Welding advice for slasher

pcp20us

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Hi again.

Ok i need to replace one of the skid plates on my slasher. It is 10 mm thick steel being welded to thinner steel.

here is a pic
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the side you see is the good one the other side needs replacing

I have access to a 240 cig welder that takes 2 or 2.5 mm rods. Will this be able to weld 10 mm steel, even if i do it in stages. I am a novice welder :D
 


I have much the same slasher PCP , it took hours of work to get back into working order . Most of that was to do with the side and skid plates as well . I had no trouble using 2 and 3 mm rods with a fairly small capacity domestic stick welder .Hardest thing is finding solid steel under all the rust and crap on top .

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Cheers Charles good to here about the welder capacity.... Yeah i know what you mean about the sides. I have not started looking for clean steel yet, but do notice that the sides are a little bent, so once i start, who know's what will happen :wink:
 
Looks like you could weld a few 90 degree brackets
down the side
would help support the runners
Just a thought.
 
Ok. I pulled off the side to repair the skid. Being old the metal is pitted/worn and slightly bent. I reconswelding brackets as supports is a good move.

I want to know what people have found the best for repairing worn metal parts that spend there life bolted together and that you can move up and down. I am finding the epoxy enamel paint that i am using comes off pretty easy.

AS the metal is pitted and bolted together, the aim is to keep the moisture and grass out of there. I will use rust converter then paint, but if you move the sides up and down the paint will come of and your back to exposed rusty metal again??

Charles would be good to hear what you did to rebuild your slasher.

Cheers Chaps :wink:
 

Wire brush to the big pieces and Electrolysis for the ones small enough to fit into the bath . Zinc primer , gloss enamel paint for the top , Zinc primer and and bitumen underseal for the bottom of the deck . I smeared grease on the surfaces of the sliding plates , both faces , before bolting them together . Copper slip on the bolts on the sides and everywhere else that needs to be undone at some stage .
Grass is so corrosive , really the only thing you can do to stop the rust is galvanise the whole lot or try to keep it as clean and dry as you can .
Worst thing is picking up old fencing wire in them . Besides being a pain in the derriere the ends rip into the deck underside and tear off any coating you put there , the sparks set fire to the old caked dry grass deposits and the whole thing gets a quick blast of flame . Trust me I know !
 
Cheers charles, Straight up advice.

Zinc primer was the one i was thinking of or even gal primer i think i have used before..

I ll keep an eye on my derriere..... and sounds like a good idea to keep clear of barbed wired :evil:
 

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