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I'm in on the contest. Currently I have 110 posts. Looking forward to seeing some new projects, both mine and yours!

Thanks charger! It feels good to have it done!

Well, it's been a long week. Finished a few projects including the surface plate table. Here's some shots of yesterday's action. The first photo shows the setting in place awaiting the arrival of...

Thanks for the info. on the resin. I haven't experimented much with it, but it's good to know, the only time I ever tried to bond foam together resulted in disaster.

Once again, really nice...

Congrats Redbeard! Donor! and Welderdude! Thanks for the coupon Oleg and Everlast, it will go to use real soon!

That's a really smart lifting device for the table. About how much does the table raise to make it mobile? I'm constantly trying new designs for my tools and tables. Everything is on wheels where I...

It doesn't give a flawless bend, you do see some marks from the pin when using on tubing. It does do nice gentle curves, anything more than that, and I'm sure you'd need a bigger die on the...

d.fisher in!
I started with a post count of 1.
I am currently at 102.


Here are the links to my projects:

Project 1 ...

This is just a detail shot of how the removable post stays in the flat bar jig, without falling through the hole. Two tacks were made and ground flat, so that they don't jamb into the hole and get...

This is a second jig, a variation on the first. This one I made so that I could bend flat bar instead of round. It is made exactly the same way, minus the pipe welded on to the uprights.

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You'll notice on the pin on the right, I welded a section of pipe. This pin is interchangeable from one hole to the next. That is to accomodate larger material, or tighter radius, etc.

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For mounting in a vise, I welded a substantial tab onto the bottom of the jig plate. You can either grab straight from the plate, or rotate it 90' and hold from the tab, which ever you choose, it...

After all the holes are drilled, I cut off the piece from the longer bar. I forgot to mention earlier, I like to leave more bar than the jig is worth for clamping on the drill press. After the...

So back over to Big Claus, my favorite drill press in the world, to drill some 1" holes.

This jig doesn't have to be super exact (note the wide chalk lines and eyed-up centerline marks.

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I marked out several spots for where 1" holes need to be drilled. This is to accept the 1 inch round bar you see in the photos. Each one of those was cut to 5 1/4"

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I don't yet have the luxury of a hydraulic pipe bender, but I needed one the other day and this is what I came up with. I have a few bending forks I use when blacksmithing, but they are too small...

This is a great idea! I never bought that style clamp because of this same problem. I also never knew why they would design the locking nut to be that way, as most (good) drill presses have those...

For the "wings" that the leveling foot will screw in to, I just cut down the long leg of the same material so it would fit in nicely. I used a 3/4" spacer to align everything and clamped, tacked...

To finish the last part of the weld, I like to, if I can, flip the piece so that I am welding horizontally. My vertical welds leave something to be desired....

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After all was ground down and pretty. I put the pieces back together and tacked them at each corner. In this case, I just connected each tack with one long bead. Its nice to throw down some weld...

The design calls for casters at the front and rear. So I just flipped the angle to create that nice overhang for mounting purposes. Its a real easy clamping situation. One on each side! After the...

Here's some pictures of the base as it was being built. I was lucky to find some free steel on craigslist. Some guy had finished his fire escape and had about 20 feet of this angle that he wanted...

I worked my way up the piece. Sometimes having to make spacer blocks to keep the bars parallel. Overall, it worked out. Not as seamlessly as I had dreamed of last night, but hey I can't complain. ...

Thanks Powertig. I'm not so much going mass production, I just need about 5 or six that are darn near identical. This one is turning out to be a learning experience. I hope they sell too! I really...

Hi Casey, welcome to the forum. I'm far from a certified welder, so here's a question for you, what do you mean by 1/16 mig and hard wire welding? Is the feed wire actually 1/16" in diameter?...