What welding projects are you working on? Are you proud of something you built?
How about posting some pics so other welders can get some ideas?
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Thanks cj737 but some welds are best forgotten haha I should have actually kept a tally for the number of times I had to regrind my tungsten so as to compare against future projects.

Cheers for the suggestions homeboy and weldin mike 27 horizontal handles was something I considered in the early stages but the designer part of me forbid for the handles to protrude past the wheels in keeping with the compact theme.

electrode I love how welding can help to make an idea in a physical thing. There's something magical about melting metal.
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No proble mate. Those (nearly) horizontal handles arn't so bad as they afford you a spot to wrap up your cables. They look long but rally only stick out about 350 past the back of the machine.
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tonij wrote:Thanks cj737 but some welds are best forgotten haha I should have actually kept a tally for the number of times I had to regrind my tungsten so as to compare against future projects.
I've had 2 fairly sage bits of advice from professionals mentoring me: "Either get good welding with a mirror, or learn how to use a grinder". And perhaps most appropriate to me, "If you are grinding after welding, you aren't learning". I keep the good folks at Walter employed making discs (I can honestly say with pride). :D
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Nice build.
Late advice but you should have waited little longer to paint. New ideas of nice-to-have-features always pops up.
I made my last cart about 4 years ago, last mod this week... :mrgreen:
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AndersK wrote:Nice build.
Late advice but you should have waited little longer to paint. New ideas of nice-to-have-features always pops up.
I made my last cart about 4 years ago, last mod this week... :mrgreen:
:lol: :lol: :lol:
I guess by now you've narrowed the color choice down to a few? :lol:
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AndersK wrote:Nice build.
Late advice but you should have waited little longer to paint. New ideas of nice-to-have-features always pops up.
I made my last cart about 4 years ago, last mod this week... :mrgreen:
I know what you mean. I added some hooks for hanging stuff after painting my cart so I just drilled a few holes to mount them. Next time leave it raw for a while. :D
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tonij wrote:
electrode I love how welding can help to make an idea in a physical thing. There's something magical about melting metal.
There is also something magical how tigging galvanized can mess up a tungsten. :lol:
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LtBadd wrote: :lol: :lol: :lol:
I guess by now you've narrowed the color choice down to a few? :lol:
Very true.
Base is still gray with a random occurrence of silver, corn blue, black and brown where new attachments have been welded in ;)
Last was for the tungsten grinder, which now has been upgraded to cordless, since they were on sale. :mrgreen:
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Sorry for putting your thread at drift Toni.
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On that vein, I saw something on facebook that tickled me...

"If you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
If you're a weldor, everything looks like whatever the hell you WANT it to be."

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Otto Nobedder wrote:On that vein, I saw something on facebook that tickled me...

"If you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
If you're a weldor, everything looks like whatever the hell you WANT it to be."

Steve S
Everything *is* a nail to my neighbor as he keeps pounding like every day for the last 25 years! Always making enough noise with that damned hammer as though he built an apartment complex, but yet all he has made is a birdhouse. Then when he starts his next project he tears apart the bird house to steal the materials to make more noise on his next project. Arrgghh! And it goes on and on...And the sound of the Skilsaw binding up is also annoying. :roll:
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Clearly he is murdering and chopping up hitchhikers.
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