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Donblargo

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Some more downhill nr-207
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BrutulTM

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That's fluxcore mig? I thought pipeline welds were all stick.
 

Donblargo

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They typically are. This is water piping for a huge chiller/boiler building. The engineers wanted to go with it because that's what they wanted to go with. I think its pretty fast, as long as you have a good fit up and a solid root and hot. Got that 66 knocked out in about 4-5 hours.
 
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Trying some different techniques, the positioner makes me look slick!
 

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Erronius

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I would have just bought the commercial part, LOL. But I guess if you can do something custom, then do it I guess

I added the welding video because some of you weld, and that looked to be the bigger issue on him trying to make the part

"If welding is so easy then why doesn't everyone do it themselves"


 
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Erronius

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I've been watching these guys make this 'lawn mower' from old car parts

I like to think of it as the " Tuco Tuco Mower"

 

BrutulTM

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Looks like someone like me who's lazy about cleaning/changing the lens in their welding helmet.
 

BrutulTM

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This is probably a stupid question, but this shear is selling in a local auction.

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Assuming this could be picked up cheap, I have some use for it as a shear, but I've always wanted a punch press. Would it be feasible to modify this thing so it could be used for punching? Preferably so you could swap back and forth between the shear and the punch press? Kind of a long shot and I wouldn't pay more than a few hundred for it regardless but it got me thinking and I don't know much about it.
 
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Donblargo

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This is probably a stupid question, but this shear is selling in a local auction.

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Assuming this could be picked up cheap, I have some use for it as a shear, but I've always wanted a punch press. Would it be feasible to modify this thing so it could be used for punching? Preferably so you could swap back and forth between the shear and the punch press? Kind of a long shot and I wouldn't pay more than a few hundred for it regardless but it got me thinking and I don't know much about it.
If you have enough engineering knowhow you can make anything happen, but from the looks of it it's not gonna be easy to modify to work Iike an ironworker machine.
 
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BrutulTM

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If you have enough engineering knowhow you can make anything happen, but from the looks of it it's not gonna be easy to modify to work Iike an ironworker machine.
Probably a dumb idea. It wound up selling for over $1200 too so I wouldn't have paid that regardless. I would love to get my hands on an old ironworker but I can't really justify the cost.
 

latheboy

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I haven't been able to use any machines in my new job, I'm a CAD jockey now
I picked up this little guy last night.
Pumped to have a lathe again.
It's still in the car so I need to make room in the shed and set it up. First job is a DRO to be fitted and start making stuff.
Drag bike is getting an updated swingarm with extensions so need some spacers and a bottom linkage made.
 
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Hateyou

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I haven't been able to use any machines in my new job, I'm a CAD jockey now
I picked up this little guy last night.
Pumped to have a lathe again.
It's still in the car so I need to make room in the shed and set it up. First job is a DRO to be fitted and start making stuff.
Drag bike is getting an updated swingarm with extensions so need some spacers and a bottom linkage made.
You still buying old stuff like this? I visited a place in Buffalo today that is switching professions and has a ton of equipment they don’t know what to do with. I took pics of the bridgeports. Told her I’d message a few people I know that may be into this, she said she would love to sell them, didn’t know people restored them. They had a bunch of lathes, mills, other stuff im not sure the status of.

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Hateyou

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Ah, Buffalo.

The Armpit of New York.
Yeah never been before, wasn’t too impressed. I’m glad I got to go on a work trip there and could scope it out. We would have been very disappointed if we had gone there for a family vacation in the future.
 
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latheboy

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You still buying old stuff like this? I visited a place in Buffalo today that is switching professions and has a ton of equipment they don’t know what to do with. I took pics of the bridgeports. Told her I’d message a few people I know that may be into this, she said she would love to sell them, didn’t know people restored them. They had a bunch of lathes, mills, other stuff im not sure the status of.

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Yes and no..
I stand upside down on the planet to you haha
There are lots of people out there who fix up old machines and lots who convert them to CNC..
Bridgeports are a good machine