So I started building my first welding cart. This one will hold, from bottom up, fume extractor, water cooler, Dynasty 200.
Building the cart using 2" 1/8" thick hot rolled steel
Any comments and critiques are welcome
Here is the plan:
On the flat deck surfaces, I knew that I wanted the corners to have the flat look for the welds, so i created a couple sample coupons with different joint designs from the The Procedure Handbook of Arc welding. The suggested joint design was a flat butt weld, but I didn't want to do a lot of grinding. I also had to decide if I wanted to weld using GMAW or GTAW. Here are some pictures of the the coupons and practice welds.
These are beveled joints coupon.
The inside of the joint checking penetration
The outside corner joint. I was apprehensive with the heat and will definitely will need to use more pedal on the actual cart.
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