Outboard stand

[Feral]

I had a little bit of welding to do on the boat trailer yesterday, and I have to find a home for my second 6hp, before I can take my original one off the boat. So I got a bright idea, all those cutoff bits of galvanised rhs I scrounged a while back, would make the perfect engine stand.

Well It did, but what a lot of work! Must of used about 50 welding rods putting it all together, there are 30 individual bits of cut off metal in this baby!

But at least it is wide enough to take 3 outboards! [img size=500]http://www.australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/images/P1070771_AFO.jpg

[Fisher_90]

Woah Wish i could weld that well. U could get a 100-150mm piece of wood to give the motors some more grab because some motors would have quite a gap where the screw/bolt things tighten against the transom. Still good tho

[Feral]

Thats an idea for grip, should be wide enough, its 50mm wide.

[Brian D]

I'll have 4 but I want wheeles and handle please.

Looks pretty fancy - you sure Ray didn't help you! :P

[jeff f]

dont you just love welding gal, dirty smokey stinking shit

[Gazza]

Tip if welding gal use a flapwheel on your grinder and get rid of the gal where you want to weld and just in case you didn't know you can weld mild steel with stainless rods a quik coat of cold gal spray paint and should last ages

Gaz

[jeff f]

rods,,,rods?? thats dinosaur welding guys,i've been a welder for 20 years and have never used one except as a joke. mig/mag/tig/submerged arc but no stick

[Feral]

Yeah Jeff, but those in \"home use\" sizes are Tonka toys and not worth having, takes a month of sundays to build up a descent thickness of metal in the weld! (to say nothing about the cost of keeping the gas up to them!)

The galv steel was BHP stock, so with the tiny thickness (or should I say thinness!) of galv on em I hardly even noticed it. Burnt right through it with out even making any smoke or fumes.

[jeff f]

check out the little boc units, they are made by kempi and are brilliant, migomag and lincoln elegtric also make really good home units that can be used gassless with fluxcored wire if you dont want to pay for gas

[Feral]

yeah but seriously - the small amount of welding I do cant justify it. Before I made the boat trailer, I probably had not run a weld in 15 years! (Since I gave up racing cars!) This job finished off the 2.5kilo pack of rods I bought back in '92!

[jeff f]

wow '92 it's a wonder the flux didnt all fall off as soon asyou struck an arc ha ha

[Feral]

El cheapo Korean rods as well! (always hated CIG rods, or whatever they call themselves these days) Still worked perfectly.

[Brian D]

Sorry guys, english please:unsure: :S

[obone]

Brian D wrote:

Sorry guys, english please:unsure: :S

Hahhaha I was trying to keep up aswell.

Just had to google a few things, pretty interesting stuff it would be so handy to do a welding course.

Joel

[Gazza]

I agree with you mig and tig are the way to go If you have one :pinch:

Were I work (as a fitter) sometimes the only way to get to where a weld is needed (behind flanges etc) is to use the humble old stik but it does save pulling the whole machine apart.

Causing lots of lost production and work

And those cheap asian rods are great :woohoo:

Gaz

[Feral]

Yeah the stick does have reach advantages, I have 8m of leads on mine, old Army 600amp jumper leads!

Used to be able to weld on top of 2 story structures (in a quarry)without having to lift the welder up off the ground!

[Feral]

Here is a couple of photo's with 5 of my motors on it. Should have made it bigger, still got another 2 motors in Ray's shed, and want to buy another electric!