Wood stove fence

[Intheshop]

Bill,sharpen a tungsten to a serious "point"...... then go find a very acute inside angle on tubing or sumthin. Watch what happens to the arc. Until the tip gets nubbed,in this case,under fire...... good luck. You just have to be aggressive "chunkin" the filler in. I love gas welding.... mig? not so much,well the flux core is nice for outside. Tig is my favorite because of the low amp capabilities. Was welding a custom air cleaner on an air compressor yesterday. Small beads on tubing/gauge metal..... and welding 1/4" nuts to gauge stuff. Can't beat it with a stick. Oh yeah,used an old oval John Deere Kawasaki filter as the donor.

Go find some silicon bronze Tig rods..... snag some stainless 309 too. These are like aces up your sleeve. Not everyday rods but will get you out of a bind in several areas.

 

[freebullet]

What color, Bill?

Was thinking black might be jail like or something. Might make for some funny pics w/kid in corner w/jail gate around & the fire open for sitting near.

Was thinking oil rubbed bronze may alleviate jail look, I dunno.

 

[Ian]

Hammerite?

Needs heat resistance, though. Think engine enamel.

 

[smokeywolf]

I like your oil rubbed bronze suggestion FB.
To me, black is more reminiscent of wrought iron fencing. Most of the jails I've seen (from the right side of the bars) are green or grey. They used to call the old Ventura County jail " the green bar hotel".

 

[Pistolero]

Well, now that you asked about color.... medium blue. Standard Rustoleum color. This is the first coat,
will flip over tomorrow and shoot the other side. Yeah, I thought that black was a bit ugly, hadn't thought
of prison bars, but there is that, too.

Had nearly full can handy - made it easy. I'm not even sure what "oil rubbed bronze" even IS!

This has the sides folded underneath.

 

[freebullet]

Nice, that should prevent the old time prison or wrought iron look well.

 

[Pistolero]

Thanks. I asked my wife, she said she didn't care, so I looked over my stock of Rustoleum cans,
and liked that, and the can was nearly full - decision made. I filed the screws flush where they
came through about 0.025" or so, you can see the ends in the pic.

Getting close to done.

Then I can load up some .45 AR loads for the 625.

 

[Pistolero]

OK, I am declaring victory and moving on to reloading .45 Auto Rim.
I put some rubber feet on the bottom, and it folds flat for carrying in the 4Runner out to
the cabin. Pretty sturdy, too.

 

[fiver]

I like that blue color.
if the wife would have said 'I don't care' to me she would have got safety orange, red, white, black, and yellow.
then she would have cared.

 

[Ian]

If mine had said that it would have been left to develop its own patina. I absolutely hate painting stuff. Good job Bill.

 

[KeithB]

Good job.

 

[Pistolero]

Thanks, guys. Additive manufacturing, the other side of fabrication.

Bill

 

[Ian]

Yep. Some people even do it on the lathe:

 

[fiver]

okay now I know what that guy was doing to that plate of steel all those years ago when I first seen that.

 

[Ian]

We deal with a water well equipment machine shop in Austin that can flat out perform miracles with a stick welder, lathe, and mill. Make that BIG stick welder, lathe, and mill. They build up worn-out parts, hard-face the wear surfaces, and machine it back to spec. When necessary they normalize the whole thing, and induction-harden certain parts. I know they have a gear hob because they re-built a stripped gear one time by welding the whole thing up solid, cutting the teeth, and re-hardening it.

 

[fiver]

big machining dealing with 10 thou tolerances rather than small time .001 tolerances is another whole world.
there is an outfit in Rock Springs that cuts, mills, lathes and machines all kinds of oil field equipment [the owner is a bullet caster and that's how I met him]
when I toured his shop it was kind of neat to see a machine shop on steroids and some of the stuff they were working on sticking out the side of the building 20 feet.
one afternoon we were talking about guns and the like and he commented, I got all this machine shop equipment [something like 4-5 million dollars worth] and the smallest gun i could work on is something off a battleship.
his mill was about 15-16' tall and could probably cut a truck in half in like 3 minutes.

 

[Pistolero]

I knew about spray metalization, but had never seen it done. Cool video. My wife wandered
in while it was running and got interested, too. Civil engineering background and 50 years of
hanging around me.....

Good to be able to add material, so often we think only in terms of removing it.

Bill

 

[freebullet]

She turned out nice, Bill. I'm quite fond of blue though.

Had to have the inside of a bearing hub welded & machined back down to fit new locally available bearings. Impressive & sometimes mind boggling what an experienced machinist can do.

 

[Pistolero]

I was impressed with what the guy could do with an apparently fairly simple, handheld
tool, and some special materials, I'm sure provided by the maker of the product.
Saving expensive equipment with innovative machine work is neat stuff.

Bill

 

[smokeywolf]

Very nice job, Bill. Blue is my favorite color.

One of the best welders I've ever known, was also a pyrotechnics expert, had his ATFE powder license and had his underwater welding license. The guy could weld two razor blades together.

I once had an axle from a 'ride car' at Universal Studios, that was bent. I was going to set it up in a lathe and straighten it. One of the other machinists said, "forget that". Took the axle out of the four-jaw chuck and said, "follow me". We went out into the weld shop and he handed it to a welder named, Jeff Sparks. Yep! 'Sparky'. Sparky set the axle up on a welding table in V-blocks, (axle was about 1-1/2" dia.) spun it around 5 or 6 times, picked up a singlejack and smacked the axle one single blow. He spun it and checked it. I spun it and checked it. I could detect no more than .003 run-out, which would be less than the variations in the track that the wheels ran on.

Sparky had a feel for metals; they talked to him.