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Originally posted by billlsbird
Wow Psycho! I checked out the pictures of your Kart on another post. COOL! & talk about a good power to weight ratio? You've got that covered, for sure!
You don't need that many welding tips as your almost done with it! The welds that I could see looked alright. Just put gussets on any points that your unsure of. In fact, I don't remember where but somewhere on the internet I saw pre cut gussets {with cool little holes in them for weight savings} that were really inexpensive. On second thought make that CHEAP not inexpensive as you couldn't even make them for what they were selling them for. Oh, back to your welds, your almost done with your cart and way past the point I figured you were at. When your welding pipe {you propably already know all this but I'll get into it anyway}, you can go either uphill or downhill with your welds. Downhill is probably easier but uphill will give you more penitration. When going downhill you just go straight down {don't osillate}. Sort of experiment with staying ahead of your puddle and holding it back. When going uphill experiment with osillating and going straight. Sort of let the end of your rod 'pull' the puddle up behind it when just going straight. When osillating just 'build' the puddle up as you go...... Bill....
Those pictures are actually from 2 weeks ago I think. The car is basically done with the exception of the fuel delivery system and brakes. The engine was normally gravity fed by the morocycle gas tank, but I have a fuel sell on the floor pan and so I need to figure out a fuel pump system that will work with CV carbs.