If the sweeping was such a hit (for engagement) you should probably add some paint drying!

Lovely bench, hard to believe a temporary bench ended up being temporary!

Please ignore the naysayers, if they don't like your videos nothing is stopping them from making their own and we both know that will never happen. That lovely bench will outlive your children.👍x100

I don't know what Richard complains about. I love the sweeping intermissions, it's so nice to see things get clean and tidy.

I'm very pleased to see that Mrs. RotarySMP also uses safety slippers to their fullest effect 😂

In MIG welding, you have essentially 3 main variables you control. The first is your wire feed, this is where you should start, and you should set it based upon the thickness of your base metal and the size of the weld bead you need. Wire feed is your main means of adjusting your heat input, it is akin to amperage control in TIG or stick welding. Secondly, voltage is your main means of arc control, and thus your weld bead profile. It also contributes some to your overall heat input, but significantly less than wire feed. More voltage relative to a given feed rate will increase the arc length, which will generally widen and flatten out your bead profile, but be careful, as too much voltage for a given feed rate can lead to bad metal transfer characteristics and undercut in the base metal along the toes of your weld. Your final variable is the length between the end of the contact tube and the base metal which you should attempt to actively control as you are welding. The shorter this length is, the better your penetration and tie-in strength will be. Keeping this consistently short, and pairing it with appropriate gun orientation and motion when welding is the best way to control your final weld bead's shape, assuming the other two settings are correct for the given task.

6:00 love the slide hammer centre punch thingy - not seen one of these before!

In 1993 I was deployed for operation southern watch. Walked in the chow hall one day and the community bulletin board had a fresh picture of an F-15 with an enormous gap in the right wing tip Down to the honeycomb fuel cell from the tow team running it into the steel I beam of a sun shade. Ouch

I am just 3 minutes in my video and I have to warn you about working with the paint stripper in your shop. I used it to strip the paint off my lathe and I think its vapors have caused terrible rust to almost everything in my shop. I have a drawer with screws that were in a perfect state for years and after I used paint stripper they started rusting. It seems that it stopped now, but a few months after I was desperate when I was finding more and more nasty rust spots.

Sunday afternoon: cleaned my gravelbike, readjusted handlebar of MTB (fro the last ride when my front wheel got stuck in a ditch ...) and made the horn work again on my motorbike (thanks Kontakt 60) and then your latest post to finish the day. What a treat!

The cleaning is satisfying to watch - you only show it occasionally anyway. And I reject the notion that I am wasting time watching you 😂 I always learn something! Talking about the snapped tail-plane, it’s not been a good time for airport personnel! Did you see the shunting incident at Heathrow a month ago? Deary me…

I love your videos. It's nice to see someone who is having similar problems welding, just like me. I get tired watching people who never have problems and always get those perfect welds. Practice makes perfect and a good grinder helps too.

I assume that's a solid steel wire for the mig welding, since you got CO2 hooked up? I heard that with flux core a serrated drive wheel is desirable, because it can otherwise just crush the wire and feed less than it should. But since it clearly isn't slipping, that doesn't seem to be it either... I've also seen in some welding tutorials on youtube that being able to stop the wire is actually OK for tension (not being able to stop it would be too much tension). But again: clearly not the cause of the mismatch in feed rate anyway. The "weirdness" on your new welders wirebrush is a pseudo-hammer to get rid of the slag from stick welding.

47 Minutes, lets goooo. Just in time for Sunday Lunch!

I sure wish that we could have the nice plywood that you europeans have just lying around here in Canada On the other hand I'm sure glad that , that shade of green is not mandatory for machines here 😉 Oh and thats a darn fine work bench,should last forever Nice welder gift.

Very nice bench. As for the sweeping: I like the occasional inclusion of the "boring" shop maintenance stuff. As someone who doesn't have a shop, it's nice to get a peek behind the curtain of highly produced videos. They also work quite nicely as natural interludes anyway.

