Floating fireing pin from an Italian revolver

Micro TiG welded to be re-machined

Shows welding skill, but on the other hand, why not just make a new part?

Time is money and welding the end only took about 5 minuets.

This leaves me with only the front to machine and with minimal stock to remove it was about a 5 minute grind shot with an electric Harig Head

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Shows welding skill, but on the other hand, why not just make a new part?

Because when you have tools one must use the ones you think are best for the job.

Nice welding. When I touch a TIG torch, stuff/parts automatically self-destroy. I have welded "Big Wire" for years (for a paycheck) and could cut an average size gun collection in half with just one pass. 4 50 pound rolls of Lincoln NS .120" wire in one 10 hour shift,in the field, 600 amps at 40 volts. NO cut outs!
Heli-Arc is a whole nuther ball game to me!

I would gurss that Ted Horn and Kendog are examples of just about the extremes of welding art.

kendog

is that "flat Sheet" you are stitching together?

Useful skill for those interested in preserving an original and perhaps numbers matching FP. I know a gent who is a history consultant to a firearms museum. The new curator thought it appropriate to clip the FP's on all of the museum inventory so they could never be used as weapons again. Many all matching and some quite rare weapons suffered this fate. Your skills may be needed!

Fantastic work


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Originally posted by TCLouis:
I would gurss that Ted Horn and Kendog are examples of just about the extremes of welding art.

kendog

is that "flat Sheet" you are stitching together?

That would be moment connections on high rise buildings and bridges. Typically at a column/header location. 18 to 24" wide flanges, around 6" thick with a 45 degree bevel, and 3/8" root opening. The closer one is to the basement, the bigger the steel. Full penetration welds with back up bars and run off tabs. All welds ultrasonic inspected. Had dingleberrys bigger than ted thorns firing pin!

Micro TiG filler runs .010 through .025

I used .010 in this case with a 20x microsope

Ted, thanks for showing. What size tungsten? And what kind? Does the microscope have the shade built into it? Or external?

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Originally posted by skl1:
Ted, thanks for showing. What size tungsten? And what kind? Does the microscope have the shade built into it? Or external?

Standard 2% 1/16 tungsten sharpened with a long angle.

The microscope is hardwired into the power supply and darkens with each arc and opens up to normal light when no arc is present.

The microscope lens is surrounded by a ring of LED lights and makes the smallest details look huge.

Thanks Ted. What's the diameter of the skinny part of the firing pin where you welded it up, .065? Roughly what amperage? 45? 60?

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Time is money

So what kind of money do you charge for your time to do this micro welding?

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Originally posted by skl1:
Thanks Ted. What's the diameter of the skinny part of the firing pin where you welded it up, .065? Roughly what amperage? 45? 60?

.074 is what I left it at just for the heck of it.

The machine doesn't read in amps just percent and I'm unsure what the 100% range is. The welder is made in France.

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Time is money

So what kind of money do you charge for your time to do this micro welding?

My hourly rate is far less but the shop rate is $80 per hour

How does that work? A person pays 2 rates for work -- a shop rate and an hourly rate?

Normally the shop charges a higher hourly rate than the welder gets paid per hour. They're making money on his time. The markup might surprise you depending on the shop and on the industry (i.e. automotive body or repair, etc)

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How does that work? A person pays 2 rates for work -- a shop rate and an hourly rate?

You pay my employer.....then he pays me

Ted
I would be interested in what machine you are using to weld small pieces. I am stuck with a Lincoln Precision 185 I can get it down to welding 22 guage metal and small parts using 2% Ceriated 1/16th from Diamond Ground products. It is the best low amperage start I have found.
But not anything quite that small.

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Originally posted by Rolland:
Ted
I would be interested in what machine you are using to weld small pieces. I am stuck with a Lincoln Precision 185 I can get it down to welding 22 guage metal and small parts using 2% Ceriated 1/16th from Diamond Ground products. It is the best low amperage start I have found.
But not anything quite that small.

SST Lase One Pulsed Plasma

$80 an hour for that kind on work! I would think it would be double that in most parts of the country.

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Originally posted by theback40:
$80 an hour for that kind on work! I would think it would be double that in most parts of the country.

That's just the shop rate

We build injection molds that generaly get hourly quotes of several thousand hours plus materials

The "fix it" stuff is normaly for a manager or a managers friend