Nice work, shame i couldn't find someone like you when i tried to get my hard to find sidemount intercooler repaired, instead he wrecked it by accidentally burning a large hole in the core! 🙄
A lot of "professional welders" (at least according to their keyboard skill) hates pulses. They think you should be able to weld a razor blade without any purge or backing, using foot pedals and that's it.
Yoo wtf are you spraying gunk off degreaser fuck you don't value your lungs lol people think I'm wild using unchorinated brake Clean but it's safer than anything unless you mix up the can then your dead lol
excellent, I was searching for an instruction I can use for welding cracks of bandsaw, and your video is the most similar situation I could find, thanks
If your blade is cracking, welding isn't going to fix anything. They cracked because of metal fatigue, often due to the wheel being too small and the blade reaching the end of their life. This is why if you have a bandsaw, get as big a wheel as possible, or if not possible, run them at slower speeds. Metal cutting bandsaw has very small wheel, but that's ok because they are also running very slowly. Wood bandsaw needs huge wheels or else your blade will break all the time. In fact if anything the welding will weaken the blade and it will break about 1/16th inch from the weld.
that is 0.014 inch = 0.35mm thichness ,you have heat sink , so how can you weld thin tube ,round joint ? can not put heat sink on tube .. i have seen guys weld 0.28mm thick stainless tubing , no pulse no foot pedal no heat sink , try that so you know how good you are
Funny how I happen upon videos that remind me of my life. I'm 60, when I was a kid. (from 5 years old to 17) I'd work at my dads muffler shop in westminster California. "Reds Muffler and welding" Red, was a full blooded Icelandic dude who was an ex drag racer who owned records at the Famous Lyons Drag strip and yes he took me there as a kid. He decided he wanted to start making "straps" or "Hangers" as they are called. They would have one big hole in them with two smaller holes. The big hole matched up to a male and female "grommet" so when bolted on the frame or sometimes floorboard the would be able to move as all hangers need to do. The smaller holes were originally for clamps to bolt on but almost were never used like that. Someone installing a system would just weld the pipes directly to the hanger. At 16 he would sell glasspacks for $32 a pair installed if there was nothing else needed. He would by unpainted "bluetone glasspacks" for $0.75 per muffler and paint them to make money on that price. Of course tailpipes and chrome tips were extra and or anything that was needed besides cutting the old mufflers off and installing the new ones. Anyway.... He bought a 20 ton punch press. I think he got it for a couple hundred bucks. It was taller than him with a massive flywheel and it mad a clicking sound.... My dad designed a die that would cut the big hole and the two small holes at the same time in one stroke. We measured them out and used a pair of vice grips as the stop so we could make different sizes So at 12 years old I was operating that massive beast when there were breaks between sweeping up or doing other shop helper types of slave work...lol Eventually he found a 4 ton press for pennies on the dollar and put it in our garage. He made a little triangle shaped grove for a tool that looked like a chisel. I would put the end of the hanger in it and push the pedal and boom. A 90 degree angle. Didn't matter how long the hanger was, there were no changes needed. Now that one was a lot more dangerous. I'd finish dinner and go into the garage and start working. It was about 15 feet from the dinner table. :) Good times. My step dad Red made me who I am. Taught me to figure shit out by example. Thanks for the memory stimulator.
@@belloautomotive1522 HAHA, I don't know whats more amazing, the fact I remembered that or that you read the whole thing! HAHA Take care and keep up the good work. Necessity is the mother of invention. HAHA, My dad also quoted Plato. :)
These LS manifolds are not cast iron, its a steel alloy. No preheating is needed and pretty much any filler rod works, done quite a few for over a decade, just burned the SS vband on with some stainless rod... done in 10 min... last forever. No different than welding 2 steel plates together.
It still doesn’t technically matter. You’re still more likely to crack it because it’s a cast molding and not carbon. Cast is still more brittle regardless if it’s iron or carbon or mild steel. The way he did it is probably still more effective then doing it cold. But if either way works it doesn’t really matter
@@Jarrettsville_Garage cast is the process which its formed, has nothing to do with what its made of. This is not iron, nor cast iron. Its a steel alloy, how it was formed has nothing to do with how its welded. Cast, rolled, forged, extruded...etc.. Carbon is an element, steel is an alloy of iron and carbon, these manifolds are steel. They can be welded as steel. The "cast" has absolutely nothing to do with anything.
@@green461 doesn’t change the fact that you should still pre heat considering your welding a different compound because since it’s cast it’s still subject to crack considering cast cools faster then regular mild or carbon steel does. Letting it cool slowly prevents that
@@Jarrettsville_Garage You are not understanding, cast steel is not a different metal than forged steel, rolled steel, extruded, or any steel, casting is just the process used to form it....they pour it into a cast. Cast is not a metal. Steel is steel. You are thinking cast iron, its not iron. Cast steel is not cast iron. all steel is carbon steel, carbon is what makes iron turn into steel, high, low, variances, you can cast it all and its no different than any other steel.
@@green461 it actually is different. It’s still made and cools differently then regular rolled carbon steel or mild steel. It’s more porous and has different properties then mild steel which make it more brittle.
Hang on, a 20 cup, 30 CFH (which is half of 60 rule of thumb cup size to follow), and 120 amps with a 1.6mm T. I'm Blown Away. I can't match or do that. "Edited - - - At 120 amps????? -
I see Al. foil... how about some plumbing test plugs,🤔 I use them with a small 1/4" tube drilled into them with a short copper tube to connect to....works really well.... and you get a perfect seal.
I've really never had an issue.... I weld 4130 aircraft frames and I use small test tube plugs to larger plumbing type test plugs and about as fast I finish I pull the plugs....... nothing like fine Tig welding to pass the time of day....... HAPPY WELDING🙂
Quite honestly, I'm a grinder and not a welder, so I'll leave the welding to someone like yourself that knows what they're doing. My question is: what should I expect to pay to have a "similar" job welded up on two manifolds? Thanks in advance, Jim
I have an everlast as well and the everlast cooler is a little bit louder but nothing crazy. But if you aren’t using a cooler the htp is about 10x quieter
Perfect, I've just subbed because of this, I've fabricated all my adult life, but I'm about to make my 1st stainless steel motorcycle exhaust, and this one tip has filled in the blanks Thank you for sharing
