I've always been an admirer of this section but have never posted any pictures. Here are some pics of work I did today. A simple manifold for a B18 bottom mount T3

 

some more

 

Here's one of a top mount twin scroll for a DC2 who is a forum member here

 

nice work .

 

nice. where did you get the tags?

 

Looks like it will work great. Are you dabbed 3/32 filler? It not really the prefered method to weld stainless in my opinion. Keeping the filler in the puddle at all times is just another way to make a cleaner weld and keep the possiblity of contaminates getting into you puddle via the end of your filler. It looks from your freehanding skills that you are talented enough to step it up a level and learn to walk the cup or freehand skid a weave for your cover passes. If you want I can try to explain both methods I mentioned. Both are valuable skills to learn. I THINK I can see where you purged the inside of one of the collectors on the twin scroll so I'll just assume you did.

Nice work.

 

I'd definitely like to know more about the techniques you mentioned. I feel like I've plateaued with my personal welding, and I'd like to step it up a bit.

thanks
Sky

 

Looks great, I don't know of too many of us Oregon guys doing this type of work. Keep it up man. I've been hearing good things about Forged Perf

 

I think it looks good. Smaller filler rod would help the look a bit, but solid fab work for sure.

 

there are plenty of places, just not in our neck of the woods, but believe me, there are more shops just in the salem/keizer area than you know of and there is a reason that we dont hear about them, haha.

 

We have a local company water jet them for us. Can you guess where I get my head flanges

 

Thanks a lot man. That's so good to hear. I think we have a well balanced team here at Forged and will continue to serve Oregon and Washington with the best service and parts we possibly can.

Yeah there aren't many people around doing this type of work but randomly fab guys will show up and have anice little chat with us.

 

Im the customer who is getting the top-mount built...........


HOLY ****! It looks hot man, way better than I was ever expecting.

John and the guys at Forged Performance are AWESOME in my book. They have some of the most prompt and straight-forward customer service around, period. I couldn't be happier with my purchase. People around VA are gonna **** themselves. Haha, thanks again man.

 

those tags would probably be cheaper if they were laser cut.

 

nice work..go ducks..

 

I just bought one of your top mounts a few weeks ago.

Manifold is solid.

 

hawt!

 

sweet job man! im about to start working on mine.

 

what area of Chester are you in? im from your area

 

lookin good.

 

Well walking the cup does take some practice so dont get discouraged if it seems alian as **** at first. This video shows the basic motion needed to advance your torch by rolling it from side to side. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_9uT7DcgS8 Some people hold the torch like this guy some hold it upside down and still other hold it like this guy but weld from the side. Each to their own I guess. The basic idea is very much like tipping a 50 gallon drum back 45 deg towards you and rolling it from side to side to move it forward.

Free hand weaving while skidding your cup on the pipe comes more into play when you dont have the room to walk the cup. You hold the same torch angle as you would while walking the cup (~45deg) and weave your torch over the wire. The trailing edge of your cup is always in contact with the pipe and it greatly increases your ability to be steady.

The numder one problem people have when they switch from dabbing filler to just weaving over it is the filler balling up and running away from them. It's frustrating as hell. You need to push your filler into the puddle aggressively to avoid this problem. If it ***** up push it harder or get bigger filler.

ps I I usually stick my tungsten out 1/2 a cup diameter to get the correct arc length and torch angle to walk the cup.

Its going to take some practice to get it down but its worth it in the long run.

If you get bored search youtude and google images/video for "tig welding walking the cup" and it will give you some good visual aids. I'm not that great at explaining things in words so I apologize if I just confused you.

 

nice work

 

sweet i found a video of freehand weaving.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXgBi...layer_embedded

 

That video doesn't get very good until about 3:12 where it zooms in to show what is actually going on there.

I might have to try out his method of adding filler. It looks tough but seems it could be very useful!

 

Thanks for the tips, I'll be trying this stuff over the next few days.