Rare Metal Blog

Category: Welding & Cutting

  • A Beginners Guide to Flux Cored Arc Welding

    When it comes to Flux cored arc welding or “FCAW” many people think it is a different welding “process” when in reality it is not! Even though there are books, classes and equipment specifically labeled for flux cored arc welding only, the reality of FCAW is that the process is nothing more than a different…

  • How to Build a Oxy Acetylene Cylinder Cart

    I needed a compact yet durable cylinder cart for my small set of Acetylene and Oxygen cylinders. Any carts that I found were either too large or too flimsy. I came up with this design which is both compact and durable.   MATERIAL LIST   1- 6″ pipe riser clamp ( for Acetylene “B”cylinder )…

  • How to Build Shop Welding & Jig Tables

    I have four fabricating tables that I have built and they all get used. The first was a 3′ x 5′ with a dropped shelf off one corner for a beverly metal shear and the opposite corner has a large machinist vise. The second is a 3′ x 4′ with two rows of 1/2″ holes…

  • How to Build Welding Lead Racks

    You’d be hard pressed to find an idea simpler than this. Get some 20″-24″ truck rim spacers and weld on some 1/4″ x 1 1/4″ flatbar tabs, then put some plastic handles over them to protect your leads and hands, when winding and unwinding. I won’t bore you with any more text, just look at…

  • A Beginner’s Guide to MIG Welding

    MIG Welding Names MIG welding, or MIG, is an acronym for “Metal Inert Gas” welding. MIG is a commonly used and accepted slang term that was appropriate when the process was first invented. In the beginning, the gasses used for shielding the weld area were known as “Inert” or “Nobel” gasses. Today the proper terminology is “Gas Metal Arc Welding” or GMAW.…