MOT Welding Repair on Dad's Jeep
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ส.ค. 2024
- Here's a little job I did for my dad fabricating & welding up a patch plate for his MOT retest in a few days.
I'm afraid I somehow cracked my spare (filming) phones lens, that's why there's the funky 'lens flare' around bright lights, pretty annoying, sorry! - บันเทิง
Nice little repair there 👍
Appreciate it... thank you for watching.
Ya did well plasma ing the rot out upside down on ya back and the welds look very good considering your position 👍
Thank you!
Nice
Thanks for watching.
Flux core wire is dead handy for these sort of jobs.
Interesting, cheers for the heads up... I'll have to try it, never bothered before as I couldn't be bothered with cleaning up the slag... only thought of using it on chassis thickness steel, but then I sometimes stick weld chassis stuff.
I did read up that flux core requires more amps for the same thickness steel, but my unit does 140amps, so no problems there, would save me lugging around a gas bottle, although I've acquired a short fat ally gas bottle, and only use CO2 as it welds just as good for thin sheet and costs waaay less!
@@jwweldfab I have a little Hitbox machine that I'd be lost without. Runs off 13amp - brilliant for mobile. Any old extension lead runs it off any house socket, even a 50m one. 0.8mm wire. I have all the big heavy 16amp ones too - but now I just grab the tiny Hitbox. I can plonk it on a roof/floor/boot & weld away.
Same with my little Static Arc 140A MIG Welder, run it on 0.6mm (as I'm mostly doing bodywork) wire and straight CO2 in a stumpy ally bottle.
I have an Andeli MIG 200A for the bigger stuff... unfortunately I don't have access to 16A, pretty much nobody has it residentially!
I used to have a Lincoln Speedtec 200C, which was £1250!... sold it for £900 when I found out it was actually a Bester with a Lincoln badge, the Andeli and especially the Static Arc weld far better and are way cheaper and, more importantly, lighter... 18Kg, 11Kg and 6Kg in order, much better when lugging around, or dragging in a trolley/sack truck for 1 person lifts in hotels!
I like the 5.1Kg weight, and short stumpy stance of the Hitbox HBM200 gasless unit, maybe try that next!... can't currently find a gas unit anywhere near as light as the Static Arc MIG 140A though.
Weight and size is generally my deciding factor in choosing my machines!
I have a cheapy Chinese stick welder that fits behind the back seat in my pickup, cost £35, weights like 1-2Kg max, little bit bigger than a motorcycle battery!... thought it would detonate after a few uses, but I bought it in lockdown and has lasted so far, made a bunch of money with it, even with stainless work!
Did you miss a bit of rot up the side?
Nah, does kinda look like it though with those big factory holes on the sides, amazed how rotten it is compared to a Cherokee