While a beautiful weld is... well... beautiful, some projects don't lend themselves to the look of exposed welds. This is a quick tutorial of how to get your welded seams to look like they were never a welded seam.
Thanks for the demonstration, you taught me a “few tricks”. You could improve the video presentation by putting the video camera on a tripod. The constant moving around was making me dizzy. I had to keep pausing the video and take a break, other than that, job well done.👍 Brian, from Australia.🇦🇺🦘
cool technique and sounds easy to follow. i definitely will practice on it. but honestly, i get dizzy with your 'pov' camera setting. thx anyway for the video and sharing the tips! ^^
I have used a foot of 1" wide sandpaper from a shop roll to quickly soften "exterior" edges when I'm not working to your standards. Grab the ends and draw it back and forth across the edge... I also use flap wheels on a 4" angle-head grinder a lot for blending welds; old and worn ones are pretty soft and cut slowly. I was hoping you might have some tips on how to soften and radius an "interior" corner like the fillet welds to the tubing on the end of your control arm. Is this just a rat tail file, or do you have some other magic?
thank you thank you thank you!!! My race car chassis has some fab work finished like this and I knew it was not machined and was trying to mock the finish, thanks again
if you are taking away the filler metal, then you do not KNOW the thickness of the structural metal that is left there. It would be fine for low-stress items, but for an item that takes load then not recommended by me, the load path is unknown and might be seriously thin compared to the base metal. It looks nice though cosmetically.
Very pretty, I'm sure that's very satisfying to do. You must have the experience to know you got very good fusion and penetration on those joints, especially since you can't check the backside visually.
i agree about not using the grinder. using power tools is great and help cut down time, but mistakes made with power tools are usually big mistakes. an random orbital sander with aluminium oxide sand paper works really good also,
you need to be very sure of your welds..what i see here is that half of the weld is filed away..Wouldn't trust it anymore if it has to handle big forces..
😩I'll have to watch this later after I take some Dramamine!😳 Holy crap dude does your head always move like this? Are you a bobblehead? Get a tripod will ya? Or a neck brace!
That's an internet myth. The file is hard enough to not dull quickly on the cut stroke, which is far harder on the teeth than dragging it backwards. How on earth could lightly dragging it across the surface backwards dull it appreciably? I learned filing from old German tool and die makers that were wizards in terms of the tolerances they could hold using just files. They never lifted the file from the work on the back stroke. It just introduces inaccuracies.
I've been doing this for over 22 years, I can assure you that hand finishing is almost always going to net a better-finished part... As long as you're willing to put in the effort.
Do you really expect from a guy who refers to a joint as a seam to know there is a difference between a file and a DA? Is he a dressmaker or a metalworker? 😨 😂
have you tried a 1mm cutting disc at a very shallow angle , you can get great finishes ,,, give it a go , very little pressure , think of it as a polish .
