back to life, back to reality
After such a lovely run of long weekends...back to work. (Although another bank hol soon - yay!!).
Not that work is a bad thing! I'm making this at the moment
Yes, that's a slightly crap artist's impression. But essentially, that's it. Rainbow Arch, in Burnley. Although some places call it Rain Bow Arch.
This is what I started on yesterday - a leg:
As usual, I'll do a run down of my welding table...left to right! My gauntlets (they don't match. I need new ones. They did indeed start out yellow and white, respectively. Now they have a LOT of holes. The piece of stainless is to go where the leg joins the main body of the top. There are no flat surfaces to this thing - everything is curved, usually in two directions. In the middle of that is my welding torch. I've removed the trigger and trigger guard and the back of the welder. Put a cut-down tungsten in it, a button back and taped the trigger to the very bottom of the torch. Otherwise I can't fit the torch between the layers of stainless.
And here are some welds - one done right handed (my dominant hand) the other left. Don't think you can tell! There's so much welding on this project, I need to be able to weld every way up, both hands, in awkward spaces etc. so I started practicing. I don't do enough TIG nowadays to keep my skills up.
In other news, another boy at work is leaving.
And then there were 6...
He's massively, massively annoying. And he and I have argued at least once per week or the last while. Not sad he's going. But the boss really will have to employ some more people at some point...
Not that work is a bad thing! I'm making this at the moment
Yes, that's a slightly crap artist's impression. But essentially, that's it. Rainbow Arch, in Burnley. Although some places call it Rain Bow Arch.
This is what I started on yesterday - a leg:
As usual, I'll do a run down of my welding table...left to right! My gauntlets (they don't match. I need new ones. They did indeed start out yellow and white, respectively. Now they have a LOT of holes. The piece of stainless is to go where the leg joins the main body of the top. There are no flat surfaces to this thing - everything is curved, usually in two directions. In the middle of that is my welding torch. I've removed the trigger and trigger guard and the back of the welder. Put a cut-down tungsten in it, a button back and taped the trigger to the very bottom of the torch. Otherwise I can't fit the torch between the layers of stainless.
And here are some welds - one done right handed (my dominant hand) the other left. Don't think you can tell! There's so much welding on this project, I need to be able to weld every way up, both hands, in awkward spaces etc. so I started practicing. I don't do enough TIG nowadays to keep my skills up.
In other news, another boy at work is leaving.
And then there were 6...
He's massively, massively annoying. And he and I have argued at least once per week or the last while. Not sad he's going. But the boss really will have to employ some more people at some point...