New guy here

[aametalmaster]

Hi Guys, New guy here. 30+ years exp mig,tig,stick,sub arc. I hang out over at the millerwelds.com group and stumbled on to this forum. This is also what i make in my home shop welded up from 1,000 pcs of sq tubing, ceiling mounted train layouts...Bob
http://new.photos.yahoo.com/aametalmaster/album/576460762312602227

 

[lorenzo]

Hey Bob...... I know you from the Welding Web. Glad to see you made it over here. From one Yank to another welcome aboard.

 

[malcolm]

Welcome Bob. Those train tracks look really fiddly. Difficult to estimate the thickness from the photo, but should imagine they are reasonably thin wall tubing from the mounting. Have you got a system in place to do the thousands of joints quickly?

 

[aametalmaster]

Hi guys, I use lots of welding fixtures and vise grips. 25 or so fixtures for welding, drilling, tapping, cutting, everything has to be perfect or they won't fit together at all. Just a few tricks i learned from being a sheetmetal worker for so long. The tubing is 3/8 sq x .062 wall and i had it special made, i am getting ready to order another 5,000 feet of the stuff....Bob

 

[7018]

Hi Bob I followed you over here,Thanks for posting the link on PM.....Paul

 

[Justme]

So thats
3/8 box = 9.5mm
.62 wall = 1.6mm

I think. Thick walls for a small box section. Could you not use an off the shelf size?

Justme

 

[Drains]

So thats
3/8 box = 9.5mm
.62 wall = 1.6mm

I think. Thick walls for a small box section. Could you not use an off the shelf size?

Justme

Any thinner might be a pain to join.

Who makes up your box sec'n Bob? I can't imagine being able to get a special order like that done here. (UK)
Checked out your prices, seems very reasonable (if I translate into sterling, its only £10/foot, with the $2 to £1 exchange rate currently operating)

But I guess you must be very well jigged up for fast production.

Nice to see more quality engineering from the US. Your manufacturing is so much better than your foreign policy! Tell me to get stuffed if i'm being too cheeky.

Regards
Si

 

[Justme]

Is that the tube is £10 per foot or the made track?

Justme

 

[Drains]

That's the made price. It's not the track though, its the supporting structure. Have a look at the URLs Bob has put up on the post above. Makes a nice American Diesel Loco horn sound too!