2 comments this week: at first glance, the thumbnail image looked like a Pask Makes video, which is meant to be a high compliment🙂 Second, thanks for the "It's just a workbench" statement. It makes no sense to me when KZfaqrs make fine furniture for their workshop. I think you hit the mark with making it nice without going over the top👍

Wow - that is an huge improvement. I can imagine your already amazing productivity will go up even more with that project completed. One day you should show us how you decided to populate all those sweet drawers. 👍👍😎👍👍

With the wire feed issue, make sure your spool isn't tightened too much as well, it's a good indicator that the spool is too tight when the length of wire doesn't change much or at all when you change the feed rate.

your response to the sweeping comment earned my sub alone lmao

Mark, try watching your weld puddle while welding, this should help you a lot. I wholeheartedly recommend you going a bigger nozzle + your nozzle tip not to be in-flush with the nozzle, but to protrude out of the nozzle for extra ~5mm. Once again, you need to do everything you can to be able to watch the weld puddle which I don't believe is happening now.

I really like that bench-vise.

Love how you keep adding pieces to your workshop and seeing it come together .. thanks for the videos!

Laughing about mishaps is one of the best personality traits 😁😁

Once you get a decent tig there's no going back I have the same machine and I love it.

very good job RotarySMP

That is indeed a very nice workbench!

Thank you for making (almost) every Sunday morning something to look forward to. Could you maybe show a little sketch of your workshop floorplan in one of your next videos? (Or if you have in the past maybe tell me which video?) I always get confused by all your little rooms in there haha.

Nice (new) workbench! Did not know, that elbowgrease is measured in imperial units only 😀

A few years ago I borrowed a Mig welder to speed up a project. It too appeared to feed wire too slow and it didn't change much after turning up the wire feed knob. It turned out that the machine was just fine. It was just programmed to feed a lot slower when it didn't sense any arc!

hell of a nice bench, I don't like the bare steel look (I would have painted them grey) but its not my bench. Thank you for taking the time showing us, and thank you more for the parts you didn't show lol

Great content as always! Greetings from Southern Burgenland, Erich

Suns just up here in noiseyland and what a great watch over coffee, perfect inspiration for the coming day in the workshop, watching someone else work. PS your RAL green obsession is indeed an obsession, although it is very close to thunderbird 2 so it's ok I guess, and now that you have a different tone who knows where it may end up, you may discover hue ;) The combination of green and steel reminds me of a Cà Lem construction, very nice. That weirdness on the brush is a slag chipper for arc btw and the foot pedals made for the Texan market obviously, or perhaps hairy Himalayans. Looking forward to some sweeping action, the Richards of the world need the brush-off. PS the vice and it's fixture (bench) are glorious

Perfect timing - about to start designing a base for my CNC mill...

Grate video!! it would be a pity to use it now:)

Nice job! Looks great!

Great video. As always. I love your shows.

I love the new workbench! It’s awesome!!! Cheers!!

Another top job and video. Looks like you had a productive week. Thanks Mark.

Your tig welding is getting better. Try working the puddle with the torch for a smoother weld.

Great workbench! It really does look solid.

I don't wanna be a Naysayer so......Bloody good job! You should be very happy! Weiner burn is gotta hurt! Keep up the good work!

That's a good bench, and your skill set is getting pretty good, lots of diversity and plenty of depth. Thanks for bringing a bit of light into my weekend, needed that. Good to see the missus helping with the heavy lifting too, can't wait for Mrs. SMPs channel to debut.

Looks pretty slick. Everyone likes a sturdy bench.

The wire spacing method from ThisOldTony is to allow for correction on one axis of deflection. You tacked all 4 corners of the pipe instead. You should only tack the outer two, remove the wire, then tack the other laterals while holding it in the right position. This lets it bend in or out while you're doing the laterals. Only tack and weld the inside of the corner when everything is done on the lateral members.

