We are our own worse critic !! Brian, this is one of my best channels! I really enjoy the content, but the best part is listening to you explain the subject matter! You are so intelligent and very good at explaining all you bring to the table. That can do attitude and hard work is exactly what our young people need to see on RUclips!! Thank you! Be safe and God bless you!!!!!!
Doing things alone leaves everyone with the problem of being the only responsible person - for everything, from equipment, timing, decisions and even for unforeseeable events like that. Don´t get caught in some guilt assertion scheme, were you a company, there would be someone yelled at or fired or whatever. Can´t really yell at yourself or fire yourself :-), so why should other peoples comments be relevant?. Compared to what the shop will look like and what can be done in it, that machine crash is a smaller obstruction in the long run. Maybe that repair makes you a go-to guy for that kind of repairs and if not, there is a story to tell or two, which means more subscribers. I mean you added a completely new meaning to "i dropped the drill" to my understanding. Following your uploads with interest, as your work is about something very different from what i do.
They say success has many parents and failure is an orphan. Standing tall against the odds is character building and what you're going to achieve will be awesome. Best Wishes from freezing Oz.
Hi Brian, So glad to see your happy face, pleasing a friend is as good as getting a treat from a friend... ;) Enjoy the hammer, we only give them to highly deserving people, write the word "Dummy" from your vocabulary.... Yap....!!! You'll get new stickers, come get them at the Bash... LOL Naaaah!!! I'll mail you a new set... You would be a great Canadian if you would only be born on the North side of the border... !!!! Cheers, Pierre
I am still amazed that you did all or almost all the work on your shop yourself plus running your commercial machine shop plus farming your land---- I am from a farming state, North Dakota, and know how hard farmers work. And putting up the bridge crane yourself---incredible
Tape up the stickers and give them a home on the radial. Don't use the good tape either. Then you will have a good story and a good chuckle once you are over the hump.
Brian, it is just a moment in time, you will get your swagger back and be doing the impossible again shortly. As an old man, I have been where you are more then once.
Stop calling yourself a village idiot, please Brian......You're just running a bad streak. An idiot you are not. I like your channel and have been a subscriber from nearly the beginning... How many other machinists would have even aired the footage that you did?....You ate humble pie and showed everyone you have big balls enough to do it. I respect you man.
Oh Canada.... :) Won't be long and you'll be sitting back relaxing in that shop. Some good times when you can take a break, lean on a board, and survey your work / progress like that. Fantastic job on the repair. Take Care
Brian if your an idiot then I want to be an idiot too !!! you have taught me alot I have the same hobart welder and love it Don't let this set back get you down you are teaching us how to fix this now your the best Mike
Looking good! Don't beat yourself up ! Life is full of kicks in the head! We all have moments! Your already well on your way to success! Enjoy your videos thanks!
Blind, in a corner, with and without a mirror, uphill, downhill, side to side, no crack too tight, no gap too wide. If you don't like the way I do it, I'll let you try.
Repair is coming along fine, your " crappy" welds still look better than my good ones. LOL Looks like we have to build a shop chair for you next time, we thought we should send you a few goodies after your mishap. those are stickers , I will remind Pierre to put the letters and stickers in the box. Im sure he will mail you some new ones right after he sees this video. I'm glad you like the hammer and follower, even though we did not specify for you to ding it I'm sure it will get used soon enough. BTW the pin in the tap guide is reversible. You look really tired, take care of yourself Brian Cheers my friend
Keep on peckin' at her Brian! The drill will live to see another day. I was always told that if you never mess anything up, you're not doing much. Looks like you really have a thing for that nice hammer. Hope you don't get Tom Lipton disease and end up with a couple hundred because I have it and can't walk past a hammer without looking or buying! Thanks for taking time to put up the videos Brian, I appreciate it!
Good video/update/new tools.....enjoyed and best of luck as you proceed with the repair, awesome hammer from P&P as I am a lucky guy that got one for my shop
Sweet score on the welder, good to see you making progress on the drill, nice viewer gifts for sure, that hammer is cool! Show me a pretty weld on an oil cast iron part, i have never seen one.
I wish I had some way to help with all that welding but I can hardly stick a couple of pieces of square tubing together. Take care and keep on keeping on.
