When I made the Explorer Bot last summer, I wished at one point that I could have just welded the frame together. But I didn't know how to weld at the time. This summer, I enrolled in a metal fabrication class and learned several of the basic techniques used to manipulate steel. I made several items, pictures of which are shown below. I've labelled some of the pictures with the techniques that were used. |
| A spaula |
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| Two hooks were made with blacksmithing techniques. |
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| A tripod holder for an iPhone. |
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| Hardware makes the iPhone holder adjustable at each leg of the tripod. I used 1/4"-20 hardware, sandblasting the nuts prior to MIG |
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| A piece of pipe tubing was welded onto the iPhone holder using a MIG. |
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| This corner was made with an oxy-acetylene welder to put together two pieces of 16 gauge steel meeting at the corner. |
Final pictures taken after patina and clearcoat:
