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[4 FN 27]

Finished up the F-4D Staircase this weekend (a week later than planned).

Had the Nephew over to run the Saw while I welded and a few Beer Drinking buddies.

Next project: A rack to hold Press Brake Rails for the guys at the Plant. Welded as much as I could yesterday, need to Laser the Shelves out before I can go any further.

 

[zmotorsports]

Finished up the F-4D Staircase this weekend (a week later than planned).

Had the Nephew over to run the Saw while I welded and a few Beer Drinking buddies.

Next project: A rack to hold Press Brake Rails for the guys at the Plant. Welded as much as I could yesterday, need to Laser the Shelves out before I can go any further.

Those turned out awesome Pat.

 

[AngryBeaver]

nothing complicated, but a "dolley" for a snap on locker than couldn't be hung on a side cabinet due to both having hooks on them.

So I built a subframe for it. 2x1.5” 1/8” wall box tube. With a 6" caster it’s perfect height. I added a support cross member after this pic was taken. Works for me.

 

[shedfullatools]

Was cleaning up one of the manifolds that came with my truck and spotted a hairline crack, decided it was worth trying to fix. Ground to the root of the crack all around, preheated and did a heavy pass a couple inches at a time switching sides as I went. Had to grind a little porosity out of one small spot and do a second pass but other wise it welded very smoothly. Started slowly cooling it with the torch when I finished and then when the temperatures were about right I tossed it in the wood stove to cool nice and slow as the fire slowly dies.
Not pretty but I'm pretty confident in it holding for long enough to be worth it...

 

[Griff93]

Fixed an intake for a jeep. I broke the cracked parts the rest of the way off so I would have room to work. I got out my die grinder and grooved a V into both of the parts with them together.

2018-03-18_10-56-32 by Griffin93, on Flickr

Clamped it all down flat to my table and tacked the back together.

2018-03-18_10-56-55 by Griffin93, on Flickr

All done. It didn't want to wet in very well. I was using 4043 filler material.

2018-03-18_10-56-05 by Griffin93, on Flickr

 

[jhn9840]

Looks good, nice work. Those kind of jobs are always on the tough side.

jhn9840
John

 

[GLTHFJ60]

Welding cast aluminum is very difficult. Always have a tough time getting it to wet in without blowing the work out.

 

[AngryBeaver]

Welding cast aluminum is very difficult. Always have a tough time getting it to wet in without blowing the work out.

try some 5356 rod on cast. thats what I've been using lately

 

[Mike.ASC]

Todays repair, before and after.

 

[Sjfab]

Been wanting to build a rollout wheel for a long time and finally got around to it. Ordered the lathe chuck and spindle off Amazon, the rest I had laying around. Can weld horizontal or vertical, 45* coming soon.

 

[jones2289]

These look great! I've just recently taken an intro class on MIG, and am thinking about doing something similar. How did you secure the prints to the back sides of the frames? I was considering mounting ours on Gator Board, then attaching to the frames.

Mrs wanted some picture frames to go around some canvas poster size prints she got. She wanted them in raw metal to go with a bit of an industrial them. Picked up 1.5x1.5 16g bent steel for the frames. Used my Femi 782xl to cut the corners at a 45 so they would like a bit nicer when finished. Used my new stronghand 3 axis jig to hold everything square and welded them up.

I am very new to metal working. Took a 2 hour class once, watched countless hours of YouTube videos and look at what a lot of you have done. Overall very happy. Most importantly, she is very happy.

Untitled by Victor M, on Flickr

Untitled by Victor M, on Flickr

 

[ndr1968]

Finished up the F-4D Staircase this weekend (a week later than planned).

Had the Nephew over to run the Saw while I welded and a few Beer Drinking buddies.

Next project: A rack to hold Press Brake Rails for the guys at the Plant. Welded as much as I could yesterday, need to Laser the Shelves out before I can go any further.

Nice machine tools! Love to see the new stuff!

 

[jblnut]

Might be a little different than some other projects in this thread but here goes.

I slapped together a 45 degree angle blade to scrape chicken poo from the wall in my chicken barn. I used doubled 1/4" plate for the blade, 1/2" wall 3 1/2" diameter pipe for the pivot so it can stay flat on the ground and an old home made set of pallet forks as the carrier.

