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Just finished my GOTTRIKES tubing bender. Ordered the plans last year and just did not the time to start. It is built out of a 20 ft stick of 2X2X1/4 and 4 feet of 3X1/2. The dies are from PRO_TOOLS in Tampa. The welds will never be used in the welding **** section, but I need more practice. Mike

There are dies for both pipe as well as round and square tubing that is available for this machine. Mike

There is a site called gotrikes that has plans for a hyd. tubing bender that are easy to go by and are under $20 and is down loaded from an e mail. They use the PRO_TOOLS dies, and a harbour freight hyd. ram (under $100). PRO_TOOLS has a lot of dies from 1/2inch to 2 inch and round or square. If...

Do not know where you are located? Around here, Airplane spruce for chrome molly tubing, Jones welding for mild steel. Most race car builders stock mild steel and chrome molly tubing. Suncoast race cars in Flordia, S&W race cars in Penn. etc. I just bought a 20 ft. stick of 2 inch square 1/4...

If you can go a few more dollars, miller has a performance series helmet that is a good value. I had a cheep lincoln auto helmet that lasted 10 years and replaced it with the miller. It has 3 sensors which helps when doing tight welds. Some helmets only have 2 sensors, and I found that the 4...

Buy a cheep cart first. I bought one for my new Tig at Tractor supply for $49.95. Then build a well planned table. Once that is done, build a cart of your dreams and keep the old cart for a plasma cutter or a Tig. Or sale the old cart on C/L or trade it to a friend. Mike

Nice shop! My Aunt lives no far from you in Oatmeal Texas, up by Burtrum. Mike

I have a commercial heavy duty work table that came from a military motorpool.It measures 36X60. It has done me well for 20+ years. I built a portable welding/work table last year out of scrap metal. It has 2inch square tubing frame and a 1/8 thick top. It is also 36X60. I built my daughter a...

I use awsome orange from the dollar tree. It cost a dollar and works!!! It even gets the black streeks from the enclosed race trailer and camper. Mike

One more thing, buy a good quality self darkening helmet. If you wear glasses, get the cheater lens also. You can not weld if you can't see. I have both a 110 and a 220 lincon mig welder. If I had bought the 220 model first, I would only have one mig welder. You can always turn a welder down but...

I lived in Laurel MD. back in 2004 and traveled to Marydel,MD to check on fire trucks that were being repaired there. I guess that you are close by. Good looking shop!! Mike

This picture shows off two of my projects and one on the table in the works. I built this portable (movable) welding table out of 2" square tubing with a 1/8 top. There are crossmembers every 1 foot that are 1 1/2 square. Under the table are steps that serve a double duty. They act as a foot...

Lived in a 8X20 building in IRAQ that looked a lot like that. Had a 8X4 bathroom and the rest of the building was the living area. Much better than a tent. Mike

Love the tags for trim along the top. Mike

Paint looks better than the stain to me. I wish that I could do woodwork! I would just have to weld up some square tubing if it were me doing the tables and shelving. Mike

Here is the picture after the paint. Notice where it was painted.

Here is my golf cart that I raised from the dead. It sat on it's side for 3 years with a messed up engine. It is all done now and is a cheap support vehicle for the track.

Well I am not going to build a grill from scratch but my wife's american bulldog has marked his area on the stainless steel grill so much that the plain metal used on the back and sides have rotted away. I plan on making a new base out of 2 inch square tubing and diamond plate. With good paint...

I helped my racing partner build a similar building last year. It was a 24X48 and he built both ends out of wood instead of buying the metal ends. Instead of buying the formed base, he bought black iron and had it cut and bent up on 2 sides. There are a lot of bolts. We bolted the 2 ft...

The 10-4 updates messed up a lot of super gas roadsters, but after our altered hit the wall head-on at 110mph, we do not complain about safety. The roadster in my avitar had to be updated before a new sticker would be put on the tubes. Wish I had room for a shop like yours. I work in my...