Taylortractornut
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- Mar 27, 2002
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- Iuka Mississippi USA
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- 3550 Fard Backhoe and a 1948 Farmall Cub,
I have a friend that want to be the best at every thing including welding. He came by work the otherday and i was in the shop making dumpster door latch washers. He asked if I did them free hand and I said in a way. I have one of my personal torches in the shop at work along with 2 welders.
My friend was amazed but said I was cheating. I have a homebuilt burners Compass built fro ma cable clamp with a 1/4 20 all thread sharpened to a point. All I have to do is center punch the plate and light the torch and make a great hole. Pretty complex paterns can be cut out with some simple layout.
The next cheater is a ground clamp made with a wide mouth vise grip.
Making bevel cuts using a 3/4 inch round pipe as a torch guide.
a section of small angle iron with a leg at least 1/8th longer than the shoulder of my torch head to steady a long cut.
To gouge a weld or remove an old wed from a junk yard find to make a gouging/washing tip for your torch take a bad/ burnt tip and a drill a little larger than the oxygen hole and drill a 1/64 or better into it and it will do the same job as a straight gouge.
To weld up a bushing bore without alot of fuss you can take a carbon or graphite bar and grind or turn it in the size of the pin you want in the bore and weld away. It wont stick to the filler. Really good in building up Crawler tractor rails or trencher chains.
Most of these tricks I learned from old books, retired Welder/fitters and ship yard workers I have known or worked with.
My friend was amazed but said I was cheating. I have a homebuilt burners Compass built fro ma cable clamp with a 1/4 20 all thread sharpened to a point. All I have to do is center punch the plate and light the torch and make a great hole. Pretty complex paterns can be cut out with some simple layout.
The next cheater is a ground clamp made with a wide mouth vise grip.
Making bevel cuts using a 3/4 inch round pipe as a torch guide.
a section of small angle iron with a leg at least 1/8th longer than the shoulder of my torch head to steady a long cut.
To gouge a weld or remove an old wed from a junk yard find to make a gouging/washing tip for your torch take a bad/ burnt tip and a drill a little larger than the oxygen hole and drill a 1/64 or better into it and it will do the same job as a straight gouge.
To weld up a bushing bore without alot of fuss you can take a carbon or graphite bar and grind or turn it in the size of the pin you want in the bore and weld away. It wont stick to the filler. Really good in building up Crawler tractor rails or trencher chains.
Most of these tricks I learned from old books, retired Welder/fitters and ship yard workers I have known or worked with.
