NJ B.S. Thread

If that is true, nobody is beating that. I can't imagine how they could do it in two hours, setting the angle and welding everything

 

Yea I have to weld legs to plates, then line everything up to tack legs to sliders, fully weld on the bench, then fully weld to truck....rolling on the ground...after 5 or 6 sets I've decided to take a break from welding up sliders lol

 

No weld table needed for sliders. When we did Ryan's I welded the tube to the plates then welded gussets on. Then set the sliders on the truck, tacked the legs, then welded them. Did not take us overly long to set the angles, but iirc it was about 5 hours or so start to finish.

 

And then welding them to the truck after they were painted. Seperate trip, and shorter too.


Also not a pro. And 110 mig. Nowadays I would crank the heat way up as well as wire speed and get them done if half the time

 

I have taken a permanent break. My ass is retired.

 

As loud Ng as you know exactly where the legs will fall. Depends on if you are on the frame taper also.
No one doubts that Mobtown knows their shit.

 

Includes union breaks, smoke breaks, pee breaks and shooting the shit.

Should take a little less time since Bryan quit smoking.

 

I stand by my earlier statement. They have all taken me about 8 hours using hand tools and 110 mig in my driveway

 

That sounds about right. I also have no doubt you could cut that in half with a lift, power tools, and a 220 welder with a table.

 

I'm going to hit him over the head w/ mine and take both.

 

Cutting/bending equipment for tabs/gussets/plates. Tube notcher if you have to make legs.

I got @Finch1018 's sliders welded to the frame in about 4 hours, but they already had the plates and everything on. If I'd had to make the plates, attach legs, etc, it would have easily been an 8 hour day.

 

Don't need a tubing notcher to notch tubing.

https://youtu.be/mHBanmfn_CA

And honestly, we have one and stopped using it. It's slow and chews through hole saws fast. DOM is so tough that even when we bought expensive hole saws, went slow and used coolant it still was toast after 100 cuts.

 

Interesting, I'd have thought it was faster/easier with a notching tool.

 

What's every quicker, more accurate and provides a nice, thick wall for welding is having the pieces cut on a tube plasma. But obviously not everyone will have those. We outsource all our coped pieces now to a place with a tube plasma. Buy 500 pieces at a time. For the cost it didn't make sense to do it in house. To cut one piece of DOM on the band saw, put it in the coper, cope then clean on the bench grinder it took 6-7 minutes per piece... That's but when you're cutting 8 per set of sliders.

 

Limited other tools, but being in a real shop makes everything suck less.

 

We are hoping by years end that we will be ready to buy a plasma table and getting the tube cutting attachment.

 

This guy is pretty talented and has taught me a lot.

 

And outsourcing to mass production shops with CNC everything sucks even less

 

I watched a bunch of his stuff, but have only gotten to use limited pieces so far.

ETA: but it all worked great, and we made a symmetric bumper the first go around.

 

Yup. We outsource all tube coping and plate cutting and forming. We still cut, miter and bend hoops in house. Everyone wants a premium to bend hoops. When all the parts are on the shelf waiting for weld, we can burn a set of sliders in in less than one hour. We also use fixtures so there is no layout work and allows exact repeatability. We are welding three sets of sliders per day per guy.