Warrior Welding LLC shop.

skyhighZJ said:
Hope you made it home and it was good to talk to you!
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Did, the 911 was made during our convo. The best part is it was one right turn exactly where I turn left to my driveway to go do the work. Tools in tow and 5 from the house!
 
Got out the super glue and went to work.
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The canvas is a busted fork truck frame.
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Previous weld repair by others.
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Used some anti metal rods of the 5/32 variety to establish a bevel.
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Little carbide work and on into the shop.
Air arc is nasty hot, loud, and basically obnoxious fun. I don't do it in the shop.
 
Little measure lots of clamps.
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Now it's time to cook.
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This weed burner and a tank of propane Des the trick.
 
Pre heat over with out comes my favorite super glue. 7018 rod.
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Welding complete.
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Finished.
Turned out decent. I moved around and filled bevels in layers. Also worked about half and half to prevent pulling to bad. Ended up with a slight crown to the load side. I can live with that since the pressure will naturally try to flatten it out.


Shower and beer thirty.
 
What electrode diameter and settings?
By the coating guessing 7018. By the spatter size 1/8 to 5/32 leaning hard on 5/32.
 
Tom@Hilltop_Machine said:
Yep. 7018's in 5/32. 175 amps.
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Yeah boy! Tighten up you arc gap and keep it around 15 degrees from vertical and you'll get less spatter. Man I love some big electrodes.
 
Little more stainless work. IMG_20240619_171715679.jpgIMG_20240619_171732679.jpg
Now for @ghost
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Using the gas axe to print some random tool I needed.
3/4 stock
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Not shabby for free hand
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This was for a special fitting I didn't want mar up the finish on.
It uses 2 inch pipe thread and is aluminum. A pipe wrench scars them up.
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Beefy enough I don't require any more leverage.
Part is an electric actuated valve and motorized turret to point and flow water off the front of "Big Red"
Engage pump, flow water, point and shoot with a console operated joystick as fast as you want to drive.
 
My latest learning experience. Man this thing presented some challenges.
John Deere 7330 fwd front axle housing.
I believe she is over 7k hours on the meter.
Most of that must have been without grease on these bushings.
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Being cast iron....not cast steel it had its problems to work with. Oil soaked and really didn't want to weld a bunch of standoff plates to it. I tried my best to make a bolt on bracket. It proved not quite rigid enough for the job. A few points had to be tacked to make up for it.
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I think this is worse than fighting a Rockwell.
 
WARRIORWELDING said:
This was for a special fitting I didn't want mar up the finish on.
It uses 2 inch pipe thread and is aluminum. A pipe wrench scars them up.
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Beefy enough I don't require any more leverage.
Part is an electric actuated valve and motorized turret to point and flow water off the front of "Big Red"
Engage pump, flow water, point and shoot with a console operated joystick as fast as you want to drive.
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We are looking specing a bumper turret on our next brush truck.
 
Shavings lots of shavings. Getting specs for these holes was like finding the lost city of Atlantis. Called four service centers and all failed to act like they had any data. One tried and sent the bushing diameters.....jeeze my mic told me that.


Did I say lots of shavings. I made some math up and arrived at a fit. Between the OD of the bush, ID of the bush, and the respective pin I came up with 10 thou crush.
Two hours later.....lol. Yeah right. I hit my number within a thou... .009
Pressed and dag nab it to tight.

Reweld. Recut. Late night. Blake was helping. Both of us "mathed" it up! Uggha
Reweld. Recut.
Damn this 230 dollar spool of wire is going away.

On that note I choose silicon bronze and mig braze. Nasty smelling hot fireballs of puke. First time welding I was all up in the flume and got stupidly sick that evening. Chills, headache, and felt absolutely lousy for 24 hrs.
 
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Now about those errors. It's hard to see in the picture but my current bar is 1.75 in diameter. Hitting somewhere around 2.220 with a tool in one pocket and a bore gauge that doesn't fit til 2.185 had its challenges.
I learned about 8 ways to do it wrong before. Recalling various videos I've watched over the years to sneak up on it.
Time to repress. The tool was over kill but practice is practice.

