1st Gen Lunchtable Thread - General Discussion

@Kwikvette

Fall cleaning. What's your spare metal bar storage look like?

 

Those used ones from a shop can be real useful, and are normally built to withstand anything but often times aren't flat any more due to all the banging/welding/etc. on top.

Unless you're doing some real aerospace shit, you won't require a perfect flatness anyway.

You could do a lot with very little, I mean there are people that weld on the floor even.

My only reason for suggesting something local like what I got done is because it can literally last you for many, many years to come.

Not knowing how to weld (or just lacking experience) is one thing that can be learned in time, and having a table to properly fix things in position makes learning all that much easier and less frustrating.

 

I've done yet another purge already just a week ago.

I still have about 5-6' of 1" square? Maybe 5-6' of 1/2" square? 15' of 2" x "3 rectangular, and not sure what else

All hollow tube, I don't carry solid square.

 

He wasn't a fan, he couldn't figure out how to jump in the back of the 4runner with it on lol. Gonna just keep it on him at night when we're in bed. Broken duclaw so it just needs time to heal

 

No like, how do you organize?

 

Corner

And I lied, it's more square tube than I thought lol



Opposite wall has sheet against it



And some more scrap that needs to get picked up, on the floor



That's a solid +60lbs worth...

 

Ah, ok, valid lol
My corner is taken up by plumbing type tubes already

 

God forbid I buy copper pipe, which I was planning to do.

Need to create some drops for keeping water out of my air lines.

I'm betting you've done something like that already?

 

It's much nicer today. Over in West Jordan.

 

Thanks for the wisdom Definitely can't call a tacoma "aerospace" quality
I think I'll start with the reinforced HF number, and then upgrade to a nicer top once I've "earned" it... I've seen enough videos of barefoot 3rd world stick welding to know that I already have a relatively decent setup with shoes and a roof over my head lol

 

But did you watch the two dudes in the jungle make a home, swimming pool, and other cool shit with nothing but sticks and stones

 

Y'all ever notice those videos have like perfectly square edges in the places they dug out with their teeth or whatever.... No modern tools my ass

 

They do make the dirt "super easy" to remove...you're 100% onto something.

My hands hurt for a good 5 minutes after I staked down my freaking pumpkins this morning, and the grass had just been watered

 

You should see all the ragtag lifts around here! And no amount of ghetto seems to deter them from always going 20 over. I guess they make up for the lack of mechanical skill with bravery. People take full advantage of no state inspection... if you can bolt a license plate to it, you can drive it

 

Meanwhile I've been chasing a small roof leak for 2 months with no success

 

I'm glad I'm not the only one who was equally impressed and skeptical lol

 

stress watching this right now

 

Yeah that's WA too, no inspection, no emissions... We got some real crap on the roads sometimes. Always seems to be mobile meth homes.

 

People leaving Indiana huh?