Welding for fun

It's been a decade since I sold my stick welder. I just bought a little wire feed welder to make novel things. My friend David came over to help me dial it in and we made the little weiner dog, just working in the car port.


So today I went to work on building a welding table.

I thing I will widen the casters out the sides a little to give it more stability.

Another picture. Hit two Goodwill stores to buy golf clubs, the SS Thermos bottle and bowls. Left hand clubs are harder to find.

Lew L said:

@Snoking1127, What wire feed setup did you get????

Since retiring, I don't have the full shop like I did at Galena High School. All I have now is a Miller 100, which I got for free.

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Simder Mig-140PRO 5-in-1 on Amazona. I have a gas bottle on order along with pressure gauge. Welder is going to be on a shelf under the table, I am hoping the gas bottle will go there also.

I have decide to build turn down feet outboard of the narrow side on each end of the cart/table. One inch square tube across the ends. Drill a hole on each end, weld a nut there for a piece on all thread, with the golf club grip ends left over from the weiner dog as the turn down handle. Will rig up something for a foot on the lower ends.

So I can roll the table out of the mancave to the car port, turn down the four "feet" to keep it from moving around.

In 1981 we bought a new construction home that had an arched fireplace in the living room. Before the first fire, I had DW get in the fireplace while I held a piece on cardboard up to the opening, and she traced the opening on her side of the cardboard with a sharpie.

I bough two lengths of 2x2" angle iron and took that cardboard and angle irons to a shop that rolled them one flange out, one flange in to the pattern we made.

I then signed up for a welding class at a local junior college. The first thing the instructor said at the welding class was no projects. At the end of the first day he said to me, you do not really want to be a welder, however you are doing very well. I explained to him the project I was working on for my wife Christmas present, and he said go ahead and bring it in. I made the whole thing up as a single unit. The two doors, sliding damper on the bottom hinges etc. Ordered the glass and fitted it. And the final step was to cut the two doors apart. It fit perfectly and was made with heavier gauge steel than the one you could buy.

In 2003 or so, I bought a junk yard frame mounted hitch and rebuilt it to be a from receiver for my pickup with a commercial stick welder I had picked up from a buddy closing down a family business.

So there are some big gaps in my welding "career"!

I am down to attaching the steel plate to the frame and putting a floor in the base for the welder to sit on. Outriggers installed today.

When the gas bottle arrives, I will have to make a holder for it.

I think I am going to drill through the plate and tap threads into the angle iron top frame rails, and counter sink 4 screws to hold the steel plate in place.

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Pressure gauge just arrived.