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My father was like that. He was in auto body and painted cars. Dozens of side jobs over the years and some of the best paint jobs were about 5-6 beers in (high tolerance being an alcoholic). Then some of the best screw ups were after the first 12 pack of Miller High Life

I've noticed the opposite, guess since I don't need to drink to function. My best welding is at work (MIG or stick) completely sober, but dicking around the garage on the weekend, ehhh not so much

 

I never have done any production welding work and doubt I ever will at this stage.

 

Installed this @welds_taco diff reinforcement on a 3rd gen. Kit is nice

 

13 more of f***** things

37 more to go to

 

Are you manufacturing everything from stock (i.e. cutting/drilling the square base plates, cutting the tube etc)?

 

Lol I hated production

 

Look to the good part at least your working at home!!

 

I would walk out the door after a few hours.

It is just not in my nature .

Granted I don`t think pipe welding is production to me. Maybe some do Ithink more along the lines of many fabricated little parts.

Back in the seventies when Robots were being introduced all the old timers thought this is the end of any manual welding.

If I remember to be cost effective 50,000 parts was the amount needed I thought this could be a very good thing.

 

I will say though after just a few, you quickly develop a "system" to be efficient.

Ideally I would cut all said parts first.

Then do any drilling or machine work.

Weld all items needed.

Clean-up as necessary.

I don't like welding a few assemblies only to go back, cut pieces, prep, and weld a few more.

 

I agree 100%

I worked with one person he would weld everything together then forever complain how hard it was now to drill holes by hand .

Because it was impossible to use the drill press any longer.

I gave up telling him after a few times. No clue that any Magnetic drills existed .

 

Yeah, literally everything there from scratch

This isn’t the type of stuff I do a normal basis haha, certain other things that I’ll make a batch of don’t really bother me. I just hate these little things because all the pieces are so small and just finicky and annoying hahaha

Very true! And working about 7 hours and getting paid for 10. With all my expendables paid for. Not complaining about my job, just this particular project hahaha

 

why doesn't Harbor Freight sell tig electrodes?

 

I work from home and I hate it. I can't wait to go back into work.

 

Wow You have a Fab shop at home with all the needed equipment .

Paid by the hour and all consumables paid and you hate it?

people are different.

 

Most likely can not buy them cheap enough to sell !

 

I get too many interruptions at home.

 

I have an air drying project going. Plasma cutters connected to a computer for CNC work are very sensitive to water. Since the voltage between the electrode and the work piece is constantly being measured, water droplets entering the plasma stream affect that voltage and can cause the torch to mis-fire. Mis-fires often = scrap, or poor cut quality. Also the electrode life span can be dramatically reduced.

We have a lot of high humidity days here in S Indiana. So, I am beefing up my air drying. Not the first to go this route. Just hoping to avoid buying a refrigerated dryer. Habor Freight sells one for about $590 but I am hoping to stay simple and cheap.

Basically, air coming from your compressor head is around 275F and normally goes straight into the tank. A precooler (pressure rated AT trans cooler + fan) before the air goes into the tank can drop that to at or below 100F. Add a water separator to that circuit and most of the water that would have entered the tank is pulled.

Then, some copper coils with gate valves can drop another percentage of the water, likely to ambient temps. At the CNC table, another separator and a desiccant bead filter can be the final pieces of the system.

I already have two separators and a bead desiccant cannister, but still have some issues with water and go through beads like crazy. I know they can be dried/re-used, but it's a hassle.

I've collected all my pieces. I just need to get up the nerve to sweat all the copper. I have very little experience sweating copper and figure I'll get a leak.

Air path: exit compressor head; enter A/T cooler with fan; enter water separator; enter air storage tank; exit tank and enter regulator and separator pair; pass through copper pipe with gate valves; enter separator and desiccant bead canister pair; enter plasma cutter.



Already have in place the components listed except A/T cooler with fan and separator and the copper coils.

 

Don't sweat the soldering (did you see what I did there?).

Polish the inside and outside of all fittings and flux the inside and outside and you will have great soldered joints.

It's pretty easy once you do a couple if joints.

Uphill joints are a bit tough, but if everything is on a table, you won't have any issues .

You can do this.

 

Got 13 more done today and all the fixins cut for 13 more. These didn’t bother me as much today haha. I’m tired and my wrist hurts from drilling 286 holes by hand but these things are getting easier. 36 total done. 24 more to go.

 

Thanks for the vote of confidence. I am also worried about how to get everything lined up during the soldering. A lot of angles there that I could get crooked. I have to keep reminding myself it's just gonna be strapped to the wall and nobody will notice the flaws.

Wish I could just MIG weld, then I could align, tack, confirm, and weld!