Topic: Crawlerdan starts links!!

[crawlerdan]

ya, i was a fabricator for featherlite trailers, u haul tralers, and hassell fab for many years while working as a mechanic (i have a habit of keeping two jobs)


the biggest reason i dont want to use this welder for structural(im using it to tack stuff together now)
is when i did try to weld my coil mount togethr (1/4 plate)  i burned as hot as the welder could and they could be brocken apart with a small ball peen hammer, easily. so ill just wait. if i burn in a low penetration weld, and try to cover it with a high pen weld later, the high pen weld will still have an internal void where the 110 weld is/was, making it nearly as weak



heres the last thing i made as a pro welder

[TacoRunner]

Dan    Im sorry, but I have say that you were most likely not a very good welder back in high school, or your design was poor. I only say this because 80% of my truck has been built on 110V MIG welder. Most of the steel on a Toy like yours and mine are no thicker than 1/8" which is what those welders are rated for. If you've been welding for 8 years, Im certain that you would have welds good enough to work they way you need them to.
Im not baggin on you,  Im just saying your are a better welder now than you were then, and the machines of today are better than they used tobe. In fact my entire front 3 link is done with a 110V.

Minit Truck frames and axles are all 1/8" thick.

[crawlerdan [OP]]

Dan    Im sorry, but I have say that you were most likely not a very good welder back in high school, or your design was poor. I only say this because 80% of my truck has been built on 110V MIG welder. Most of the steel on a Toy like yours and mine are no thicker than 1/8" which is what those welders are rated for. If you've been welding for 8 years, Im certain that you would have welds good enough to work they way you need them to.
Im not baggin on you,  Im just saying your are a better welder now than you were then, and the machines of today are better than they used tobe. In fact my entire front 3 link is done with a 110V.

Minit Truck frames and axles are all 1/8" thick.

well, i agree, however, i tried to weld all my balistic brackets together (1/4 plate)-and at the hottest setting, i could break the weld by hand-and soe with a small hammer- now i am a good welder-good enough to know that this is not normal or good-could be a faulty or poorly maintaned welder(its a freinds). but i do have 220v at the house so why not?

and in high school, it was the same thing, as hot as it would go, 1/4 plate welded to 1/8 toyota frame, weld broke off, not the frame, the weld literally came off due to poor penetration.

anywho- if i can get a 110v that im comfortable with, ill use it, but if not, its 22ov. either way everything is on hold again cause were having a baby on tuesday

[Duffil]

are you using gas or flux-core wire, and is the polarity set correctly?

[crawlerdan [OP]]

i am now selling all my 4 link stuff

i have coil mounts upper and lower from balistic fab
panhard mounts upper and lower from balistic fab
link brackets from balistic fab
aerostar 4wd coils, uncut
panhard bar-un welded, so you can use it at your lengths
set of lower links with balisstic mounts at one end, and rubicon express zj joints at the other
and ill throw in random other stuff as well

asking 350.00 plus shipping for everything i got- ive got over 500 in parts so far

[yota_krawler]

change your mind?

[crawlerdan [OP]]

change your mind?

no. i desperately need the money, right now i would rather have the truck mobile then linked and un-mobile. i got fenders and a hood to buy

[yota_krawler]

oh

[CTENG in KS]

How are those aerostars compared to the XJ's I got from you?  I got a LOT of lift from those XJ's, I might need a shorter/softer spring back there.

[crawlerdan [OP]]

they are infinately softer man, and they are easily cut to fit since they are wider and flatter

i would recomend them , cheap at a scrap yard

[*** YELLER ***]

i got fenders and a hood to buy

Dan

Did I miss something  what happened to yer Runner that you need these parts and yer Links are on hold 



 

[crawlerdan [OP]]

Dan

Did I miss something  what happened to yer Runner that you need these parts and yer Links are on hold 



 

totalled. hit a tree, pass headlight became intimate with the firewall

[*** YELLER ***]

Glad you rok buddy

:worthlesswithoutpictures:

[crawlerdan [OP]]

Glad you rok buddy

:worthlesswithoutpictures:

there will be pics when i begin repairs. i dont even want to see it now