Doing it's thing. Revision 1 is a very successful proof of concept.

We used to do this with a scoop shovel and it took 2-3hrs for 2 guys. Two passes around the barn in 10 minutes and it looks great. Only took 15min with a shovel to clean up behind it.

 

[Griff93]

Don't be afraid to share more like this. I think everybody likes skid steer stuff. To me a big part of welding is to be able to make things that make our lives easier or more enjoyable. Looks like it works as intended.

 

[BlueBomber]

What a great way to handle a ****** job!

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[Mgdoug3]

A few of my projects to make things easier for me.

 

[jeeps1]

Put a new cutting edge on my Mini Ex . I went a little too long , had to cut all the bottom out and re plate it all .

 

[4 FN 27]

Hammered away on the Rack I am building for our Press Brake Rails for the shop. Ran out of Stargon Gas for the Wirefeed. Had to run to the plant to "barrow" a tank.

Should have it wrapped up tomorrow...I hope...

 

[zmotorsports]

Hammered away on the Rack I am building for our Press Brake Rails for the shop. Ran out of Stargon Gas for the Wirefeed. Had to run to the plant to "barrow" a tank.

Should have it wrapped up tomorrow...I hope...

Looks good Pat.

Nice to have the ability to "borrow" tanks when needed. I have to monitor my usage and when I get close have to determine the value in giving a little to have a full tank for a big project or running completely out. I will admit, sometimes I err on the side of giving a little and don't use all of what's in my tank.

 

[Sjfab]

Finished this bucket repair over the weekend. 14 hours of welding and prep in this one.

 

[zmotorsports]

Finished this bucket repair over the weekend. 14 hours of welding and prep in this one.

Nice job on the repair. Top notch.

 

[4 FN 27]

Looks good Pat.

Nice to have the ability to "borrow" tanks when needed. I have to monitor my usage and when I get close have to determine the value in giving a little to have a full tank for a big project or running completely out. I will admit, sometimes I err on the side of giving a little and don't use all of what's in my tank.

"Barrowing" things might be a deterrent to my retirement...that and a lack of access to materials and equipment...LOL...

My plan was to have this knocked out by Sunday afternoon. Then I realized my helper, my Nephew left for FL on Friday. So I decided instead of lifting these 85 lbs shelves in place by my self I took them back to the Plant and Lasered them in half to make them easier to handle. That took and extra 2 hours with travel.

The fun part was flipping this thing around by myself. Had to pull the Bobcat in the Fab Shop.

2 more Shelves to go and a Top.

I will admit I am a little sore today from all this labor...I miss the good'ole days when I could lay upside down under a dash board TIG Welding a Roll Cage.

 

[zmotorsports]

"Barrowing" things might be a deterrent to my retirement...that and a lack of access to materials and equipment...LOL...

My plan was to have this knocked out by Sunday afternoon. Then I realized my helper, my Nephew left for FL on Friday. So I decided instead of lifting these 85 lbs shelves in place by my self I took them back to the Plant and Lasered them in half to make them easier to handle. That took and extra 2 hours with travel.

The fun part was flipping this thing around by myself. Had to pull the Bobcat in the Fab Shop.

2 more Shelves to go and a Top.

I will admit I am a little sore today from all this labor...I miss the good'ole days when I could lay upside down under a dash board TIG Welding a Roll Cage.

WOW, that thing is rock solid. It isn't going anywhere.

 

[tarmy]

My latest effort...building a fab table and storage area beneath for steel.

 

[sixleaker]

Crude and ugly but knocked out this ugly scrap steel rack Sunday afternoon while trying to get the shop cleaned up

 

[rmack898]

Nice to have the ability to "borrow" tanks when needed. .

I TRY to have a back up tank for every gas I use. C-25, Argon, Co2, Propane. I own enough tanks to have a back up for everything but I also share my shop with my 25 YO son that more often than not, neglects to tell me that he changed over a tank. I think I have a back up and in reality have an empty spare. One of these days the back up empty tank will run dry on him, i keep waiting for that day.

 

[Griff93]

You need some very noticeable empty tank tags. We were having this problem until I made some on our plasma table. We also painted them bright red.

 

[Mike.ASC]

You need some very noticeable empty tank tags. We were having this problem until I made some on our plasma table. We also painted them bright red.

