Questions to ask a welder before fabrication begins

[richamor]

91" of welding for a shotgun scabbard?

 

[AKwelder]

if you spell out the details on a scabbard holder in that detail you know what you want. I would suggest you take your plans to someone local and ask for their advice. If you question or doubt what you get then try the forums.

The welder may have different rod or machines he can use with remnants from other work, and he may pass on the savings. or save you the cost of resetting.

Go talk to the guys and see where it goes,

 

[RickB]

agreed, remember he is the welder, not you. He will know for sure how to do it, so just let him do it.

Otherwise, he might not be able to find time in his schedule for you. Or there will be a 'tax' levied on the transaction for dealing with your detailed instructions....

Every sole proprietor welder I have ever known has been fiercely independent and had enough work ahead of him to be able to practice that independence full-time.

 

[Ruark]

1. What type of welding tool should be used assuming all welded areas are of easy access?
2. What type of wire or rod should be used?
3. Anything else that I need to know to ask the welder?
Thanks

I agree with the others. You're going to piss him off. He might not even do the job. When you list these questions, you're implying that there are "right" or "acceptable" answers to them, to "meet your requirements." So what are those? Are you going to "give out grades" on his answers, or what?

 

[nickel plate]

I agree with the others. You're going to piss him off. He might not even do the job. When you list these questions, you're implying that there are "right" or "acceptable" answers to them, to "meet your requirements." So what are those? Are you going to "give out grades" on his answers, or what?

Calm down Ruark, I'm only asking YOU GUYS these questions!

 

[nickel plate]

91" of welding for a shotgun scabbard?

It's a flat plated birdcage type of design. Four main loops and lots of criss-crossing plates.

 

[Ruark]

It's a flat plated birdcage type of design. Four main loops and lots of criss-crossing plates.

Hard to visualize w/o seeing a picture, but it looks to me like you would want it a mostly closed-in design. The dust and dirt and gunk thrown up by a tractor would make a mess of that shotgun in very short order. Again, though, I haven't seen it.

 

[nickel plate]

Hard to visualize w/o seeing a picture, but it looks to me like you would want it a mostly closed-in design. The dust and dirt and gunk thrown up by a tractor would make a mess of that shotgun in very short order. Again, though, I haven't seen it.

Ruark, it's a factory pistol grip short barrel 12 gauge shotgun inside of a padded but soft synthetic sleeved scabbard inside of a 1/4" metal birdcage frame bolted to the FEL dock. The shotgun is fully wrapped in the water resistant scabbard with only the pistol grip exposed. Reason for the birdcage design is that about 1/3 of the 24+- height is just floating in air above the dock and about level with the main FEL arm. No photos as I'm not copying anything else, just drafted drawings at this point.

 

[RickB]

Calm down Ruark, I'm only asking YOU GUYS these questions!

Then don't get offended at the answers you get. Better to hear it here and now than to get run out of your local welding shop with a guy with a lit acetylene torch in his hand.

 

[nickel plate]

Enough. The welding fraternity here is a closed shop.