- So on a previous episode you guys have seen Jeff Ray
here do an awesome TIG demonstration for us
on some exhaust systems for Heffner Performance.
But when Jeff left the facility we would send him back
for the Everlast PowerTIG 200DV.
So Mancub and I got to talk and how cool it would be
to build a cart for him, custom build weld dot com
weld cart.
So we're going to go ahead and poke around the storeroom
see what type of material we have laying around,
and see what we can come up with.
What do you say?
- Let's do it.
- So what do we got back here in Mancub's cave.
- Jason, I don't have a whole lot back here
but what I do got is a four by eight sheet over there
A36 carbon steel.
What do you think?
- I think we could man, we could probably design something
out to were we can just cut it out in one solid piece
and maybe fold it up like a paper bird or something
like that.
We can use some of the offcuts you have here,
some of the oz and ends for like reinforcement on the inside
little catches and trays and stuff.
- What you want to do a design on the quickie table?
- We'll go ahead and sketch it down on cardboard first
and then we'll kind of get the concept and we can go ahead
and transfer it over to the quickie table.
- Yeah, ideal.
- I think because we're going to try to build as much
of the side of a full sheet as we can,
we can bend these bottom parts in to kind of meet
in the middle.
- [Mancub] We're going to build it out, 1/8 inch.
- 1/8, yeah, four by a sheet of 1/8 inch,
we're trying to get everything out of one sheet
of material, do all of our bends and stuff like that.
So I think up front here, you know we have our
weld dot com logo.
In this area we're going to have our fill-in metal storage.
You know, different rods and we'll kind of lay that out
once we get over the, on the machine.
- Gotcha.
And then in this area, we're going to have that water cooler.
Up top, you know this is going to be the main--
- [Mancub] Yeah the one,--
- The main welding machine. - Gotcha.
And the welding machine is going to sit on top right here.
- Right, and then on the side, we're going to go 24 inches.
Same hight obviously,
and then you know, we put the logo in there.
We can do that on both.
But to lay the whole thing out.
So this is our full sheet.
- [Mancub] Yeah.
- So if we come in six and a 1/4,
and put some relief cuts in here.
- So that, that's originally a six and an 1/8 but
granting her 1/8 inch in for the--
- You know it'll be a six and an 1/8
for material thickness.
So come in six and an 1/8
and got to be the center where our bend's going to go.
Same thing on this side.
- [Mancub] Damn, all right.
- And then just do some relief cuts in there.
You know, just 1/4 inch,
wide holes probably three inches long,
raised on the ends.
And that'll just take some of that metal away
so we bend easier--
- [Mancub] It'll be easier to bend.
- Smooth bend since we're going to do it all by hand.
I want to take this and see if we can get all in one area
and just do a bend right here.
So, I think we discussed that was about
seven and a 1/4 inches.
So from like here, over, and that's going to be 12 inches,
'cause that's going to be the side of this.
That's got to be 12 inches wide
and then some relief cuts here.
Seven and 1/4.
And then we have our 34 inch hight.
So we're going to go in here 34 and 1/8 again,
on the center of this bend line here.
To the center of--
- [Mancub] All right. - 12 inch area in here,
'cause that 12 inch area here is going to be
the front of our machine.
So have another 34 and an 1/8.
And then our rod storage, so we'll delete this line.
We're going to make that, we're going to see what kind of material
we have left 'cause I think you told me we have
14 and 3/4 inches
is what we need here for that water cooler.
- [Mancub] Yeah, 14 and 3/4, yup.
- So once we get over the plasma.
This' going to give us you know, our exact dimensions
we can do our take off from there,
and get everything cut out.
What we're going to do, our rod storage up in here.
- [Mancub] That's 12 inches tall though, right and?
- Yeah it's going to, well 12 inches, 12 inches wide.
So that's this measurement across here
and then we'll figure out once we get over there
we can take that 14 and 3/4.
Since that's our critical dimension,
we'll take that from 34 and an 1/8
and we'll put that on the bottom
that way we have 14 and 3/4 from here to here.
- [Mancub] Gotcha.
And then what I'd like to do up here is,
like a little visor,
we'll do some relief cuts here so it doesn't look like
just an 1/8 inch edge here.
