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Equipment
  • Leather welding gloves
  • Welding hood
  • Safety glasses
  • Weld Jacket
  • Weld machine and needed consumables (I.E. gas, electrodes, tungsten, wire, etc.)
  • You will also need clamps to hold your work together
  • A welding cap is recommended, along with leg protection.
  • Steel toed boots

STEPS
  1. Before you start welding on a project, always be sure you are confident enough to do the job. Otherwise quit and go get some real weapons
  2. Prepare the metal before you weld. Make sure that there is no rust, oxidation, or any other foreign substance on the surface of the metal. You can get rid of this by always grinding the metal before hand. Depending on the process, you should prepare the metal differently, and you should almost ALWAYS learn on steel. For stick welding, 3/16" to 1/4" inch (4 - 6 mm) thick steel is best. Oxyacetylene welding should be practiced on very clean steel, about 1/8" (3 mm) thick. There are hundreds of other processes, but if you are doing any other than those, you probably know quite a bit about welding.
  3. Make sure you have jeans, steel or hard toe boots/work shoes, Z87 safety glasses, and a proper welding hood with a #10 or greater lens before you weld. For gas welding, use goggles with a #5 shade.
  4. Make sure the welding apparatus is set correctly. You will need to make adjustments depending on how thick the metal is, electrode/tip size, etc.
  5. Understand that when welding, things that will affect the weld are:
    • How fast you are going
    • The angle of your torch/gun/stinger
    • The settings on the welder
    • The position of metal when you are welding it (Flat, Horizontal, Vertical, and Overhead.)
  6. Be sure that the puddle is on both sides of the metal. While this seems obvious, sometimes it is not until after you have welded that you realize you only welded on one side of the metal.
  7. Listen! (especially with MIG welders) The sound of the weld is a great clue as to how your weld is turning out. The sound for a correct setup (amperage, arc length, and travel speed) is similar to the sound of bacon cooking.

Other things to know


  • Find a book about welding to teach yourself more. There are plenty of aspects of welding that you need to know before you pick up a welding machine.
  • A good welder has years of experience behind him. If this is your first time, don't be ashamed if your welds turn out horrible. Find an experienced welder, make friends, watch and learn. You will learn a lot of things that the books may not teach you
  • Find some scrap metal of a similar thickness to the metal you want to weld. Practice with it, and play with the settings.

WARNING
  • Welder machines can be dangerous. Read all warnings and take every measure to ensure the safety of you and those around you. Do not weld near something that can catch fire (don't weld up a fuel tank).
  • Do not look at the arc. The intense light will damage your eyes; "arc eye" is an extremely unpleasant malady. Even when you have a hood on, look directly in front of the arc.
  • Have someone around you to watch what you are doing, and to make sure you are being safe.
  • Keep a fire extinguisher handy, along with a bucket of water.
  • On inexpensive arc welders, you need to watch the duty cycle. That means welding for more than a specified time at a certain amperage will damage the equipment.
  • DO NOT wear tennis shoes, frayed clothes, or ones with cuffs.

Cheap alternative:
welders glue



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Forewarned76 Insta-forge (page: 1 2) 22 Dec 19 2010, 11:13 AM EST by trophykiller
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Anyone ever see the Episode of Justice League where Superman forges a sword using emergency flares?
Would that work?
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Miller38 That reminds me... 0 Sep 23 2009, 6:42 PM EDT by Miller38
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I have my electives for high school set up so that, after freshman year:I could frame a door, operate several saws, Weld together broken pieces of metal equipment (Large scale) and make foundred (Or however that is spelled) Tools and weapons.. Granted i had the right tools.. (And lotion, the molding sand hurts your hands bad)
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deathseekrakodo Note on grounding. 2 Aug 3 2009, 1:12 AM EDT by MitchellJohnston
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Believe me when I say this, if your work isn't properly grounded (electrical welding) and you become grounded and then start to weld and accidentally touch the work and ground it your going to get a very painful shock.
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