how do these welds look? im going to have a manifold made, and this is some of the welds of the person doing it. please, experianced people who know what they are talking about only. thanks.


also, the material scd 40 ss. quality stuff? im not even a welding noob..i have no idea AT ALL about it, so please bare with me.




Modified by SSBPGSR at 10:28 PM 9/28/2004

 

Well it depends how picky you want. I could say there's too much heat at the right end, pretty obvious that. Kinda odd, usually poeple's welds get wider as they go along because they forget to let off the pedal as the metal heats up. His get narrower. OTOH it's not great but not terrible. Looks like a beginning welder... is he? Not dissing him... it's how my welds look...

Commenting on someone elses welds is like asking how someone's driving is. It's very subjective and easy to criticize yet most people still get to where they're going...

 

he has taken classes, and he is making a few manis before mine. so his work can only get better.

 

looks fine, but if you are testing him to see how good he welds then make him weld a piece of tubing!

 

Looks really hot and very rushed

 

he's also a good business man.. trust me i know from experience... very good customer service good guy.

 

would this guy be "anthonycn" here on h-t?

 

hahah i just saw this and somethign else n questioned if it was him cuz he talks to me all the time.


i guess itll suck when he takes my business away from me but whichever. ill just have to keep 1 step ahead of the game !

 

Thanks for all those answers to my question Phill. You'll never be ahead of me. lol

 

your welding sucks !! you 1st stage beginner youll never catch up !!! ..heheh jk .. goodluck dude. any questions just ask.

 

i'm not a welder, but that looks like great ametur welding to me...

 

AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH I WANT MY MANIFOLD NOW!!!!!! its gunna be so hott. so far anthony has been a GREAT business man, answers all my questions, and doesnt make me feel dumb when i ask them bc im a noob. he sent me pics of the piping, i havent seen an *** that thick since i watched petey pablos music videos. ANYWAY, i cant wait and i hope the mani is as good as his services. to anthony

 

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I'd say it looks a little bit too hot and very rushed
If it was very hot it would look like a grey blob of goo. That isn't that bad. I've seen/done worse

You can see the weld on the other side isn't even. he starts out hot, then goes cold, then hot again, levels off, then hot again at the end (right to left). Lets hope he backpurges your manifold with hot welding like that

 

Yes in the begining i was runnin alil to hot. The bead was fat on the begining cuz there was a gap in between the piece. You c around half way my welds god better as I corrected the heat. Look at the color. Mostly gold all the way thru. For stainless gold is the optimum color. This is my first bead ever on ss. May not look all that pretty but sure meets AWS codes.

 

is that gas welding..

 

looks great to me

 

they look alright but not something i would pay for, it would be alright if it was a friend doing it for you not trying to get down on it but i wouldnt pay for that. Why are u using such heavy pipe for, ss is a strong metal dont need to b that thick.

 

so your saying thin material, like an ssautochrome mani, would be better than what he is using for my mani? the welds "look" good on the ssautochrome manis, but there crappy quality..im not sure what ur trying to say. i would think thicker, and stronger material would=a stronger, less likely to crack manifold..i wonder what your manifold looks like??

 

backyard do u even know what u are talkn about?? If u dont know about weldn i suggest u shouldnt leave a comment like that. Even full Race uses this exact material and guage for their tubular manifolds.

 

looks great to me

 

It doesn't look that bad, but the guy needs a lot of practice. And welding pipe is A LOT different than welding a flat piece of stainless.

Good luck!

 

Yes actually I do I tig weld for a living and been doing for 5 plus years and I recently just built a mani for my race car and to add to it i built the cage thats in it and tig welded all of it and my mani is made out of 12gauge stainless tubingso if you have any questions just ask....

 

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I turned blue reading this... Use some periods instead of "and"!

 

then why dont u ask full race, lovefab, and other fabricators why they use that guage? instead of giving positive feedback u talk ****, why dont u give advice then, since u are soooo good. lol, fuckn h-t bunch a haters.

 

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and not enough filler.

tell him to practice more , alot more.