Kenworth 850 Off Highway

[ihbuilder]

yea , Reg thanks for the inspiration in tig welding I did soso



OTOH truck looks great

[RCP57]

Originally Posted by ihbuilder

yea , Reg thanks for the inspiration in tig welding I did soso



OTOH truck looks great

Welding aluminum can be tricky it seems. Too little heat and it won't puddle, too much heat and it disappears or warps really bad. I have spent a fair amount of time welding it now but have no training in welding so I'm sure I could benefit from some lessons. That would probably help my consistency.

What is that in the picture? Is that the 990 or something new?

Thanks very much Wolfgang, I don't think it is better than the original, but I am quite happy with how it is turning out!

Reg

[ihbuilder]

It's not the 990 , something smaller that I'm throwing bits and pieces together somewhat welding practice . I had issues seeing the puddle with my old helmet , bit since I got the miller autodark . my next issue is feeding the filler with gloves on ( can't feel it ) . I'm self taught to , look at pro welds and try to copy

[RCP57]

Do you have proper TIG gloves Steve? If you don't they are much thinner and provide a lot better feel. I understand what you're going through though. I rarely ever wore gloves before while MIG welding steel so when I started trying this I had a hard time too. I learned the hard way though that even a tiny weld will give you a major sun burn with TIG. Probably the most frustrating thing for me is when I touch the tungsten on the work and contaminate it! I say some bad words every time I do that for sure. Sometimes I try to keep welding afterward and it's almost always a mistake with this thin stuff. I'm getting better about doing the right thing and regrinding the tungsten now though...too many wasted pieces that were time consuming to make!

Reg

Oh yeah, I'm looking forward to seeing another IH Builder thread!

[ihbuilder]

No just my heavy welding gloves from stick and mig welding . I've got burned pretty bad with the mig . specially the face when getting in a tight spot on body work when the old helmet use to tick me off . just put my dark wraps on my eyes and have at it . That hood is .07" sheet the edge welding was fun gotta move the filler fast . Another build thread not sure I'll do 1 of that . It's going together too fast I need to get the dozer going before anything else .

[RCP57]

I finally bit the bullet on the tires this morning. I ordered up all 16 that I need to finish the log trailer and build the lowbed as well. Shipping was the same for 8 as it was for 16 so I went for it.

On the fabrication side of things I finally got some material to build the mirror posts so I got them done today. I'm starting to narrow down my to do list and its almost time for paint....








Thanks for looking!