Re: Lanse welding your truck frame

Posted by trucker 40 on May 09, 2010 at 06:07:30 from (69.152.32.127):

In Reply to: Re: Lanse welding your truck frame posted by Paul in MN on May 08, 2010 at 21:28:05:

I agree with some of that.7018 is hard to get started,but I said 7018 AC which is a little easier.There was no 7018 AC when I started welding and I hated it,but had to use it.I have welded a lot since then and still have trouble with it,but thats what you weld a frame with.

I though it was a frame like a pickup has only smaller.You are probably right,its the thinner box frame.Well it will be harder to do,but 7018 AC is still what you want to use with a buzz box.

I said 6011 would work.The only thing about 6011 is that if you dont know what you are doing with it you can burn up a piece of metal to where its almost not fixable.By using 7018 you can grind it off and do it again,over and over.

So he is going to do it anyway.I told him 7018 so he has something to work with if its not good the first time or 2.I want him to succeed as well.If he has friends in AG class or if he has AG as a subject himself,he can ask the teacher to show him how to weld,or many other things,but a kid motivated like he is can probably find a way to do it.I can remember when I was a kid and my brother gave me a car.A 1956 Ford with a 6 cylinder engine and a bad transmission.I was 13.By the time I was 16 I had put 2 or 3 transmissions in it and put a 352 police interceptor engine in it from a wrecked cop car and had to modify the firewall to get it in there.Later I found out that it would have fit without working on the firewall but I had the motor mounts in backwards.I dug through junk yards and read books and bought parts from other kids and had friends whose dad had a race car and went and talked to guys with race cars who welded up a small block Chevy engine block with 6011 while I was there buying fenderwell headers from them.When I was 17 I worked for a farmer and we put a 396 Chevy engine in a Massey Harris 44.I welded the weight box on the front of it and I couldnt make a better looking weld now,and that was maybe the first time I welded anything except for AG class.Our Ag teacher was a good welder and showed us how to weld with different rods and even a torch.

If you are a good welder you can weld thin metal with 7018.I can weld thin metal with 7018 better than with about anything else except a MIG.So I dont buy your argument about not welding this thin box frame with something else or that you even have to be a good welder to do it.Its just another problem he will need to deal with,and I think he can handle it.He probably will be a good welder too if he practices some and has somebody to show him a little.I hope he asks questions on here and looks at videos on You Tube about welding if he cant find anybody to help him.

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