Biodiesel Piggie #2 Buildup (was Sad Sad day...)

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Heh, you should try welding 20 gauge sheet metal with .035 wire. That blew. I had to do the whole "blat" "blat" "blat" method.

Another thing to remember that increasing the wire speed creates heat just as much as raising the amps. Its all about finding that happy medium. I usually take a look at the welder recommends and start tweaking from there, until I'm happy with how the welds are turning out.

I have also strayed away from the whole stack of dimes look. I have it down to where I just shoot straight into the V crack and let the weld do the work. You might have to move your gun up and down a little bit but for the most part you can lay a straight bead w/o much movement. When Mark gets back i'll take a digital pic of how my welds look on the roll cage I just built.
 
good info LT, specially since i will be welding my floor back together. i have always been unimpressed with guys who laid the stack of dimes with MIG, i am glad you got away from it. MIG is not supposed to look like TIG. just look at ALL the machine/robot made MIG welds (wich i believe is what MIG was invented for in the first place and adapted to handheld machines later). just a nice fat smooth pass.
 
yes same here but I started doing it because it looks good and semi professional.. But the really good welders I know and who have taught me are point and shoot. their MIG welds almost look like machine welding.. But I find I personally am cleaner with the dimes look.. I am with .30 which is the best of both worlds for now. I need to but a different cog wheel and some .023 for the thin stuff. I miss that with my little welder that I sold.. I'm going to try to mess with this and the .030 and see if I can get it dialed.. I am not pysched with these welds. Problem is piece is already in and finalized.. I did a little more work to it this morning.. My solution was going to be... some bondo on the firewall, unfortunately.. A
 
Here are some pictures of some of the welding on the recent cage I built for a customer.
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Your top side weld look great, The overhead is tricky,
Keep up the work Andre, Get that thing rolling, I want to check it out when I come home for christmas...
Dave
 
Unreal, I love it. I know it's been said already, but this is really nice to watch and read. The speed at which you are completing this project is pretty impressive as well. Thanks for taking the time to post it up.

Matthew
 
Not too much sorry... I sort of took the summer off, MT biked a lot, played lacrosse two-three nights a week, and started a couple new jobs. I installed a roll cage into the BJ42 from Metaltech earlier in the year (came out great but welding tube is tough) and am in the middle of a Isuzu 4BD-1T diesel install into a FJ62 with a 700R4/Split case currently.. So I shouldn't have time to work on the truck for at least a couple weeks. But am back at it. As I have updates on all of this I'll post up... Thanks guys and fear not she's not abandoned :)
 
dieselcruiserhead said:
Not too much sorry... I sort of took the summer off, MT biked a lot, played lacrosse two-three nights a week, and started a couple new jobs. I installed a roll cage into the BJ42 from Metaltech earlier in the year (came out great but welding tube is tough) and am in the middle of a Isuzu 4BD-1T diesel install into a FJ62 with a 700R4/Split case currently.. So I shouldn't have time to work on the truck for at least a couple weeks. But am back at it. As I have updates on all of this I'll post up... Thanks guys and fear not she's not abandoned :)
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Andre,

It's now mid January, what's the word mang?
 
sorry guys not too much to report, I put the engine back in a couple days ago, been slammed with work and other projects... Keep meaning to post up osme of the activities of the summer... Some good stuff but mostly on other people's stuff :( Believe it or not I am as "Addicted" and thinking about it as ever, just busy as hell.. Sundance Film Festival again lets up in a couple days and goal is to get back at it ASAP, I need my own fix as well!!! :crybaby:
 
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