Using the bar diameter, measuring tool stick out and good math I was able to start cutting predictable outcomes. Little more fiddling with the damn 300 dollar bore measuring tool and learn why it needs help got me to a finish.

I will probably get asked to install this thing when the customer sees the fit.
 
WARRIORWELDING said:
On that note I choose silicon bronze and mig braze. Nasty smelling hot fireballs of puke. First time welding I was all up in the flume and got stupidly sick that evening. Chills, headache, and felt absolutely lousy for 24 hrs.
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It is the zinc fumes, right? Next time, if you can’t avoid the fumes (which is the best option), drink lots of milk during your work. No kidding - it works for me at the sandcasting foundry when we pour brass (zinc fumes come out when the molten brass passes a certain temperature).
 
thecarman said:
It is the zinc fumes, right? Next time, if you can’t avoid the fumes (which is the best option), drink lots of milk during your work. No kidding - it works for me at the sandcasting foundry when we pour brass (zinc fumes come out when the molten brass passes a certain temperature).
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I'm allergic to milk. I don't know which would be worse. Stomach in knots and living on the toilet or metal flume fever. 🤔
 
WARRIORWELDING said:
Shavings lots of shavings. Getting specs for these holes was like finding the lost city of Atlantis. Called four service centers and all failed to act like they had any data. One tried and sent the bushing diameters.....jeeze my mic told me that.
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Did I say lots of shavings. I made some math up and arrived at a fit. Between the OD of the bush, ID of the bush, and the respective pin I came up with 10 thou crush.
Two hours later.....lol. Yeah right. I hit my number within a thou... .009
Pressed and dag nab it to tight.

Reweld. Recut. Late night. Blake was helping. Both of us "mathed" it up! Uggha
Reweld. Recut.
Damn this 230 dollar spool of wire is going away.

On that note I choose silicon bronze and mig braze. Nasty smelling hot fireballs of puke. First time welding I was all up in the flume and got stupidly sick that evening. Chills, headache, and felt absolutely lousy for 24 hrs.
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10 thou seems way heavy, 2-3 thou seems a lot more reasonable. Where did you end up?
 
WARRIORWELDING said:
I'm allergic to milk.
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Sorry to hear! :(
My mom (owner of the foundry) is lactose intolerant, but drinks A2 milk, and it seems to work for her with the brass.
Not trying to push the milk, just sharing experiences. :)
 
jeepinmatt said:
10 thou seems way heavy, 2-3 thou seems a lot more reasonable. Where did you end up?
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10 pushed in smoothly. No walking and it shrank down uniformly. These bushes are really thin and a have a seam. I think the grease pattern was rolled into a sheet and then curled......
Any who the difference in the id and od of the pin landed were I thought ten would net a slip fit.

6 thousandth was the magic number. 4 would probably worked too.

Matt I read a lot about nominal for pin bushing size. Measuring by metric or standard unit would have netted a stupid amount.y initial set point was also along the line of something I read on a another forum. .0007 per inch of diameter for grease clearance. That math matches my other math for the 10 thou.


And if any body wonders why I didn't just recut.......well I learned the hard way finding true center after taking parts of the set up down to press bushes is damn near impossible with what I have on hand.
 
thecarman said:
Sorry to hear! :(
My mom (owner of the foundry) is lactose intolerant, but drinks A2 milk, and it seems to work for her with the brass.
Not trying to push the milk, just sharing experiences. :)
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I appreciate it. I never got the tit, home made ice cream or wet cereal as a kid. I can tolerate some dairy to a point. Straight milk nope. Lactose free doesn't matter. My first ever cereal that wasn't bone dry was with soy milk. I think I was already a teenager.
 
Tom@Hilltop_Machine said:
Time to be on the lookout for a Horizontal Boring Mill for your shop if you are going to do a bunch of these type jobs.
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Yeah I keep thing a big honking table and some form of mill would be nice.
Would you fixture it similar to how I tried? I used several bolt holes on the housing split.

At least on a mill the head would be rigid.
 
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