- [Mancub] Gotcha.
- And then when we bend that in and weld these corners
it's going to give it a little bit of rigidity
you know, for that machine to sit up on top,
we can do the same thing in the back.
- [Mancub] Gotcha.
- So we got our 34 plus our 12 that gives us
36, make these two inches, so we're up to 40.
So yeah, I think that's about it.
And then we'll be able to take this down and use
these, the Tab and Slot tables and just try to
clamp this in place.
And just start bending and then kind of fold it up
like an origami. - [Mancub] All right.
Do we need any reinforcements in here or anything?
Like angle--
- I think once we get done we'll go ahead and
we'll throw some this way.
So, they'll go across the back kind of out of
the way of the logo.
And then we'll kind of figure out in the back here
we'll probably have to put in an insert
on the inside.
That way you know, so you have your--
- [Mancub] Oh because you we're talking
offset and--
- Yeah, Electrodes, coming back in here.
You know, see I have a piece back here
that's going to kind of receive those,
so they're not just hanging in there.
- [Mancub] Yeah, yeah.
They'll be hanging from this front.
- Nice and presentable.
- [Mancub] Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right.
- It'll keep the sides clean, we can put some
hooks on here, I'd like to do something
radioust you know, so whenever they have
torch hoses and warped piece clamps and stuff.
It's not hanging on like hard 90 degree edges
kind of like a hose reel, it's nice and smoothing.
Figure out a way, we can roll that around a piece of pipe
and then cut out like an outline on the quickie.
- All right, yeah, sounds good.
And we're going to just do a full peddle.
- We'll put a, we'll put a little bracket for
a foot paddle and we're all set to incorporate
something for the bottle rack.
But I'd like too, I'd like to have like
a ramp style, almost like a movable,
so you can kind of step on the back part
of that bottle carton and roll the bottle
and sit in place.
- Yeah.
- Yeah, that way you're not manhandling.
- Yeah, bear hugging it.
- I think that's it man, let's take this over there
and we'll start doing it on the real CAD system
so this computer, cardboard aided drawing.
All right Mancub, so we've taken everything
from out cardboard aided design
and transferred it over to the computer aided design.
We have Heffner's logo on here, on both sides.
Kind of embossed there
and then we have the weld dot com logo down here
at the bottom.
As well as the rod holders.
So we'll go ahead and send this over to the CAM.
Mancub went ahead and put in all of our
lead in and lead outs.
So we have the least amount of pierce marks as possible.
We'll go ahead and send this over to the CNC program.
And we're ready to cut.
(rock music playing)
- All right guys, while that piece is cutting out,
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Stay tuned after this video for the first segment.
- All right so we just got the piece all cut out,
we're going to go ahead, take it off the table
get it cleaned up, take it over to the Tap and Slot
and show you guys how to bend it.
All right, so we got the material back over here
on the table we're going to go ahead and clean it up
as with any thermal cutting process,
there's a little bit of drops left over.
So, Mancub and I are going to go ahead
and hit it with some of the wire wheels.
Here we go.
(rock music playing)
All right so we just flipped it because
the areas that we have to do our bands,
the ways we want those to go, so that our lettering
and everything still stays left to right and in order.
So, going ahead and marked out center of all these
relief holes and we're going to have
Mancub here, is going to go ahead and score that.
Just basically make a shallow cut in here
with the cut off wheel.
So it's going to make it a lot easier to bend.
So this is eight inch material.
We don't have access to a bender.
Like most people at home, you know.
I'm not somebody that has a press break in my
garage there.
Mancub you got one?
- No way.
- Cameraman, I don't think the cameraman's got one either.
So, we're going to go ahead and make a couple relief cuts
and show you guys how you can, kind of successfully
bend some of this stuff at home in the garage.
(rock music playing)
All right so the Cub's got some relief cuts in here.
We're going to go ahead bend these small tabs here,
and then we're going to get the other piece there
that's going to be the electro holder
or rod holder with the weld dot com logo.
Get the tails in and then fold the center in together
and put a couple spot tacks in,
here and there as we're going.
Just to kind of keep everything held together.
(rock music playing)
All right so we got everything bent, put where we want it
that worked out pretty decent with the relief cuts
and everything.
