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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:NGL, I'm impressed it can still drive It *is* a Hilux after all. I'm guessing something fell on it, since it looks otherwise new-ish. Kazinsal posted:The other night at the pub, my friend mentioned he had a Fiero with no engine and a line on a series 2 L67, and followed that up with "hey do you know how to weld?". I don't. It's not that hard. It's harder to get *pretty* AND good. Or vice versa. Olympic Mathlete posted:Using a MIG is easy peasy. I am confident I could get pretty much anyone with motor skills better than those of a toddler and a brain capable of vague cognitive thought sticking metal together well in a couple of hours. Yeah, that. Very much agreed on dialing in the welder settings. It's bad enough with my MIG that has exactly two setting that I still gently caress up. I can't wait to start using my TIG. At least it does a lot of the automatic stuff. Tell what and how thick and it does the initial settings. Some MIGs can do that too, but mine is probably 20 years old. Not my worst welds, but not my best, either:   One thing I forgot to do on those welds was to bevel the edges of the joint. They were at least clean. Fitment was "meh." edit. In EV news, Chevy jacked the price of the Silverado EV up, ala Ford, before the damned thing is even on sale. Originally estimated at $40K for the base work truck, it now starts at $50K+, up to, get this: $105K. MSRP, before the dealers get ahold of them. At least the $105K model is the "RST First Edition" with 400 miles range, 664 HP, and 10K towing. Darchangel fucked around with this message at 14:39 on Jun 29, 2023 |
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Darchangel posted:It *is* a Hilux after all. I worked for a couple summers / holidays as a welders helper in the Gulf oilfields. I've definitely easily cleaned up worse welds than this with an angle grinder and wire wheel that got sandblasted / painted and looked fine. Working doing that was fun I got to see a ton of different kinds of welding on all sorts of materials from high pressure pipe welding to aluminum fridge boxes to stainless steel stuff. There were some really impressive welders out there and for plate steel stuff on non-visible welds a lot of them would speed through stuff that wasn't too far off from this.
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Reminded me of a project I worked on with a steel water tank. The welders laid continuous beads with arc welders, strike it, melt the entire stuck, put in a new one, for entire boxes of rods. High skill, had to be incredibly boring. Also kind of neat to see a truck of flat plate steel become a round tank.
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That Works posted:I worked for a couple summers / holidays as a welders helper in the Gulf oilfields. I've definitely easily cleaned up worse welds than this with an angle grinder and wire wheel that got sandblasted / painted and looked fine. Oh, they definitely got ground down, and will be painted.  Second shelf came out a little prettier:    StormDrain posted:Reminded me of a project I worked on with a steel water tank. The welders laid continuous beads with arc welders, strike it, melt the entire stuck, put in a new one, for entire boxes of rods. High skill, had to be incredibly boring. Also kind of neat to see a truck of flat plate steel become a round tank. Reminds me: I showed this project to a friend who took welding classes at the local community college (he audited - just wanted to learn, not make it a career) and when I brought up my bandsaw and plasma, he commented that his instructor would only let them do cutting and fitment with an angle grinder and torch, because "oil field". I had to reply that I'm not in the oil field. Think more budget fab shop, bro. I *can* do it with a cut-off wheel and grinder, but I don't have to, do I? I get it, the instructor was trying to prepare students for the primary mode of welders, but nah.
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Jun 29, 2023 16:58
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Darchangel posted:Oh, they definitely got ground down, and will be painted. My absolute least favorite activity is grinding a weld and finding a huge hole.
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StormDrain posted:My absolute least favorite activity is grinding a weld and finding a huge hole. Mine is blowing holes when welding on rusty sheet metal and then making more holes trying to fix the previous holes and then it's oops all booger welds.
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Jun 29, 2023 19:12
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Bulk Vanderhuge posted:Mine is blowing holes when welding on rusty sheet metal and then making more holes trying to fix the previous holes and then it's oops all booger welds. Oh hell yeah love that too! It ain't sheet metal, it's a sheet of welds.
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StormDrain posted:My absolute least favorite activity is grinding a weld and finding a huge hole. Mine is probably cleaning up dog diarrhea that's been ground into a rug
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Sagebrush posted:Mine is probably cleaning up dog diarrhea that's been ground into a rug Time for a new rug imo
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Jun 29, 2023 19:27
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Sagebrush posted:Mine is probably cleaning up dog diarrhea that's been ground into a rug My wife said "gently caress it" and we moved up our eventual plan a few years to replace the upstairs carpet with vinyl flooring after our 120lb dog caught a bad stomach bug and we woke up at 3am to roughly 2 gallons of diarrhea spread around the bedroom carpet. Poor guy.
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That Works posted:My wife said "gently caress it" and we moved up our eventual plan a few years to replace the upstairs carpet with vinyl flooring after our 120lb dog caught a bad stomach bug and we woke up at 3am to roughly 2 gallons of diarrhea spread around the bedroom carpet. Poor guy. Don't worry, if there's any carpet in your home at all that is what will be puked/poo poo on. Our house is 75% vinyl flooring but the cat always finds the carpet each and every time lol, he literally runs to carpet when he starts gagging
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Applebees Appetizer posted:Don't worry, if there's any carpet in your home at all that is what will be puked/poo poo on. my mom had white rugs at the entryways for some unbeknownst to me reason and when my dog was a puppy she thought they were another puppy pad because they were the only other white things on the floor.
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what do you mean the final step of welding a bead isn't hitting it hard with a flapper disc?
