Self Made Battery Box
Ok, so NOW I'm jealous, LOL.
But offhand I'd say "you've done this before." ??
Lol, not the battery box thing but just fabrication in general.
7yrs ago I started out at my place of work as a Weld1/Fab1. As of now I'm a Weld2/Fab2 but was informed this month that next month (my review month) I'm going to be bumped to a Fab3, which also comes with a decent pay increase...or so I'm told. lol.
As a Fab3 I'm required to be able to fit up: pressure vessels/tanks, pipe/flanges, etc. Doesn't mean I'll have to just yet, but have the knowledge and skills to be able to. Most of what I do now requires fit-up to be within .030" +/- of dimensions after weld out. So, have to know what heat characteristics are and what it does to the materials we're working with.
I'm weld certed in a lot of materials/thicknesses....can't remember them all, lol. Which includes MIG and TIG. Alum is one of them. Will be certing on chrome moly TIG and MIG tomorrow actually, lol. They need me to do that for a pipe job for a well company that is late. The cert test is on 3" pipe with 1/2" wall. Have to heat it to 300* then put in a TIG root and TIG hot pass, then cover it up with MIG Spray process. Once done, it goes into a rod oven at 250* for 48hrs to bake out any hydrogen to keep from forming any cracks and it actually inreases the tensile strength of the weld deposit by a couple thousand lbs. Fun stuff.lol At least this will be done in position on a rotater as opposed to 6G (out of position) lol.
Thanks everyone as well, :)