That's very nice Sieg. You need to open up a side business selling rustic picture frames. Don't worry we'll pull you back before you turn in to that old guy with the white beard who wears a leather weldors apron 24/7 making wind chimes and lawn art in his drive way.

Before you know it the Chinese will be knocking him off and sending containers of 'em to WalMart!!




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I'm using a Jet 68" horizontal dry cut. It's decent but slower to set up for miters and much slower cutting than I witnessed at SEMA. Accuracy on the vertical cuts could be better. I hand fit the miters using an 8" disc sanders.

Thanks, don't think I'll sport the blacksmith look....gunsmith has potential!

Thanks to Chinese quality, the door is left ajar for this micro niche. Besides these are heavy enough to sink their container ships. :D

I had a TIG welding epiphany this week and wanted to share to help anyone else self-learning.

I was over at a buddy's 4x4 shop the week before and he does heavy fab, full rock crawling rigs, axle housings, etc.. and got on the subject of TIG. He commented how when he drives long distances to keep himself awake he practices pulsing his foot and feeding his rod. I didn't think much of it until a few days later when it hit me... Never in any of the threads, or videos, or talking with people had I caught on to the subject of pulsing the TIG pedal. I had always treated it like a throttle rolling on and off but never pulsing it per se.

So I've been playing around with this over the last week on aluminum and yesterday on some 1/4" steel gusseting a torque arm and what a difference it makes in puddle control and heat control!!:idea: :idea: I would suffer on a regular basis from the filler being blown away or balling up and contaminating by the torch while trying to feed into the puddle but now with the pulsing it just wicks the molten rod right into the puddle. Back off on the throttle, slide forward, feed and roll in again...repeat as necessary!!

I showed it to my 4x4 fab guy and the only thing he could fault me for was being a little light on my filler rod and going a little slow in places but for me it was a huge leap in consistency!!!

I hope this helps someone!

Went shopping today at one of my favorite stores.........

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Semi-success with the TIG on 11 ga. 2x4 salvage material. Used 1/16" tungsten and filler, 17 cfh w/ gas lens, 110 amps
full pedal @ startup, then 85-90% estimated speed 12-15" minute.
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remember don't weld your table top on, always bolt it down. And put a hole in it so you can move it with your cherry picker.

Your care package is almost ready. Taking advanage of the "if it fits... it ships"

LOL

Thanks Vince :thumbsup:

Top is 3/8" x 30 x 42 (134 lbs) so I'll be able to drill and tap it for fixturing which will be a new luxury. The plan is bolt it down in some manner.

See those lights in the metal supply store? I'm removing all of those from my new shop and they're running all new banks of "high bay fluorescents"... 2.5 times the light and 1/4 the wattage.


Your welds look good buddy!


I love the smell of metal!

What! No high bay LEDs? Even less power and 50000 hour life!
J/K. I'm an electrical project manager and we install LEDs more and more for production facilities.

Wes