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The what I welded today (/whenever) thread (pics please)
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Great job Rick.
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Aristotle
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In other words beauty ( beautiful beads ) makes my hart content and happy , better to make it clear
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This is my creation, a small box blade to go behind a gator to level baseball infields. I made it from stuff in our scrap pile. The lift is from an electric dump bed.
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Just running some beads in class with MIG
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Some more from today...
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Installed....about 50feet total
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looks good rick!
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Beautiful work, Rick,

I do wish I'd taken time to pay more attention to the (top-notch) sanitary welders when I was contracted to Herr & Sacco in PA... They did work for Hershey and M&M Mars, among others, and did absolutely amazing work.

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Tried welding razor blades for the first time. All considered pretty happy with it. I should have gotten some mig wire, the 1/16 filler made this harder than it needed to be but the Dynasty arc is so damn sweet.

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Nice stuff Rick and BigD ! Building a welder cart here. It's 0.125" x 1 & 1/4" square tubing
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subwayrocket wrote:Nice stuff Rick and BigD ! Building a welder cart here. It's 0.125" x 1 & 1/4" square tubing
What model Everlast is that?
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Miller Thunderbolt 225 AC/DC
Everlast 255EXT with W300 cooler
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melsdad wrote:
subwayrocket wrote:Nice stuff Rick and BigD ! Building a welder cart here. It's 0.125" x 1 & 1/4" square tubing
What model Everlast is that?
250 EX
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A better week this week.

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Zank The man with the machine like welds.
Beautiful.
As nice to look at as the Alaskan scenery posted else where.
Everlast 250EX
Miller 250 syncrowave
Sharp LMV Vertical Mill
Takisawa TSL-800-D Lathe
Coupla Bandsaws,Grinders,surface grinder,tool/cutter grinder
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Do you build your frames off of a jig or is each one unique? Your pics always look so smooth.
I have more questions than answers

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1" 316L 3000# socket welds...
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rick
nice job.
looks like your days are never the same.
interesting work keeps it fresh.
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Rick_H wrote:1" 316L 3000# socket welds...
very nice work Rick, of course most of us here already know of your TIG skills :D
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Second attempt at welding razor blades. Using an 040 electrode for the first time, and using 030 mig wire this time. Pretty happy with how it came out. I knew the edge would chew out and started backing off but not quite enough. So much easier to do with the small electrode, makes me want to try pop cans again.

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BigD nice job!

Richard- Thanks, yeah I TIG alittle, damn food plant.. Lol Secretly I mig and stick also.
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Not what I welded today, but just some final pictures of my last cage. Sorry for the sideways pictures... Always seem to do that when I upload from my phone
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Looks good, I always like to plate above the lower tq boxes and run bars down to them as well. The shock tower bar does a lot for the Mustangs flimsy chassis.

Through floor subs???

I have a 25.5 in my 91 GT
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I did certainly did consider connecting to the lower TQ boxes. The placement of the main hoop would have made it kind of tricky. This is a drift car so they will not be subject to near the punishment of a drag car. The rear plates/ shock tower re-enforcement was much needed. The car has been converted to coilovers and the added stress on the rear shock towers was starting to separate the layers of unibody around them. It was quite alarming. I ended up rosette welding them through the floor right to the frame rails just to be safe
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Also, no through floor connectors. To be honest I don't believe they comply with Formula drift regulations.
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Just a little dice, 50x50mm squares, tacked up. Will be closed up with tig once I'm a lot better at it.

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