Ah, well, I dunno pal. It's sixteen years since I wrote that post and I've been living in New Zealand for eleven of those, so I doubt I'm right up there on the current Scottish Central Belt steel supply scenario, if ye ken whit ah mean?
I had a 300A NBC machine with separate wire feed. Was a great, solid, reliable bit of kit. There's a picture somewhere in the distant past of this forum...
No on/off switch either. Plug in, neon light on, away you go.
Good luck getting yours going. If it's the Parvalux motor that's gone it might...
What I call a dog is most often a piece of scrap steel angle or bar welded to the appropriate part of a plate allowing you to drive a wedge in to push the plate one way or the other in relation to another plate, frame etc, then cut off once done.
As I like to remind people at every opportunity.
I'm intrigued that the OP is building the stern of a ship. A job for someone like Swann Hunters, surely?
Plating should be designed to curve in one plane only (at any particular point) as you'll always be able to sit a straight edge flat on any...
Well, my friend, you selectively (and non-contextually) quote yourself! What you wrote was "Fact is, MMA is far superior and indeed the only way to weld in certain circumstances."
It looks to me like "Fact is, MMA is far superior" is a nice wee combative statement in its own right. I completely...
All fair, but still "far superior" is nonsense. More versatile, yes, sometimes stronger, yes, better for welding round corners, good in hostile environments, yes, cheap when you only need 5kg of an exotic, yes.
But fast in a production environment when volume, strength and speed are required...
Are you veeing the two edges and is your weld penetrating thought the joint, or is the weld sitting on top of the steel so when you grind it flat afterwards you're grinding all the weld away?
Edit- you say you're cutting a groove now, but it might not be deep enough or you should even be leaving...
Fenders are for when you get it wrong, but having passengers meant there was little room for error!
Actually, coming to the pier like that was the right way - it's all in the speed and the timing, and of course very wind dependent. With an onshore wind you could leave a space and come to a stop...
I used to drive a couple of open Cheverton boats and others on the Firth of Forth. The best bit was coming into the middle pier at Granton at a rate of knots, turning sharp to starboard at the last minute and throwing the gearbox into reverse, sliding the boat sideways to a perfect gentle kiss...
I built this. One man job, a chain block and some scaffold for lifting gear and a Lincoln Mig power source with a Sterling wire feed. Took a while...
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Some design changes might work. Wider wheelbase plus better ground clearance - which I'm sure would be possible with a tweak here or there, without compromising the ability to pick up the bale in the first place. I don't think most ATV bale movers would be safe to use on a side slope.
Plenty of ring feeders here buddy, though also very common to have round bales fed out across a paddock, and you're right that the feed isn't wasted. Probably more waste off a ring feeder where it's trampled around the edge.
Here's the simplest and cheapest ATV round bale mover you'll find...
Aye, it's beech. Not often used for hitting type tool handles as it shatters under force instead of flexing, which ash or hickory do. I'm sure it'll be fine with yon wee hatchets though.
Its a good turning wood and used for bodging chairs. In ye olden days, when I were a lad, lots of the...
As you're using Ac, you can't switch to Electrode -ve. Your amps are too high for positional on that thickness of sheet. You need to play about with the settings. I'll constantly change the current depending on position, thickness, my mood, the weather...