Slam Specialty(UPDATE: 7-21-08)

the trucks lookin real good. itll be cool to see it up at the visions show. so are you holdin the afterparty since youre a local.

I wish I could, haha. Don't have my own house yet to trash..

Well, I made a battery tray and got half of it welded on and THEN I run out of WIRE!

I'm sad... hopefully I can bum a ride to go get some tonight.

I dunno how I ran out of a 25lb. spool so fast!

lol welding is expensive. i went through like 50 in gas and tungsten was 5 dollars for a 6 inch stick and then about 20 dollars in filler rod to do my frame. tig welded though.





-justin

tools of the trade

Well, I got my battery tray welded in, just need to do the hold down and I'll be good on that part.

I was wondering, do I need a battery isolator or can I just run the two in a series?

I've been getting the frame ready for paint, and I'm also on the process of thinking up the shock mount. Valves will be in the way if I do it one way, but then I also might have a space issue with the water seperators, lol.

Hey, dropped, when do you have to use tungsten in comparison to filler rod? Are they not for the same purpose?

Updates with picture tomorrow! I promise!

Tungsten and filler rod are two different things technically..

To put it in lamen terms...the tungsten is kind of like the wire on a MIG welder...

Filler rod is usually some sort of copper wire, used to bridge or weld two pieces together...

Depending what you are welding the material may be there to use, if not you need filler rod...

Hope this makes sense, tried to make it super easy to understand

instead of pulling a trigger and wire coming out being the filler and creating the arc by short circuit at the same time, the arc between the tungsten and the piece is created over an air gap when the pedal (there's a footpedal involved) is depressed, the filler rod is inserted by hand, not fed like MIG

Ehhmm, so lets see, the tungsten rod is in the tip of the gun on the TIG welder and the filler rod is that rod they have on the other hand, right?

Right! Its a torch rather than a gun though!

Basically TIG generates heat via an arc of electricity jumping from a (tungsten metal) electrode to the metal surfaces you intend to weld - usually aluminum or steel.

TIG stands for Tungsten Inert Gas, after the tungsten electrode, and the sheath of inert gas (argon or an argon mixture) surrounding it.

The pedal controls the heat, its like a gas pedal. Pressing down equals more, letting up equals less