Down under, an idiot and a 400F

[neevo]

Continuing with the theme of aiming waaaaaaay above my skill level. Thinking of building of of these puppies:



Killer video here too:

[Hoosier Daddy]

Get some argon, and your scrap pieces of metal and practice, practice, practice.
I can tell you there's a big difference from watching someone TIG and actual hands-on. Damn guys make it look so easy! My first time I practiced on sheet aluminum two different days until it seemed like I was doing good, then when I turned to the actual seat I was building it looked like a duck shit all over the seams!
 

[neevo]

That's the plan. Not saying its going to work but you can always dream.

Will be putting my head down for the next few months learning to lay beads and controlling the torch.

Maybe when I'm feeling confident I will buy some scrap SS sheet and try a muffler.

[neevo]

So serious about practicing I bought 5kg of filler rod!!

[ducatiboy]

Killer video here too:

Aaaaahhh!!! So THAT"S how you make an exhaust pipe!! I might go out to the shed and knock one up this afternoon.

Awesome video Neevo and good luck with your TIG welding. When you've got your pipe perfected let me know and you can come and do mine

BTW I'm headed to Deus for a coffee in the next half hour or so. If any DTTers are going to be there let me know!

[neevo]

Awesome video Neevo and good luck with your TIG welding. When you've got your pipe perfected let me know and you can come and do mine

No probs! Give me half a day learning how to do it and I should be ready to rock out perfect pipes

[neevo]

Update on the welding situation. Managed to convince the accountant to let me get the welder today as next week we are having the floors in our house sanded and it would mean I couldn't play with it after payday.

Bit of a run around this morning picking up bits (stool from charity shop, argon bottle from my buddy Yuha, 15A socket from the hardware store) and by about midday I was set to melt metal:



Struggled early on with results like these:





Bit of a sushi refuel at about 1 and I made a few changes post fish. Turns out the #6 cup I was using was not sitting straight on the torch so I swapped it for the 5, also worked out I had miscalculated the argon flow so dialed that back a bit too. Results were much better:





Lastly replaced the sanding disc in my grinder to get cleaner material, made a big difference as the puddle was much easier to get and maintain resulting in cleaner welds:



Lastly decided to put my new skills to use and built a tig torch holder. The welds are shitty but it works a treat:

[andycafe]

Nice man! practice and knowledge makes perfect  your still ahead of me 

[neevo]

Nice man! practice and knowledge makes perfect  your still ahead of me 

Nope. Level playing field. Your garage is a massive points score in Cafe Racer top trumps, mines shit!

[neevo]

Practiced my welding today by building a template for the swingarm brace:







The idea was to create a template for the tube bender to copy, however I have been shown a couple of RDLC swingarms on eBay which might be purchased instead.

Still... got to practice welding tube.

[ducatiboy]

Woohoo!! Outstanding Neevo!

Don't buy a 2nd piece of junk (ie the RD swingarm) when you can make your very own. Go buy one if yours doesn't work out.

[andycafe]

Nice one man! 

[neevo]

Woohoo!! Outstanding Neevo!

Don't buy a 2nd piece of junk (ie the RD swingarm) when you can make your very own. Go buy one if yours doesn't work out.

Trouble is it's going to cost me $100 or so to have the brace bent properly out of 1 piece. The RDLC swingarm could be had for about the same and it's ready to use and already engineered for a monoshock.

Decisions, decisions.

[crazypj]

Plus, you'll have to buy material to make a jig to hold everything in line.
If you were going into production it would be worthwhile but modifying RD 350 would be quicker and easier

[Kanticoy]

Plus, you'll have to buy material to make a jig to hold everything in line.
If you were going into production it would be worthwhile but modifying RD 350 would be quicker and easier

+1 to that considering...

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