Fireball Welding table Cast Iron VS Steel weld spatter testing

alright guys Jason here from fireball tool I'm super super excited to show you guys what I've been working on for the past six months and it is a cast iron fixture plate as you can see okay now this was specifically designed to replace the steel plates that I use from a well tail table video okay upon your guys's request I got flooded with hundreds of emails requesting where did I get those plates how do you make them well I decided well if there's such a demand for it you guys are that I would make one but not only that I just make one I wanted to take it up ten notches and make it out of a material that really suits welding and that's cast iron okay and as you can see this cast iron plate it has five eight holes drilled on two inch centers machined surface for accuracy all these are precision drilled on a CNC machine the outside parameters ten by ten that is also machined so you can use that as a reference surface also so it's very square and very flat and on the backside as you can see it has this raised boss on the back and we'll get to what some of those features are with this raised boss does but for the time being that it adds rigidity to the plate it keeps the plate stable it's got these web stiffeners in there to be able to keep the machining at its flattest and keep the tools from chattering as the tools run across this okay and then also that has these socket head cap screw bolts so you can physically almost bolt this to any application all right now what I mean by that I'm kind of marketing this as a universal fixture plate you can we could build welding table surfaces and we could bolt it to several other things which we'll get into a little bit later but I have personally replaced my old table surface with these new ones take a look at this and I'm super excited to be able to share with you guys some of the abilities this is going to allow and we'll get into a little bit later okay so the thickness of the table is or the plates are important because I want them to be paddleball with the build pro ball locks ball lock bolts and their-their fixturing so as you plop it in the hole and you tighten this up what needs to happen if you look there as that ball needs to sit just right inside that chamfer there so the thickness of these plates are compatible with the build pro tooling okay so instead of having a thin plate that we would lose all that opportunity there okay the other thing is as you can see as this was sitting on the table here is that ray's boss and if this plate was flat as you can see when we bolt put that bolt through there it would stick past the bottom of the surface so it allows that offset of the plate to be able to use their existing tooling so if you wanted to use this on a normal cable surface that that wouldn't interfere okay I'll explain to this a little bit later or use a head of a bolt you could use bolts or something through the bottom of the holes and still not interfere on any other application so I want to take a quick moment here to let's set one of these plates and before if you guys remembered I used a wire to set the heights and levels of these plates well because now I have a machined surface that's flat and known I wanted to make it just a tad bit easier so I came up with just a real simple solution is this is just this machine bar stock okay so let's set this plate as you can tell it's loose we don't know where its orientation to the rest of the plates so let's just use this calibration bar to do that and when I first initially reset the table these two plates in the center where am I I call this call zero okay so everything just kind of spreads off of these two plates by the use of this bar so the bar has these 5/8 precision turned sleeves kay and they drop into these holes and the plates and what that does is is it sets [Applause] and what that does is that sets the distance from plate to plate so now all my holes lay out on exactly two inch centers okay the other neat thing that does is it also lines the plate for squareness off of this one plate okay so once you get that bar calibrated and bumped in there you can double check with a straight edge around the table to make sure everything's everything's good and it is and then we can proceed to bolt the tape bolt the plate down okay and at this time if you wanted to just elevations you could do that too okay so what I don't want you to do when removing this bar because sometimes it can get what I call its machinist stuck which means it's so precise that to try to pull this out by hand it's just a little bit tight because they're trying to pull all four of those precision pins out of another precision holes okay so your first instinct is to grab a screwdriver and just pry them up off this plate well you don't have to do that because I've provided let's check this out a set of little screw jacks okay and there's just very just finger tight so you don't there's no handles on this bar just for convenience sake and you just kind of just work this little bar up so that it comes out easy evenly and once you get it high enough it just comes right out so check that out it's as brass tipped set screw okay so once you get that in you just thread it back in and off we go so no screwdrivers kay to pry this up on the other side of this bar is a machined straight edge okay so now you can use that straight edge to set the elevation so you and what I have noticed it's really handy is I just clamp two plates zero these two and now I can swing this plate around and then put a feeler gauge under here and just raise it up so it actually set this table up really fast so I wanted to provide another solution for you guys to be able to calibrate these plates or take them on and off and then recalibrating it again really quickly okay so that's the calibration bar so one more thing when you're done with the calibration bar you can use to keep it handy or use it as a part of the fixture table when you're done but all I say is don't remove these socket head cap screws because these have been calibrated here at the shop so that you know they're there correct and in alignment okay so be careful with it she's a precision tool here I want to start a new segment to this channel and I want to call it shop science okay and as part of shop science I want to be able to do some the inventing some experimentation and answer questions to things around the shop that I feel that I would like to know the answer to and a lot of this is not going to be laboratory science it's going to be stuff like is which material is better for such application and I want to interject this shop science in between builds so let's just start one right now so this is the first episode episode of shop science so let's give it a shot okay what I'd like to do is let's just see about weld spatter because that's the whole idea of cast iron to me the importance is how it handles the welding spatter okay and we all know steel is BiBi koechers I call them anything that the bb's balances on the steel it just sticks to and the cast iron how does it handle weld bb's so I've set up this little experiment a plate my plate or fire balls plate and a block of steel to to make some really really really hideous welds and I you guys are gonna see some spectacular sparks show out of this let's just create a mess on this episode of shop science okay [Music] okay guys so you just watched this explosion of spatter erupted on these welding plates right here and I want to remind you steel and cast iron and when we're really looking for is the spatter adhesion and which material handles that adhesion of best batter better than one or the other okay so let's us let's scrape these off and see what happens okay so we'll start with the steel yeah okay so those ones aren't coming off we're either gonna have to grind those off or beat them off with a hammer and it looks like we have a couple similar ones on the cast iron so let's just let's see how that handles wolves we're one ninety percent of them just came off with my hand anything smaller than a small stuff and there we go this batter is gone it left a little tiny impression let's see I could barely my fingernail barely grabs it turned out really good where where the where the spatter was but overall this was treated with nothing with nothing this is just raw there's no anti spatter spray of any kind on any of this stuff so and what I what's interesting is now in order to get the plate back to its original condition this one is acceptable this one could be put right back into work this one we're gonna have to alter the surface of some sort we're gonna have to file we're gonna have to hit it with a grinder and that's what that's gonna do is we're gonna end up removing material around the Beebe also so over time this could distort the plate okay or just cause imperfections in the surface of the welding table okay so I find this an interesting experiment how the material really holds up to real-world conditions so this is one of the reasons why I prefer cast iron over a normal steel table okay so I look forward to doing some more experiments on this please leave your comments in the and down below and tell me what you guys think okay or a conclusion I hope you guys like these plates I know they can be used for other things besides just welding surfaces I got 10 other inventions that these are gonna be a component and so stay tuned for those but I also want to thank you guys for watching please subscribe if you aren't already it lets me know that you're watching and I'll see you on the next one okay ready

Channel: Fireball Tool

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Id: Fc7naPGAKX8

Length: 12min 15sec (735 seconds)

Published: Sat Jul 21 2018