One tip for paint removal is to use those stainless steel pot scourers, I bought a pack from Lidl haven’t even worn the first one out yet and with the kind of stripper you used the paint washes out of them with water.

We love the videos! I don't care if you're sweeping because you respect our time with the voice over. What do they expect, for you to cut to black or something and voice over nothing? You're showing the entire process, it can't all be sexy.

Parabéns ! Muito bom.

A point to check with your mig running slow is the liner and lead. They can get pinched and will affect the wire speed as will a liner with a groove worn in it. That said it's probably the Controller not giving out enough voltage. The feed motors can slow but they usually just work or not.

You’ve cost me nearly two hours today, because I began watching this and realised I’d missed the vice refurb, so naturally had to go back and watch that first 🤣nice bench btw

Very nice job, and thanks for saving your viewers from any gratuitous shots of your backside. 🙂 There are a few other KZfaqrs I follow who aren't so polite, and I have to hold my thumb up to the screen to provide cover.

For leveling feet I really love ball hitches. They're pretty cheap, look nice, and can take a massive beating

Rule of thumb for TIG is 40A per mm of material thickness. It gives a good starting amps and you can titivate up and down as needed. You have far more patience than I have with paint prep. It's what I really hate about painting, to the point I will do everything in the house except painting and decorating. I get someone in to do that.

now THAT'S a proper vise bench , superb job ...thanks for curing my work bench OCD LOL :) , great tip on the plastic covering the paint stripper...and alcohol as well ? would not have thought to try that

Very nice job on the bench.👍 I like your review of the New Arc Captain Welder.👍 That vise is sure heavy duty. 👍 Have a great day.

Very good video as always! I loke the long videos..

That's a nice one. And emty. The day I have to store something I will send it to you.

That holster is great for the mig torch, but you're gonna want a different style for the tig stinger. Something more akin to a soldering iron stand. Also, when you're welding to that rounded edge of a piece like that tube steel, you can cut a piece of welding rod to length and lay it down in the gap. That way, when you're welding, it melts too, and you have more filler metal to take care of that oversized gap created by the filleted corners.

Eh, I don’t care what you do. I’ll watch it anyway. It may not always be the most interesting of topics but you make them entertaining. I’m actually pretty surprised at how much I’ve learned from your mundane videos. For example, as I speak I’m watching you strip paint. Am I enthralled? No. Am I entertained? Yes. Did I learn something? Yes. My takeaway is that if I want a project to go quickly, I need to do it via a montage.

Jodie says keep the hot tip of your filler in the gas plume. My trick (before I got a magnetic torch test) was slinging the torch over something and burning my leg :) For a dodgy non welder like me yours look alright :) Dunno about your MIG issue as mine just worked mostly. Just followed the guide on the door. I find MIG easier mostly - metal hot glue :) Main source of error is travel speed for me.

How did that draw slide open on its own? Shop GHOST!

Oh dude. You got a worshop ghost. Spotted during the second painting time laps, it opened up a drawer. Just thought you wanted a heads up before you get spooked or it poltergeist some bolts into your knees.

I don't like time-lapses very much But brooming the floor us one of the best applications for it Or removing paint Anything satisfying really 😁

Wonderful bench, and a great video of the build! I am spoilt with mig as mine is three phase and 250A but turn the current up and wire feed down to get the beads to sink into the parent metal. That new tig looks good, mine is ac/dc miller from the early eighties with no foot pedal, the arc on your new machine is almost plasma like! Have fun! Phil

Oh, and don't forget to put up the link for the stream later on.

Shame your MIG wasn’t up for it that would be a great application for MIG. Still new welder 😀 nice. Need to get a pedal for my TIG at some point but don’t use it a huge amount. Great result with the new bench

There is a quick wire feeding button above the wire feeding device, in red, press that, then wire feeding speed will be in normal, cheers!