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StormDrain posted:My absolute least favorite activity is grinding a weld and finding a huge hole. Been there, done that. Scratch Monkey posted:what do you mean the final step of welding a bead isn't hitting it hard with a flapper disc? Always. Applebees Appetizer posted:Don't worry, if there's any carpet in your home at all that is what will be puked/poo poo on. Can confirm. Doggo with sensitive stomach loves to urp on the rug.
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Scratch Monkey posted:what do you mean the final step of welding a bead isn't hitting it hard with a flapper disc? Some people just get lazy and skip the final steps I guess.
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Sagebrush posted:Mine is probably cleaning up dog diarrhea that's been ground into a rug Thre are times Ij ust stroll back into a thread and the first post I see is something that makes me go...."What in god's name lead to this post?!?
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Sir, you KNOW we need adult supervision at all times.
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Applebees Appetizer posted:Don't worry, if there's any carpet in your home at all that is what will be puked/poo poo on. My apartment is all hardwood and vinyl. Clearly, I should get a cat 
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I had a dog that dug a hole into the linoleum/vinyl sheet flooring behind the toilet and proceeded to piss into that hole for months before we re-did that bathroom. There was crystallized urine between the vinyl sheet and underlayment across the entire bathroom floor
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Bulk Vanderhuge posted:Mine is blowing holes when welding on rusty sheet metal and then making more holes trying to fix the previous holes and then it's oops all booger welds. Boy have I got a thread for you! The worst part of hitting a thin spot/blowout on fifty-seven-year-old 22ga was being 'on a roll' so I tried to patch a growing hole with more & more wire feed. Ugh. Eventually I'd snap out of it. StormDrain posted:Oh hell yeah love that too! It ain't sheet metal, it's a sheet of welds.  
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No no no, I said I'm a poo poo metal welder
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PainterofCrap posted:The worst part of hitting a thin spot/blowout on fifty-seven-year-old 22ga was being 'on a roll' so I tried to patch a growing hole with more & more wire feed. Ugh. Just try to remember that Bondo was invented specifically for those situations
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The Door Frame posted:I had a dog that dug a hole into the linoleum/vinyl sheet flooring behind the toilet and proceeded to piss into that hole for months before we re-did that bathroom. There was crystallized urine between the vinyl sheet and underlayment across the entire bathroom floor Lol what the gently caress, how long did it take you to figure out your dog was doing that? Not until you re did the bathroom? That's hilarious and disgusting at the same time.
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Bathroom reeking like dog piss? Totally normal.
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You and your parter both silently wondering what the gently caress is going on with the other ones piss
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I honestly don't know how it got as far as it did, I was maybe 11 when we tore up the floor. All I remember is how loving gross it was when we found out that the little half bath had a layer of pee in the floor from a dog who was already dead At least my folks have wood floors now, almost certainly with no dog pee in them
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Maybe the piss wicked between subfloor and floor effectively enough there wasn't enough left uncontained to smell much.
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Scratch Monkey posted:Just try to remember that Bondo was invented specifically for those situations In this instance, it was part of a (much, much) larger sheet-metal rehab on a cheap throw-away pickup that somehow survived. A gallon+ of bondo was involved. Later.
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Spotted a baffling looking SUV, and I'm pretty sure it was one of these, in bright yellow. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rezvani_Tank
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Blue Footed Booby posted:Maybe the piss wicked between subfloor and floor effectively enough there wasn't enough left uncontained to smell much. We had a renter that had about 15 unfixed elderly dogs over a decade span in a modular with mdf floors...it's been about 6 weeks with 5 box fans running 24/7 and your eyes still water walking through it. The subfloor has just started to dry out after all that time.
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MDF? That’ll never come out. Surprised they aren’t all piss-flavored oatmeal after 10-years.
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PainterofCrap posted:MDF? That’ll never come out. Yeah the electricity bill to run the fans long enough to finally get rid of the smell would pay for the full rip-out and replace that the floors really need.
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I didn't grab a photo because I was driving, but imagine if you will an Audi A4 with a Pontiac Grand Am spoiler on it.
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davebo posted:I didn't grab a photo because I was driving, but imagine if you will an Audi A4 with a Pontiac Grand Am spoiler on it. Wrong thread
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Audi A4 = terrible Grand Am spoiler = awesome It’s a wash 
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Imagine, if you will, a mid 2000s hyundai sonata rattlecanned black with a sheet metal whale tail spoiler mounted on the trunk lid, dive planes on the front, and UV tinted headlights. Also with fart can and crackle tuned. There was so much going on with the car I was just completely dumbfounded. Why a Hyundai Sonata? Why not a lovely BMW? I wanted to get a pic of it but I was driving and my dad was in the passenger seat, he would have had a fit if I'd pulled my phone to snap a picture.
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davebo posted:I didn't grab a photo because I was driving, but imagine if you will an Audi A4 with a Pontiac Grand Am spoiler on it. What year/ generation grand am?
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orange juche posted:Imagine, if you will, a mid 2000s hyundai sonata rattlecanned black with a sheet metal whale tail spoiler mounted on the trunk lid, dive planes on the front, and UV tinted headlights. Also with fart can and crackle tuned. There was so much going on with the car I was just completely dumbfounded. Why a Hyundai Sonata? Why not a lovely BMW? To paraphrase a scumbag former defense secretary: You don’t gorp the car you want; you gorp the car you have.
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orange juche posted:Imagine, if you will, a mid 2000s hyundai sonata rattlecanned black with a sheet metal whale tail spoiler mounted on the trunk lid, dive planes on the front, and UV tinted headlights. Also with fart can and crackle tuned. There was so much going on with the car I was just completely dumbfounded. Why a Hyundai Sonata? Why not a lovely BMW? I read this in the twilight zone voice
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wesleywillis posted:What year/ generation grand am? The late 90s/early 00s I guess.
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