pipe vise

[weldbead]

saw diehards question about ideas on pipe vise;
1) for some applications you just cant beat a plumbers tristand with a chain..see rigid website..
2) see fotos of a piece of angle with a bolt..this is 4 x 1/2 angle ....will hold pipe just under 2" od..for bigger pipe use larger angle..

[weldbead]

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sorry website for tristand is ridgid not rigid..

[patrickp]

nice vise. simple and effective.

[farmersamm]

That's pretty neat. You did a good job of welding the nuts without distorting them. Sometimes it plays hell with the thread size, and you can't get the bolt back in. Leaving the bolt in when welding usually does the trick.

Don't back over it with your new Grizzly:jester::waving:

[weldbead]

ill try to keep one eye on the road..:waving:

[lugweld]

Seeing that can of Coleman fuel next to that really cool welding vise gives me the creeps.

[Mondo]

Seeing that can of Coleman fuel next to that really cool welding vise gives me the creeps.

Worse than the laundry, eh?
"What's in your shorts!"
:laugh:

-Mondo

[weldbead]

i remember yeara ago when i emptied that can thinking " if i throw it away ill lose the funnel..keep it until you buy a new can.." aint been camping since...my garage has for year been a storage nightmare.. as i began to weld i began to clear it for space. as i needed more space, i cleaned out more crap. things keep turning up i havent seen since my kids , all out of the house, were small...

[Supe]

We've got a setup just like that on some of our sites, only we've got an attachment for a 45 as well. We use it for WQTs for small diameter boiler tubes.

[Bob]

Farmersamm; when welding nuts like that, you just spray the threads of the bolt with WD-40, put the bolt in and weld. The WD catches on fire but it won't let the nut expand inside. Works every time.

[farmersamm]

Farmersamm; when welding nuts like that, you just spray the threads of the bolt with WD-40, put the bolt in and weld. The WD catches on fire but it won't let the nut expand inside. Works every time.

I've always used anti spatter spray with the bolt in. I'll try the WD-40 next time. It probably will stand up better to the heat actually inside the threaded part. Thanks.

Not to mess up the thread, but have you ever used extruded tubing to make hinges? I hate the way welding causes distortion inside the tubing, and if it's less than .010 clearance, you wind up reaming it to accept the hinge pin. Always a perfect shoulder created by the heat of the weld. I leave the pin in while welding and still get some sort of an inner heat bulge.