Shop Time w/T.W. Friends. Torque wrench on spark plugs, we need answers so cast your vote now

That makes perfect sense.

 

We ready to roll now!

 

Here’s our mailbox post I made years ago. Made the number plates too.

 

Vacuum on the mower works good

 

Went on an adventure today. The trains at chamberlain lake

 

And the dump motor?

 

Damn that oxy/acetylene set up is sweet. Probably the nicest cart I've ever seen.

 

Works like a champ

 

Thanks! I built it in my 20’s

 

personally I think I would run the other way

 

When I made that torch cart I had an old portable welder and would load it in the bed of my truck if I needed to go somewhere. I was just getting started in acquiring mobile welding tools of my own. I didn’t have a second torch for mobile yet so I made the cart where I could take the tray off with the turn of a screw and set it in the cab if I needed too and not spill my stuff loading and unloading.

 

Story time.

I have two torches I bought many years ago. Both were cheap kits from northern tool. I used them a lot. Few years ago a guy came by the store with a load of stuff and had a nice Harris torch with gauges, hose, and cart. No bottles. I bought it all for $75. Sold the cart for $90, traded out the nice gauges and torch with the ones on my portable set up and sold my northern set. Here’s the gauges, the torch is in a toolbox on the trailer.




Back this summer a friend called me and ask was I interested in this old Hobart welder and this torch his brother in law had when he died. I bought it all for $150 not knowing if any of it worked. Sold the welder to the mechanic friend across the street for $300, traded out the torch gauges and head for my other northern set in the shop and traded him the torch and bottles for a valve cover job on my Tacoma. The bottles were way out of date and I didn’t need any of it. It was a nice set of gauges and head though. I kept one of the drop cords too.

 

So you're one of those guys that all the good stuff for cheap lands in your lap. Let me get a piece of that horse shoe you carry around.

 

I’m blessed, for sure

 

I got a friend like that...deals fall in his lap..and makes out $$ like a bandit

 

Not that it's a bad thing. I'm always the one that doesn't have the cash or something happens to where I can't at the time. Although I did have said horseshoe up my ass on that huge haul of part out I got that was worth every penny.

 

I get some deals but some people are shocked when they actually have to pay regular price for something..
Lol