Tigged up an engine block for a friend

[Mike T]

A friend who owns a machine shop asked me to tig weld this block for him. It's a little 4 cylinder that had slung a rod. I've never did an engine block before and It wasn't a lot of damage but it was a good place to sharpen my skills.

 

[Rich B]

looks good

 

[larrym]

Sick! Nice work indeed.

 

[Mike T]

Sick! Nice work indeed.

That's nice of you to say.

Truth is that one thing can turn out as if you really know what your doing and another can look as if a 5 year old did it.
This block was hit with brake clean and I went right to it.....on other projects that I've went the extra mile on with prep....sometimes in the end I was embarrassed to say it was my work. You will usually know within the first second or two of the arc strike how the job is going to go.

 

[imjoesnuffy]

That's nice of you to say.

Truth is that one thing can turn out as if you really know what your doing and another can look as if a 5 year old did it.
This block was hit with brake clean and I went right to it.....on other projects that I've went the extra mile on with prep....sometimes in the end I was embarrassed to say it was my work. You will usually know within the first second or two of the arc strike how the job is going to go.

I thought welding anything that had been recently cleaned with brake cleaner was extremely dangerous due to creating phosgene gas?

 

[Mike T]

I thought welding anything that had been recently cleaned with brake cleaner was extremely dangerous due to creating phosgene gas?

I use the non-chlorinated formula for a number of other things around the shop so that's what I used on this one. I usually use acetone for all welding but was out of it and had to get this one down the road.