Anything welding

All painted. Going fishing next week.

 

Having a welder comes in clutch for more than just fabrication stuff.

Replacing the brake lines from front to rear, I rounded this bolt. (yeah its crusty I know ). Line is leaking because I cut them out just out of the pic frame, rather than dealing with the flare nuts, since I was replacing with new anyway


But I had a random nut to weld on there


and it came right out


and replaced them with the new new. Fresh lines from front to back, weren't actually that expensive from the dealer. Soft lines are +2"

 

not anything particular welding, but i finally bought a vise today. just HF though. looked on CL and FB and didnt see any that i wanted.

 

Received all of these over the last few days. I see some good usage out of them all.

$19 Strong Hand Tools PG622V 6" Pipe Plier, Two Fixed V-Pads, 2" Throat Depth, 1"–2" Clamping Capacity, M8 Thread

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003GM4VRM/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o08_s00?ie=UTF8

$13 Adjustable Magnetic Tab Holder, Vertical/Horizontal Tab Holding, Adjustable V-Pads, Max Pull Force: 18 LBS, Tack Welding Tool, Patented Design, MFT10

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0087GAEDM/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8

YESWELDER Magnetic Welding Clamps, Adjustable V-Type Fixture Clamp, Suspender Fixture Adjustable Pads Kit(4 Pcs)

https://www.amazon.com/YESWELDER-Ma...456&s=hi&sprefix=welding+cla,tools,309&sr=1-9

 

Long time no weld.

 

Fabbed up a trailer tail gate assist.

This was a $20 investment to save my back.

 

Vid to annoy you. Hit me with comments if you want.

 

Man seeing the rust on your truck makes me so happy they aren't allowed to salt the roads here, they can only put down grit/gravel.

That's pretty slick. As I scrolled through the post I was wondering how it was gonna work. Until I saw it installed I was thinking garage door style spring, not linear spring.

 

Putting a butt connector on the dead end of the cable -- brilliant !
Nice job on the assist too.

 

With the cable on one side do you have a problem with it twisting and binding??

To bad your a tad faraway one of my Coworkers lives for the Computer and electronics of plasma Tables.

He has helped many a Customers out with issues.

 

I dont notice any twisting. It works the same as if lifting it by hand from one side.

So far the plasma table is not giving me issues that I can't solve. Mostly its finding time to work with the thing. It is a massive time suck!

My coupling for the Z axis stepper is supposed to be here tomorrow. Programming that thing to do what I want may be a challenge. We shall see.

Learning these things has been an enlighgening experience. Much of what you learn earlier helps you learn to solve your next hurdle.

I really am enjoying the process. I just had no idea that it would be such a long process.

Maybe if I didn't have so many other projects going it would take less time. I dunno?

 

Bet my plasma table takes longer to build lol..

It is truly a "someday" project. I really need to just fork over the cash and by steel to build the frame. And move it along a bit. But.. have a million other things going on and this is a lower priority especially since people don't seem to interested in the bed rack design. At least yet...

So this is more of a because I can and I want to build something project. Than anything else. Maybe once it cools off a bit I will feel a more motivated. Just need to save some of that OT money.

 

Just build that frame!
You can handle that.
It's the electronics that take forever, but you'll see that frame sitting there knowing that it needs some electronic hardware, to start making it look more complete.

 

I love these awesome things you come up with dude.

"I'm in my 50's now, I don't need to be blowing a grape just trying to lift the damn tailgate..."

 

Amirite!?

 

Where is that?
I hate salt, grew up in Ohio. I had both subframe mounts break free while I was driving once on my first car.

 

Oregon. The rule applies to most of the PNW because the salt isn't good for the salmon.

 

Salmon out there swimming up a river not knowing they’re saving thousands of chassis’ lives.

What do they use on the roads?

 

Typically sand, gravel, or volcanic cinders (think extra coarse gravel from crushed lava rock)

 

Made some custom bed bars for @McRib