Colt Case Ingersoll Garden Tractors

I've been a member on other sites and always look forward to meeting others and sharing information. I'm retired and worked as a maintenance welder at GM plant. After retiring from GM I started teaching welding which lasted for five years at a local private school. I then through testing started doing weld inspections as a Certified Welding Inspector through the American Welding Society. So my background revolved around welding.
Today I work on projects in my shop which is mostly welding metal art but I have a passion for Case Ingersoll tractors. I currently own a 1973 444 which is a work in progress. A 1974 644 lbh which is all original. A 1976 446 which is equipped with a cab and snow caster. It is used only for winter snow removal only. A 1977 646 with loader and roto tiller. It's been a project for the last four years and it is almost completed.
I'm looking forward to sharing information and meeting new tractor enthusiast like myself.

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Harry

Thank you for joining us Harry, and welcome to the forum. I myself am on quite a few forums, never mind that I don't have that much time to be active everywhere. It's great to have someone on board with such welding experience! Will try not to bug you too much with welding questions.

Eugen, no problem on the welding questions. As a welding instructor I found it was the most satisfying jobs I ever had.

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Harry

Hi Harry,
Nice to see you here too. You'll have to share some of your metal art. What's your go to home welder/process?
I'm mainly a stick guy, 5-6 hundred pounds of rod a year. Little bit of wire. I'm amazed by tig, should go learn some new stuff someday.

Tim

Wow! That's a lot stick rod, you must do a lot of welding. It depends on what I'm working on dictates which process I use. I fabricated a trencher bucket last summer and I used stick. I welded bolts to a metal sculpture yesterday to hang it up and I used TIG. I have MIG solid wire and flux core set up on two different machines, but I find I do not use them much. I'll take some pics of some metal sculptures and post them.

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Harry

5-6 hundred pounds of rod a year?!? Tim, are you building a bridge over the Nile river? I'm thinking this can't be your hobby, must be work then.

Harry, it would be great to post some of your art, I for one really like that sort of thing.

With the two of you doing so much welding, I think we should create a welding topic somewhere on the forum? I'm sure others here do welding too.

What do you think Tim and Harry? (and everyone else reading this )

What would the welding area be for? Anything welding, questions, projects, or problems?

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Harry

Harry wrote: ↑Wed Mar 10, 2021 9:23 am What would the welding area be for? Anything welding, questions, projects, or problems?

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Harry

I'm thinking that anything related to welding would go there. I'm sure there will be welding projects related to our Case tractors, but I would feel bad to restrict people who may want to discuss some other aspects of welding. I would like this forum to be clearly with the main focus on Case tractors, but to have a very pleasant experience for all people, and allow them to express any other things that make them happy. Especially if technical.

I think the only discussions that we want to be kept out of the forum are politics and religion,so we don't get into shouting matches.

But, I don't want anyone to feel pressured.

ÀH guy wrote: ↑Tue Mar 09, 2021 9:08 pm Hi Harry,
Nice to see you here too. You'll have to share some of your metal art. What's your go to home welder/process?
I'm mainly a stick guy, 5-6 hundred pounds of rod a year. Little bit of wire. I'm amazed by tig, should go learn some new stuff someday.

Tim

Tim,
If you took metal shop in high school, did they teach you to oxy acetylene weld? If so TIG is very similar, Electric heat source instead of gas, and the use of shielding gas are the main differences. There different gas's for different metals, and aluminum requires reversing polarity and the use of rounded tungsten rather than pointed tungsten used on other metals.

I went for an interview that said "Welders wanted" in the newspaper ad. During the interview I was asked about TIG welding, and had to tell him I have never done it. His chin hit his chest as he said "Tig is 50% of what we do here". I said that my understanding was TIG was a lot like oxy acetylene welding, He said you can do that with a glimmer of hope in his expression, to which I said yes can't everybody. He laughingly said Hell NO, lets go do some test welds.He gave me a few pointers on the first TIG weld, then left me alone for the other 6 welds. When he inspected the welds, he shock my hand and said hired What do you know High School was not a waist

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Gordy