Welding thin sheet metal can be challenging because you need to obtain adequate fusion while preventing distortion and burnthrough. The key skill is to control the heat across the sheet metal to ...

Welding sheetmetal together makes burning thick metal together seem like a smiley walk in your favorite off-road shop. Welding sheetmetal is scary and daunting. Why, you may ask. Well, there are ...

Times change. It wasn't that long ago that if you owned a set of oxy-acetylene gas bottles for welding and cutting you would be considered to have a pretty well-equipped home shop. Maybe you ...

There isn't one welding process suitable for all applications, so you need to consider these factors: the type and thickness of the metal you're welding, how big the job is, whether you're welding ...

Arc welding using the Metal filler wire as consumable electrode and an Inert Gas to protect the molten pool against oxidation. Figure 1. Schematic of the MIG welding process. In the metal inert gas ...

Gas Metal Arc Welding is commonly referred to as MIG welding. The MIG welding process was developed in the late 1940s as an alternative to Gas Tungsten Arc Welding, which uses a nonconsumable tungsten ...

Building a hot rod is a series of steps just like a flood is a collection of raindrops. No single task completes the car, and the more you can do yourself, the more money you’ll save on your project ...

It’s a build that any experienced hacker could whip up in an afternoon and be pumping out basic sheet metal parts by sundown, and requires no welding to boot. To learn more about bending sheet metal, ...

Metal 3D printers are, by and large, many times more expensive than their FDM and resin-based brethren. It’s a shame, because there’s plenty of projects that would benefit from being able to produce ...