A very effective and inexpensive paint remover is to use lye. Lye is NaOH sodium hydroxide/ caustic soda or KOH potassium hydroxide. Sodium hydroxide is more effective. Mix lye into water. This will get very hot and fume up a bit, so do it outside and wear rubber gloves and eye protection. After the mixture cools, stir in some cornstarch till you get a gel like consistency. If you put starch in while it is hot, it will cook the starch and it will set up like silicone rubber. Now you have a homemade, non toxic paint remover.

With a small mig welder,I always use the smallest wire available. .023 in sae. That way I have more amperage for the wire size.

Leaving the drawer fronts raw looks really great against the (approximately) RAL 6011, and the entire project turned out solid and looking good. But one question... Why bolt the table to the frame from the top side? Welding some angle underneath would have allowed using lag bolts that could later be removed if necessary.

That weird wire brush has a chipping hammer on the back side for chipping the slag off stick welds..fairly common Chinesium product..like the hand held welding shield thst comes with welders..even tig welding machines..like to see 1 handed tig welding they do in China..

theres a trick to setting up a vice , put in 2 pieces of metal verticlu and make it stick out under the foot , them put the vice on the table and push it in untill the pieces of metal hit the edge of the worktop then scribe the mountingholes that way youre able to clamp in long pieces as they whont hit the worktop on the way down just thinking out loud herre , workbenches and such are usually banged against and paint chips off constandly making them look ratty and worn in no time , might be a good idea to paint those things in bedliner

Grate video, on the mig welding think you where going too fast, slowing down will make the weld more flat, but on thing tubing like that you do really need to be carful to not burn thrue.

I know your first tig weldercwas a gift but I always thought it was a bit .... handicapping in the tig quality dept. The new one is loads better. 👍

You might not be able to measure the wire feed speed like this because of "run-in speed". The welder spits out the wire with a different speed until it starts to actually weld - arc forms-which helps with starts. Sometimes the knob for adjusting run-in speed is located near the wire feed but I didn't see it in the video (it could be mounted in different models->holes above feeder). It's quite probable that this welder has either fixed run-in or it's configured as a function of the welding wire speed and that's why there is little or no change when you measure it like you did.

Love your videos! I would really appreciate it if you could throw in a rough guesstimate at the end how much your shop projects cost

Thanks for the video. As always, very enjoyable to watch. How does the wood wax behave on the metal over a long period of time? Do you have any experience?

If your welds are to tall you should increase voltage. If your welds are to wide & flat your voltage is to high, as a rule of thumb

a loot of work but is very nice

It's still a while until my birthday, but it certainly feels like it's today.

Damn nice work... Nice Tig machine as well, tho, your tig welding is also getting better for sure! I would consider thicker tungstens, you can always grind down a thick tungsten to a long taper - sharp point, thin ones are just a limit to max amperage that you can use... I never saw any use for a thin tungsten... Not outside an edm sinker drill at any rate... Best regards! Steuss

My bench has a solid core door for a top... My friend (jodaddysgarage) has been doing videos for Arc Captain for a while now and is really happy with their welders. Las time I was out at his place I met him at Orlando airport and we picked up his new RV and drove it back to his place. I played with the welder enough to like it enough that I want one of my own. My videos are too crap to ever get any views or support as I don't have the filming and editing gene. The mig is far better on the low end for auto body than my current welder. My welder sounds like a tornado while that Arc Captain is silent till it gets warm. I need to get a dedicated argon bottle (and change gas supplier)to get back to Tig welding. Tig welds are softer than MIG and easier to grind which makes body work easier. FYI all my shop benches are at 42". Puts them at a comfortable working height and I can roll carts under it and it's the answer to everything. That green reminds me of the old equipment in school shops. Also for my long bench across the wall I topped it with 1/8 hardboard with a white "waterproof" coating. It's cheap stuff supposedly meant for use in showers. I can write on it with pencil and it's cheap and easy to replace when I damage it. That vice looks awesome as well.