Well lets see them....

 

[4 FN 27]

You need some very noticeable empty tank tags. We were having this problem until I made some on our plasma table. We also painted them bright red.

Yep...this right here.

 

[ndr1968]

Looks good Pat.

Nice to have the ability to "borrow" tanks when needed. I have to monitor my usage and when I get close have to determine the value in giving a little to have a full tank for a big project or running completely out. I will admit, sometimes I err on the side of giving a little and don't use all of what's in my tank.

You guys need to get a small ''back up" tank. They will last a long time if you only use them when the main tank runs dry to get you through a Sunday. Provided of course your not welding on something really big.

 

[ndr1968]

Crude and ugly but knocked out this ugly scrap steel rack Sunday afternoon while trying to get the shop cleaned up

If your portable scrap steel unit winds up like mine, it will soon be ancored to one corner of the shop with the weight of the thing having overloaded the carriage and caster system.

If you want it to remain portable I suggest you over-build the undercarriage and rolling system.

 

[PurpleZj]

Haven’t started yet but I think my next project will be making a welding cart. Have a bunch of angle and expanded sheet from a smoker rebuild project I never finished so luckily it won’t cost anything but time


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[kkroger]

Addendum to the NCM project a while back, here is how it all ended up!

 

[stioc]

Nice work!

 

[PurpleZj]

Whipped this up today at work out of scrap metal and a bolt. Our pothole patch truck needed a new push/pull button for the hydraulics for the hot box main auger. We don’t have a lathe at work, so to get the finish round/bevel to it I put it in the drill press and used strips of sandpaper on it while it was running. If I thought originally it was going to turn out so nice I probably would have taken progress pictures lol





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[Beags86]

Not much welding in this one. Just general Fab. Posted over in the "what you did in your garage today" thread as well


Cut, ground, and welded, bolted together some tube. Painted and installed said tube to make a couple movable mounts for a set of flood lights for my shop wall.
Attached are pics of one. Each arm is 20 inches, allowing 40 inchs of stick out and it will allow 360 dregrees of the light to move. And also the light can be tilted 90 degrees down if need be. Probably Overkill but it will allow me to move the lights as I need them above my bench and front of shop to help avoid Shadows and help put more light where I need it.
I mounted them as high as I could without needing a ladder/stepstool/bucket to move them. I'm 6'2" so its still decently high.
They fold up nice and flat for general everyday use.
I'll only have to really pull them out for more focalized light, when I am rebuilding and engine or such.
Tomorrow I'll drill and tap some holes in the tube to allow me to use small plastic or rubber insulated metal clamps On the tube and down the wall to the electrical socket for the light cord.

If there was ever to much light in a shop, I have never encountered it.

 

[PurpleZj]

Not much welding in this one. Just general Fab. Posted over in the "what you did in your garage today" thread as well





Cut, ground, and welded, bolted together some tube. Painted and installed said tube to make a couple movable mounts for a set of flood lights for my shop wall.

Attached are pics of one. Each arm is 20 inches, allowing 40 inchs of stick out and it will allow 360 dregrees of the light to move. And also the light can be tilted 90 degrees down if need be. Probably Overkill but it will allow me to move the lights as I need them above my bench and front of shop to help avoid Shadows and help put more light where I need it.

I mounted them as high as I could without needing a ladder/stepstool/bucket to move them. I'm 6'2" so its still decently high.

They fold up nice and flat for general everyday use.

I'll only have to really pull them out for more focalized light, when I am rebuilding and engine or such.

Tomorrow I'll drill and tap some holes in the tube to allow me to use small plastic or rubber insulated metal clamps On the tube and down the wall to the electrical socket for the light cord.



If there was ever to much light in a shop, I have never encountered it.

Awesome idea. Nicely done


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[Beags86]

Awesome idea. Nicely done


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Thanks.

 

[Bears Fan]

Beags86

Nice execution on the light mounts! Great idea! You are correct when saying "If there was ever to much light in a shop, I have never encountered it"....I always say "you can never have too many clamps"

 

[Beags86]

Beags86

Nice execution on the light mounts! Great idea! You are correct when saying "If there was ever to much light in a shop, I have never encountered it"....I always say "you can never have too many clamps"

Thanks,

And go bears!