Check out the welding on this guy's chassis !

It make me so angry, cos it makes my welding look shite

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=336494

[Edited on 21/2/09 by clanger]

OMG
I have seen people on here who can weld like that

I agree...


Bstd....


David

Its tig, mines no where near that neat but still put my mig welds to shame.

Looks pretty good to me....

Steve

I'll have to get me a tig welder one of these days - Banish the bird droppings once and for all.
I'm guessing, though, it's more dificult to pick up than Mig?

Thats nice and neat. He looks like a professional hotrod builder type.

The welds on my exhaust are like that which Paul 907 made.

Amazing weld, but what a craftsman and what a garage!
Asd one of the respondants posted "I'm going home to burn mine!

Ive had a tig 15 months and had the pure argon 6 months but not had the time to have ago yet

I did use it for a bit of arc welding last night because I couldnt be bothered to get the mig out.

That welding is quality

Just read/looked through the first page and it is stunning...

I found it interesting though that he still used the front rad support after having notched it - Something I would of done in a heartbeat, but quite nice to know that he still did!

Stunning work.

Somewhere else on that site is a thread where a guy even fabricated the chassis side rails from flat stock!

Cheers

Fred W B

All hail that Tig finish without a shadow of doubt the best I have seen how the hell do u match that!!!!
Shug

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Been in engineering pretty much all my life, one of the things I always look at is the quality of welding, its an art when done like above a pleasure to look at.

Years back in my grasstracking days I was a scrutineer for the Nottingham club, 1st port of call for me was the welding, seeing nicely laid welds on a car was taken by me as a sign of the rest of the car been built to the same standard hence rightly or wrongly you tended not to look so deep.

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Originally posted by Hugh Paterson
All hail that Tig finish without a shadow of doubt the best I have seen how the hell do u match that!!!!
Shug

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Originally posted by Jon Ison
Years back in my grasstracking days I was a scrutineer for the Nottingham club, 1st port of call for me was the welding, seeing nicely laid welds on a car was taken by me as a sign of the rest of the car been built to the same standard hence rightly or wrongly you tended not to look so deep.

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Nice thick metal, decent machine and with a bit of practice you could all do that .... or at least get very close.

It is an art but one that can be aquired and learnt not a gift that you are born with.

He has really cleaned the work before tackling his welding, this is usually the fault in lots of peoples attempts including mine as you get lazy in the preperation.

Have a go..... You will surprise yourself with a TIG after a while.

Amazing welding I agree, but I thought it looked like oxy-acetylene. Plus those welding sticks to me look like oxy-acetylene not TIG.

...correct me if I'm wrong! Althought the finish on oxy-acetylene looks similiar to that on TIG.

Na its Tig I can get close, but his prep work is surgical, and we dont have time to do that trying to make a buck in this country. Hes providing a VERY specialised build and I suspect money is no object on that car. Blake if I could get u welding like that in 30 mins chum, u would be working with me. My friends a coded welder in the petro chemical game and shes GOOD but hes the master, wish I had time to operate like that
Shug

lol i'm sure you said something along those lines when i was at your workshop
If i could TIG like that, i'd be working for myself!
have to get back up to your workshops and get that diff done...

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I work for a firm that makes stainless steel pressure vessels. We train and certify welders to the pressure vessel codes (including ASME) in our own training centre.

Our chief welding engineer says this about the weld pictured above: “not a good weld. It is concave and not convex in shape. It should have been welded with stringer beads and not weaved which has resulted in uneven ripples on the weld and it could have lack of sidewall fusion”

This is an example of our standard, done by a trainee welder with 9 months experience.

Cheers

Fred W B.


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Our chief welding engineer says this about the weld pictured above: “not a good weld. It is concave and not convex in shape. It could have lack of sidewall fusion”

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