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[kaymccampbell]

In a previous shop we twisted all pickets cold but had a very nice machine to do it. It was smooth and consistent. I use my connecting bar to twist mine and it works really well.
The only time we used heat was to make lambs tongues or scrolls. And we/I never make any rails with hollow pickets. That's typically a large box store product haha.

Thank you.

 

[sqznby]

I could see that helping with the kinking. Other wise you would have to heat as you go. Heat a section, twist a little, heat a section twist a little. With solid you can pretty much heat the whole thing at once, not with hollow though.

I forgot to attach your quote

The pockets are what? Solid? Hollow?

The square pieces welding inside, one is a 1.2" socket, and the other is a 1/2" socket extension.

 

[kaymccampbell]

I forgot to attach your quote


The square pieces welding inside, one is a 1.2" socket, and the other is a 1/2" socket extension.

Effing triple secret spellchecker switched my word as I hit send.
Pickets was the word. The pickets are what? Solid? Hollow?

 

[sqznby]

Effing triple secret spellchecker switched my word as I hit send.
Pickets was the word. The pickets are what? Solid? Hollow?

too funny
The pickets are solid.

 

[kaymccampbell]

too funny
The pickets are solid.

Laugh. It's only on my tablet. It's either the browser, keyboard, or some built-in app. It's almost like a plebian-izer, as it frequently takes perfectly acceptable English words that it's unfamiliar with and changes them to some grade school word that's close-ish in spelling, but not meaning.

 

[Old Man Roger]

Lambs tongues is going to send the none railing builders to the google book.lol

 

[ObnoxiousFumes]

Lambs tongues is going to send the none railing builders to the google book.lol

Ha! not me! Lol. I think I stumbled across some blacksmith(?) forum once by accident and picked up that random tidbit of useless-to-me information...

 

[sqznby]

Laugh. It's only on my tablet. It's either the browser, keyboard, or some built-in app. It's almost like a plebian-izer, as it frequently takes perfectly acceptable English words that it's unfamiliar with and changes them to some grade school word that's close-ish in spelling, but not meaning.

Honestly can't stand when that happens. Recently got a new phone an iPhone, never had one before I have always had Samsung phones, never had an issue with them but this new phone takes my words and scrambles them up into such a word salad I stopped using talk and swipe, now I'm finger poundin every word rereading before sending then sending haha.

 

[Old Man Roger]

Ha! not me! Lol. I think I stumbled across some blacksmith(?) forum once by accident and picked up that random tidbit of useless-to-me information...

I worked at a couple ornamental iron and aluminum railing companies back in the early 90’s or I would have had no idea what he was talking about..lol

 

[XJSuperman]

Finally done painting and mounting. Plastic cap was a good idea, but I welded it.

 

[sqznby]

Two down one to go.
You can get an idea of how it was with the walls. They were very low (not to code) and made the entire floor so dark. This really opened it up nicely.

 

[sqznby]

I'm also building a small tank.
Big man told me to leave the handles in, so, I'm leaving them in. He said it would lose about a gallon. We needed them to dry fit. You know measure twice cut once kinda deal. Once this is in, it's in for good.

 

[Firebrick43]

I'm also building a small tank.
Big man told me to leave the handles in, so, I'm leaving them in. He said it would lose about a gallon. We needed them to dry fit. You know measure twice cut once kinda deal. Once this is in, it's in for good.

Fuel tank? or water for an RV?

 

[LXCam]

Metal origami, I like it

How many gallons is that beast.

 

[sqznby]

Fuel tank? or water for an RV?

It's a fuel tank for a sport fishing boat.

Metal origami, I like it

How many gallons is that beast.

Hah Thanks, its been fun.
This one is about 500 gallons.

 

[ObnoxiousFumes]

Modified an exhaust hanger from a Duramax tailpipe I had laying around, added a little plate and now it will have a new home on my Dodge. (Yeah, a 5/8 bolt is far oversize for this application, but that’s the size of the factory hole in the frame that I’m using, so had to make it match lol.)

 

[sqznby]

Not bad for the first try haha. It's not as steep or squared as the original but it'll do.
This is the beginning of a 07/14 GMT900 platform y-pipe.
It's weird because the driver's flange is a fixed flange, and the passenger is not. This is the passenger side.
It's also odd to have two different kinds of flanges with different bolt patterns.
It'll be fun to make though.

