Crafts of metal with their own hands by welding

The fastest and most reliable way to fasten metal parts is electric welding. Anyone can learn how to handle it. Having bought a welding machine or inverter, as well as spending half a pack of electrodes to get practical skills, you can easily try to create metal crafts with your own hands. Installation of structures, repair at the cottage, the manufacture of garden tools and much more from this moment becomes available.

The first articles made of metal

Many people now have welding. Often the device is purchased in case of construction or repair. It's not even necessary for yourself. If there is a need in it, you can call a neighbor-self-taught or a familiar welder-specialist. After completion of the work, the unit is simply idle.

But sooner or later a moment comes, when you should decide and try something yourself. There is nothing terrible in this, there would be a desire. The main thing at this stage is not to get burned and not to catch "bunnies", and experience comes with practice. If there is a suburban area or a country house, there will always be welding. With its help, you can solve problems of territory development much more quickly.

Not always and not everything can be bought in the store. To weld a wicket, to build a base for a bench or a table, to "grab" a hook to fasten a rope to the metal pillar or an additional support for weaving grapes - it's kind of a trifle, but it's uncomfortable to call for a welder over and over again on this occasion. So you need to learn the basics and solve everyday problems with your own hands.

Welding Basics

At once to undertake serious work with responsible connections, certainly, it is not necessary. You can practice on a piece of unnecessary metal. At the first stage, you should learn to ignite the arc and hold it, while maintaining a constant working gap between the workpiece and the electrode as it burns.

After that it is necessary to work out the technique of formation of a welded seam, fusing a layer of metal on an equal surface. Then you can proceed to the adjustment of the current for different thicknesses of the welded workpieces. Welding is a technique of joining two metal parts, based on the melting of their surfaces at the junction. In one unit they are connected by adding a layer of binder material of the electrode.

The current is selected in such a way as to ensure the melting of only the surface layer without the formation of holes. It is better to master the technique on electrodes with a diameter of 2.5-3 mm. They should not be old and necessarily dry, otherwise the first experience will most likely be ineffective, which can discourage the willingness to learn how to create crafts made of metal.

Welding makes it possible to correct minor, and sometimes serious, work flaws or installation errors. It is enough to cut off the seam "potholders", and the details disconnect. After cleaning the place of unsuccessful welding process can be repeated.

Material

Any owner of a country house or owner of a dacha for sure there will be metal waste in the farm. This may be the remains of pipes after installing a gas pipeline, water supply or heating systems. The real owner usually does not throw away the remains of a steel corner, a channel, or a piece of reinforcement. Also you can find and used nails, bolts and nuts.

Such scrap metal very often becomes a material for new repair or improvement of the old one. Certainly there will be in the garage or barn outdated his garden tools, chains, old dishes, as well as spare parts from a car, motorcycle or bicycle, which have not yet been handed over to reception points.

From all this, you can make useful and practical crafts made of metal. With their own hands, with the help of welding and available tool tools, it is possible to repair old garden tools or to make new, taking into account personal experience, their preferences and conditions of management.

Crafts from metal for summer residence

You can equip coziness on the backyard without buying a new inventory. From the used, but still strong metal, you can build a base for a summer table or a bench. Find the right sheet of particle board for the countertop and the bench for the bench will not be a problem. Racks can be made even from a sub-standard inch pipe.

If there is a stock of material, you can swing and swing. It is better to make the construction capital, with concreting the base. Two sidewalls of pipes welded at an angle, with crosspieces for rigidity, are needed. The more massive the swing seat is, the more this angle should be. The jumpers can be welded at ground level or even lower so that they can not be seen.

Suspension is better done from chains, but you can take a reliable rope. The beam must be massive. Suitable thick-walled pipe, a piece of rail or channel. Mount the frame parts and the brackets of the hangers is best welded.

Sheet metal work

At any dacha, with rare exceptions, there is a brazier or other similar device. A pair of logs for sitting, an old stump as a table and charred bricks to limit the fireplace and stowage of skewers - for someone, perhaps, this is a rest, but it is better and more convenient to use a more sophisticated design.

The brazier can be an expert. It can be brought with them to the dacha, it can also have a permanent place of registration with the possibility of transporting it to the place of storage. For such a solution is quite suitable brazier from an old steel barrel. It can be manufactured on its own and can only manage a Bulgarian and a drill. However, it will be better and easier if you use a welding machine.

An empty and washed barrel is cut along the vertical center line into two halves. To one part, the legs are welded from a rod, armature or pieces of pipe. The top part serves as a hinged cover and can be mounted for convenience on welded old door curtains.

Crafts made of thin sheet metal can only be fixed with welding after obtaining some experience. In order to reliably weld parts and not burn a hole with an electrode, it is necessary to select the welding current precisely and to work with short tack welds with constant quality control of the seam.

Sculpture from metal

The garden around the country house is not only a site where trees and shrubs are grown to harvest fruits and berries. This is also a place to relax! A beautiful addition to the well-groomed plantations will be the garden sculpture.

It can be produced not necessarily from concrete or gypsum. For a person with creative potential, there are no limits to his expression. If at the moment only a welding machine, half-pockets of electrodes, scrap of black metal and a desire to create are available, then from all this you can build an original and unique composition. And the complexity of performance can be different.

It depends on the available material and on the idea. Such crafts from metal for a garden in one case can consist of a dozen different, at first glance, incompatible parts of different origins and purposes. In the other case, it can be composed of hundreds of identical repeating elements connected by welding to a three-dimensional model.

Where do you get ideas from?

This question can not be answered unambiguously. Someone, seeing in one place the parts that happened to be accidentally, presents how they will be combined together if they are combined into a common composition. Another purposefully goes to the point of reception of scrap metal and wanders around the mountains of this rubbish in search of a suitable detail for the chosen sculpture.

Scoop ideas or just take as a basis someone's already realized idea can be from specialized books that are dedicated to hand-made articles of metal. There is nothing shameful in creating a favorite thing from the available materials on the farm.

In any case, crafts made of metal with their own hands, created by the available drawings or sketches, will be original. Welding is not a copying, but a kind of creativity. Any welded seam, which is made with a decorative design and repeats the pattern or composition, is perceived as a kind of masterpiece.

Safety precautions

To make metal crafts by hand do not serve as a constant reminder of the unsuccessful experience of welding, associated with a burn or injury, you should be careful. Work without a mask or shield is strictly forbidden, otherwise you can get irradiation with ultraviolet.

A protective suit will protect clothing and body skin from flying sparks and splashes of molten metal, and dense gloves or gloves made of dense material will save your hands. Cut down the scale from the seam without protective glasses is not recommended, sharp splinters flying in all directions, can get into the eyes.

Working near wooden objects and surfaces prone to fire, you should have at hand a bucket of water and a wet rag. Accidental sparks or the rest of the electrode, bouncing off and falling on such materials, can cause smoldering and the subsequent ignition of them. While working indoors, you need to pay attention to proper ventilation.