It appears that wood and plain-old steel just aren’t cutting it any more.  No, for furniture with built-in character, try making it out of your old rusted-out cars!

Furniture from Old Car Parts? Yep.

By Jaime Derringer
Dec 8th 2009

Joel Hester’s love affair with old and vintage metals began two years ago.

A client brought him a small metal beer sign that he wanted to use as a top for a coffee table. Joel, who lives in Dallas, Texas, knew a little something about making furniture from unexpected materials; he was already welding steel into custom bed frames.

So he made the coffee table — and then got an idea. Why not start a business? He’s since developed a passion for making custom furniture out of old cars. He calls it The Weld House.

But why cars? Well, when he received the client’s beer sign, he wondered how he could make it work since the sign wasn’t large enough to wrap the top of the table for a smooth, seamless surface.

So, after over a month of struggling with the process, Joel ended up wandering through a junk yard looking for scrap metal that might work with the beer sign.

“I turned a corner and saw an old Cadillac,” he says. “Its large trunk was the coolest mixture of color and patterns. I knew I could skin the metal off the structure of the trunk and use it to wrap the top of the table.”

Joel instantly forgot about the beer sign and called his client proposing a new, different idea of how to create the table: an old car!

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Lincoln Electric has just released the UltraCore® 70C, its newest gas-shielded, flux-cored wire.  It’s guaranteed to meet the highest standards for the “structural fabrication, heavy equipment and ship building industries with low fume generation rates, excellent bead stacking and high deposition rates“.

Lincoln Electric Offers New UltraCore® 70C Gas-Shielded Flux-Cored Wire

- Low-fume generation rates for increased cleanliness and visibility

- Excellent bead stacking and slag removal

- H8 diffusible hydrogen levels

Cleveland — Lincoln Electric now offers the new UltraCore® 70C (E70T-1 H8, E70T-9H8) wire in its portfolio of premium gas-shielded, flux-cored (FCAW-G) consumables. This new product is designed to meet the requirements of the structural fabrication, heavy equipment and ship building industries with low fume generation rates, excellent bead stacking and high deposition rates.

Low-Fume Generation Rate and Diffusible Hydrogen

The low fume generation rates of UltraCore 70C increase cleanliness and visibility while welding, as well as improved ability to control welding fume. Diffusible hydrogen levels are controlled at an H8 AWS classification to provide resistance to hydrogen induced cracking.

Excellent Bead Stacking and High Deposition Rates

UltraCore 70C features excellent bead stacking and slag removal to reduce clean-up time for fast multiple-pass welding. High deposition rates further increase productivity by allowing for fewer passes to complete a joint.

To request a copy of Lincoln’s UltraCore 70C product literature, call (888) 355-3213 or visit www.lincolnelectric.com to obtain Bulletin C3.12.2.

What do you get when you combine an Overhaulin’ star and a Hemisfear car?  A brand new, top of the line welding helmet from Lincoln Electric, of course.