Brian stuff happens but u recovered extremely well from the drop and welds don't need to look good to work and hold keep up the good work stay safe and don't run your self into the ground
Now that planting is over I hope you can get recharged. You seem a little tired. Let up on yourself over the drill. I watch all your videos and you did due diligence on checking out the crane. If you are guilty of anything at all its assuming the whole project would go without a hitch. Working alone as much as you have and doing all the heavy lifting and high up work you've done I'll bet you've already dodged a lot of bullets. If that drill dropping is the worst thst happens consider yourself blessed. Take care.
So you need 4 more arms and a truckload of bottles to pre heat and after burn, lol. I could see how it's more problematic when you describe it. I guess we're all village idiots here then, I enjoy what you share as many do. You're right about meeting and learning so much more through the video environment. With guys like Amazin Blaze to talk to you'll be fine. If it were mine, when I plated across the repairs, I would go as thick as I could possibly make work. To try and get as close to the massing of the drill as possible. I wouldn't be shy about it, maybe even bending plates in a press or pre assembling a corner so i could get 3/4 or 1 inch thick. But I'm not there so I'll just have to see what you do haha. Keep on, thanks for sharing!
I Had a very interesting conversation with a Tech that called me from Eutectic, I was asking him about Ferrosilicon and he told me that most of the nickle rods for welding cast iron had it in the flux. The reason for the nickle in the rods is the alloy formed while welding is not effected by the carbon from the cast iron. He said the ferrosilicon in the flux helped prevent the carbon from forming carbide in the heat effected zone of the weld. He told me it was possible to cheat and use regular rods, the part would need to be preheated to around 1700F and while the weld was still hot it would need to be peened to relieve the stress and then wrapped and cooled slowly.
Hey Brian, people ask me how I am doing and I answer "Steady by jerks". Sometimes when you have a lot of irons in the fire that pretty well describes how it is! It's good to see the gifts coming your way; many times it's not how useful things are as much as the thoughts of the giver. I'm hoping to see that big drill at work and I'm sure it will. I'm not sure what part of KY you are in and not sure what I could do with a bad back but wouldn't mind doing what I do best...hmm, I guess there's not all that much room on the couch, is there? Greg
Brian, Stick your chin out and let 'em hit it again and again. Guys like you and a lot of us just keep getting up and keep going. We fix things that are broken. I've found most guys talk the talk but can't do the walk. You've got the walk in spades. How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. You get it fixed, One repair at a time.
I wouldn't worry about the welds. in this situation they should hold up fine and will probably outlast you. If that location was subject to massive shock loads then I would worry.
Glad to see you're making progress on the drill, Brian. I'm sure you will get it up and working soon! Some very nice gifts as well. The guys sure make a nice hammer setup and those tap followers could be quite useful. Wish you were coming to the Bash but I know Baily wouldn't do well with you gone that long. Gotta keep the boss happy, right? Best wishes, Tom Z
keep up good work i admire your tenacity i have had excellent results with palco stick rods , precision alloy scottstown ohio ,a needle scaler can be helpful with peening welds, i have also laced engine blocks by using brass studs drilled at an angle to pull crack together, this might be useful for your application to hold crack tight for welding would need to use steel studs however this is similar to lock-stick method, it is easy to critize from the peanut gallery but those who do wont admit their failures keep trying and you cant fail it is only a matter of time and the method you use to suceed
Practice makes perfect they say! There are lots of various ways to get the job done and it really is a lot of trial and error on my part to effect a good and affordable solution.
I have to get busted drill parts out of the way before I can pour more concrete. Also the crane is tied up holding the drill together and I have to get it free so I can move teh compressor and surface plate before I can pour the next section. So there is a method to my madness and besides it all has to get done eventually anyway so the order is not important to me and I have no deadlines to meet.
Please check out silicon bronze mig brazing wire, it does not melt the parent metal so there will be no issues with cracking. I was reading about it at Millers web site.
Those are very nice hammers, I think it was very nice of those guys to send you one. I am no lighting expert but if you are concerned about that slightly zombie look you had in the first scene you may want to try a work light on the floor pointing up at you. Then again you have bigger fish to fry... I don't come here for the cinematography, but the great shop and machining content. Keep on it, and if you don't mind me saying, you ought to start cutting yourself some slack. Shit happened. You learned some hard lessons. Look forward.
Brian, Seems like the accident has made you a stronger person (if that's possible). Clearly you still have your sense of honour and are able to keep shit in perspective. Please believe me my friend when I say you are far from being a dummy in fact I think it takes amazing character to re cover from your dropping incident. Keep the goodies coming young man, kindest regards. Joe.
