New England Mod & Meetup Thread:

That's rad. I'm hoping to pick one up for doing rotary pipe here in the near future. Looking to build my son a little backyard pre-runner.

 

If only I had a barn/shop... I have so much I could do with one of those, might almost justify the cost...

 

Thats awesome

 

Yeah its kind of incredible. Takes 20 min to cut out all these parts out of 1/4".

I beat the cut time record on his table by a longshot, previous longest was 8 minutes. Aaaand he has a 40a panel in there. Between the air compressor, the table and the cutter it was drawing 55a continuous. That breaker is welded.

 

You’re gonna be the best east coast taco welder. You’re making me think of so many things I could do…

 

I appreciate it, I do have aspirations to start a real shop some day. My skillset is more on the design and engineering end so if I could hire a great fabricator I think it could do pretty well

 

I haven't heard "Ackerman Angle" since going to tech school in '89.

 

I just realized I never put a picture. My design right now, SW says 75 lbs W/o bullbar. Should have it done and a real weight by monday if all goes to plan.

 

Very nice! I like tube bumpers. I'll never be hard core enough for a full plate bumper hahahha

 

My auto-x days gave me an education in how suspensions work.

 

That my next deep dive. Need to get beyond the pirate4x4 forum hahahahah

 

I like tube... everything

I like the fact that tube is alot stronger for the weight and height it takes up. Allows another 2-3" of clearance in most places and has been plenty strong so far

 

As a pipe / tube welder, you have no argument from me hahahhaha

 

You'd love the tube welds on on my road bicycle. Got a Merlin titanium, they were one of the first titanium builders. They found out by pure chance that the titanium tubing Boeing used for hydraulic lines was the correct diameter and wall thickness to work for bike frames...and bought Boeing scrap. Then they needed a titanium fabricator. Laid-off Electric Boat sub welder to the rescue. The cleanest, tightest, smallest "roll of dimes" imaginable. It's a work of art.

 

Posting this description without a single picture should be illegal

 

Nice. Yeah we grew up with guys like Frank the welder up here slapping bike frames together. So much talent out there. Ground speed bikes is another one who has both amazing welding / fabrication + does awesome brazed lug work

 

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6uVleBuLXF/?igsh=bzcweHE0aWIyOTE=

 

I miss bigger tubing. I did smaller stuff for so long. A lot was smaller than your pinky finger. Most was the width of a pencil.

 

Wow