A good rule of thumb for steel tig is 1A per .001" of material, so 3mm will get you to approx 120, but I'll always set it a bit higher just to have that bonus power if your setup needs it to get the bead fully burned in. I'd go like 140 and just not stomp the pedal to the floor by default. Big heavy foot pedal? Not so much. A foot pedal that sits on the floor without spinning? Very much so. Looking at you, Everlast Nova foot pedal stamped out of a single piece of sheet metal with no foot points to keep from spinning in the middle on a high spot on the floor... The lip for your shoe is nice, mostly, too.. being able to pull the pedal and find your orientation without looking is nice. I miss that.

43:43 -- is your place haunted? That drawer just opened all by itself 👻

That is a great workbench, well done! Are the paint pigments used all oxides ( ? ) so they are quite stable colour wise and thus the paint does not fade in Sunlight?

I had similar tiles in kitchen of the last house that I lived in. And throughout the basement... Hated them! I did take them out of the kitchen before installing the cabinets. Not a fond memory!

“Is there a TIG torch in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me?” 😜

What wire do you use as filler? You might want to try thicker filler wire, it seems to me you have to dab too often. It might be because of the sped up footage, but still, some experimentation would not hurt. Aluminium is a lot harder to TIG weld, it's better to be quite comfortable welding steel first, before taking the leap. Also the torch on the new machine has a wheel, that lets you adjust the current while welding, just like the pedal. It is handy, when you need both of your legs free. You can also adjust how "hot" the puddle is by changing your travel speed. I would encourage you to learn 4T, when you are starting a weld and hold the button down, it gives you a lower amperage (the amp setting after the pre-flow time). This gives you time to start and stabilize the arc, see where you are and what is the arc pointed at. Then you let go of the button, when you are ready, and start welding.

I did the same for my desk! I got a drawer cupboard from an auction in an office and put a kitchen counter on top Also do you think the small spool has less surface speed than the normal sized one?

Hey Mark. I'm only here for the sweeping up. Stop wasting my time with all of this engineering nonsense will you? A nice new toy you have there mate. Have you seen 6061's channel? He has a pressure sensitive button to control the current. I haven't tried it, but it looks intuitive ie the harder you press, the more current is applied. I guess it provides finer control from your finger, much like drawing or with a knife cutting. It also allows control in tighter spaces with less contortion to try and reach the pedal. Keep up the good work, and that's a nice bench.

Using small worm gear hose clamps on gas lines never feels good to me. I hate having expensive welding gas leak out when I forget to turn off the main valve. I bought a cheap selection box of PEX crimp clamps that work great for crimping various small tubing sizes.

43:42 Call an exorsist!

Great video as always. I love the new workbench, great job on that. I picked up a useful pointer for myself too. Namely, don't use my wiener as a heat sink (I'm one of those special Heathers with a wiener). I was a bit confused by the airline being cut short at about 38:30 and then being long again at about 45:00. Time machine broke did it? Also I was very angry about the amount of cleaning and tidying in this video. I called the police but they said they couldn't do anything because you're in another country. I called Interpol who were surprised to hear from me but were very understanding. They did initially suggest that I could skip ahead in the video for the parts that made me angry. I told them not to be silly and do their job. I wasn't sure where you are located but just know that they are on to you. Yours furiously - Heather

Was just about to comment that your green colour isn't much better than the "original" paint. Looks much better in not gras-green green.

In my welder manual it states that wire feed speed is reduced when no arc is made, maybe thats why your measurements were off.

Is it "I built bench for my wise?"

Saw the small "soda stream" CO2 bottle. I tried that once and the flask emptied right away :/ How was it working for you? (The co2 gas here in Iceland is very expensive for a hobbyist)

Turned out great despite wrapping the ptfe tape round the wrong way 🙄

Interesting content as expected. Great that you show your mistakes, also love the safety desert docs. Did l see the UKCA mark on the new welder? Another stunning piece of time/ money wasting now defunct "stick it to the EU " legislation.

Just how thick is that plywood used for the top?