2010 BDW Thread

I can't really post pics of the stuff I do at work...but here is a practice piece I did when I was stressed out last night.


How I relax :lol:






 
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/browndogwelding/5062193549/" title="Lugnut and Sparkplug Dog by Brown Dog Welding, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4149/5062193549_42694120e7.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="Lugnut and Sparkplug Dog" /></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/browndogwelding/5062192671/" title="Lugnut and Sparkplug Dog by Brown Dog Welding, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4091/5062192671_399e36b69b.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="Lugnut and Sparkplug Dog" /></a>

You can adopt these mutts here: http://www.etsy.com/shop/BrownDogWelding?section_id=5485361
 
I did a bike last week, but it's a commissioned X-mas gift so I can't show it off for a while.

some random welds I've messed around with recently(these 1st 2 look cool viewed big, check them out here):

http://www.flickr.com/photos/browndogwelding/5170390430/sizes/l/in/photostream/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/browndogwelding/5167287957/sizes/l/in/photostream/


<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/browndogwelding/5169533701/" title="Ever seen an Iron Cross like this? by Brown Dog Welding, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1241/5169533701_524c6795f2.jpg" width="374" height="500" alt="Ever seen an Iron Cross like this?" /></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/browndogwelding/5145067675/" title="No catchy tag, just tig welds. by Brown Dog Welding, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1233/5145067675_33e3b8bd8f.jpg" width="500" height="299" alt="No catchy tag, just tig welds." /></a>
 
I'm at MCC to get some more certs. They've always got a bunch of projects going on :lol:

Here I did some build up on a bulldozer wheel. It was worn in the middle on both sides where the track rides. I took two 1/8" rods, put them together, and did a weave with the tig torch.







some aluminum







Trying to get back in the groove of arc welding, just running some horizontal stringers here:

 
Welding class ended up being a cluster@#$@. BS politics and mis-communication between the school,union, and company and of course the worker gets caught in the middle. Ended up doing spray transfer pulse welding in a matter of days as opposed to weeks. It was a process completely new to me, and I'm still not a fan. We did Vertical and Overhead, 1" armor K plate, checked by X-Ray to military standards. Everyone I did passed, so I was happy. Setting the machines was such a pain, everything was so finicky. Sometimes it ran great, other times you couldn't run 2" without problems. But at least I know that even with everything running like crap I can still make a weld that passes.

No pics of that, but I when I found out they passed I decided to do the same plate with stick. I used this bad ass old Lincoln SA400



It's so freaking smooth. I did a 1" thick plate with a K joint using 5/32" 8018 electrodes. It's hard to see in the pic, but the root pass came through the back side really nicely. I need to get a bigger shop so I can start collecting some of these machines :D

The back of the root:





front finished





back finished

 
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