How difficult is welding?
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Welding is easy if you only want to join two bits of metal together with birds
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If you want it to have decent strength and actually last, it takes a bit more practise.
Where are you going to get the welding plant from anyway?
By the time you hire or buy, you'd be better paying someone to do it for you and will probably have a much better job done too.
t.If you want it to have decent strength and actually last, it takes a bit more practise.
Where are you going to get the welding plant from anyway?
By the time you hire or buy, you'd be better paying someone to do it for you and will probably have a much better job done too.
best not to practice on something that needs to be sound.
getting a bit of metal to stick to a car is easy,welding it up properly for mot purposes is a different matter,regardless of the car or value.
buy a welder and practice on some old metal first.
btw welding something up on a bench is a whole world away from welding up rusty cars,if you do have a go remember to disconnect the battery and remove anything that will catch fire around the weld for a fair distance,including wiring looms hidden in sills or pillars,or your next question will be where`s my fire extinguisher?
getting a bit of metal to stick to a car is easy,welding it up properly for mot purposes is a different matter,regardless of the car or value.
buy a welder and practice on some old metal first.
btw welding something up on a bench is a whole world away from welding up rusty cars,if you do have a go remember to disconnect the battery and remove anything that will catch fire around the weld for a fair distance,including wiring looms hidden in sills or pillars,or your next question will be where`s my fire extinguisher?
If you want to have ago take a welding course maybe?.
It all depends on how much welding you plan to do.
Prep the work, clean up the the area well good earth as well.
Afterwards get the grinder out to flatten down the welds for a nice tidy job.
Then paint it with a rust product etc.
There are welders and welders some people just leave a blob's of metal.
It all depends on how much welding you plan to do.
Prep the work, clean up the the area well good earth as well.
Afterwards get the grinder out to flatten down the welds for a nice tidy job.
Then paint it with a rust product etc.
There are welders and welders some people just leave a blob's of metal.
Yes it is more time and more time. I have done three car restorations, that is why I went to college for a year on a fab and welding course.
I got an NVQ at the end of it, I was fed up paying people to weld on my cars.
Plus some of the welding was very poor, not even cleaned up tidy after the job.
I got an NVQ at the end of it, I was fed up paying people to weld on my cars.
Plus some of the welding was very poor, not even cleaned up tidy after the job.
Edited by SEE YA on Friday 14th January 09:05
thinfourth2 said:
Upside down under a car covered in rust and cack its damn hard.
Been there, seen that, got the scars. Trying to weld a patch on a rusty floor, sneeze, and get the end of a U bolt hard in the forehead, causing me to twitch and move the torch over my left hand, which stung a little, causing more twitching and embedding the hot end of the welding rod in my leg. It wasn't funny. At all. bds. eldar said:
thinfourth2 said:
Upside down under a car covered in rust and cack its damn hard.
Been there, seen that, got the scars. Trying to weld a patch on a rusty floor, sneeze, and get the end of a U bolt hard in the forehead, causing me to twitch and move the torch over my left hand, which stung a little, causing more twitching and embedding the hot end of the welding rod in my leg. It wasn't funny. At all. bds. Probably find it funnier since I remember dad welding a patch over one of the many holes appearing in the floor of our POS Austin Maestro and putting the welder through my uncles thumb who was holding the plate from the other side.
Much swearing ensued
I was welding underneath a car when a blob of hot melted underseal fell on my wrist. So I did the aaarrgghhh-scramble-out-from-under-the-car thing and in so doing put the flame of the welding torch through my trousers. It's interesting how it leaves burns with V-shaped marks in corresponding to the different zones of the flame.
jbi said:
eldar said:
thinfourth2 said:
Upside down under a car covered in rust and cack its damn hard.
Been there, seen that, got the scars. Trying to weld a patch on a rusty floor, sneeze, and get the end of a U bolt hard in the forehead, causing me to twitch and move the torch over my left hand, which stung a little, causing more twitching and embedding the hot end of the welding rod in my leg. It wasn't funny. At all. bds. Probably find it funnier since I remember dad welding a patch over one of the many holes appearing in the floor of our POS Austin Maestro and putting the welder through my uncles thumb who was holding the plate from the other side.
Much swearing ensued
k at the time, particularly the torch burn which smelt deeply unpleasant. I remember hopping about trying to work out which hurt most, leg head or hand. Great spectator sport
Hillman Hunter GLS, it was, the bag of s
t.Yes I thought about that afterwards like most things.
You want to get the job done ASAP, the wife wants to go shopping the kids are playing up.
You are trying to please everybody and still get the job done.
You rush around get all the tools out welder gloves , mask and all the other bits.
EVERY DAY IS A SCHOOL DAY.
You want to get the job done ASAP, the wife wants to go shopping the kids are playing up.
You are trying to please everybody and still get the job done.
You rush around get all the tools out welder gloves , mask and all the other bits.
EVERY DAY IS A SCHOOL DAY.
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