F.J.
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Had quite a busy week this week for a very good customer of mine. They are opening a paint shop for their machine hire business and I was asked to build them a blast bay. There wasn't much to it but the floor needed covering with steel and the walls cladded with rubber sheets.
To cover the entire floor I had to used 27, 3m x 1.8m x 5mm thick steel sheets, I laid the two outer runs first and overlapped the middle run by around 75mm either side to avoid cutting any of the sheets. The sides of the new floor was fixed using resin and threaded bar but the rest was seam welded. I had my dad and my apprentice with me to speed the job up and the use of a tele handler to manoeuvre the sheets into place. Me and my dad were using two of my stick sets while my apprentice used the wire feeder off my Lincoln Ranger. He is only 16 but is absolutely brilliant at welding for his age.
Angle iron was then welded to the rooms framework and commercial rubber sheets were cut to length and hung using 1" flat bar and tec-screws.
I also had to build them a battery cage and work bench 'on a budget' as their depot manager could peel an orange in his pocket. For the table I used 50x50x5mm angle for the frame and legs, and 3meters x 2'6" x 5mm steel for the bench top. The battery cage was built using 50x50x3mm angle and 8x4 1" welded mesh.
I still have other things to do like fitting louvres to the spray booth doors, plumbing in their compressor and space heater and also building a shed to house their back up compressor but this job was the bulk of the project so thought this be of more interest to you guys.
Thanks
Dean
To cover the entire floor I had to used 27, 3m x 1.8m x 5mm thick steel sheets, I laid the two outer runs first and overlapped the middle run by around 75mm either side to avoid cutting any of the sheets. The sides of the new floor was fixed using resin and threaded bar but the rest was seam welded. I had my dad and my apprentice with me to speed the job up and the use of a tele handler to manoeuvre the sheets into place. Me and my dad were using two of my stick sets while my apprentice used the wire feeder off my Lincoln Ranger. He is only 16 but is absolutely brilliant at welding for his age.
Angle iron was then welded to the rooms framework and commercial rubber sheets were cut to length and hung using 1" flat bar and tec-screws.
I also had to build them a battery cage and work bench 'on a budget' as their depot manager could peel an orange in his pocket. For the table I used 50x50x5mm angle for the frame and legs, and 3meters x 2'6" x 5mm steel for the bench top. The battery cage was built using 50x50x3mm angle and 8x4 1" welded mesh.
I still have other things to do like fitting louvres to the spray booth doors, plumbing in their compressor and space heater and also building a shed to house their back up compressor but this job was the bulk of the project so thought this be of more interest to you guys.
Thanks
Dean
