Just seen this now - very cool! I’ve a cracker coming up for you shortly that’s just been in an installation in Paisley for an artist based out Gifford direction. :D
Depending on your material thickness mostly, but i’ve had great success previously with DC tig (pulsed) and pure argon.
If going thicker i’d imagine some sort of helium would be required to allow penetration.
Aye, problem being the breakaway normally notices that the trailer has slipped the hitch…
My one was going to remain intact, while detached.. ho-hum, new towbar mounted and nobody got hurt..!
Speaking of almost being in the disaster zone…
Drove Edinburgh to Bristol on thursday, setting off at 6pm and arriving 1.15am.
Loaded my mate’s T4 Kombi camper onto the trailer, turned round, drove straight home. Flat tyre, bit of peeing about, arrived back in Edinburgh around 11.30am.
Today...
(Can you tell I’m up to my eyeballs in work at my dayjob this week? Half-typed comments getting posted!)
My advice would be to speak to the local garages, find out how much they’re charging for weld repairs on MOT failures and ballparking from there.
I set my own prices but it’s not uncommon...
I’m picking up a T4 camper from Bristol next week to replace the floor and touch up the wings.
I’m in Edinburgh.
OP is probably even neater than I am and he’s got folk quibbling prices? I’d be disappearing their numbers from my contact list.
Within my area I do most of the welding for 5 or 6...
I saw your initial post and thought to myself “for £20 an hour he better be crap or he’s doing himself no favours”
Then i saw these photos and WTF are you doing charging £20/h???
As with the rest of the advice - tell 95% of your current clientele to f***ing do one, up your prices a good...
We did a 6 x 2m cantilever not long ago - only problem we ran into was a bit of galv buildup inside the track which made it stick. Was at it for bloody hours with files and screwdrivers trying to knock the bump flat enough to run free!
Will look up details for the cantilever fittings and...
You make a mess of a pipe one time (perhaps more) and it comes back to haunt you..!
Hope you’re keeping well, Terry!
Currently recovering from my knee op after snapping ACL, MCL and turning my meniscus into dog food back when I was working beside you. Only a 2 year wait from injury to op...
No comment… :ashamed:
I weighed in at 126.4kg on New Year’s Day - combination of snapped knee and bad diet saw me slowly climb from my usual 117kg weight (also i’m 5’10” but 58” chest and 28.5” quads, to give a rough idea..)
Diet now consists of meat, greenery and eggs. No sugar, no bread, no...
I just did one of those yesterday! Rotten sills and arches at the front side of the rear wheels… although mine was “paid work” rather than saving it for a friend/family member :D
Wake up between 6am and 8am, depending on energy level.
Work 9-5.30 as a civil engineer, with a 1h lunch break 1-2 whereby I usually go for a decent walk to keep myself active.
5.30, log off (rarely do overtime as it doesn’t pay enough), hit the gym for a heavy session (320kg deadlift the...
I meant in terms of going in as a private customer. If they’re just acting as a middleman for the NHS in an area where audiology departments are few and far between then it’s no different to going to a private dentist who also treats NHS patients.
If you’re buying top-of-the-range hearing aids...
Siemens, forgot about them. Think they’re maybe the ones who own Widex..
That’s not a bad deal at all on the aid! As I say, they’re not cheap, but I (as one of 5 in my immediate family) have been going to the same place for >20 years and we are all well looked after by the audiologist there...
Really comes down to personal preference on the brand and type.
I’m exclusively CIC (completely in canal) which means they’re near invisible - comes with the downside of smaller batteries and smaller vents (meaning they’re more liable to choking with wax or sweat). However,
i’ve been wearing...
Not sure if he travels over the bridge very often but I’d say it’s worth looking up a fella called Ian Lannigan - used to service the machines at my old workplace, and I got a couple of welders repaired by him for other folk while I was there.
cracking spark for welding machines!