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Not Gonna Show You the Pictures

by "Bob La Londe" <nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Oct 8, 2008 at 09:57 AM

A while back I posted a picture of a MIG weld that had that stack of dimes 
look of a TIG weld.

This last weekend I was working on a fabrication project for my wife.  She

wanted me to make a light weight exo-skeleton for an actor in a play she
is 
involved in.  Basically a framework for a set of angle wings.  She is the 
costumer for the play so she will be doing the fabric and feathers over
the 
whole thing.

Anyway I immediately thought of aluminum.  I made a back piece shaped to
fit 
the actor's back by clamping it to my table saw and pounding it with a 
hammer.  That part worked out pretty good.

Then the for the actual wings I cut some 2 inch wide pieces 1/8" (0.125) 
5052 and designed a pivot point.  All pretty simple stuff.  I decided for
a 
little rigidity and stability without adding a lot of weight to weld a
piece 
of 3/8" (0.375) 5052 round rod to the edge of the long sheet pieces.  It 
worked pretty good for its intended purpose.

Now to the point of my post.  I tacked and the welded.  My welds looked a 
lot like the welds in that picture.  What did I do right or wrong?   I'm
not 
going to post a picture, because there are places where it does not look 
good where I had to go back over skip holes where I went to fast, and not 
all of the weld looks like that ridged stack of coins, but the vast
majority 
does look like that.  I looked at the other side, and I got pretty good 
penetration so I don't think I was cold welding or running under powered. 
I 
was running the wire quite a bit faster than Miller recommends, but I have

found that almost universally their guide line table puts the power right
on 
and the wire speed to slow on everything I have tried with aluminum.
 




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Not Gonna Show You the Pictures
"Bob La Londe"   2008-10-08 09:57:37 
Re: Not Gonna Show You the Pictures
Jim Wilkins <KB1DAL@[E  2008-10-08 16:56:32 
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"SteveB" <to  2008-10-08 21:11:43 
Re: Not Gonna Show You the Pictures
"Bob La Londe"   2008-10-08 21:01:33 
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Peter Fairbrother <zen  2008-10-09 11:08:24 
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"SteveB" <to  2008-10-09 09:04:58 
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"Bob La Londe"   2008-10-09 11:16:46 
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"Pete C." <a  2008-10-09 20:16:41 
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Gunner <gunner@[EMAIL   2008-10-10 08:51:40 
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"SteveB" <to  2008-10-09 21:24:28 
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Ernie Leimkuhler <erni  2008-10-09 20:56:42 
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steamer <steamer@[EMAI  2008-10-10 16:11:02 
Re: Not Gonna Show You the Pictures
Ernie Leimkuhler <erni  2008-10-11 00:47:25 
Re: Not Gonna Show You the Pictures
"Denis G." <  2008-10-10 22:44:19 

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