Recent content by joehornet65

instead of cutting the 68* angles on the end, has anyone done or think it would be ok to cut 2 pieces of pipe using a 45* chop saw to make the bend to the center piece? like coming out a bit wider and cutting a 45 and the end and then whatever angle a few inches back to go back to the center...

I would rather mig it, but my brother in law just happened to have a tig welder he wasn't using so i grabbed it. ive been real impressed with it so far, except when i tried using 75/25 gas.

progress i chopped up some tubing and welded up the bottom frame. it was a pretty fun event. i made a jig out of a piece of 3/4 plywood with 2x4's under it. it came out about a 1/16" off corner to corner but overall im happy with it. im using an eastwood 200 tig welder for it since thats all i...

Hi all, im starting my first gocart build and I've chosen the arachnid. I see theres a lot of spidercart builds on the site already. Im currently at the stage of pile of steel. I've got to get a metal chopsaw and then ill be off to the races! any direct pointers would be appreciated! one thing I...

Hi all! Ive stumbled on this forum at the start of building a gocart for the kids. Ive always wanted to build one never got around to it till now. Seems like a lot of good info on the site and looking forward to adding to it!