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hey guys sean bassett here with attacking the clock racing we're brand new hosts for
weld.com we're going to show you guys all types of things that we do every day in
the shop which is metal fab welding cutting all kinds of stuff so let me show you around
all right so this is our fabrication area so this is where we do our cutting and grinding we've got
our mig our tig big old vise you're gonna want one of those this is where we do our shaping and
grinding let's take you on where the cars are though hi rich hey you know road race cars and
time attack cars and pike's peak hill climb cars is kind of what we're known for we've got modern
you know r35 gtr race cars that we're going to be doing it's a roll cage work in we'll show
you guys along the way how that's done classic japanese muscle cars 2 r32 gtr skyline we're doing
a bunch of work on as well this is our pikes peak 240z this is probably the car um that is you know
pretty well known on the interwebs you've seen my movies i bet maybe you haven't i don't know
pretty much all built uh in-house full tube chassis race car you know a lot of
intercooler piping a lot of titanium exhaust a lot of custom brackets and mounts and again
more roll cage chassis work so yeah we've got our 2021 sema uh best performance car the show
this is our basically standard roll cage kit which is not very standard for most
folks but we really go above and beyond when it comes to safety and making sure
all of our clients feel comfortable and they're ready to send it and not have to worry about if
their cage is going to hold up but we do our own charge piping exhaust that kind of stuff
so we want to show you guys how to do all of this stuff you don't start here but we can show
you a lot of tips and things to get you started that way you can at some point get to this level
some of you guys are seasoned welders and you already have your set up
so right now i want to talk to the guys or girls that are just getting started they don't have a
welder yet they don't really know what to do um but they're ready to get going and
i want to tell you now today you don't need a ten thousand dollar welder to get started you
can start off with a couple hundred dollar welder that you can get at your local home
improvement store get welding today make a bunch of not so nice stuff but that being
said you keep at it you keep practicing and you're going to be really proud of your work
so i want to talk about what type of welder you should start off with and it's a welder that i
started off with and we use every day here at the shop and it's a mig welder you shouldn't go off
and say i want to weld and learn on a tig welder that's something you progressed to i know some of
you guys have but i think as far as just getting started milk welder skip flux core go straight to
mixed gas you'll thank me later welds are going to be much nicer but yeah just go down to your
local you know you know home improvement place and then grab yourself a couple hundred dollar welder
and that is where you should start don't get discouraged right out of the gate we're
gonna teach you all kinds of tips and uh you know things that are gonna help you out along the way
so i want to talk about one of the welders that we use at the shop pretty much every day
and it's a lincoln 140 heavy duty this is something you can go pick up anywhere
um but it's a great welder to get start with it's great for medium duty work tacking stuff together
you can weld tubing together whatever you want to do but it's a great welder to get started with i'd
also recommend a 180 that's another great welder both are just your standard 110 outlet plugs
but they really get a lot of work done with it so i want to show you guys how capable these types of
machines are without spending a ton of money on you know you know 2 20 or 2 30 volt setup
i mentioned that you want to skip flux core you can definitely go get a welder and start welding
today with it but my recommendation would to be to use just solid wire
so you can usually your welder will come with this you can get bigger spools and stuff like that
but i would probably skip flux core that way you can go straight to better welds the differences
between the two wires one's solid and it requires a shielding gas of a 75 argon 25
carbon dioxide um and that basically comes out of the nozzle of your mid gun or your other option is
is a gas shielded wire which basically as the arc starts happening it emits a gas and kind of does
the same thing um one you can go get a welder today and you don't need shielded gas the other
two i would really recommend to go down to your local uh gas place and get a small little bottle
kind of like this to get started we also have bigger ones at the shop
um in a regulator what that's going to do is going to make a much better weld anybody professionally
welding weld with shielded gas they don't use flux core i started off with flux core and then
once i switched to gas i was like what have i been doing so do the same thing get yourself a
little little little bottle again this is 75 argon 25 carbon dioxide specifically for steel welding
so it's super important that you protect yourself when you're welding you are gluing hot metals
together there's going to be sparks and stuff like that so you want to make sure that you're well
protected uh if you're just getting started uh you're going to want yourself a welding hood and
um i'd probably recommend one that's got an auto darkening feature uh it definitely makes things
a little bit easier to keep going um you're gonna want yourself a really good set of safety glasses
a really good set of welding gloves um there's two different types generally uh mig welding or
tig welding i kind of like a glove that's in between um to be able to jump back and forth
and do different things you're also going to want yourself a welding jacket or some type of
something to protect your arms we don't want to see you all scarred up i used to weld in tennis
shoes a lot and i have a lot of burn holes on top of my tennis shoes so you want to make
sure you're welding in a good pair of shoes that aren't going to burn through and stuff like that
preferably something leather but yeah i'll give you a rundown on the kind of gear that i use
you know a big part of welding for me is making sure i'm comfortable because
if i'm not comfortable i'm probably not going to do my best work because i'll be thinking about how
this position or whatever is just not ideal so if i can
it's not always possible but actually most of the time i'm not able to but if i can sit
you know i've got my viper chair it keeps me nice and comfortable i prefer to work at this table
if i can most of the time i'm welding upside down in a car but i do make sure whenever i am
sitting here that i've got all the tools out i'm as prepped as possible the surface is clean
we're sanded machines ready we've got gas and then all i got to do is focus on welding
all right so next on my list of important things to do when you're just getting started welding
is metal surface prep i think that's all that's just kind of something that's just known that you
need to do but i think it's often overlooked and so if you do more projects i'll show you
specifically what i do but you really want to make sure your two parts that you're about to weld
together for life are oil free there's no scaling on it you know they're just two raw metal pieces
um that way you have the best opportunity to give yourself a nice good weld
so attacking clock racing we do a lot of metal fat and welding here so we're going to bring you along
our process a lot of those jobs so we're going to teach you how to do a full you know roll cage road
race roll cage um and it's gonna we're gonna teach you how to you know plan a safe roll cage out
theories how these things work how to notch tube how to prep tubing all the types of thing you're
gonna need to make sure you have a nice safe roll cage we're also going to teach you guys how to
build exhaust systems for turbos and intercooler piping and all that kind of accessories that go
along with a fabricated turbo setup we do a lot of aerodynamics at the shop so we're going to
teach you guys how to make uh you know fabricated brackets all that kind of stuff you'll be able to
take simple cardboard brackets and templates and be able to show you guys how to take them
to third-party companies have them lasered in a couple days they show up at your doors all
you have to do is weld them so you're going to see us use our road fab tube bender quite a lot
we use it to build you know two chassis fronts roll cages you can even see that i
built my sim chassis for practicing with this two bender we're going to show you all the
you know the little things that you need to consider when building a tube chassis or a
roll cage dom material is expensive and you don't want to go wasting it and trying a bunch of stuff
so we're going to be there to help you along the way to make sure you're confident in your build
hi guys i want to thank you for watching our very first episode uh it was a lot of fun showing you
around the shop all the stuff we have going on here at attack the clock racing we're always
bending cutting grinding something metal fab and welding on race cars so in the comments below
i want to hear from you what you would like to see more on a regular basis maybe it's something
that's not shown or you didn't know how they do that or whatever it is i want to show all
that stuff to you um but we got some really great content for roll cage stuff coming up
but anyways i want to thank you for your time i want to thank well.com
there's a bunch of great information uh on there as well and uh yeah we'll see you