Kenny_McCormic
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And dont ever forget to regularly grease and inspect all your ball joints unless you want you front end coming apart on the highway.
Found the perfect welder! #7
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And dont ever forget to regularly grease and inspect all your ball joints unless you want you front end coming apart on the highway.
Woot, went out and bought some "flat" square tubing...
2 .8mm/.035" "Innershield" "No gas flux cored" welding wire
And a Ryobi 4 1/2" Angle Grinder ($29.97) and 6 metal cut off circle things
I can weld zinc plated things, correct? Just don't breathe the fumes?
2 .8mm/.035" "Innershield" "No gas flux cored" welding wire
And a Ryobi 4 1/2" Angle Grinder ($29.97) and 6 metal cut off circle things
I can weld zinc plated things, correct? Just don't breathe the fumes?
lol wow the metal supply place i went to this weekend sells 10 foot 1" square tube (16 gauge) for $15 each (that was $10, less than a year ago by the way, crazy)
a home depot type place is NOT gonna be cheap but you can probably swallow the extra cost if its just 1 piece. any more and the stuff is gonna burn your wallet.
china is killing steel prices. they buy steel from us and resell it to us at many times the price in either tubing or in cheap goods like machinery or motors. sure the clone motors are cheap, but you pay many times the difference in steel and other materials.
buy lincoln or other made-in-USA welding wire, not only is is helping the US but it's 1/3 cheaper then HF's stupid chinese wire. ($10 compared to HF' $15)
a home depot type place is NOT gonna be cheap but you can probably swallow the extra cost if its just 1 piece. any more and the stuff is gonna burn your wallet.
china is killing steel prices. they buy steel from us and resell it to us at many times the price in either tubing or in cheap goods like machinery or motors. sure the clone motors are cheap, but you pay many times the difference in steel and other materials.
buy lincoln or other made-in-USA welding wire, not only is is helping the US but it's 1/3 cheaper then HF's stupid chinese wire. ($10 compared to HF' $15)
Tubing? I dunno It was like 3-4 feet for... $6 or $8?
Home Depot o' course. Harbor Freight is a long way from here (1 hr drive) and have no idea where Lowes is.
Heh, I heard HF welding wire is crappy. I'll stick with Lincoln's Innershield
Planning to use the grinder and cut the frame in half, cut the square tubing into 1ft. lengths and extend the frame (it's TINY!)..
Then work on the motor mounts.
It was like 3-4 feet for... $6 or $8? Home Depot o' course. Harbor Freight is a long way from here (1 hr drive) and have no idea where Lowes is.
Heh, I heard HF welding wire is crappy. I'll stick with Lincoln's Innershield
Planning to use the grinder and cut the frame in half, cut the square tubing into 1ft. lengths and extend the frame (it's TINY!)..
Then work on the motor mounts.
to stretch a frame, dont just cut it off at a 90 degree angle, overlap the pieces by cutting maybe 2" down the length of the tubes on either side (so the bottom leftover U shape locks together with the top upside down U shape) then weld all the seams. the result should be like 2 of the L shaped tetris pieces locking together.
Kenny_McCormic
Kartless....
You can weld zinc plated stuff, just do it with a fan pulling all the fumes away form you on its highest speed.
Kenny_McCormic
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Na, without a fan you get hot after a few minutes along with the welder, its like a self regulating duty cycle.
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