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Blobber
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Keep us posted it will be interesting to see how well it works
Edward Teach
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From what I can gather from your previous posts,Looks like I will be making another tomorrow, just been sent a pic of the 150HP Yamaha on the stand and he said it is very stable and simple to manoeuvre
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You seem to get on very well,
Welding aluminium with a mig welder ???
Is it 'that easy' !!
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Yes, if you have a welder capable of it and understand you need to be in spray transfer for a sound weld. That means 3mm sheet is a min thickness, better not going below 4 if possible. Unless of course you have a pulse mig, then you can go 1mm if you want
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Ok,
A little more involved than 'communal garden' mig welding,
Plus a higher spec welding machine would be required
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Made the passenger seat in my van spin round today. From this:
To this:
To this:
And I'm somewhat pleased that by slightly elongating the holes on the mounting brackets the seat swivels without needing sliding rails
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I also made more work as the plastic cubby hole between the seats had to be permanently removed to allow the seat to swivel:
Soon to be replaced by a more functional wooden version, possibly housing a blown air diesel heater.
To this:
To this:
And I'm somewhat pleased that by slightly elongating the holes on the mounting brackets the seat swivels without needing sliding rails
.I also made more work as the plastic cubby hole between the seats had to be permanently removed to allow the seat to swivel:
Soon to be replaced by a more functional wooden version, possibly housing a blown air diesel heater.
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Had a play at TIG welding this afternoon and it occured to me that it might be useful (for some) to have a wee rack for their tungstens should they dip and contaminate it; this never happens to me, obvs, but I thought I'd make an example just to show what could be done. Happened to have a block of aluminium kicking about, so eight holes later...
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Please feel free to use this design, royalty free, as I thought some might need more than one tungsten if they're doing a weld longer than a few inches...
I think I've come up with an alternative solution... arguably one that might be a wee bit safer? Happened to find an (unused, before anyone asks) urine sample container, courtesy of NHS Scotland...
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Why do you need so many tungstens?
Tangledfeet
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As I think I made explicitly clear in my original post I made the original device as an example to others, others that just might perhaps contaminate their tungsten through poor technique and shaky hands, to show just what could be done so I thought I'd follow up with this simpler alternative. My generosity and selflessness knows no bounds, see?
I never, ever, dip and contaminate my tungsten when TIG welding - obvs. In fact there's actually only one actually tungsten in there - the rest are bits of 2.4mm stainless filler cut to random lengths and a wee bit of Sharpie at the end for realism.
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Tangledfeet
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That's an alternative solution, I concur. But if
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In the zone? The Twilight one?
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Yeah, I never touch down either, honest ......
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In the picture below. Top LHS are two Stanley Yankee screwdrivers.
At first glance they looked ok.
The extended, they pumped.
But The bits were stuck fast. Turns out with glue.
This handle was set up to be striped and cleaned, but what the picture does not show is the split, the filler and the staples.
The other handle was as bad.
So, some beech, from a friends Fire wood pile was liberated. Turned down into new handles.
Test fitting here.
Fitted after paint.
2 more tools saved.
Everything in the top picture, bar one tool was restored.
The oil stones were very dirty.
So they were boiled up in washing soda for 2 hours.
The wooden cases were cleaned and waxed.
2 of the stones were curved, turns out they are knife stones, from a kit.
At first glance they looked ok.
The extended, they pumped.
But The bits were stuck fast. Turns out with glue.
This handle was set up to be striped and cleaned, but what the picture does not show is the split, the filler and the staples.
The other handle was as bad.
So, some beech, from a friends Fire wood pile was liberated. Turned down into new handles.
Test fitting here.
Fitted after paint.
2 more tools saved.
Everything in the top picture, bar one tool was restored.
The oil stones were very dirty.
So they were boiled up in washing soda for 2 hours.
The wooden cases were cleaned and waxed.
2 of the stones were curved, turns out they are knife stones, from a kit.
