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Brad93
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i don't do them anymore i used to do all the subcontract welding for Gibson Exhausts aka Allspeeds.
They now do it in-house. material costs etc it wasn't viable to sub them out anymore.
Brad93
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it was good work, but when i first started gas was cheap and so was electric and consumables. I was charging about £17 an hour then to just weld them part time on my evenings and weekends. When i went full time i obviously had to start charging a proper wage for them to cover overheads, my hourly rate was £35 to anyone else, but due to quantity and ease of welding i gave them a pretty good discounted rate. however materials kept increasing on their production side, then the company that rolled the cones for us in huge quantities and to great precision went under, so back to hand rolling and cutting, we started getting patterns laser cut which was a huge timesaver but rolling with pyramid is time consuming and requires a lot of patience and dressing on a mandrel.
it was all working out too expensive so they bought a new tig welder and took the welding back in-house,
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Assembling the wooden frame, to box up infront of the window. Only got one pic... As Im indoors I want to minimise router dust. I found many cuts with circular saw will let the slices break out and router gets it smooth.
Years since Ive used router, it scares me, but its an old 2010 silverline thats been in garage for ages, still works!
Years since Ive used router, it scares me, but its an old 2010 silverline thats been in garage for ages, still works!
Prajna
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What's it for? Or have I not been paying attention?
Brad93
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it's been a joy to see your aluminium welding come on leaps and bounds in the past year or so.
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It's effectively a mixing paddle for part of a cheese making machine.
Bought three diamond wheels for my new to me t and c grinder, and decided to try(!) and copy Stefan Gotteswinter’s idea to have each wheel mounted on its own set of (insert proper name of whatever they are called here - bushes? Flanges? Arbors? ). Anyway, it’s a nice lathe job trying to make sure the faces are parallel and the holes are straight down the middle. Also a weird 19 x 1 mm pitch thread on both bits which I had to cut on the lathe. One set done, and two more to finish off tomorrow.
Some things I always struggle with - cutting a recess always seems to result in chatter on the outer diameter whatever sort of weird shaped tool I grind up for one. And getting a decent finish on cold-rolled m.s. with insert tooling.
Some things I always struggle with - cutting a recess always seems to result in chatter on the outer diameter whatever sort of weird shaped tool I grind up for one. And getting a decent finish on cold-rolled m.s. with insert tooling.
Thankyou Brad
Kram
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What are you using? Generally on MS means too big cutting contact or radius, or for tougher steels, letting it rub with too small a feed rate as you get to the corner.
DCMT shape in a sducr or sdqcr bar is a good choice insert for it.
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In between work stuff managed to get the sausage ingredients sorted for the butcher, cranberries soaked in port which are always a good seller this time of year and rough chopped mature Stilton with leek which are also popular, roll on friday and we can have a cook up!
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Is that a Freudian slip including both the ingredients and a washing M/C in the same photo?
Blobber
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No thats the dogs washing machine, I wouldnt use that one!
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You have a dog that can use a washing machine? Amazing!
You put the dogs in the washing machine - don't let ours know he hates getting wet
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Inde...SIT?
Blobber
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You have a dog that can use a washing machine? Amazing!
They are poodles