I like the fact that you are backing up the welding with bolted in bracing. It may not be pretty, but I've seen ugly work better than pretty most often. Just because it's pretty doesn't mean it's good. Just ask anyone involved in dealing with the aftermath of the Hyatt Skywalk collapse back in the early '80's. As for the damage to the floor, did it get upset any, or is it simply cracks that probably would have developed over use in the future?
it is easy to stand back and watch while saying different things about you should have or what ever to just get out and do it in the first place is to be miles ahead of where they will ever be while they are saying this n that you and i are out getten her done!
I like the new welder, I've been looking at getting one of those myself. I got to thinking the other day, any chance you'll show your Kenworth in one of your videos? I know you briefly alluded to it in your boring mill video, but never showed it
Yeah I plan to keep it, it is a nice Westinghouse 20hp variable speed motor and seems well made and it all fits. Another major issue is I tried really hard to get the motor shaft out of the gearbox with no success so swapping it could really be a chore that might require destruction of the motor just to get it apart.
I hope they don't start calling you bubble gum Bob. or say things like try using the hood next time I have heard them all .Is there no way you can bolt and plate the thing back together?
It aint looking so bad Brian, and who cares as long as its strong enough for purpose. Perhaps instead of plating over it you could grind out a touch, tap in some more studs around the welded area and run a pile o beads over the lot. Sure sounds easier than getting plates bolted up and youll have some sort of fusion joint to boot, could peen it some too. Can always slap a bit bondo over it if the looks bothers you. Might be wrong but im thinking I caught whiff you being a bit down on yourself. If so, remember youre way ahead of any fucker who chastised after the event for having a go, remember that these are the fuckers who get nothing done cos there too busy dolling out the woulda shoulda couldas, remember that none of em gave you any advice on how to weld up your drill, they all to busy waiting for the fail so they can call you an idiot and tell how you shoulda done it! Wankers!!... Dont give em your peace mate, just look em right in the eye and smile 8) Fingers still crossed for the win man, keep goin ;)
Hobart welding machines used too be the Cadillac of welding machines next too Lincoln. That is until Miller got a hold of it. They turned them into the same garbage Miller makes as a welding machine, and they are garbage. one step above the cheap Chinese brands you can buy at Horror Fright.
I have two old Millers, the Hobart Mig and an old big Lincoln, none of them have ever given me any real trouble and they all seem to weld good. The big 330 Miller seems a bit smoother arc than the others but it's really hard to tell.
Brian, you have friends all over the planet rooting for you! You are an amazing person.
Thanks! Viewers in 108 different countries, it blows my mind!
We are our own worse critic !! Brian, this is one of my best channels! I really enjoy the content, but the best part is listening to you explain the subject matter! You are so intelligent and very good at explaining all you bring to the table. That can do attitude and hard work is exactly what our young people need to see on RUclips!! Thank you! Be safe and God bless you!!!!!!
Glad I can be an inspiration!
Ray Eddy amen brother!!!!
Your shop will be one of the finest on RUclips once complete. Keep on keepin on!
It is my dream shop!
Dream Big or go home! :)
Doing things alone leaves everyone with the problem of being the only responsible person - for everything, from equipment, timing, decisions and even for unforeseeable events like that. Don´t get caught in some guilt assertion scheme, were you a company, there would be someone yelled at or fired or whatever. Can´t really yell at yourself or fire yourself :-), so why should other peoples comments be relevant?.
Compared to what the shop will look like and what can be done in it, that machine crash is a smaller obstruction in the long run. Maybe that repair makes you a go-to guy for that kind of repairs and if not, there is a story to tell or two, which means more subscribers. I mean you added a completely new meaning to "i dropped the drill" to my understanding. Following your uploads with interest, as your work is about something very different from what i do.
You got this repair!!! I want to see the "uncut rant" after the drill fell. We all have had those moments!!
They say success has many parents and failure is an orphan. Standing tall against the odds is character building and what you're going to achieve will be awesome. Best Wishes from freezing Oz.
Hi Brian,
So glad to see your happy face, pleasing a friend is as good as getting a treat from a friend... ;)
Enjoy the hammer, we only give them to highly deserving people, write the word "Dummy" from your vocabulary....
Yap....!!! You'll get new stickers, come get them at the Bash... LOL Naaaah!!! I'll mail you a new set...
You would be a great Canadian if you would only be born on the North side of the border... !!!!
Cheers, Pierre
That's so cool of you and Phil, Pierre!
Brian is no dummy thats for sure and any one thinks he is can go play in traffic !!!!
Brian is a great person...!!!
