Friday, August 31, 2012
Welding practice
With my winter clear out program well under way I thought I would do some welding practice with some 3mm plate I have had stashed away. The sheet was 200mm wide and I thought I would weld a small wood stove. I cut the sheet with my jigsaw which was surprisingly easy. Restricted by the size of the material I welded a 200mm square x 600mm box with an exhaust baffle in the ceiling. The test burn went well enough with air drawing through the fire and up the chimney. I was happy with the welding but I learnt that if I wanted a portable camp stove 3mm plate is too heavy and if I wanted a wood stove for my workshop 200mm square x 600mm is too small to be practical. An interesting experiment and another stove will be on the drawing board soon. This stove went to my local friendly scrap yard in exchange for more materials.
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You are lucky to have a friendly scrap yard to visit. My largest pieces of steel plate are only 300mm x 50mm, I pick them up from an offcuts stall at the yearly model engineering fair, they charge by weight.
ReplyDeleteI am lucky to have a few scrap sources which is why I'm trying to improve my welding skills to make use of an untapped resource.
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