Recently did some work for a client... He lives 300 miles from me but wanted me to do some custom work and salvage some old furniture he had... He had an old nasty 50's green cloth couch that he had recovered in white leather... Made some SS legs to replace the original beat up wood legs on the couch and made some SS pieces for his coffee table... He's very happy with the results....
Just finished making 4 SS Countertops going into a local SPA beauty salon.... Justa doing my duty in trying to keep America beautiful.....
Just finished a pure zinc countertop and delivered it yesterday to the client's home.... Man was it heavy.... took four other people and myself to wrestle it down into their basement.... No damage, thanks goodness...
Adhesive press.... Came up with this custom cross bar clamping system that attaches to my welding table (6' x 14') with a set of steel wheels that attach along the two long sides of the table. This way I can roll the bars along the "X" axis of the table to position them over the part. The bars have sliding bar clamps with lengths of all thread and feet that slide on the "Y" axis... I can quickly position the clamps and using a battery drill with a socket, run the all thread / feet down onto the part I'm glueing... This allows me to put a tremendous amount of clamping force to hold the layers of MDF / plywood to the metal skins of my countertops while the adhesive sets up... I generally leave it clamped for 24 hours... This comes in real handy for large surface area items.... This picture is of the Zinc countertop recently made...
Man Chuck you could use that to make really cool MINI wings. I'd be in for a tri-wing. That would look so cool on my German bread-van. :arf:
The best part is the adjustability of this clamping system... Before this I was using 5 gallon containers filled with water to spread the glue... The new way is 100X better, I can even double stack parts like a sandwich.... Huh... Wonder if I can do a stacked reuben sandwich in there?:idea:
Made it over the last month, not today, but it was a big project. Last January, a windstorm took out a dock that my neighbor and I share, it was made out of cement floats, tied to pilings. The cement dock was really made for lakes and other calm bodies of water. It didn't fare well in a saltwater tidal environment. We spent a lot of time every year putting it back together in the spring. This time it wasn't just a single float that needed repair, the whole thing broke apart and sank. We decided to replace the whole thing with an aluminum framed dock on foam filled polypropylene floats, with a perforated plastic deck, so that wind and currents will not impact it, like the big cement floats we had. We copied a neighbor's dock design that has stood up to the weather for seven years with little or no maintenance. We had to make twelve twenty foot sections because our boat slips are 250' out into the inlet, in order to be in deep water at low tide. One half of my boat slip was destroyed, but my neighbor's survived as it was protected by my boat slip, so I had to build a new boat slip too. Here is some of the aluminum, when we picked it up at the metal supplier, they didn't have enough in stock for us to get it in one trip. Here is the first frame we made, it was the pattern for the rest of the frames. We assembled the frames in my neighbor's heated shop. Here are the 12 finished frames without the floats attached. An eight foot float will be attached to the Tee shaped section. The eight foot long floats stick out sideways to stabilize the long four foot wide dock. Some of them do not have the Tee section, in order to clear the pilings, those frames will have four by four foot floats. Here are my boat slip frames with the floats attached. Each 20' frame weights about 680 lbs, we used 40 lbs of .035 aluminum welding wire to weld all of them together. Both my neighbor and I are do it yourself guys and we shared the welding duties.
Betcha coulda got that load inside your MINI.... Chunk a change right there... Nice aluminum welding.... Used a spool welder? Yup, I see it laying on the little cart.... Any concerns about salt water corroding the aluminum?