Recent content by Lazylaser

When welding bank vault & safe parts out of stainless our welders would use scrap pieces of granite stone that we kept in the freezer as a heat sink. :thumbup:

Re: Garage Refurb Read all 79 pages, at work. (boss was off) I really enjoyed the Do it Yourself attitude, its just the motivation I needed! Can you share some pictures of the tool that you use to put the tapcons up around the outside? Also I may have missed it but were the size tapcons you used?

All the videos I watched online it seemed like it would be really easy, just hold it with a vice grip or put a 13mm wrench on one of the four pulley bolts. Mine was not the case, even with the tool I had to use 2 pvc extensions to break the 125,000 mile bond free, and that is after trying to...

Water pump on the wife's trailblazer started leaking. I needed to get the clutch type fan off. It would be near impossible without the tool and I didn't feel like driving to the auto parts store. Clutch type fan. A pos HF groove pliers and two stainless countersink bolts. Clamp. TIG...

I prefer stainless over regular steel, No painting required! Besides it being free and plentiful at my house I want to practice so that when it comes time to re-do my exhaust, intercooler piping waste-gate etc, I'm semi good. Used some tin snips to trim a section for the wheels to mount...

My wife fell in love with the outdoor space you built.

Here is my 1st welding cart project and the first time using my welding table I just made. It's stainless and for my eastwood tig. Its in progress at the moment. http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=239432&highlight=welding+project

So when I said that I tac’d the front post to the upper rack, this is what I ment. I just welded the front so that once I could still adjust/bend the arms before clamping them and welding them in place. Here is the bottom, notched. Next I set the rear supports in place, squared them and...

I have been buying tools for the last couple years and they have just kind of been sitting while I accomplish other things, so it feels good enough to share that I'm actually using them. Finally took some steel I had laying around and made myself a welding table! Now that I have the table I...