And Baily also so he doesn't feel left out... lol
Pierre's Garage on
Hi Joseph, don't forget Philippe from Phil's Projects and Robert that also had their share on making the tools... ;)
I am still amazed that you did all or almost all the work on your shop yourself plus running your commercial machine shop plus farming your land---- I am from a farming state, North Dakota, and know how hard farmers work.
And putting up the bridge crane yourself---incredible
Good to see the progress, ugly doesn't matter, holding matters and I'm sure it will. Thanks for the video.
I'm envious, that's a NICE hammer.
Keep welding it'll get done!!!!
Thanks for the update.
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Tape up the stickers and give them a home on the radial. Don't use the good tape either. Then you will have a good story and a good chuckle once you are over the hump.
Maybe I put them on to reinforce the welds. :-)
Brian, it is just a moment in time, you will get your swagger back and be doing the impossible again shortly. As an old man, I have been where you are more then once.
Stop calling yourself a village idiot, please Brian......You're just running a bad streak. An idiot you are not. I like your channel and have been a subscriber from nearly the beginning... How many other machinists would have even aired the footage that you did?....You ate humble pie and showed everyone you have big balls enough to do it. I respect you man.
Another Baily snuffle of approval. So far, so good.
Oh Canada.... :) Won't be long and you'll be sitting back relaxing in that shop. Some good times when you can take a break, lean on a board, and survey your work / progress like that. Fantastic job on the repair. Take Care
Wow!!! You went at that package like an untrained beaver with one tooth. I laughed my butt off with the letter all tore up.!!!
Brian if your an idiot then I want to be an idiot too !!! you have taught me alot I have the same hobart welder and love it Don't let this set back get you down you are teaching us how to fix this now your the best Mike
Looking good! Don't beat yourself up ! Life is full of kicks in the head! We all have moments! Your already well on your way to success! Enjoy your videos thanks!
Blind, in a corner, with and without a mirror, uphill, downhill, side to side, no crack too tight, no gap too wide. If you don't like the way I do it, I'll let you try.
Amazin Blaze that you?!!!
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Amazin blaze got to be a great name for a marijuana store, if they ever legalize it in the UK, lol
I can just tell things are going so well in the shop for you when the video opens up with a shot of murder-face lol.
Hi there, Brian,
Hang in there!
With best wishes from one of your UK viewers.
Repair is coming along fine, your " crappy" welds still look better than my good ones. LOL
Looks like we have to build a shop chair for you next time,
we thought we should send you a few goodies after your mishap. those are stickers , I will remind Pierre to put the letters and stickers in the box. Im sure he will mail you some new ones right after he sees this video.
I'm glad you like the hammer and follower, even though we did not specify for you to ding it I'm sure it will get used soon enough. BTW the pin in the tap guide is reversible.
You look really tired, take care of yourself Brian
Cheers my friend
If I put a chair in there Baily will claim it for his! lol
We will make it small enough and high enough so he won't want to use it.. lol
Get 2... :)
Keep on peckin' at her Brian! The drill will live to see another day. I was always told that if you never mess anything up, you're not doing much. Looks like you really have a thing for that nice hammer. Hope you don't get Tom Lipton disease and end up with a couple hundred because I have it and can't walk past a hammer without looking or buying! Thanks for taking time to put up the videos Brian, I appreciate it!
I normally just always go for the hand sledge. I like about a 3lb hammer best. :-)
Good video/update/new tools.....enjoyed and best of luck as you proceed with the repair, awesome hammer from P&P as I am a lucky guy that got one for my shop
keep your head up Brian,
you are to hard on yourself, it will come together one day.keep the good work
it IS coming, it looks fine to me, bit of later grinding, bit of paint, the machine needs a good going over and painting anyway
Its a long road but someday it will all come together!
Sweet score on the welder, good to see you making progress on the drill, nice viewer gifts for sure, that hammer is cool! Show me a pretty weld on an oil cast iron part, i have never seen one.
Thanks for the video Brian!!! Shes comin along!
I wish I had some way to help with all that welding but I can hardly stick a couple of pieces of square tubing together. Take care and keep on keeping on.
that made me pretty happy. :D thats a nice hammer that! I have one, and I feel pretty lucky watching this. good to see it going back together tho.
It is a very nice hammer! I hope you have gotten good use from yours.
