Re: [Amc-list] Progress, sort of

[Wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx]

http://www.eastwoodco.com/images/us//local/products/detail/p23014.jpg

This is what I'm aiming towards in style.
I've beensearching the web for similar ones and have a pretty good idea on where I'm heading.
The steel I have is actualy 2"X3". Plenty stout enough.
I have some narrower stock for the pedal arms.

built the "H" base last night then spent and hour looking for the mig wire.
I should get some more done tonight.

--
Mark Price
Morgantown, WV
1969 AMC Rambler, 4.0L, EFI, T-5
2004 Grand Cherokee Laredo, 4.7L, Quadratrac II
" I realize that death is inevitable.
I just don't want to be around when it happens! "

 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>
> Wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Call your local Vo-tech school.
> > They usually have adult evening classes in things like this.
> 
> Yeah, CC's get overlooked all the time!
> 
> As soon as I can sked it, I'm gonna take that Pasadena guy's metal 
> bumping class. Probably January. That's the "last frontier" for me, it's 
> the one thing that totally baffles me and that I 100% screw up every time.
> 
> >     My next thing if I feel up to it is too learn tig. 
> 
> Yeah, with that, you're done! Pretty much all car crap you can do!
> 
> My father welded up an all-stainless-steel sheet metal gas tank for his 
> hot rod with the little 130 amp Lincoln I have now, just MIG. It came 
> out very nice, but I'm glad I wasn't there to hear all his swearing and 
> wrench-throwing.
> 
> 
> > Not, sure I will attempt it though as my shoulder is not exactly liking this.
> 
> Make up a elasticy-y sling for your arm to bear some load? Think The 
> Road Warrior... stick a weapon in that torn-off arm socket!
> 
> 
> >    My welder is a cheapy from a pro standard, but it does a good job with 
> fully adjustable power and feed rates.
> 
> What's that line from Dirty Mary Crazy Larry or whatever it was called? 
> (Great car-chase movie!)
> 
> "It ain't the car that's hot, it's the driver."
> 
> Technique matters, but there are limits... My UNBELIEVABLE cheapskate 
> boss made me buy the crappest Harbor Freight 120 amp welder. Came 
> without a gas regulator! When I went back to get one, it leaked! Man I 
> hate that place...
> 
> After 15 minutes of welding, with the current set to MAXIMUM and the 
> wire feed set to about 0.75 (less than 1 out of it's "1 - 10" knob) and 
> the thermal-overload popped, he agreed that it was a total P.O.S. It 
> didn't even have a fan in it!
> 
> So I mail-ordered a Lincoln 180 amp the same day!
> 
> (The POS HF unit though, with less current, made a very sweet but small 
> bead, I was able to write my name like an ink pen. It would probably be 
> OK for auto sheet metal work, probably it's target audience. But the 
> crazy-fast wire feed is odd.)
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