welcome to Jimbo's Garage good afternoon
everyone and welcome back to Jimbo's
garage well today's video is kind of
short and kind of random let me tell you
what we've got we've got basically a
rectangular gate frame that's about 12
feet long 6 feet tall and the unique
thing about this is this different than
that what I've done in the past is it's
a stainless steel now I've never really
worked with stainless steel and gate
frames so this is gonna involve some
stainless steel MIG welding something
that I've really never done before
so one thing I want to tell you is
you're not going to see an installation
part of the video at the very end
because that's out of my hands the owner
is just contacted contracted me to build
the frame itself he's going to be
installing some wood slats on the inside
and he's going to be taking it from
there so primarily this video is going
to be stainless steel metal preparation
we're going to talk about the wires that
I'm going to be using the machines I'm
going to be using and the settings that
we're going to use and that's primarily
what this video is going to be about
before we get started I just want to let
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Instagram is a lot of behind the scenes
or stuff that does not make it to the
channel you'll catch there you know I'm
busy here in the shop all the time doing
something different every single day and
just a few things that is worthy of me
of making videos is one thing but all
the other stuff that happens in here
that does nominate to the channel is
another and that's what makes it kind of
interesting and those are the kind of
things that gets to Instagram so if you
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let's get started with today's video
all right so the first thing I'm gonna
do is to start cutting the material and
you can see that I've set the saw on the
angle of 45 degrees and and just
double-checking it with my speed square
sometimes it cuts off just a little bit
in just a little bit being off makes a
really big difference on these cuts you
can see that it looks like I might be
struggling a little bit cutting this the
blade is just starting to get a little
dull and and I know this is stainless
steel and it is a little bit tougher but
I did have my share problems here okay
well I'm down to the very last cut for
the two-inch square cube right here and
I gotta say this blade is burnt I hope I
can make it through this cut right here
and then we've got some small cuts with
the angle iron I don't think that's
going to be a problem but I can tell you
this as soon as we get all the stainless
steel cut on this thing this blades
going off and you get going in the trash
and anyone's going on this blade doesn't
owe me a dime I've probably had well
over a thousand cuts on this and you
know it is on its last legs I just want
to finish it up and I'm sure we get this
job done so let's do it yeah that's for
sure but hopefully there's a few more
cuts left in this thing and we'll get
this project completed well I got all
the cuts done here and you can see that
I'm just taking a ceramic flap disc
right here and I am grinding a bevel all
the way around on on these pieces right
here this is some 120 wall thickness
stainless and so I want some good
penetration through here I am going to
be grinding these wells down flat a
little bit later on this is the look
that the the person wanted you some some
tabs or some posts that I had turned
down in my lathe for helping with the
fabricating here on my table you can see
I put a couple posts on either end at
the table and that makes for a perfect
90 degrees and that makes really for
better fabricating just clamp everything
down you're ready to go all right now
we're all fastened down ready to start
getting welding today we're going to be
operating off the ACP Pro pulse 200 and
I've got a spooled up with some III OAL
thirty-five thousand ten pound spool
right here pick this up at HTP America
well calm now this is a this is a
stainless steel flux core gas shielded
wires that means that we're gonna be
running some gas with this in this case
I'm going to drain some 7525 70% 75%
argon 25% co2
I mean running that summer around 40 to
45 cfh for this let me bring in turn the
machine on go through the settings and
show the settings we're gonna be using
and then we'll go ahead and get started
all right so the first thing we're going
to do is select the program a menu and
I'm going to scroll down to the
stainless steel section which is the
black right here 308 35 thousandths and
we're going to be using some 7525 and in
the pulse mode we're gonna go ahead and
add just the one inches per minute
probably somewhere right around 300
there 151 amps about 21 volts we're
gonna give that a try and see how it
works all right so there's the very
first tack in the first bead right there
and I gotta say that was laid in there
really smooth that was really surprised
I don't think I'm gonna need to make any
kind of adjustments I think I'll just go
with it just the way it is alright so
the first wheel went pretty good I've
flipped everything around God everything
clamped back down on the welding table
and everything is is perfectly square
you can see that the the bevel is a
perfect bevel it's it's laid in there
really nice this is and being nice and
square this is really gonna make for a
good weld in here I'm gonna go ahead and
just tack it right here in front tack it
here on the back I'm just going to lay
this in and we'll see how that looks and
then we'll go ahead and roll the rest of
this thing out but I let's take a look
at this next well
all right that lady there pretty good
very little spat or you can just see
there's just a couple little spots on on
here
chip the slag off and you can see this
appears to have really good penetration
right here we got a good color to it
I think the settings are just about
right for what we're using so I'm gonna
go ahead and well the rest of this thing
