Recent content by jlsanzaro

i learned on a lincoln with .045 i thinks its defiantly better to learn on a big machine to really see how to get good penetration. like sureshot said, once i learned on a big machine it taught me to never want to use flux core

you said it best. IMPROVISE, ADAPT, AND OVERCOME thats what makes a great mechanic and thats what needs to be taught to the next generation.

yea charcoal for the heat. lined the inside with aluminum foil then cover the seems with aluminum foil tape from home depot 5/8 all thread for the rack

cooked it right in there. went in at 8 and it was ready by 12 sorry for the upside down pics ill try to fix it

also had some biscuits in the oven

One of the girls in the office had an idea of having thanksgiving together at lunch time. so the guys and i came up with a cardboard box oven and cooked a turkey in the garage. here are some pics of the oven and the turkey going in :)

beautiful welds

lol that was the hard part. we scored some lines where the bend was supposed to be with a skill saw, went about 3/16. then we rolled it and put ratchet straps to hold in a u shape. pushed it in the body, took off the straps and put about 5 tons of stone in it. when the sheet was up against...

I've got six trucks total, i have an aluminum dump trailer, aluminum dump truck and the rest are steel. its all about the weight i get 26 tons in the aluminum where the steel i can only get about 22 tons. i personally like the steel bodies better, there a lot more versatile. your limited to...

thanks guys, i think it was half a bottle of argon and about 5 1lbs spools of 4043 wire. millermatic with a spoolmatic gun, little awkward to hold, but welds nice when u get the hang of it

One of my dump trucks with an aluminum body had some holes that needed to be patched. this i one of two aluminum bodies i have, usually i just gets some sheets, drill a few holes for plug welds and weld them in but i wanted to try some thing different thats supposed to last a little bit longer...

i've worked on heavy equipment for the last 12 years and constantly use old scraps of carpet to protect my knees while kneeling on steel, i've welded on it, torched on it, and have yet to light my self on fire. its not like i went out and bought a new piece of **** to weld on lol. thanks for...

Ive had racedeck for aout a year now and its held up great. now that i have started welding in the garage i want to protect it. i have some carpet down for now, just wondering if anyone else has come up with some other ideas

born and raised in Toms River

hey everybody, just signed up a few days ago and im already in love with this site. im a diesel mechanic here, and i run 50x60 shop for an excavation company, working on all sorts of things; equipment, trucks, crushers, screeners, etc. ive been searching the internet for about a year now...