- Hey everyone, welcome to weld.com.
I'm Man Cub here.
Today we're here at Anna Maria Island in Florida.
Today we're going to be working on top of that roof.
We're going to mount a camera
and a three 16, two inch square post,
about eight feet tall with a tracker camera on top.
Let me take you over to the side of the house,
I got some three 16 stainless over there,
I'm going to show you guys how to bring it to mirror finish,
so let's go over and take a look at it.
Hey guys, we're over here at the buffing station.
This is the two inch square tubing, three 16 stainless.
It's about a 12 foot pole but I marked the six feet out,
'cause that's all going to be required
to put through the top of the roof to mount the camera.
I'm using this red disk from Pferd.
I'm just getting these scratches out from,
getting all these core scratches out
so I can move to the next step.
If the cameraman zooms in here,
he could see the difference here.
The core scratches are right here.
You basically want to get these core scratches out.
Because if you leave 'em in there,
your mirror finish will look like a little foggy or hazed.
Then I'll move into the next step,
I'll move into this one, a little bit finer.
So I want to take out the scratches from this previous disk,
and I'm going to move out from a 90 direction this way,
and just keep workin' it.
Then I'm going to take this wheel,
I'm going to take a little compound on this,
while I guide on the grinder
and hit the grinder a little bit
and get some compound on there.
Then I'm going to just buff it at a random direction.
This is basically going to take out
the scratches from the previous disk.
I'm pulsing this a little bit,
'cause it cuts a little bit better
when it's running low RPMs.
'Cause then I'll have a control speed.
So then it's going to come out as a mirror finish.
Like this right here.
Then all you got to do is take a rag,
and rub the compound off.
The excess compound, and you're ready to go.
It's that fast and that easy.
Aright guys, we brought the 12 foot post up through here
through this little, small opening.
We basically shoved it up this little boot up to the ceiling
we're basically in a tight little loft area,
up in a little baby attic.
We got it clamped up here, but we're going to raise it back,
I mean lower it back down to the floor,
and then we're going to go up top of the roof,
and we're going to mount a plate for the camera,
and that's about it right now.
So I'll meet you guys meet you guys up on top of the roof,
and we'll start welding up there.
(groovy music)
Hey guys, we're up on the roof now,
we got the pole through here,
we brought the welder up the ESAB 205 Rebel,
the AC/DC, we're doing a foot pedal,
so I'm going to be running 130 amps.
That's my max, because I hooked a 110 up,
and hooked it up to the wall.
So we're running DCEN, direct current electrode negative.
This is the 316 stainless pole we got up here.
I got the plate already tacked up for the camera.
I got my ground hooked right up top,
the only thing we got to do is build a blind,
and were 'about ready to go,
and we're going to be using 316s filler wire.
Aright guys I'll see you in a little bit.
We stapled, excuse me, we put a little nails
through here to make these boards.
All we did, it's a little homemade thing.
We used one of these armor clamps basically holding it on.
Now all I did is took a welding blind,
and all I'm going to do is drape it over this edge here.
I mean, over the top of this, so we don't
lose shooting gas and get porosity.
Just a little homemade thing we have.
This is what you got to do out in the field.
And I'm going to probably put another clamp over here,
to keep it away from me while I'm welding.
Oh yeah, that looks beautiful.
See that guys?
It looks pretty good.
I'm trying to avoid all the contamination
in my puddle, all right.
I'm using a number 12 cup that's about it.
I got my safety harness on.
Let's go ahead and start welding on this,
I'll see you guys in a little bit.
(groovy music)
All I'm going to do is do like a little walking cup.
I'm going to go slow, let it burn in.
Then do a little dip method right there,
while I'm wiggling the cup.
That's it.
That's all I'm doin'.
The wood's a little catching on fire,
that was my little brace
to hold the blind away from me, and everything.
But this is a non-critical weld.
All it is doing is holding a bird and a camera up.
So, alright, I'm going to come off to the side a little bit.
See all that smoke up in here?
See wasn't it a good idea Man Cub had?
See that piece of steel, but we didn't have one here.
Hey guys, the wind screen or stand
that's holding it up, bracing it out.
It's made out of wood, that's the only thing we could find.
So I'm heating it up and making it smoke,
and it caught on fire a little bit.
It's getting into our weld pool, so I basically stopped,
I'm going to let it cool off and I'm going to change my tungsten,
and then I'm going to go back at it again.
