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Here are some yard ornaments I knocked out this week after work with my Lincoln SP100.  The shafts are cold rolled 3/16" shafts from the homestore, and the smaller ornamentation is done with the wire they sell for hanging dropped ceilings.  The stained glass is surrounded with lead came, and spins on brass fishing spinners that were soldered on with a butane torch.  Used a gear driven ring roller for the larger steel rings, wound 1/8" wire around 3/4" round stock for the smallest rings, and got fair curves on pic 2 with a brakeline tubing bender.- James B Attached Images
Reply:how did you bend the cold roll? nice work
Reply:Looks very creative.  A use of several techniques (mixing the glass with the metalwork).  Nice stuff.I can't see the welds from here but it must have been tough to keep from melting the crap out of the wire you were welding together.  So I'd say . . . well done.
Reply:Nice work !! I can't quite work out what size they are -- how many inches?
Reply:I did the rolls with my HF gear driven ring roller, the big rings are about 5" across.  And, yeah it was a pain to weld the small pieces.  I've been working on a bumper and was too lazy to pull out the flux core wire and reconnect the gas for mig, so it was pretty hot and fast.  I just set the wirefeed and amperage on the lowest setting, then cranked up the feed rate until I could get a quick sizzle on the joint.  I maybe should have heated it with the OA torch, then used silver solder, but the point between that wire being red/orange hot, and a puddle, is too fast for me.  Thanks for all your interest.- James B