know paul
    If im honest we all thought it was pants and thats ok
    Its the way we deal with it and offer advice that matters and so far its been very supportive and good:thumbsup:

    The thought that people are scared to ask a question or show pics of there work on the late bay for fear of ******* ripping really worrys me as thats not the foundations this forum was built on

    Im so glad every time my worrys are proved wrong


    And to ease malcs worry ill post some pics of my ***** ups on the paravan

    This was me welding my sill one day

    Started of ok tacking it in

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    Welding it in i was awfull with no real excuse apart from i was having an off day

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    I remember owen from ireland saying to me in the thread
    Para you can weld better than that pull your sock up or somthing like that

    The next day i went out didnt rush and did this

    Yes not perfect visually but plenty good enough to be safe

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    All on co2 hobby bottles

    I often find the battle with welding is not a battle with the welder or the gas but a battle with ones own mind
     
  16. Poptop2

    Poptop2 Administrator

    I am crap but I ama driven person and once I gets thing in my head I get it done, even if it takes a while !
     
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  17. Poptop2

    Poptop2 Administrator

    Brave to put a pic like that up mate. Fair play. I have nothing to lose by putting mine up. You showing that shows humanity!
     
  18. So my settings advice (as I've used a fair few different MIGs) is:

    Power: 1 max
    Wire speed: 1/3 of the total speed

    If you've not watched this, then it's an awesome little video as the guy is very clear :)

     
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  19. Ive no doubt about that at all

    Some of the best restorers i know are stubborn feckers
     
  20. And to add somthing else to the mix

    Ive seen work of recomended dub restorers turn out welding like yours is at this point in time malc
    And charge £50 an hour plus consumables for it
    Im pretty certain that steve and paul have seen the same many more times than i have

    Each journey begins with the first step:)
     
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