Anything welding

I headed up from SD at like 7am one time. Never....fing...again. Spent close to 4 hours in LA lol

 

Lol yup its horrible

 

Good job !!

 

Got my new longer flex head mig gun from HTP

 

Got the cart and welder assembled. Ran into a plug issue with the extension cord I am making. Should be able to start laying beads tomorrow though...

 

Well that’s a bit off.. I thought some of my 1” stock didn’t feel quite right

 

Welded in the louvers on my headache rack. Also installed 2 more D-rings for a total of 4 on the rack .

 

You are supposed to measure the inside demensions.

 

Ran out of wire

 

The sticker says “tube” so it should actually be measured by the outside. Should be 1” outside if it says 1”

Pipe would be measured by the inside

At least this is how it works for all round tube and pipe. Can’t imagine it’s different for square

 

Some "pipe" is nominal. The given dimension lies between the ID and the OD. Regardless, if he measured the inside, it would be even smaller and further from the labeled 1" dimension. Looks like he got 7/8" or 3/4", not 1"

 

If you get a chance you should check out this video. Dad let’s kids set up brand new ESAB REBEL 215ic. Pretty cool, not a word out of dad even when the roll of wire starts to unwind.

https://youtu.be/VWp7YXfuqCU

 

Eh!

 

Finally got the new machine powered up and welding. Still have a lot of work to do to dial it in and knock off all my rust. Probably have to put a few more hours in on coupons and scrap before I start my real projects. First bead in over 15 years on a new machine turned out decent... (but still lots of practice/dialing in needed)

 

Looks pretty darn good to me! Good job and keep up the practice.

 

We use these clamps at work called Proburgers that are very similar to a cheseboro clamp but with a wingnut instead and usually made of aluminum vs steel. Sometimes dudes tighten them on very tight and they’re difficult to get off after they’ve sat holding something together for 4-6 months long through the duration of shooting a TV show. More times than I can count I’ve used my crescent wrench to try to loosen the wingnut and I’ll break one of the wings on the wingnut which is really annoying. There is a special “pro burger wrench” that exists but it costs more than I wanted to pay so I made my own to fit the wingnut so that I wouldn’t break anymore wingnuts and make it easier to loosen.

 

Man that’s awesome. Sounds like Joe at mobtown and his new plasma. Finds all sorts of misc little shit to cut out on it. The other day we needed to press some rubber bushings out of 4runner links, so he cut out a perfect diameter circle out of scrap 1/4” and pressed them out no issue.

 

Thanks dude! It’s so rad to be able to cut out a bunch of stuff that you need. The difference is Joe’s table is waaaay bigger and more badasser than mine hahaha but I’m happy with my little table. Perfect for home shop!

I’ve also made some BBQ gas baffles since the original ones from my BBQ rusted and crumbled

Also started cutting out some knife blanks for fun and I’m gonna make my dad a hunting knife for his birthday!

And a bunch of 2nd gen CB antenna mounts

 

It comes back real fast !!

Most times you turn the welder on some fine tuning is needed due to the ever changing conditions .

 

Gusseted my spindles today. They came out pretty good, but I didn't care too much how these welds looked. Just wanted to get the bastards on.