way down there is james payne the director of documentaries extraordinaire you may
know jane from films such as far western or oaky noodling and someday maybe sv seeker
but james's project today is to build a gate to keep his little darling girl from running
out into the street isn't that right that's right parenting through steel i like it and
this is a great project that almost anybody can do it's just a thin wall two inch square tubing
and it's great for doing shelves it's great for doing gates it's doing lawn furniture structural
you can make go-karts out of this stuff fantastic stuff now you will need to cut that stuff in the
old bandsaw from harbor freight i've had for years is a fantastic band saw and it's cheap the other
gadget is a porter band i got one of these too this is fantastic not cheap and the third way
is another dewalt gadget but you can just put this on any old power grinder and use the dewalt
cutoff wheel thin and only good really for cutting don't use it for grinding
examinated angle grinder and i have a whole collection of things but you only really need
one and two different types of discs actually three this is a cubatron grinding disc and it
really does eat some steel off there it's great for if you're going to paint it's going to leave
a deep gouge which leaves something for the paint to grab too that's called a profile
this disc a flap disc is good for polishing things up and smoothing it out it'll help the paint but
it really does leave a smoother finish and you'll need to change these out routinely so go to amazon
they're only about 250 a piece and then as previous mentioned some dewalt cut off blades
because if you don't have the porter band or the band saw these things work great and yes mom these
are dangerous look guys if the sparks are hitting you in the face you're doing it wrong okay move
the tool away set the handle up where you like it clamp your material down go slow it'll be fine
and if you're going to be working with square tubing you're going to need to cut some squares
so that you can use them to cap the ends of the tubes that keeps it from rusting out on the inside
now you'll want to clean these up too acetone works well so there's paint thinner and lots
of other things you just want something that's not going to be damaging to the paint
but you don't want to try painting these without doing anything because they come with
that on them from the yard it's a pickling agent so it doesn't rust too bad while it's
waiting in the warehouse so once you get it groud down wipe all the rest of that off
i like it yeah something like uh four four per panel something like that
let me go get two more just to see yeah and trim it down and make adjustments as you
need to before you tack together but even when you tack it together you can untack
it sounds good yeah yeah that's fine one of the hardest things to do is get your welders set
up when you start welding and uh there's a lot of people that put up wire speeds and amperage
and all that stuff on the videos don't pay a whole lot of attention to it there's also a
chart inside your welder don't pay a whole lot of attention to that either just get in the ballpark
and then play with the thing try more heat less heat more wire speed less wire speed
you know you got time on your hands so you'll get into what your machine does and that's the best
thing that is a fantastic little weld now we talk about uh the crown of the weld that's how much it
is mounded up and if you uh went a little faster you'd have less crown and uh we're talking about
the toe of the weld which is the outside edge where it blends into the steel right in here
is the toe and we look to see if that is actually burned into this metal that is a little bit raised
up but that is actually a fine toe that will not be a problem over here it's even nicer you can
see it's blended beautifully it looks fantastic a really cold weld would actually be sitting on top
you know but the thing to do is to take a hammer to this and try breaking it apart you'll be
impressed with that weld so a cold weld you'd have a little bit more uh yeah more separation
that's right the tool that's right it'll be more defined so in that it won't be blended in
weld it yourself kits.com i'm building a stool
okay yesterday's weld today's weld yeah 0-60 in one day
oh yeah you should have done this years ago
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okay i'm working on cabinets today for the pilot house up there but this video ain't about that
it's about welding anybody can do this go out there get a welder to build something
even if it's a metal birdhouse that'd be cool somebody send me a picture of a metal birdhouse
okay when you're using the square tubing be sure and always put caps on the ends that'll
keep it from rusting on the inside because it will rust a little bit but the oxygen will get
eaten up and then the fire goes out so cap your pipes the way i like doing these is
well a little stick of scrap to it and then you can seat it in there without it falling inside
tack in the corner and then you can move it around if you need to a bit
pull that out just ever so slightly there we go good
a little tip on grinder safety he is being safe he chose not to use the 15 amp grinder
and go with the six ant grinder because safety is your choice do what you're comfortable with
but do it and please when you see me using the 15 amp grinder without a guard
don't be my mother i don't need that no way it needs that
just start where you're comfortable work your way up and you won't be so scared of it
you know if you're cheap like me you make your hinges like this it's just two pieces
of pipe and a pin that's welded into the top piece of pipe that makes a nice hinge
you can have multiple segments if you wanted to but if you want
a really pretty hinge you go to the welding store and you buy one of these
and they're not bad he only paid 13 bucks for these hinges which is a fantastic price
now this is james's place look at that in that beautiful work
now we took a piece of two inch solid steel round bar and carved it down so it's fit inside
this two inch uh square tubing and that's set into concrete
and it does a really nice job of supporting it without a wheel on the end of the gate
just a little bit of bounce and get it to it but that'd be easily fixed if you wanted to
put a wheel on there yeah that's got a fence in that killer guard dog there that's right i think
that's pretty incredible first welding project so what do you think of welding now it's fun
it's uh you know you just focus in on a on a spot that big and continue on
it's a fun little uh it's a fun game and then when you learn that you can make anything out of steel
that's stronger than wood and it it's got stronger joints it's exciting and you can cut it and weld
it back together yeah try that with wood yeah yeah yeah just get a sledge hammer and bang it back
into shape when when you make mistakes yeah you like that part of the process yes like a hammer
will move this still i think you did a wonderful job so i'm impressed so what'd you make today send
us your pictures love to see your inspirational photographs that get me off the couch
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