out and then we'll go from there okay a
couple things I want to notice may seem
like I'm yelling all the way across the
my shop that's because I am a camera
seems like a six miles away but one
thing I wanted to point out that's
that's important when you're fabricating
even though that my table is a five foot
by 10 foot table and the part that I'm
making a 6 foot by 12 foot obviously it
doesn't fit on my table and it's very
awkward you know sometimes you get
Center supports that go in here and that
still remains on the table and
everything stays good but in this case
we're not having that so you got to do
everything you can to get everything up
and level and perfect perfect level is
very important when you're fabricating
you get out of level things get out
square very fast so we know that I
perfectly square right here I'm up
against the pins on this side I'm
perfectly square on the edge of the
table this way I'm hanging off the edge
of the table this way I've done a
support out here and then I'm going to
show you the minute the other side as
well
the other side is hanging off the
welding table and it's important that
that also be nice and level and
supported that way everything is is
going to be good and I've checked it
diagonally for square and it is
absolutely perfect right on the money
where it is so I'm going to flip the
camera around I'm going to show you what
I'm talking about about having this
thing perfectly level over there and
then we're gonna finish welding this
thing out all right so I'm going to grab
a couple of my armor self adjusting
clamps right here these clamps work
really good for you know clamping
material together there's no adjustment
they virtually clamp just about any
thickness material and it works out good
for and you know stuff like I'm doing
right here which is hanging out the end
of the table where I got to kind of
clamp this material together I'm just
going to put a couple tacks on it take
that clamp off and I'm able to go ahead
and finish my
you see I've got the other fixture
clamps right there holding it to the
table and those work out pretty good you
know the old clamps definitely have
their place that's for sure so I'm gonna
take advantage here and while this part
of the frame is hanging off the end of
the table and just you know catch the
inside as much of the welding as I
possibly can you know idea I went around
and got all the welding done and now
it's time to grind off everything you
know that kind of bums me out because
everything looks so nice and and now
it's time to start the brushed finish
here so I started out with a ceramic
flap just here and went around and
ground all the welds down and everything
really looked pretty smooth it's
starting to look pretty good right here
I'm kind of impressed the stainless
steels just a joy to work with it really
finishes up nice I went around and got
all of it done here this is the rough
finish and once I got all four corners
all buffed out here I'm gonna switch
over to the coarse surface preparation
disc by Mercer I'm not really certain
how this is going to work with the
stainless steel so I thought I would
just give it a try and right out of the
chute you could just see a tremendous
difference of the original material plus
what we're doing with this surface
preparation this is a coarse disc so it
just kind of left some scratches in
there but it worked out really good once
I got that done I switched over to the
scotch brite hook-and-loop system here
and went around and just finished this
out and that is really all I needed
between the the course and the scotch
brite right here I believe it was a
medium the finish turned out just
exactly what I was hoping for pretty
cool so that worked out really good for
the frame all the way around and I did
want to get that on the inside done
because I am gonna be putting this angle
iron right here on the inside and I
needed to have that brush finished on
the inside so that's why I did the
inside of that all the way around so now
it's just time to get the angle iron
welded on the inside and you can see how
there's many uses for these are more
clamps right here you can see
I've got you know the fixture collapse
in the table and the self-adjusting
clamps holding the angle iron and it
works out really good and it just really
good for speeding up fabrication you
know it's been probably almost a year
since I've had this table maybe not
quite a year and I just reflect back on
the days when when I had my small
welding table and how I used to do stuff
like this and it just amazes me that you
know now that I've got this and all
these different clamping fixed your
clamps and regular clamps it's just so
much easier and so much faster
it just makes such a tremendous
difference you know times has changed
here in just a little bit less than a
year you know I'm cutting 45s for the
angle iron right here to go on the
inside I don't know I probably didn't
need to do that but I'm trying to make a
perfect fit in there and and I got to
say it didn't quite they weren't perfect
but um but you know close enough and
what they weren't I just filled in with
a weld and after all it's gonna be
covered up they're they're actually
going to be building some wood structure
that's going to go on the inside of this
and it's going to be attached to some
screws or whatever and that's what the
angle iron is in there for anyways
that's the plan there and you can see
I'm just going along here and about two
inch long beads about every foot apart
is all we're gonna need and that is not
going anywhere you know I thought about
flipping it around and welding on the
backside of the angle as well but I when
I flipped around it just I did not need
that at all if this is this is really
strong just the way it is and there'd be
no issues with that well there it is
that it's all complete and all brushed
out and this is a great little project I
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