/diy/ - Do It Yourself

have you ever made a metal fingerbox?

>>1022
if by this you mean 'vagina', because that's the only kind of box i can think of where a man is likely to unquestioningly stick his finger:

i prefer not to answer that question. let's just say i have some scars on my dick, and leave it at that, shall we?

anyway so i guess if anyone cares about making things out of metal i will be around in this thread for a while

What sort of useful stuff could someone with very little experience make with metal?

No troll, just curious

welding with a car battery and coathangers: disaster waiting to happen, or fairly reliable method of gluing steel?

Easiest way to learn how to weld?

>>1518
Honestly, this is a hard question to answer simply because so many things are made out of metal that it's hard to really think about them in a sense like that. Basically, think of any object you use on a daily basis, and then imagine what it would be like if it were twenty times stronger.

Aside from that, though, ideas will just sort of occur to you when you have the capability to make them into reality. I've made swords, statues, bicycle trailers, hand trucks, boats and plenty of other things over the while just because I wanted to have 'em and didn't want to buy 'em from a store. You start out making little crafty artsy stuff, and then when your skill grows you eventually break out of the box and move on to more things.

Either that, or you get a job welding for cash and become so goddamn tired of it that your creative spark dies forever (kidding (mostly)).

>>1548
That would really depend a hell of a lot on what you're welding. If it breaks catastrophically with no provocation whatsoever, will anything of value be lost? If so, nop. Molten steel reacts with atmospheric oxygen to create horrific Swiss cheese nonsense if it's not separated from said oxygen by a shielding gas. The reason stick electrodes (real ones, not ghetto ass balls coat hangers) are coated with flux is so that when the steel melts, the flux evaporates and the gases shield the steel from oxygen while it cools. So with a coat hanger i.e. no flux: hope you like Swiss cheese! Of course, in TIG and oxyacetylene welding, where a filler rod is manually provided, and the shielding is independent of flux, you can use coat hangers to your heart's content, but if you've got enough $$$ for a TIG setup why bother being cheap with filler rod?

>>1565
Welp. It really depends on what kind of knowledge you're looking for - are you going to make sculpture? Are you going to make a trailer for your boat? Are you going to put armor plate onto Humvees? If you're going to weld as a trade, it'll behoove you to take a formal class and get some sort of credentials. But if you're going to do things on your own time, with your own rules, it's entirely possible to buy a welder and get striking. But a lot of that, too, depends on your situation - is it going to be a two-week passing interest, or is it going to be a lifelong hobby? You would need to decide what kind of quality machine you want to get based on how much use you're going to get out of it.

Are you into 4wheeling at all? Do any suspension work? I plan on doing a SAS soon.

What do you weld at work?

>>2109
Heh. I've never had enough money to really fuck around with anything besides the dong in my pocket. I'd like to get something like that, if only to rent it and see what it was like, but I'm without a drivers' license (and therefore a job) for the next few months due to various "I drive really fucking fast"-related issues. When I was mobile, though, I did a lot of things - people need things welded a lot more than you'd expect. Little things, medium-sized things, a few big things. Not much money, but it was fun. For a bit I was fitting and welding and fabricating all kinds of crazy nonsense from 1/16" to 1/2" plate, and that was pretty fun too. But right now I'm just kind of bopping around waiting for things to happen the way I want them too. Which is mostly why I'm on 4chan :-)

Can you please explain how one would go about applying a tungsten carbine deposit to a knife blade?

>>996
Dat

TIG(?)

>>1548
>>1548
Basically the best way to do this is wiring 3 drycell batteries up in series then using long jumper cables. I would also recommend putting something like a blanket or whatever over the batteries even though they are dry cell things can still go awry. Also make sure they are batteries you don't need

>>2250
>TIG(?)
>(?)

If he did that MIG welding he is Jesus

dynasty 300dx, use 100%/ green stripe

u mad?

http://aaawelder.com/
opinions?

>>2320
Was the Mini-14 vs AR argument at /k/ getting boring?

6011 or 6013?

>>2413
how the hell is that even an argument?

hi /diy/

my internet is pretty unpredictable

i was about to reply to your posts last night and then it was all like PLONK and stopped working

fuck yeah retyping eight paragraph posts D:

>>996

what's the deal with aluminum requiring god like wielding skills to work with?

What do you usually do to get steel clean? Where I work, we use of 1x1 or 1x2 boxtube, which ships oiled, and we use it in small enough quantity that we end up cleaning it by hand, which sucks. Is there an automated way to do that?

>>5250

Unfortunately, no, none that o have ever heard of. I usually use Acetone to clean my metals

>>4974

Actually it doesn't. Most people just think it does because they get so comfortable with steel. What schools need to teach is aluminum welding first then jump into steel. Once you learn aluminum steel and stainless steel become mind numbingly boring.