Warrior Welding LLC shop.

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Big girl had a bad day!

"I like big butts......"

 

[CasterTroy]

Wow.

Das a big crack

 

[WARRIORWELDING]

Wow.

Das a big crack

Not anymore! Healing regimen is underway.

Burnt in and filled up. Top is smoothed of as well. Shot for hot consistent beads with enough build up to land flat when prepped for some plating.

Full pen welds with backer. Had to chase the crack all the way down to the bottom. Darn thing split all sorts of ugly. Torch beveled since the crack wasn't consistent. Excavator could push it in to shape but it would spring back after the hydraulic pressure let off. Combination of a couple chains with binders and 40 tons of bottle jacks I was able to level and square it all up.

Ignore the crazy paint chasing, owner had ideas.

 

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Lots of cutting.

Wind wasn't playing nice. Really making the dual shield wire act up. Really didn't want to spend hours on end welding out the fish plates with 7018.

Built a small shelter. Wouldn't want to live here like the homeless camps. This new canvas stinks and may be making me high!
Lots of hot stuff latter with a wire feeder and 7100 ultra core with 75/25 shield gas.

 

[skyhighZJ]

What do you think about the 7100? Not so much on the shielding gas side but the weld quality on possibly less than ideal surface prep situations?

 

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What do you think about the 7100? Not so much on the shielding gas side but the weld quality on possibly less than ideal surface prep situations?

It had its moments. One area it pulled some nasty crap out of the plate the fella provided. I had ground the back chasing back heavy rust. It was some stuff he had laying about. I guess I didn't hit the back side hard enough in that area. Another area I had not cleared the factory paint quite wide enough. It chewed through it but really disturbed the arc and puddle flow. It is a bit finicky with wind. I had to gouge out a couple passes before I got mad enough to eat a nab and put up some wind blocks. Absolutely a gas hog and is happy running 25-35 cfm on flow. With a small nozzle and the wrong angle it is enough to pull ambient air into the puddle! Drag, pull, push it doesn't much care just changes the profile of the bead.

I absolutely love running Lincoln 212 inner shield for less than ideal prep. No gas. Extremely smooth. I need to check the tensile, notch toughness, and elongation data between the two. The 212 is a supped up very of the old Lincoln 211. It was heavily used in construction til they figured out it work hardens over long periods and caused fatigue cracks. It was extremely well liked and used all over red iron, construction, and equipment up til then and got a bad rap.

The Lincoln 212 is seismic rated! (Edit) "I can't find where I read this statement , take it for a grain of salt!"(Edit number two) "See next post had my stuff backwards" Its also what I ran in that Volvo loader bushes for you. Absolutely cuts like butter with the line bore. I used it on that other job posted earlier. Got the same results. When I get time and compare the two wires metallurgy if the 212 is pretty equivalent I may not buy anymore of the Esab Ultra Core for two reasons. The needed gas and the shelf life. It is much more sensitive to moisture. I don't know why but storing both in the same environment I can tell the 212 runs better if the rolls have been around a while.

 

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So I had my details backwards. Esab states on the webber pages the 7100 falls into seismic rated filler for seismic rated alloys....I remembered reading it but I had it backwards. But for the data here are some screenshots.

 

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My second happy place. Outside of metal I absolutely love running a chainsaw.

Gotta get the rest of this oak down. Power company butchered it a few year ago and it has became a threat.

Pretty tall, hemmed in by the road and two sets of three phase power lines.

Not quit enough to get in the top. Gonna be interesting.