Recent content by Don selleck

cool truck, my dad had the same truck when I was growing up but red. around 1977 to 1980, was rusted so bad (unlike yours) the old man put gate hinges on the hood and had a broom handle to prop the hood. must have followed behind a salt truck for its like before he got it. truck ran great...

welcome from grass lake.

removed the center crossmember today I assumed this would be under pressure like the front was it wanted to push in when I removed it. The brace I installed was under quite a bit of pressure. thinking that the center member which I removed today was causing the reverse tension by pulling it in...

thanks, bought it at bakers propane supply there kinda like the new welding supplier around here. went to the tried and true place not much of a selection, I was leaning towards a lincoln but 2 of my friends bought these, and I have to say it does work very well that tig torch gets hot as hell...

filled in the top with a small v shaped piece of steel to fill the void. cut some supports on the inner circle to beef it up a bit before I box in the inner side of the frame. Originally wanted to keep this look but not really confident of the strength of whats left after the half circles. This...

the welds seem to be penetrating well, got a few decent one's stacking up but the positioning is huge, I guess my grinder will remove any sins. the old metal to new is quite a challenge, while heating up the new thicker first then blending into the old. The tig is so hot I'm hesitant to weld too...

well been awhile 2 days after last post I closed on a small house in tecumseh mich. remodeled it and flipped it in 83 days. I got the monster welder it needed an invertor that costs 2400.00 so broke down and bought an esab 205i. Been practicing and seems to be a very nice welder it a tig mig and...

absolutely a friend of mine came over who welds for living did a couple test welds with that welder, I was gonna have him do the welding on those areas since my life depends on it basically and figured i could get some pointers. Well he said not use that welder he couldn't keep a good flo going...

well haven't got much done on the old truck picked up a welder from a friend of mine been practicing, this is a new animal to me have always used a mig welder, definately a learning curve , but Its nice thats for sure . got the crossmember cut (cut about 5/8" to nothing) and leveled it in for...

naps are good, just started practicing on those in the last couple years

thanks Sporty, i talked to a good friend of mine, he said i can borrow his so will be checking his out just gotta figure out the settings and materials, etc. youtube should be useful for that too.

well put abour 4 hrs into it today got further than planned. Will be cutting about 3/4" to nothing" angle out of the inside of the new crossmember to get it to level up to my ride stance

This welder is not going to be used commercially just looking for a good home shop, used occasionally.

I'm looking to spend some coin just don't wanna spend 5000k and find out the bitch has a dick.