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That's my work area where I do all of my pipe welding.
Hope we get some replies looking forward to pics
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The machine I use primarily at work is my OTC AVP300 inverter 300 amp Tig welder from Japan.Nils wrote:Awesome job! Can you share your equipment and its setup? Thanks.
Nils, the photo's don't show it but there is a dummy shaft approx 71mm diameter running through the case aligning the bore from end to end.Nils wrote:Awesome! What a cool job, and customer! Can you share your equipment type and its setup? I don't know sheet, but it seems like alignment would be dubious at best for such a critical application as, precise, gear meshing. Was there any kind of jigging or alignment tooling supplied by the customer to assure this? Would be interesting to see if this gearbox actually functions properly when re-assembled. No ding on you, but did the customer over-simplified his problem?
Welds look pretty darn good though. Love to hear more details on that part of it.
Thanks,
Nils
I have to admit when I saw the size of the slots hogged out of the case it was a "take a deep breath" moment.Fat Bob wrote: Andrew, nothing like trying to put together a jig-saw puzzle without all the parts huh?
Nice work guys!
I'm not sure, Bob. He gave us some photos of him holding tape measure against the pipes, on center of all things. The original didn't have this much of a headrest, but this is what they asked for. I had 2 days to do it in after the materials had to be ordered plus deciphering the info from the photos. The last one they had strapping tied to the backrest somehow but you couldn't tell from the photos. For all I know, they could be screwed to the seat frame. They said it turned out a lot nicer than the original, to where you could tell by looking at the welds that a steel fab person had welded it, and that it had taken substantially longer to build. I modified the measurements, outside of the critical ones, to be able to use a singular layout as a control point throughout, with all subsequent parts superimposed within it.Fat Bob wrote:Nice work Jeff. What will be used for a sling point on that basket?
Maybe web strapping on the top four corners I guess.
Nice work guys!
Alexa, I had no input into the size of the "cracks", this was done by our customer prior to him delivering it to our factory.Alexa wrote:Awill4wd.
Concerning the Bugatti gearbox, I am assuming it was cracked in all the areas that you welded.
Why did you choose a large gap to weld?
Was sequence of which gaps to weld first, a factor?
Was the direction of welding for each gap a consideration?
I enjoyed your contribution.
Tanks.
Alexa
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