Hardest welding job

**Gadget** · 03-05-2010, 03:49 PM

Originally Posted by bigred8033

sorry about the big pics they didnt resize right

I fixed it.

**Hamstn** · 03-06-2010, 07:52 AM

Got to say I am impressed also. Looks like a lot of fun as long as you stay dry. It should also do a better job of cooling then that little pedestal fan standing in your garage.

**tomsign** · 04-01-2010, 07:25 PM

400 and something Terrace Railings with no warpage (or they got rejected)
For an Apartment Complex. set up in a C shape 5' x 10" x 5'
1 guy did 5-10 sections and I got stuck with the rest

**Freddytk421** · 04-11-2010, 04:29 PM

The hardest thing I ever welded was some pipe in school. 6010 root and 7018 filler uphill. We could not move it and it took me forever to learn how to do it so the welds didn't stick up too much on the cap. I don't plan on ever doing that again. I'm sticking with art that way I can cover the weld with bondo if it's too ugly. LOL

**poodle** · 07-12-2010, 10:19 PM

Hardest thing I ever attempted to weld was an old castiron pot. Spent a week on that thing, made countless phone calls to every old welder I could think of. Pre-heating, peening, v-ing, nickel, stainless, brazing with brass, 7018, hours wrapped in heavy asbestos blankets sitting on stove cooling down. It could set there for 8or 10 hours then pop like a rifle going off. Never did get that thing fixed. Had a guy come in that had one just like it that said he would swap with the guy cause all he used it for was a planter. Easiest fix of all.

**22lambo** · 07-13-2010, 01:57 AM

Well everything I have tried so far is pretty much for the first time for me so it's all hard but the hardest I would have to say is welding some frame rails upside down

**22lambo** · 07-19-2010, 02:34 AM

Actually, I think welding up all the cracks in a fender was very tricky. Both were different and challenging.

**SICFabrications** · 07-30-2010, 01:30 AM

on the front page of my website SIC Fabrications - Home there is a picture of a double iron door done ornamental style.... customer spec'd using 1 inch square stock... i had to build a forge then heat each peice and bend them by hand with a hammer and anvil. that build only took me 2 months for completion. i made my money back, but sheesh! it wasnt hard to weld, just hard to layout, get the scrolls right and pick the dang thing up.

upon installation, the homeowner had to hire contractors out to rip out the front of dudes house, sink pilings, and a cross over bar between them, build the house back...... all this just so i could hinge the 3200 pound doors...lol.... both doors were built out of 1 inch thick plate around the outside and 1 inch square stock for the scroll work.... talk about a winter time project!