I sure appreciate all your videos, I have lenards and have been messing around with a double eagle build for a while. You sure are doing a good thing for experimental aviation and wanted you to know I appreciate all the work you put into what your doing.
I want to thank you for your labors in making this video series and the Legal Eagle construction video, which I thought was most outstanding. Here's hoping you continue with this one. I'm getting ready to start welding a Sonerai project and never having made a model airplane let alone held a torch in my hand, I hope to be as good a pupil as you are an instructor, and put these new skills and knowledge to good use.
Thank you for all your videos here welding . The best I have ever watched and learned from. Can't wait to to someday build a Legal Eagle XL and the Double Eagle . You're a awesome teacher.
Love your vids. Started binge watching from the beginning. Subscribed and liked. Got to the gas welding series and got excited. Really got excited with your description of how it was the most artistic of all the welding methods. Then you stop with #6 aaarrrrrggg. The whole 6 vids is about equipment and theory. You never talked or showed how to actually gas weld. Fuuuuuuu. I want my money back lol. And yes I know this is a 11 year old video but to the rest of us it's 30 minutes ago.
I recently viewed this series of videos. They are great. In explaining the use of tips he shows that each tip can be used over a range. One thing I don't understand is how is a tip used for thinner material then thicker material? Do you turn up the gas or do you just preheat or just weld slower on thicker material? I'm building a Skylite and plan to use a 1/2 VW. Pete
+Bobby John Hi Bobby John, I'm just a home hobbyist restoring an old car, but I use both mig and gas. I like to use gas over mig in a couple situations. If I'm doing sheet metal and I can get to the backside of it to hammer and dolly it, I prefer gas because if you prep the material right and get a nice fit-up, you can weld the new sheet to the old fender with hardly any filler rod. Then you can hammer and dolly the weld really nicely with practically no grinding or filing. Also, with almost no filler rod, you have two sheets welded together that are the same strength and ductility, making it easier to work into a nice surface. If you use MIG, you get a bead of MIG weld that's stronger than the surrounding material (~70kpsi vs. ~40kpsi), so you can't work it as nicely and the weld can crack if I work it too much. But if I can't get to the backside to hammer and dolly, I prefer to use mig and just grind/file/sand the weld down. Another thing about gas that I like is that the tips are so small that I can get in tight areas easier, like the backside of the tubing in this video by LeagleEagleAirplane. Plus it's typically easier to see what I'm doing. The downsides of gas that I find are: It dumps a lot of heat into the metal so you get a larger heat affected zone. In a garage setting I have to be a bit more careful about fire safety. Running the hose from my wall mount to a far location can be a pain. Longer setup, longer alignment and fit (at least for me) with gas compared to mig. I find it easier to blow holes if I'm not careful with gas, but on the flipside when I'm welding sheetmetal with gas I tend to get a lot less pinholes that I have to go back and find and fix as compared to mig. So in general, I kind of use both in different situations. Also, in a weird way, I find gas welding very soothing as compared to mig. It's really quiet, and much slower, and you can really see how the metal behaves. I think gas welding taught me some things about how to mig weld better.
Your whole series is amazing! Thank you for your time and dedication in posting this!
I sure appreciate all your videos, I have lenards and have been messing around with a double eagle build for a while. You sure are doing a good thing for experimental aviation and wanted you to know I appreciate all the work you put into what your doing.
I want to thank you for your labors in making this video series and the Legal Eagle construction video, which I thought was most outstanding. Here's hoping you continue with this one. I'm getting ready to start welding a Sonerai project and never having made a model airplane let alone held a torch in my hand, I hope to be as good a pupil as you are an instructor, and put these new skills and knowledge to good use.
Thank you for the video. I too hope to see you next one soon!
Thank you for all your videos here welding . The best I have ever watched and learned from. Can't wait to to someday build a Legal Eagle XL and the Double Eagle . You're a awesome teacher.
very interesting videos so far. Would really appreciate more
Love your vids. Started binge watching from the beginning. Subscribed and liked. Got to the gas welding series and got excited. Really got excited with your description of how it was the most artistic of all the welding methods. Then you stop with #6 aaarrrrrggg. The whole 6 vids is about equipment and theory. You never talked or showed how to actually gas weld. Fuuuuuuu. I want my money back lol. And yes I know this is a 11 year old video but to the rest of us it's 30 minutes ago.
You da Man !!!
I can't figure out why the frame is not TIG welded?
I recently viewed this series of videos. They are great. In explaining the use of tips he shows that each tip can be used over a range. One thing I don't understand is how is a tip used for thinner material then thicker material? Do you turn up the gas or do you just preheat or just weld slower on thicker material? I'm building a Skylite and plan to use a 1/2 VW. Pete
Could you use MIG welding to construct the fuselage?
I was wondering can you braze the tubes instead of welding them together
I sure appreciate all your videos thanks man.. :) im still looking forward how to weld with oxy-ace. please show more videos thankyou :)
No sure. It's pretty darn cold in Wisconsin and I don't have heat in the garage. It should warm up in the next couple weeks.
What is the advantage of using gas vs mig? Thanks
+Bobby John Hi Bobby John, I'm just a home hobbyist restoring an old car, but I use both mig and gas. I like to use gas over mig in a couple situations. If I'm doing sheet metal and I can get to the backside of it to hammer and dolly it, I prefer gas because if you prep the material right and get a nice fit-up, you can weld the new sheet to the old fender with hardly any filler rod. Then you can hammer and dolly the weld really nicely with practically no grinding or filing. Also, with almost no filler rod, you have two sheets welded together that are the same strength and ductility, making it easier to work into a nice surface. If you use MIG, you get a bead of MIG weld that's stronger than the surrounding material (~70kpsi vs. ~40kpsi), so you can't work it as nicely and the weld can crack if I work it too much. But if I can't get to the backside to hammer and dolly, I prefer to use mig and just grind/file/sand the weld down. Another thing about gas that I like is that the tips are so small that I can get in tight areas easier, like the backside of the tubing in this video by LeagleEagleAirplane. Plus it's typically easier to see what I'm doing. The downsides of gas that I find are: It dumps a lot of heat into the metal so you get a larger heat affected zone. In a garage setting I have to be a bit more careful about fire safety. Running the hose from my wall mount to a far location can be a pain. Longer setup, longer alignment and fit (at least for me) with gas compared to mig. I find it easier to blow holes if I'm not careful with gas, but on the flipside when I'm welding sheetmetal with gas I tend to get a lot less pinholes that I have to go back and find and fix as compared to mig. So in general, I kind of use both in different situations. Also, in a weird way, I find gas welding very soothing as compared to mig. It's really quiet, and much slower, and you can really see how the metal behaves. I think gas welding taught me some things about how to mig weld better.
when are u making
part 7?
where the rest of the video? just hang like this? did not show how to set the flame a stuff.. pffft