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[memphis] said:
Are you saying I’m running too fast and too hot? Or that’s what should be done to minimize HAZ?

This was hard to do solo, it would have been nice to have someone rotate the diff versus starting and stopping
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I would personally measure your wire feed speed. Use a timer and see how much wire you get in 10 seconds. Multiple ply it by 6. I found 160 inches is a good starting point for myself and I can adjust voltage to get the ‘frying bacon’ sound.

Definitely hard to do solo. Just take time to think of the whole thing. Weld in 1/4 sections, rotate the tube, support the axle with a floor Jack or block of wood or something, weld another 1/4 section, and repeat. I would personally do a top/bottom/left/right 1/4 section weld, and I’d mark each 1/4 section. I would then try to make it as much ‘left to right’ welding as possible instead of downhill. Just a personal preference though.
JK13 said:
With hardwire you really kinda have to for any significant thickness.
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He is welding tube. You can do it in 1/4 sections without needing to run a high wire feed speed. This isn’t 1” thick material.
 
RunningProblem said:
I would personally measure your wire feed speed. Use a timer and see how much wire you get in 10 seconds. Multiple ply it by 6. I found 160 inches is a good starting point for myself and I can adjust voltage to get the ‘frying bacon’ sound.

Definitely hard to do solo. Just take time to think of the whole thing. Weld in 1/4 sections, rotate the tube, support the axle with a floor Jack or block of wood or something, weld another 1/4 section, and repeat. I would personally do a top/bottom/left/right 1/4 section weld, and I’d mark each 1/4 section. I would then try to make it as much ‘left to right’ welding as possible instead of downhill. Just a personal preference though.

He is welding tube. You can do it in 1/4 sections without needing to run a high wire feed speed. This isn’t 1” thick material.
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All welding was done up hill. I basically did the 1/4 turn method
 
gt1guy said:
MIG right? Run that shit down hill. Way more forgiving.
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Fuck that, call a friend and have them rotate the housing while you’re welding so everything is done in 1G. The weld joint stays a v the entire time you’re welding and it takes 1/4 the time with (usually) better results.

1G is a roll out or flat groove joint for the newbs:flipoff2:
 
gt1guy said:
MIG right? Run that shit down hill. Way more forgiving.
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Downhill sucks, I didn’t do this but I’d rather tack tack tack uphill vs running downhill and have a glob of shit hanging off the bottom of my run. Everything I took a picture of was about 3” of weld and rotating to the opposite side and repeating
 
[memphis] said:
Downhill sucks, I didn’t do this but I’d rather tack tack tack uphill vs running downhill and have a glob of shit hanging off the bottom of my run. Everything I took a picture of was about 3” of weld and rotating to the opposite side and repeating
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I think you’ll be happy with your newly narrowed axle, congrats on getting it done.:beer:
 
Almost new Kubota hay rake with busted welds... I welded the absolute shit out of it with some 6011 and gusseted and welded some more... Both sides so they match of course, then cleaned them up a bit and spray bombed it Kubota orange again so it doesn't look like ass...

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Broken factory weld.

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Bottom of left side.

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Top of left side. All 6011 overhead welds.


Also had a crackhead on a bike at Family Dollar see the welder/generator on the back of my pickup and ask me if I wanted to buy some welding rod. $5 bundle of mystery rod that has been determined to be 6013 on the rustiest piece of shit steel I could dig out of the scrap bin... Welds nice! :laughing:

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billybob_81067 said:
Almost new Kubota hay rake with busted welds... I welded the absolute shit out of it with some 6011 and gusseted and welded some more... Both sides so they match of course, then cleaned them up a bit and spray bombed it Kubota orange again so it doesn't look like ass...

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Broken factory weld.
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Looks like they missed a weld (blue line) and had no penetration on most of the others (green lines)?
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Aaron Z
 
aczlan said:
Looks like they missed a weld (blue line) and had no penetration on most of the others (green lines)?
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Aaron Z
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The plate steel bracket is at an angle to the square tube so there really isn't anything to weld at the blue line unless they added some steel in there between the two. And yeah the rest of their welds look like they weren't getting much penetration. Here are a couple pics of the other side that didn't break yet. You'd think they would have at least welded that top gap. And the "good" side did have a small crack starting on one of the welds in that 2nd pic. Hard to see with my potato phone camera...

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billybob_81067 said:
Here are a couple pics of the other side that didn't break yet. You'd think they would have at least welded that top gap.
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I dunno. Sometimes you are better off not welding everything 100%. Metals gotta have somewhere to move. The garbage welds didnt help anything though:laughing:
 
Steve300xcw said:
I dunno. Sometimes you are better off not welding everything 100%. Metals gotta have somewhere to move. The garbage welds didnt help anything though:laughing:
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Yeah on some things you're better off stitch welding and leaving a gap here and there so if a crack starts it will stop at the end of that one weld. The way they excutued that joint on the rake was just plain not beefy enough IMHO. There can be a lot of stress at that point and it just wasn't up to the task... And the fact that the weld sucked was the icing on the cake. :laughing:
 
Been a minute since I fired up the old Esab MIG. Good enough for this hillbilly with some .090 wall square and red steel. :beer:

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Sceep said:
Red barn/shop steel. Bent c-channel or bent angle. Dunno what else its called.

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Not just barns. Most structural steel used for steel framed buildings is red. Primer color that I think is weld through. Common reference of "red steel" identifies as the structural framing rather than some other cladding or whatnot.
 
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