Recent content by David the welder

I still have to make the control panel, but it's turning out pretty nice so far

I can't a video to uupload, but I do have a video on my Facebook page for anyone interested in seeing it work. If you go to my Columbus Mobile-Welding Facebook page, then go to my profile "David Stewart", you'll be able to the brake plus tons of other cool projects. I always come to GJ first to...

Hopefully this works

Can I post video here?

Thanks! My mission over the last couple of years has been focused on building all of my equipment mysel, all out of scrap laying around the shop. In some of my other posts on GJ you can see some of my other homemade stuff. I built a smaller press brake last year that I shared to the forum.

This is being built entirely out of scrap steel laying around my shop. I started by taking an inventory of what i had to wwork with. I knew that the heavy beam would be used for the leverage arms and that the 3/8" plates would be used for the sides of the body. Then with the basic concept in...

This is my latest homemade brake press. It's not completely finished yet, but the mechanics are done.

I made this about 6 months ago. The dies took forever to make so I only made two, one for 5/8" and 1" round solid. Worked out great. I included a picture of some post drivers that I made, and I bent the handles with this bender. Every piece of equipment I make is 100% made out of steel from the...

I converted a hydraulic lift table into this very convenient flood table.i used 1/4" plate for the top. I started by welding a rectangle of 2" DOM tubing that I had left over in the scrap pile, which I cut in half long ways. I cut the plate out and welded the halved tubing in place. The T-slot...

Good observation! Every run has a larger hole at each end of it. The top section has a larger spot in the middle as well. It's not fun when you have to remove 10 clamps to get to the oneyyou want.

I did. I didn't know of that issue. Is there a way to correct the issue?

This is some 1/2" x 1/2" square solid that I bent for my punch press redo

With this die combo (i made another top and bottom die), the heaviest I've bent was 3" x 5/16" flat stock

It's amazing what you can do with scrap metal

I cut the center section out of the keg and welded it back together. It was a little too long without at first. I polished it out for good measure. Lol