Welding Web Down?

[Big Barn]

Unfortunately some of the dregs will move off and make it over here out of desperation. I hope that doesn't happen. confused3:

Too late. I’ve already made myself at home. Even brought my own popcorn.

 

[dstig1]

Eh, you've been around plenty long enough Lis... Is it Ok if I call you Lis here

Haven't seen CEP (Shield arc) around here in a long time but he's been on WW within the past couple/few weeks...before the crash

 

[California]

Somebody said amateurs welding with bedframe angle iron?

For one of my first projects I asked the usual beginner questions on WW before starting and got some good advice.

Below are 3-point forks I cobbled together long ago using bedframe angle iron and a scrap relay rack The welds look amateurish but using 6011 I got good penetration. (It was painted after this fabrication photo). Its still in use and the welds are solid. This was one of my first projects with the 1960's Montgomery Wards 230-AC stick welder. (Similar specs to a Tombstone).

After getting a little experience with that $50 welder I bought a blue HF-90 AC "Mig100" flux welder ($72!) and never did get to work as well as the ancient stick welder. Lots of others in WW's HF forum had the same experience. After the next, black, generation of HF wire welders came out, that WW forum for HF mostly died. No more complaints, just posts on how to modify the early models. The black generation ones apparently work as expected.

After that HF90 I got a Century 130 DC 120v wire welder, where a thread on WW got me to someone who had a manual for it. This was what the HF-90 should have been, it worked well for light work. I miss Welding Web and hope it comes back.

 

[Big Barn]

Eh, you've been around plenty long enough Lis... Is it Ok if I call you Lis here

Haven't seen CEP (Shield arc) around here in a long time but he's been on WW within the past couple/few weeks...before the crash

Of course. It’s no secret.

Over there I’m LIS ( Limited Income Senior)

 

[radios1]

IF curious to ownership.. Here is where to start....

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Oddly no contact information...

that's because criminals don't want to be contacted, Amazon can make more money appealing to a broader audience!.. not that WELDINGWEB.COM has anything to do with criminality, but hiding the owners is just a standard part of Amazon Route 53..

 

[stuckmotor]

Import our cars, trucks, tractors, Red Wings, Kohlers, and cel phones, but perish the thought of buying an imported welder.

(I'm keeping my Everlast.)

I'm keeping mine too.

 

[Bigb56]

Somebody said amateurs welding with bedframe angle iron?

For one of my first projects I asked the usual beginner questions on WW before starting and got some good advice.

Below are 3-point forks I cobbled together long ago using bedframe angle iron and a scrap relay rack The welds look amateurish but using 6011 I got good penetration. (It was painted after this fabrication photo). Its still in use and the welds are solid. This was one of my first projects with the 1960's Montgomery Wards 230-AC stick welder. (Similar specs to a Tombstone).

After getting a little experience with that $50 welder I bought a blue HF-90 AC "Mig100" flux welder ($72!) and never did get to work as well as the ancient stick welder. Lots of others in WW's HF forum had the same experience. After the next, black, generation of HF wire welders came out, that WW forum for HF mostly died. No more complaints, just posts on how to modify the early models. The black generation ones apparently work as expected.

After that HF90 I got a Century 130 DC 120v wire welder, where a thread on WW got me to someone who had a manual for it. This was what the HF-90 should have been, it worked well for light work. I miss Welding Web and hope it comes back.

Bedframe has it's place, I recently learned that it makes excellent blacksmith tongs due to it's springiness. Besides if you use it for a trailer you don't need any leaf springs:laughing:

 

[yomax4]

Bedframe has it's place, I recently learned that it makes excellent blacksmith tongs due to it's springiness. Besides if you use it for a trailer you don't need any leaf springs:laughing:

I never turn down a free bed frame. They're hard on bandsaw blades and drill bits but the plasma dices them up.

 

[Big Barn]

I used tons of the stuff that was used to build shipping crates for utes and atvs from China. As yomax said no drill bits or bandsaw!

I would chop up with plasma and then square/ cut to length eliminating weldments with my abrasive chop saw. (Don’t risk ruining a dry cut saw blade)

People scoff at the old abrasive chop saws but I would NEVER part with my 40 year old Makita. They are perfect for cutting crap and those unknown hardness materials.



Great for odd projects and easy to weld but they are either metric or just oddly dimensioned.

 

[the old grind]

Those bed frame irons are high-carbon steel, and for that they are very prone to work-hardening in the cut with the friction-heat of saw teeth or drill bit pressure. (Metal Shop 101)

To saw or drill them use low speed high pressure and coolant vs 'lube' which is typically a worst choice if it's "oil". IMO&E, washer fluid &/or Windex are the kings of underrated home shop quick job coolants when tooling bed frame-type hot-rolled angles channels, H-extrusions.

I still use an abrasive cut-off wheel. Common error is to force the cut. (Its a grinder, not a saw.) This can load up a wheel on some metals (soft steels, alum, yellow metals). Use your dog turd (rounded/abused wheel dressing 'stick') to touch a spinning wheel and keep the grit open. If a grinding wheel ever slows down on you, then you ain't no grinder, either!