 

[elmer]

Not mine but I thought this was kinda a cool way to get your mail.
Saw this down the road from a friends house.

 

[elmer]

Tractor step and foot pads.

Foot pads because originals were rusting out, step because I'm getting old.

 

[logixjock]

I have that same loader on a TC29

 

[elmer]

I have that same loader on a TC29

Has been a very good piece of equipment ,will probably need to do some welding on the bucket some day

 

[gearhead1]

Tractor step and foot pads.

Foot pads because originals were rusting out, step because I'm getting old.

Nice bends in the perimeter of the first pic. What did you use for the bends?

 

[elmer]

Oxy acetylene torch. Bent around original footboard.

 

[chrisbalich]

I bought a TIG machine recently and needed a new cart for it and my (old AF) Handler 125.
I'm ~26 hours in with a long way yet to go. I've been documenting the build in my (911) build thread over on Pelican Parts.

 

[ObnoxiousFumes]

Hehe you guys will get a kick outta this one.
Needed to modify my fuel filler neck for my flatbed install, and it’s super thin wall pipe that’s been rusting away for 25 years. Here’s the best I could do with .035 wire (that’s almost thicker than the tube itself!):


Did I mention how THIN that stuff was?! Not some of my best work.
Cleaned it up with the flapwheel and sure enough, lotsa pinholes so I just slathered some JB on it to seal it up.
#weldor lol

 

[Old Man Roger]

I wouldn’t even say a word had you done this on an exhaust pipe, he’ll I’ve done it myself, but your gas tank filler tube? I mean you couldn’t have just got some new pipe?

 

[Old Man Roger]

I take it back, I’ve probably done worse..lol

 

[ObnoxiousFumes]

I wouldn’t even say a word had you done this on an exhaust pipe, he’ll I’ve done it myself, but your gas tank filler tube? I mean you couldn’t have just got some new pipe?

Like I said, fitting a flatbed onto the truck so it has to be a custom configuration, ain’t no OEM support for this application lol. That and I’m pressed for time so yeh. Not ideal but hey, it cleaned up okay:

 

[ObnoxiousFumes]

Plus I like a challenge, and this was the first time I’ve been able to use the #1 voltage setting on this welder
Also discovered that the #2 setting is actually dead, gonna have to figure that out sometime...

 

[Old Man Roger]

Ya, time is usually what causes me to do things like that.lol

 

[PugetDude]

Don't you hate when the parent metal is so thin you can't grind away the evil after you are done welding?

 

[danielbuck]

building a fairly large arch way for the entrance gate of the house. outside arch is 12 feet across, it was fun rolling 20 foot lengths of tube! I still need to add on 4 feet of straight tubes to the bottom of the arches. all made out of 1" square tube, 1/16" wall, mig welded.

 

[danielbuck]

 

[PugetDude]

Archway is looking good; what tube bender are you using?

 

[danielbuck]

it's a harbor freight unit that I've modified with some SWAG offroad kit. If I rolled tube a whole lot, I would probably motorize the drive rollers, but I don't roll tube all that often.

 

[PugetDude]

Thanks, asked because I am going to need to roll some 5/8 round so I can plagiarize @royce big welded globe.
But I gotta get the '32 done first....

 

[danielbuck]

rolling tube is pretty easy, the hardest part might be finding/making a die for 5/8"

I've got a smaller roller that I use for solid round rod (1/2" and smaller)

 

[danielbuck]

Thanks, asked because I am going to need to roll some 5/8 round so I can plagiarize @royce big welded globe.
But I gotta get the '32 done first....

got a link to the globe? I'd like to see it! also the 32 as well I'm slowly chipping away at a 33 Chevy, and have a 32 Ford pickup next in line.

 

[Bodj Built]

How big of a pain was it to keep the rolls all in plane? I built a gate for our church and rolled 20ft lengths of 1.75" square tube and they developed a corkscrew twist. It was such a headache!

 

[danielbuck]

How big of a pain was it to keep the rolls all in plane? I built a gate for our church and rolled 20ft lengths of 1.75" square tube and they developed a corkscrew twist. It was such a headache!

I've never had much trouble, maybe I'm just lucky. These did slightly get out of plane, but nothing that wasn't difficult to bend back by hand. You might try keeping the weld seam on either the inside or the outside (rather than on left or right), that might help? Or maybe shim the rollers to keep them from walking left or right.