Mancub did a great job on that.
- [Mancub] Thank you.
- We're going to go ahead now and get everything tacked up
squared and kind of hit some of the welds up
and then get those cleaned up.
Ready for paint.
- All right guys, I'm running a 18.5 volts 90 amps.
I got 0.30 set here and omosenergic mode.
I got the wire type set to steel.
I'm just going to go ahead and run through these tacks
and everything, then I'm going to load her out.
(rock music playing)
- [Jason] Oh my God, oh my God, one side done.
(rock music playing)
All right guys, we got everything tacked up,
squared the way we want it.
Everything's looking good so far, not bad for
breaking this thing over a work table.
So, we're going to go ahead and conclude part one
right now.
In the mean time we're going to put a couple welds on here,
we're going to do a little blend grinding,
get it prepped for paint.
In episode two, make sure you guys come back for that
we're actually going to finish off this thing.
We're going to put filament holder on here as well
as a place for a foot peddle to mount
when we're not using it.
Torch holder and the warped piece clamp holder,
as well as the bottle rack that's
going to go on the back.
So, make sure you guys tune in for the next time
and we're also going to be delivering it
to Heffner Performance down in Sarasota.
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(suspenseful music playing)
- [Cameraman] Mike had like a serial killer stare into
the camera.
(laughing)
- I can feel that look on me when he's.
- I do that huh.
- Were you staring at me the whole time
for like the first 45 seconds?
It felt like there was a heater on me, man.
And a warped piece clamp holder.
(beep) Stop staring at me Mike.
All right so we just cut a piece--
(laughing)
- I'm sorry dude.
- Ready.
All right so we just got the piece done--
(laughing)
- To think you were going that fast--
- I was just going to play through it.
- No, no, no.
No!
- Cut!
Cut! - No!
(laughing)
- What are you laughing about?
- You just like.
Hey guys.
Heck no. - [Cameraman] Still rolling.
- 'Cause you have me do it and you guys sit and watch.
- [Cameraman] Still waiting on the camera guy or what?
- I was just going to say, cameraman, you ready to do this
or what.
- All right guys, thanks for tuning in to our
first segment of Help My Weld.
Today's user submitted inquiry is from Josh Cutcher
and he used the Facebook page on weld dot com
to submit his inquiry.
So it's says, hi all I've been messing around with my
welder for about a week now and I was curious what you
see that I need to improve on.
Welder is a Lincoln Tombstone AC/DC process is SMAW.
He is using 3/8 steel.
The Electrode is E6011 and he's running at 90 amps AC.
Thanks for the critique.
Well Josh, the first thing I notice is
you have a little bit of lack of fusion on the toe
of your weld here.
And you have some slag in there, which tells me you
probably have some undercut in some additional areas.
So first of what I would tell you is,
you need to maintain a much tighter arch gap.
Looks like your arch points might be a little too long.
In addition, work on your technique a little bit
as far as consistency.
Try to make those, the wight of paws a little bit
tighter in there.
As far as the Electrode that you're using, 6011 is a
good rod to start with.
It's a F3 classification so it's good
for dirty material, galvanized,
anything like that.
But you're running 90 amps on AC.
So, the first thing I would do is,
since you have the option,
go ahead and run the rod on DC positive.
It's going to run better there,
you're going to have much better penetration.
And you're going to be able to run around
that 90 to 95 amp area.
If you're dead set on running AC
I would go ahead and probably increase
10 to 15 amps so run around 100 to 105 amps.
Right up in that area,
and that should give you a little,
better penetration, flatter weld,
smoother bead appearance
and that should take care of you.
All right guys so, thanks for tuning in
to our first episode.
If you guys have something you want us to check out,
give you some feedback.
You know, professional criticism,
go ahead and submit your photos
as well as all the parameters you were using.
Whether it's you know steel, aluminum, stainless,
whatever material you're working on,
as far as the processor you're going to use,
BIG, MIG, TIG, you know whatever process.
And give us as much information as you can
on the perimeters.
Travel speed, amps, volts, wire feeds, speed,
anything that applies,
the position, type of Electrode that you're using.
Polarity, all that stuff.
So thanks for checking us out.