Light upgrades?
I'm assuming that you're referring to the 80's chandelier hanging there right? 😀
Not sure I'd like the wall mounted LEDs there. I think they'd be in my line of sight too much.
What did you do to your shop today?
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Light upgrades?
I'm assuming that you're referring to the 80's chandelier hanging there right? 😀
Not sure I'd like the wall mounted LEDs there. I think they'd be in my line of sight too much.
I built a welding cart out of an old jointer stand and bed frame. The jointer was here when I move here I’m not sure where the bed frame came from. It’s nice to be able to move it around and have my tank secured.
I haven't really done anything to it but start moving some things in but we just bought a little 14 acre "farm" (or at least it will be when I get done) to retire to. I refused to sign a mortage on a place without a shop, so our place has a metal over standard wood frame shop with 10' walls. It is 30' by 40' and I am generating some wood of my own in anticipation on how I plan to set it up. It is plumbed for water and has a partly complete bathroom that needs a lot of work. It has 120v plugs every ten feet or so around all the walls on 30 amp circuit breakers and six (or maybe eight) double flourescent fixtures, which I will replace with LED. It has a 220 single phase drop by the rollup door on a 50 amp breaker with correctly sized wires.
I'm shopping right now for a two post - 9,000 lb lift. I already have a really cool 4' x 4' 45amp C&C plasma cutter (still in boxes after four years). I have an eight inch manual metal lathe, a large manual, knee milling machine and heavy duty drill press. I have most of the accessories for the afore mentioned equipment. I have welders and cutting torches and all manner of usefull tools, vices, bench grinders, etc.. You know, all the stuff my wife calls "My sh*t." Anyway, I am going back to the "farm" later in the week and will post some pics when I get back.
I'm shopping right now for a two post - 9,000 lb lift. I already have a really cool 4' x 4' 45amp C&C plasma cutter (still in boxes after four years). I have an eight inch manual metal lathe, a large manual, knee milling machine and heavy duty drill press. I have most of the accessories for the afore mentioned equipment. I have welders and cutting torches and all manner of usefull tools, vices, bench grinders, etc.. You know, all the stuff my wife calls "My sh*t." Anyway, I am going back to the "farm" later in the week and will post some pics when I get back.
Just got a delivery from the jungle website fairy.
$35.00, plenty cheap.
Being that our cars at the newest, are 35 years old, and our interior plastics aren’t getting any less fragile, I think this’ll get good use as time goes on. Plan on attempting to repair a broken tab on the backside of an upper interior sail panel with it for starters.
$35.00, plenty cheap.
Being that our cars at the newest, are 35 years old, and our interior plastics aren’t getting any less fragile, I think this’ll get good use as time goes on. Plan on attempting to repair a broken tab on the backside of an upper interior sail panel with it for starters.
I've been tempted to get one of those. Curious to see how well they actually work
That kit mostly the wire bits you melt into the plastic pieces so they're bound back together, but, not the plastic bits you melt on afterwards, right?
Same here, it would make sense that it should work fairly well. By melting the staples into the plastic, they become one with the panel and put the necessary strength back into it. I’ll report back once I have a chance to play around with it a bit.
Correct. Each type of plastic has its own unique properties, and you have to be sure of what it is you’re working with beforehand. ABS plastic for example, can be welded back together with solvent, I have some of that already. But polypropylene and polyethylene cannot. PP and PE have relatively low melting points however, so they can be fused back together with heat pretty easily.
The panel I have to repair is polypropylene, so my only option is plastic welding. The staple method I plan on trying will work better than trying to infuse new plastic filler rod, but that is the other option. A simple pencil style soldering iron and the appropriate plastic filler rods is all that’s needed for that type of repair.
I have to ask how do you like those new lights. I have been thinking about buying them to. What is the Watts on them.
Filled up a trailer with scrap metal today. Separated out a few decent pieces for the for sale section until the next load.
Really need to clean up around here with everything going on. You hope for the best, plan the worst, then whatever happens there's not much in the background to concern yourself with 😉
Really need to clean up around here with everything going on. You hope for the best, plan the worst, then whatever happens there's not much in the background to concern yourself with 😉
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