Harold of the Rocks

good luck! (I voted days ago)

Hope you manage to make it out here for Camp UJ on memorial day weekend :gee:

edit: first one I went to, Bump showed up and wheeled for the first time in forever, Nick destroyed his bronco 2 when wheeling it for the first time in forever, and I went home on a flatbed after wheeling it for the first time since it was stock. Everyone else made out pretty well. It's a blast every time.
 
so I only have a roset or two left on the driver side. I was getting pretty frustrated welding I thought I was doing terrible. but I think I was just hitting the duty cycle. I would be welding fine pretty nice beads for me at least. and then all of a sudden it was like the wire speed was way too high. does that sound like I was dutying it out?

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so I started grinding down rosets every time that started to happen and it would work nice again for a bit.

also I pulled off my bumper, steering box, and rustys brace.

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also I have an I beam that's about 8" tall with the vertical part being 1/4 thick and the top and bottom being 3/8 thick. if I cut off half of it to make it like C channel do those thickness's sound strong enough?
 
chedisme said:
so I only have a roset or two left on the driver side. I was getting pretty frustrated welding I thought I was doing terrible. but I think I was just hitting the duty cycle. I would be welding fine pretty nice beads for me at least. and then all of a sudden it was like the wire speed was way too high. does that sound like I was dutying it out?
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Sounds to me like you have a worn feed roller, wrong tension, or bad slimy wire. Did you buy good wire or just the junk from HomeCheapo (never had good luck with that stuff). Do you you run any sort of cleaner pad?
I have had better luck running a cleaner pad (goes on the wire just before the rollers) with so-so wire. Yet switching to good, quality, layered wound wire made all the difference.
Hitting the duty cycle would make the machine stop.
 
Im not an expert but, I have had good luck with lincon wire.

I buy it at the welding supply store though.
 
I thought i cleaned them pretty well. Well see when i do the pass side. Cause im not going to prime the rail before i weld the stiff on.

What do you guys think of the ibeam idea i posted before? I know alot of people use box tube. But if i can save some money and use the ibeam modified to C channel id like to.
 
If you have your welder where it's dusty as shit every now and then you have to blow out the liner or what you're describing happens, to me at least. Cut the wire inside the welder, pull it out from the tip and stick a blow gun in the liner and blow it out. Feed the wire back in, try it out then. I usually leave a paper towel clipped to my wire in the welder before the rollers. It glides on the wire and cleans it as you weld, keeps dust out. I also throw those little white packets that you get in shoe boxes or whatever to keep moisture out. I've never had a problem with worn rollers, yet.
 
cmelo said:
If you have your welder where it's dusty as shit every now and then you have to blow out the liner or what you're describing happens, to me at least. Cut the wire inside the welder, pull it out from the tip and stick a blow gun in the liner and blow it out. Feed the wire back in, try it out then. I usually leave a paper towel clipped to my wire in the welder before the rollers. It glides on the wire and cleans it as you weld, keeps dust out. I also throw those little white packets that you get in shoe boxes or whatever to keep moisture out. I've never had a problem with worn rollers, yet.
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Look at you. Im sure thats what it is. Its really dusty in my tent with all the grinding. And the moisture lever might be abit high too.
 
chedisme said:
Look at you. Im sure thats what it is. Its really dusty in my tent with all the grinding. And the moisture lever might be abit high too.
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Now go weld a bunch of I beams all over your jeep :thumbup:
 
My crummy little welder doesn't have a duty cycle indicator unless you count blowing ugly spatter everywhere as soon as it starts overheating.

I have good luck with Lincoln home depot wire too, in fact for years that was all I used. Pretty sure I've got a roll of Lincoln from Aimtek in there now (probably the same shit.)

I've heard horror stories about HF wire though, I won't run it because of that plus I know the chinese are still pretty shit at metallurgy so it makes sense.
 
ok so Idk if any one saw but I got my taxes done and now(well will soon) have 1k to put toward jeep parts.

I priced out the steel I need

10' 2x2x3/16-52$
10' 2x6x3/16-113$
4' 2x6x1/4 -61$
4' 2x8x1/4- ? but im guessing between 70-80$

so thats around 300$ for all I need to do my bumper, X-member, and rockers.
I cant swing all that cash right now so Im just going to get the 10' 2x6x3/16 and
4' 2x6x1/4so I can do my Xmember and start the rockers.

I spent most of my day today shoveling all the snow out of my tent. and trying to melt / dry out the floor so Im not laying in water
 
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