Official Fabrication & Welding Porn Photo Thread

[2002maniac]

maybe not porn worthy, but here's my first attempt at tigging aluminum. You can see where I dipped the tungsten. I cant believe how much tougher it is than stainless.

[GThomas]

I spent some time last night with that thread. Awestruck.

That car is going to be insane when completed. Can't wait to see the finished product.

[Farbin Kaiber]

I spent some time last night with that thread. Awestruck.

[GThomas]

Figured I'd share this build thread from SW. This guys work is so impressive.

http://www.stanceworks.com/forums/showthread.php?t=22294

[hcash]

^I wish SS would cooperate with me like that. Good wheat color. Aluminum is my jam though. I'll have to dig up some of my work from back when I was in school...

[TurboJake]

Far from welding porn. But first time playing around on a tig at school. Top SS, bottom aluminum. No filler on the SS.

Fun, but demanding. Nerve damage makes this especially tough for me. But what the fuck ever, If I need to do it. I'll get it done.

[mkodama]

And something that I'm currently learning that leaves really pretty results is CNC machining.

Hopefully I will be good enough to do stuff like this in the future:

[mkodama]

Some personal stuff

A few little bits and pieces from a past combat robot, whole lot of manual machining on this expensive chunk of chromoly:





Another robot piece, I welded some titanium scraps together to make some protection for a delicate(and mildly explosive) lithium polymer battery:


Little bit of my TIG welding from 2 years ago when I was still kinda new at it:



A very small linkage for a miata headlight I made for a friend:

[FLG]

Frame connectors on my charger (they need to go through the rear floor in order to meet up with the front subframe correctly, not my work though i wish i had the skills)

















Pair of manifolds another forum member is working on for his 69 charger twin turbo build

More pics can be seen here

http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,73346.0.html

[mkodama]

Very good welding and fabrication posted in this thread.

Making a lot of that stuff is not easy and requires a lot of patience.

[AndrewBird]

Yikes, that sucks haha. What's the part for?

It's a part for one of these:

http://www.accu-tapper.com/

The company I work for makes them.

[noid]

[Nsquared97]

Yikes, that sucks haha. What's the part for?

[AndrewBird]

Thought I would bump this with a part I am making at work right now:



This one was out of tolerance so it was scrapped. The diameter of the smaller end is 0.0002" too small.

[Keith M]

Look around for a used one. I bought my first mig about 12 years ago for $200. As a bonus it came with a new spool of wire and a bottle. Still have it and use it regularly.
My next one was a Miller Dynasty which cost a whole bunch more.