Welding
 

This is abit embarrassing, but..I dont know how to weld :(

I know its probably not that hard and I really wanna learn how to do the ---- [specially JB welds and stuff] so if anyones got any tips out there, share with me!

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LOL okay i'll give you a hint: welding is where you use a machine to melt two pieces of metal together. JBWeld is like epoxy or glue :P

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Buy a cheap wire feed welder, find/buy/steal some metal, and start practicing. You'll be decent in no time.

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yah. its easy to leran, but if you have a shitty welder its even harder.

lol, jbwelding. lol.

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LOL! You make it seem like you can't get it up. I learned how to jbweld when I was five. Yeah just get a nice welder and go at it.

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Welding is one of those things that you just have to pick up a welder and do..

Steel is easy.
Iron is a little weird, but kinda easy.
Aluminum is just impossible.

With a $50 Harbor Freight chop saw and a POS mig welder you can build 2 outta the 3 hardest/custom things on a HMT.
#1 Charge piping
#2 Down pipe and exhuast

The 3rd thing requires welding, but I'd leave it to a pro with a Tig welder. Which is the exhuast manifold.

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dont worry friend, we are both in the same boat. i as well dont know how to weld. i know how to cuss at it and tell it too form together. but that does not always work. :P

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There has been about 3 threads directly pertaining to your issue at hand that have been bounced around within the past 3 weeks. Search back a little bit and you will find all the advice you need.

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I can JB weld and thats about it... ;)

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just pester quandine when you need welding help. He seems to know his ---- pretty well, and would probably help you out with any q's you have. i'd help you I'm bitter because quandine has a hoodlum mask with an autodarkening lens, and i couldn't afford any of that ---- :P

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About damn time I got some proper respect for Mr. Cuddly Face! Oh yeah, that's not just any auto-darkening lense, that's a Jackson ECQ or some ----.

Yeah, but I like to make the question askers work for their answer. Why bother writing ---- up many times when I can be lazy and contribute my posts to meaningless things, like talking to the canadians? Plus if you saw some of my midnite welds from saturday night, you wouldn't be hyping my ----.. they looked wack! When it was still light out I was doing some bitchin tacks here and there.. what the hell happened. Important thing is exhaust is done and car drives (with minor pinhole leaks on one circle weld I did). Will fix that next weekend.

If I do make another answer solving page for the welding questions, I'm gonna want it stickied. Or at least within a stickied link or something.

-ryan

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everyone always say cheap welder, I cant find one, how much is cheap? welding is easy, like soldering...

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Um, torch welding is somewhat like soldering... Tig is kinda like soldering. Review some of my posts from like 3 weeks ago, I have all the info you needs there on buying a welder.

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wait till you see my charge/downpipe almost perfect.. I uses a tig welder, first time came out great... but I dont have own welder I need one... right now I get a lot of practice on the arc welder,and plasma cutter in Iraq because everyone goes to the soldier with any experience, but I still have trouble with seting up the welder, to think this almost became my primary job, I was a machinist, before I became a mechanic.

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Most of the people around here don't have access to TIGs, yeah I know your joints will turn out like butter (like buddah!), and you can achieve a similar setup with oxy/acetylene welds (not as strong or pretty). Most guys run wire feed welders, weather MIG or gasless. Hardly anyone ARC welds, I used to play with ARC all the time, from cattle fencing to industrial equipment repair. I used to own a plasma cutter, don't know if anyone else uses them.

Get some experience with MIG, it is different then the rest, you're looking for a specific sound and motion to it. Expect to pay $250-500 for the unit, $100 for gas bottle, whatever else on hood and gloves.

I think some people have been mentioning a lot of JBWeld around here, maybe you can master that too.