Howdy peoples, I got a Miller 200DX tig and have been tigging a total of about 12 hours

Stainless is pretty easy to tig, my welds could be better but hey that's what practice is for.


Looking at the welds the tubes that go from the left to the right side of the car the Horizontals look way better then the vertical pieces that come from the bumper support up to the shock towers.. I had to fill a larger gap and it didn't work out as well as I had hoped, I don't really have the proper tools to make nice joints to curved surfaces again I need more practice..

However a harbor freight $30 metal saw with 6 inch blades are great, same as an air grinder with a carbide bit.. that's FTW there. I'm planning on getting the Pipemasters 1 and 1.25 inch contour tracer thing


Ignore the "ford" crap in the background.



Anywho, I plan on making more of this stuff cause I have a lot of that tube, sooner or later the welds will look nice and I wont have to "attempt" to polish them up with an abrasive wheel.

Things I need to learn
Figuring out how to make a longer weld without stopping and starting constantly I can go about an 3/4ths of an inch on that tube before I have to reposition myself... not sure anyway around this.

Need a better setup for holding things while I work

A nice flat piece of stainless tabletop for not having to worry where my stupid ground cable is clipped on

I'm very tempted to head over to harbor freight and pick up some of the C clamps/Vice grips for welding and making a jig grabbing a couple of them and welding them together for a 3rd and 4th and 5th set of hands on some of these things I plan on making.

improve cuts so when joined I don't need to use a lot of filler wire.. on another note have any of you for instance made a butt joint on 2 pieces of metal and not used tig rod?


--Aaron

And then the images

 

wow. nice.

 

Looks functional. Nothing beats the fact that you can now make your own chassis bars. Interested in what else you can make in terms of braces.