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[V-10 Killer]

Nice little spring project here. We always grab our toys when we head up North to the in-laws cabin during the summer. But as we've accumulated stuff, I started having trouble fitting it on the trailer. So I made 2 sets of racks. They're collapsible for storage, though I might just leave the Kayak rack together full time and put it in the garage.

 

[FBJR]

A tow bar for a WWII Harpoon at a local museum.

Not the hardest thing to build. But heavy and around 20ft long.

 

[zmaxmotorsports]

Flashboard riser I just welded up for a 30 acre agricultural field we flood for ducks in the fall.

Looks like the beginning of the worlds largest fan limit switch.

 

[shortykorte]

I don't know, boss.

 

[bsaint]

Mini vac chamber for leak testing.

 

[Griff93]

Finished up a repair on a bellhousing today.

I was putting a engine in a GMC C6500 chipper truck when I found the top of the bellhousing had broken off.



Thankfully the piece was held on the back of the block with a bolt. We cleaned up everything and brazed the piece back on using Si Bronze filler with a tig welder.



The whole transmission hangs off the back of the bellhousing in this truck. There's no rear trans mount at all. I wanted to put a reinforcement on the repaired area as I didn't want it to crack later on. I drew it up in CAD and cut out it on our CNC plasma table. After I cleaned it up, I bent it to fit the curve of the bellhousing in our press brake.



I brazed it all up. I think it will be stronger than the original casting now as I've almost doubled the material thickness where the stress is.



I think I got a pretty good bead of filler material but some places I had a hard time getting it to wet into the casting at the edges really well. I think the casting was outgasing where this was happening near the corner. It got real black and sooty right there. I was running on AC with 90% penetration.

 

[jhn9840]

Nice work. Probably stronger now than when it came out of the factory.

jhn9840
John

 

[zmotorsports]

Nice work on the ****** bellhousing repair and thinking outside the box.

Mike.

 

[zmotorsports]

Mini vac chamber for leak testing.

Nice job.

Mike.

 

[zmotorsports]

Finished up a few argon backer boxes night before last.

I have many more pictures of the fabrication process in my shop projects thread, link in my signature.

Mike.

 

[bsaint]

Nice job.

Mike.

Thanks. I dont tig weld every day but it comes up often in our R&D shop which consist of me (mechanical designer), a programmer, and an electrical engineer. So Im the one who welds. Sometimes it comes out great sometimes its pretty narly. I hand bent those brackets which were water cut. Those could have come out straighter.

 

[Griff93]

Thanks. I was trying to make it as strong as I could. I think it will be good to go for a long time now. The casting is only about 1/4" thick where it broke. I added a piece of 3/16" to it so now it's almost twice as thick.

 

[BlueBomber]

Finished up a repair on a bellhousing today.

I was putting a engine in a GMC C6500 chipper truck when I found the top of the bellhousing had broken off.



Thankfully the piece was held on the back of the block with a bolt. We cleaned up everything and brazed the piece back on using Si Bronze filler with a tig welder.



The whole transmission hangs off the back of the bellhousing in this truck. There's no rear trans mount at all. I wanted to put a reinforcement on the repaired area as I didn't want it to crack later on. I drew it up in CAD and cut out it on our CNC plasma table. After I cleaned it up, I bent it to fit the curve of the bellhousing in our press brake.



I brazed it all up. I think it will be stronger than the original casting now as I've almost doubled the material thickness where the stress is.



I think I got a pretty good bead of filler material but some places I had a hard time getting it to wet into the casting at the edges really well. I think the casting was outgasing where this was happening near the corner. It got real black and sooty right there. I was running on AC with 90% penetration.

I don't understand why you went through all that effort on what turned out to be a very well-done and strong repair to put a bolt flange back on, and then welded the bolt hole shut...?

 

[Griff93]

I drilled a hole through the reinforcement plate after it cooled off. It was still hot while I remembered to take some pictures.

 

[BlueBomber]

I drilled a hole through the reinforcement plate after it cooled off. It was still hot while I remembered to take some pictures.

Ah, that makes much more sense. Again, great work!

 

[zmotorsports]

Completed mounting my 3-jaw chuck to my new to me M-K Products weld positioner last night.

One of my TIG welds.

More detailed pics can be seen in my shop projects thread of the entire mounting process.

Mike.

 

[aggierailroad]

Got to love having a positioner. Great job!

 

[zmotorsports]

Got to love having a positioner. Great job!

I haven't used it yet though. I wasn't thinking at the time but I should have used it to make the four welds on the mounting plate. Those were just free-hand so far.

I am getting excited to try it out in the near future though. Should make welding suspension links and tubular fittings much nicer to weld.

Mike.

 

[jackson1701]

Completed mounting my 3-jaw chuck to my new to me M-K Products weld positioner last night.

One of my TIG welds.

More detailed pics can be seen in my shop projects thread of the entire mounting process.

Mike.

I've checked out some of your posts, AWESOME WORK! I love your welds

 

[zmotorsports]

I've checked out some of your posts, AWESOME WORK! I love your welds

Thank you. I really appreciate that.

Mike.

 

[ilovevocs]

Completed mounting my 3-jaw chuck to my new to me M-K Products weld positioner last night.

One of my TIG welds.

More detailed pics can be seen in my shop projects thread of the entire mounting process.



Mike.

That's a nice piece and very nice work.



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[zmotorsports]

That's a nice piece and very nice work.



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Thank you very much.

Mike.

