tig plates with stainless filler

I was asked to pit together a tig flat plate with stainless 309 filler for display. I also made an outside corner joint with bevel and a 1/8" landing. This was also filled with 309.

Welding funnies

Needed some good chuckles

Stainless Tig 1/8" open root on steel plates

Unfortunately the school does not have stainless plates. They teach stainless tig on mild steel with stainless filler rod.....

Yup

Domo arigato mr roboto

I've been working on this in school for a bit. My wife collects old tin robots, so I wanted to make he one cor her birthday.
It is finished. I'm going to work on some patina methods to give it some "age"

It's all 1/16 sheet with the exception of the feet and arms that are 1/8.

Little bit O' stainless tig

Had a chance to try my hand at stainless tig today. Very happy with the results. I can't wait to get more practice.

16 gauge tig

Here some 16 gauge work I was doing today. Lap joint, fillet square groove and outside corner.

I ground the last 2 in order to check for penetration.

Passed some more CWB tests

So I passed my FCAW 2G & 3G

Some more Tig work

Getting better at my tig work. Here is a shot.

The t joint was my first joint of 6 on this 1/4" plate setup and the lap joint was my last.

Back to Tig

So after the fcaw 2g and 3g tests yesterday, I'm back to practicing my Tig 1g for the 18th.

Things seem to be rolling along nicely.
Here is my lap joint from today.

Display plate for the school cabinet

Put together this Fcaw 3g plate for the school welding display cabinet

CWB TESTS so far

Well i have so far passed
smaw 1g, 2g
fcaw 1g

Still waiting on results of my gmaw 1g
*quick update
Gmaw 1g is a pass

I'm now waiting on results of the fcaw 2g and 3g

vertical flux core

Here are my results today with my attempts at fcaw 3g

Open root 1g

So for the last few days I have been working on the 1/8" open root beveled joint in the 1 g position.

Here is where I'm at
I'm happy with these as is my instructor.

Tig welding

So I've moved up to doing test plates for tig. My first one bent with no issues. Here is a shot of the root passes for the second plate. I shot it while waiting for the plate to cool.

Also some shots of 1 1/4" .120 wall ERW tubing that I will be using for a frame build after I'm done the course. I coped and tigged it and then put it in the destructive testing bender to see how it would hold up and it looks great.

Here we are a few months in

Well things have been going nicely and my midterm mark was an 82.

I have now done mig, flux core, stick and tig. I still have more work to do perfecting my tig work but all the others have become almost second nature.