welding ideas

[moody]

i need welding project ideas

i love anything with a motor

any ideas?

PS - im a new welder and cant weld great yet
try to keep ir simple on the structure

thanks

[richard b]

Prerunner...............

[abooker]

Try welding up some adjustable welding clamps, the kind that hold two pipes together for welding. Even some fixed angle welding frames. ( like a right triangle ). Good practice and handy to have. A small welding table is handy to have as well.

[rfazio1951]

I've been dying to build a bar stool racer, but not with a stinking electric motor or single cylinder engine. I want a V8 powered bar stool. Even if it wasn't really ridable. It sure would look cool with straight headers like dragsters have, chromed. Maybe a big fat belt to drive the wheels directly from the crankshaft. You'd probably need wheelie bars too.

[monkey-1]

If your new to welding, I wouldnt feel comfortable riding anything I built until I trusted my welds. Instead, I would build something like some shelves, or a bookcase seeing how well I could keep it square. You would be suprised how difficult it is to build something and keep it square when you first start out. Its amazing how much a frame will draw when not properly clamped even if you cut out the pieces exactly the same lenght. Just my .02.

I built a barstool racer a while back and its amazing how much a 3HP briggs will motivate something so topheavy. I promise you, until you get used to riding anything, you will run out of huevos before you run out of throttle.

[ohmthis]

Try and get some scrap and practice. That alone could be called a project, plus it will give you more confidence. The better feel of your welds the more interested in a project you'll have. When you are ready, a gocart, barstool racer ( I'd love to see one that had an actual bar attached to it), a mini dragster looking cart, a tractor, Or did what I did and build a mini chopper from scratch. takes some time but GD is it fun.

Monkey,
How this for a sack? Home chopper + an eight HP Briggs + 50 MPH - brakes= one **** of a smell in the shorts when you finally stop. Yeh, Forgot to mention the Dumbass friend and the case of beer that he brought over. Freinds and beer can screw up any equation. I'll put some pictures up of the chopper when it gets finished being painted

[monkey-1]

Monkey,
How this for a sack? Home chopper + an eight HP Briggs + 50 MPH - brakes= one **** of a smell in the shorts when you finally stop. Yeh, Forgot to mention the Dumbass friend and the case of beer that he brought over. Freinds and beer can screw up any equation. I'll put some pictures up of the chopper when it gets finished being painted

I know what you mean. Thats how you know when to pay REAL close attention. When you hear this, "Hey, hold my beer and watch this!" Be sure to have a video camera ready.

[moody]

since angle iron is expensive around here

in driving around looking for old bed frames

a great source of angle iron as i am told

[RickSidebottom]

since angle iron is expensive around here

in driving around looking for old bed frames

a great source of angle iron as i am told

If you think angle is expensive, wait till you but some square tube.

1 1/2" sq x 1/8" 20 feet long $43.00 in Arkansas. That was delivered, same price if I picked it up though.

[Stimp]

since angle iron is expensive around here

in driving around looking for old bed frames

a great source of angle iron as i am told

Be careful using bed frames for anything that needs to be structuraly sound.
Most modern bed frames are made from junk steel and break quite easily.
You can however sometimes find OLD bed frames that are made with good steel if you look around. A simple cut will let you know what you have, the new junk metal ones will look sort of like glued together sand when they are cut or broken. Also when i say OLD I mean pre WWII this in itself makes it hard to find them due to the fact that so many good metal products of the period were used in the scrap drives that helped to aid the war effort.

[glockdoc]

unknown quality, med carbon, hardened steel. don't expect to easily dril holes in the stuff, seems to distort more than mild, and use 7018 rods or you will experience firsthand what underbead cracking is. But the price is right and I pick it up every chance I get.

[pj104]

You Could allways Build a REAL 2 person atv

Cheers