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Custom Steel plate Strong Box
Custom Steel plate Strong Box
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Fuel Tank for Super Tenere
Left - Stock Tank, OEM
Right - Custom 7.1g Tank
Left - Stock Tank, OEM
Right - Custom 7.1g Tank
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US Army TC 9-237, similar to the machineringist one uploaded in that thread, provides a great starting point for knowledge learning stuffs.
If you don't know how to weld and are looking to get started, DON'T start with the cheapest MIG machine you can buy, it will make you hate life.
Do just jump right into learning how to TIG weld
Steel Lock Box
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Given my screen name, one would think I like to work with tube.
I don't do cages anymore. I'm to old to contort myself into odd welding positions.
I don't do cages anymore. I'm to old to contort myself into odd welding positions.
Stout.Given my screen name, one would think I like to work with tube.
I don't do cages anymore. I'm to old to contort myself into odd welding positions.
Film work?
Finished a little after dark today
Kind of just to bump the thread, but after welding for decades I finally bought a modern hood.
A Lincoln something or other. I can take or leave the auto dark, but even After just a short test, the head gear seems all day comfortable and the optical clarity is a real game changer for my old eyes.
A Lincoln something or other. I can take or leave the auto dark, but even After just a short test, the head gear seems all day comfortable and the optical clarity is a real game changer for my old eyes.
Nice Bump.
I have several hoods, two of them are Miller Digital Elites.
I upgraded the gear to the new Gen 3.5 headgear, which was a huge improvement
now I see there is a Gen 4 available from Miller.
I have several hoods, two of them are Miller Digital Elites.
I upgraded the gear to the new Gen 3.5 headgear, which was a huge improvement
now I see there is a Gen 4 available from Miller.
When I learned to weld some 4+ decades ago, I was told "You cant weld what you cant see"
A proper lid and headgear go a long ways to make a good weld
A proper lid and headgear go a long ways to make a good weld
yea for years I used the old paper Huntsman hoods.
Weld in the rain, throw them in a gang box where someone would throw some torch hose on top of them.
The next morning trying to weld without getting your ear sunburned because the hood was so distorted.
Weld in the rain, throw them in a gang box where someone would throw some torch hose on top of them.
The next morning trying to weld without getting your ear sunburned because the hood was so distorted.
I'm a hack welder. I have done a bunch of bugger welding with a HF flux core, then an Eastwood Mig. Mig is by far better, though I am still a hack!
Flux Core:
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I used to make motorcycle parts until one day when an interior designer asked me to make some steel tables for her client. Then I went into the furniture making business (loads more cash in furniture than in bike parts). The steel portion of what I make are usually just in the frame and / or legs of tables. Also do my own powdercoating....
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Big Green Egg Table.
5/4" South American Mahogany IIRC...
5/4" South American Mahogany IIRC...
Here's another weird one. Made 10 of these for a brewery's taproom in Colorado. Beetle kill pine with a 3" thick top and steel to hold the legs in place when drunk people are danc
ing on top of the table...
I made this flag mounting plate the other day. Not a fancy egg cart or a dancing girl table, but it was the first thing I made with a plasma cutter. I'd like to actually use it this year.
A flag will be nice to locate your bike for when we cross back into the USA , after tacos and beers in Boquillas MX..
I live on the west coast so I enter and leave Mexico much further west, but someday I would like to return up through Big Bend.