Needed to do a little welding repair on a Poulan Pro lawn tractor deck. I use a Hobart Handler 140 MIG welder with argon/CO2 gas. johndeere214.com/ teespring.com/... 4strokerebuild....
Nice informative video. No annoying music and not too wordy and well lit and edited. Thanks for the work. I haven't seen better work on a deck repair but I often wonder why my welder guy doesn't weld all around the bracket instead of leaving the same gaps that the manufacturer does. If I ever buy a new mower I want to have all those brackets welded on both sides and all gaps eliminated. Thanks again for posting.
Those are fat beads but you really need to do three passes on T-joints, especially considering you're mig welding on top of partially rusted metal, the joint will be subjected to near constant stress, and it'll have to endure periods of heavy vibration. On top of that, the hole you had to patch was caused by burn thru. But for $50 the customer got a great deal.
Thanks for this video. I have exactly the same problem. Never welded before so went looking for how-to's, looked up material type of a mower deck, and landed here. What could go wrong?
Very nice video. I have the exact repair to do on my Husky mower deck. I am just learning to weld so I apologize if this is a dumb question. I have a Lincoln 140 wire feed welder. Do you think this will do the job or do I need to run the deck into town to the welding shop. Thanks
I am sure that I was under powered in this video. I think it was set a 3/25 (3 voltage and 25 wire speed). I have since learned that I needed it hotter and faster. This is a 115V machine. I use 75/25 Argon/CO2 gas and solid .030" wire. The chart under the hood of my welder suggests a voltage of 5-6 and a wire speed of 25-30.
