Anything welding

I really have to ask what are you doing you catch on fire that often??

In all my years in doing all kinds of out of position welding and burning Air arcing you have me beat catching on fire over my 40 plus years

Do you enjoy it ??

 

Says the person welding in FlipFlops !!

 

It's been over a span of 34 years, mostly it's being in a hurry and not wearing PPE thinking "it won't happen to me.....again"

 

I was making a special wrench thingy for a customer today. Don’t ask cause I don’t know either. All I had were pictures to go by, not a drawing.

 

I hope it works Interesting!!

 

Me too, here's the picture they sent us.

 

weird...looks like a cranks for an old model A or some kind of speed handle but the unthreaded rod sticking out is weird.

 

Yeah me and my boss man can't figure out what that is for either. Makes no sense but the customer is always right

The socket is 1 1/16" with a 3/4" drive, the extension welded on the other end is 3/4" drive.

 

Maybe it's a pin that goes into a hole on a flywheel of some sort? Socket goes onto center nut, pin goes in a hole along the radius. Give it a bump with an impact to get it spinning without putting too much stress on the center nut and rounding it out

 

Be nice to know just what it is for .

 

It would. A lot of the things we make, I have no idea what they are for. That's one of the things I like about working here though, it's always something different. We're a custom machine shop.

 

hahahhaha got me!!!

 

I saw one of the guys yesterday who works for the company I made the wrench for, it’s a large company. I showed him a picture of it and ask what it was for, he said he had no idea

 

Safety first. Remember Charlie.

 

What does this company do? Might help us form a hypothesis.

 

They run screeners. Big power screeners that separate rocks from dirt.

 

I got nothing. Love a good mystery though.

 

A few more squares tossed together.

 

They look good! What are you cutting the slots with? Plasma? Water jet? Laser?

 

hole saw and plasma cutter. kinda labor intensive, but i really enjoy the work.

I am in the design stage of building a cnc pasma table. about 3/4 the way of sourcing all the materials.