 

[VR6ix]

Speaker Stands

Let me start this by saying that I'm not a welder. I can make metal stick together, but I have no formal training and just whatever practice & Utube training from over the years

That said, I have been doing steel design work for a decade and have never been afraid to try building some home-projects for myself on company time

So I have these old British speakers from the 70's, the factory did offer stands but both sets that I have do not have any stands. A quick trip to the internet and some time with a tape measure netted some HSS 1x1 x 1/8" speaker stands that would function the same, even if they were not an exact copy.

I MIG-welded the first ones as a test-fit to prove-out the design and ensure my cut lengths were good. There was a lot of grinding involved...

For the second set (actually it was making the other-hand to match the first ones) I wanted to TIG weld them for poops-and-grins. And to get some bench time!

I think the welds came-out pretty decent considering my noobie-status. The fitment was pretty awful, all things considered... I'm a designer, not a welder, and certainly not a fitter!

Then again, after a coat of paint it's really not going to matter much if the welds look a bit iffy or if they aren't perfectly square and flat. I'm happy with the outcome and look forward to the next project

 

[Crusarius]

Have you had a chance to use them? do you get any ringing or vibration transfer from them? They look pretty sweet I like the idea.

 

[Reducto]

My first project after buying my first welder was a cooler rack for a Harley Davidson FLHTU. There was a thin board that went in the top, then a camp grill on top of that.


Recently made a piggy bank for my daughter

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My daughter would lose her mind if I gave her a "dad-made" piggy! Nicely done, major dad points for you!

 

[Hephaestus29]

Frame work and casters for my tool cart build.

Does anyone have any suggestions as for how I should do my shelves ? I was going to weld in angle and then just slide in some HDPE, But I do have some
Unistrut, and with all those holes already poked in there I could adjust the shelves as I needed. Or Tractor Supply sells E-Track like what's in semis.

 

[shortykorte]

Frame work and casters for my tool cart build.

Does anyone have any suggestions as for how I should do my shelves ? I was going to weld in angle and then just slide in some HDPE, But I do have some
Unistrut, and with all those holes already poked in there I could adjust the shelves as I needed. Or Tractor Supply sells E-Track like what's in semis.

Since you have the unistrut, one idea is to weld several pieces horizontally on each side with open side pointing inward. Then you can slide the HDPE in the slots and it becomes a drawer.

 

[ilovevocs]

I would buy full extension drawer slides and be done with it. Downside to you angle concept is your not going to be able to pull the drawers all the way out.


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[Hephaestus29]

I would buy full extension drawer slides and be done with it. Downside to you angle concept is your not going to be able to pull the drawers all the way out.


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I wasn't really planning on having any
drawers, just shelves that can be accessed
from either side of the cart. I'll be putting
lathe chucks and other machine tool
items in it so i'm thinking slides might
be a bit light duty.

 

[Unfinished_Projects]

Hell of a repair!

 

[Unfinished_Projects]

Completed mounting my 3-jaw chuck to my new to me M-K Products weld positioner last night.

One of my TIG welds.

More detailed pics can be seen in my shop projects thread of the entire mounting process.

Mike.

Top notch weld right there!

 

[crab]

I have a leather apron to go with the gloves, wouldn't weld or grind without it .

 

[zmotorsports]

Top notch weld right there!

Thank you. I appreciate that.

Mike.

 

[racer-john]

Well this is the second time trying to reply to your questions. I am not very good with a computer. I see some of you have expressed interest in plans for the bender. I don't really have any "plans". I thought this all up in my head and built it as I went. It should not be too hard for me to come up with some plans though. I will supply the "plans" for free to whoever wants them but you must supply me with your email or mailing address somehow. This is the first post on here I believe and I have no idea how to get them to me. If there is a private message system maybe that will work. As far as the bike project goes I used to turn a lot of Harley's into choppers. Some of the guys wanted their backbone rolled and I could not do it so I built this roller. It is an on again off again kind of hobby. You never know when or what people are going to want. Now that I can roll tubing I probably won't have anybody ask, isn't that how it goes? Ha Ha. If anybody sends their address please give me some time to make the plans. For free this will not be a detailed set of blueprints but I will supply material sizes and dimensions etc so it can be duplicated.
Thanks
Bill

Would like some drawings, please.
[email protected]
TIA

 

[VR6ix]

Have you had a chance to use them? do you get any ringing or vibration transfer from them? They look pretty sweet I like the idea.

I did test-fit them and listen to the speakers for a couple days - did not notice any resonance from the metal stands. Then again, they were on a carpeted floor, and each speaker weighs about 80 pounds!

That's a good question though, a smaller/lighter speaker might need to take resonance of the metal stand into consideration and adjust the materials or design.

 

[Guster]

I did test-fit them and listen to the speakers for a couple days - did not notice any resonance from the metal stands. Then again, they were on a carpeted floor, and each speaker weighs about 80 pounds!

That's a good question though, a smaller/lighter speaker might need to take resonance of the metal stand into consideration and adjust the materials or design.

You could probably drill a hole in the back of the hollow sections to fit a plastic plug/cap and fill them with sand to help with that if it became an issue.

 

[racer-john]

None of the pics showed.

 

[csp]

None of the pics showed.

If only we knew which pictures you're referring to. If you mean none of them in the entire thread, you have a browser or computer problem.

 

[bsaint]

Made a simple stand for my pizza stone to use on the grill. Not bad for using a coat hanger for filler rod and just wiping the steel with acetone.

I gotta clean the lid so i get more infrared heat off the top. Couldnt get it to brown very well like the oven.

But the extra heat sure helped make some bubbles! And gave it a great crunch.

 

[bmxdad]

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