Do this left-handed again here.
Alright, let's finish this side out.
We'll be running out of light here soon.
Probably like two or three hours.
We still got to weld the other side, play up.
Hey guys and girls, we just got the vertical done
on the left side and the right side of the tubing.
We're going to move this piece of wood up,
about three or four inches.
'Cause it's in my way to do the overhead,
there's about two inches overhead welding.
So I'm going to go ahead and do that,
and I'll see you guys in a little bit all right?
(groovy music)
Rock this weld real good.
Because that's where cracks start easily.
That's it, let post low, stay there.
Let it sit there for a second, let it cool.
So we get a post crack.
It came out all right, no putting holes in nothing.
Got the color still. We're done with the bottom.
Now we're going to go up to the top,
and weld this up, and we're about done
with the camera mount.
Aright, we're going to go head and start here.
I'm going to do a little dab, a dab method here,
old fashioned way.
This weld is going to be here forever.
We ain't going to build it up after this, this is good enough.
Come over here and make sure it's washed in real good.
Let off my pedal right here, let the Argon cool it.
I'm going to check to make sure this is all, tied in.
Oh yeah we're tied in.
So, we just finished welding up these four sides on this,
four filet welds here.
We tank welded this with three 16ths,
three 30 seconds, stainless wire.
I was using eighth inch E-3,
and a one 50 mazar torch,
and an ESOB 205 rebel.
So this, it came out all right, not too bad.
We had a little bit of gas issues,
but we readjusted the blinding of the camera guy.
I looked over, I don't see no pen holes,
it's a non-critical weld guys,
just make sure there's no pen holes.
Make sure the sides are all fused in together.
I mean, this is good enough for out here.
It's never going to rust.
I didn't overheat the stainless,
'cause it still got color in it.
So it looks pretty good.
So next we're going to put a flat plate on here.
Oh, excuse me, we're going to run the wires up here
for the camera.
There's two wires, the power cord then the video cord.
We're going to run it through here on the front
we drilled earlier.
And then put this plate up here and do that overhead
filet weld, small one.
Then there's going to be a little art going up on top.
Two bolts are going to hold it and that's it guys, aright?
So we're going to get to the rest of it,
I'll see you guys in a little bit.
So here's the plate right here.
I cut the plate a little smaller than two inches.
The tube is two inches.
I want is smaller than two inches,
so I could have a little bit of a filet weld here,
so I could have a nice little penetration right here.
And like a nice little build up right here.
All I'm going to do is tack this corner.
Make sure it's all nice and even on both sides.
First tack all four corners.
Then I'm just going to go ahead and weld it all out.
Then we're going to be done with the bird mount.
We're going to go ahead and weld this all right now.
(groovy music)
My calf is like doing a calf stretch right now, it hurts.
Alright.
(groovy music)
So this side came out good.
We got silver and gold, purple.
But it's still really good and everything.
And it's still pretty good so, we're sealed off here.
We're ready to mount this white camera mount,
that holds the camera actually.
Then we're going to put the bird on,
and guys that's about it, we're going to wrap it up.
So we got the top plate mounted for the bird up top.
Here's the bracket arm for the camera,
that tracker camera that we're putting on.
I'm going to run these wires through here.
Run the white one first, pull it out through here.
And then put this black one through here.
Go right here.
Then we got stainless steel bolts here,
for the salt and the weather.
So we got the bird up here.
It's a three 16 stainless,
we plasmad it on the Quickie five 10 shop pro.
I'm putting stainless steel bolts here
with a lock washer on it.
Two on each corner, I mean on on each corner, excuse me.
Alright guys, all you Arch Strikers, we got this all done.
All the bolts are in.
We're all finished up.
All we got to do is put the, call the camera guy
he's going to put the camera up in.
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Learning is key.
I'm king of the world!
We don't want to drop no tools here.
We'll have to send cameraman back.
Bring (beep) back up to us.
I hope we get this done in time.
We're going to be welding in the dark probably.
Guarantee you that.
That's a beautiful sunset over there.
Oh Bob, he'll probably throw me off this (beep) roof.
(laughing)
What's this dance called?
I don't remember the name.
I always see people doing it and I can't do it.
I was ready 'about with the wire brush as a filler metal.
Hey guys I got her through the wood here.
Ouch, hit my thumb, crap that hurt!
It got me through my hand and my knee,
so if you guys worry about the high
freaked out being good, it's good, trust me.