Brian stuff happens but u recovered extremely well from the drop and welds don't need to look good to work and hold
keep up the good work stay safe and don't run your self into the ground
I'll suggest a long narrow needle scaler to clean the the layers between weld passes
The scaler is great for cleaning and also for penning the weld...
just stick the tore stickers on the drill same same lol , rock on brian!!!!! thanks for sharing
Should I put the torn stickers over the crack to match? lol
id tell every one the stickers did it ;)
enjoyed your video. thank you.
The welding is working better than Crazy Glue lol
Now that planting is over I hope
you can get recharged. You seem a little tired. Let up on yourself over the drill. I watch all your videos and you did due diligence on checking out the crane. If you are guilty of anything at all its assuming the whole project would go without a hitch. Working alone as much as you have and doing all the heavy lifting and high up work you've done I'll bet you've already dodged a lot of bullets. If that drill dropping is the worst thst happens consider yourself blessed. Take care.
The way I figure it, if it sticks together it is great.
Yep if it can hold the motor and not fall back apart it will be a huge win!!
Hello Brian, Bailey is saying, "I can't give you anything without you chewing it up!" He will have to open your future mail. Lol! Take care. Doug
Baily will destroy one of those black kons in about an hour if you leave him to it so maybe I get those tendencies from him!!
So you need 4 more arms and a truckload of bottles to pre heat and after burn, lol. I could see how it's more problematic when you describe it. I guess we're all village idiots here then, I enjoy what you share as many do. You're right about meeting and learning so much more through the video environment. With guys like Amazin Blaze to talk to you'll be fine. If it were mine, when I plated across the repairs, I would go as thick as I could possibly make work. To try and get as close to the massing of the drill as possible. I wouldn't be shy about it, maybe even bending plates in a press or pre assembling a corner so i could get 3/4 or 1 inch thick. But I'm not there so I'll just have to see what you do haha. Keep on, thanks for sharing!
I Had a very interesting conversation with a Tech that called me from Eutectic, I was asking him about Ferrosilicon and he told me that most of the nickle rods for welding cast iron had it in the flux. The reason for the nickle in the rods is the alloy formed while welding is not effected by the carbon from the cast iron. He said the ferrosilicon in the flux helped prevent the carbon from forming carbide in the heat effected zone of the weld. He told me it was possible to cheat and use regular rods, the part would need to be preheated to around 1700F and while the weld was still hot it would need to be peened to relieve the stress and then wrapped and cooled slowly.
Sounds like then that a stick welded repair would be much better than a mig welded one then since there is no benefit from the flux. Very interesting.
You Tube is catching you , reading from your early days of Barn rebuild.
Hey Brian, people ask me how I am doing and I answer "Steady by jerks". Sometimes when you have a lot of irons in the fire that pretty well describes how it is! It's good to see the gifts coming your way; many times it's not how useful things are as much as the thoughts of the giver. I'm hoping to see that big drill at work and I'm sure it will. I'm not sure what part of KY you are in and not sure what I could do with a bad back but wouldn't mind doing what I do best...hmm, I guess there's not all that much room on the couch, is there? Greg
Brian,
Stick your chin out and let 'em hit it again and again. Guys like you and a lot of us just keep getting up and keep going. We fix things that are broken. I've found most guys talk the talk but can't do the walk. You've got the walk in spades.
How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. You get it fixed, One repair at a time.
I think I will just duck instead. :-)
I wouldn't worry about the welds. in this situation they should hold up fine and will probably outlast you. If that location was subject to massive shock loads then I would worry.
15:00 “I like them top heavy.” lol
Glad to see you're making progress on the drill, Brian. I'm sure you will get it up and working soon! Some very nice gifts as well. The guys sure make a nice hammer setup and those tap followers could be quite useful.
Wish you were coming to the Bash but I know Baily wouldn't do well with you gone that long. Gotta keep the boss happy, right?
Best wishes,
Tom Z
The boss is the boss!
its nice when deals com your way, to bad it was a misfortune of a couple , but doors open when doors close and you were there the get some fallout.
put some thich tar paint on the inside cavity to cover the weld, the outside, grind it paint it, it will be fine
keep up good work i admire your tenacity i have had excellent results with palco stick rods , precision alloy scottstown ohio ,a needle scaler can be helpful with peening welds, i have also laced engine blocks by using brass studs drilled at an angle to pull crack together, this might be useful for your application to hold crack tight for welding would need to use steel studs however this is similar to lock-stick method, it is easy to critize from the peanut gallery but those who do wont admit their failures keep trying and you cant fail it is only a matter of time and the method you use to suceed
Practice makes perfect they say! There are lots of various ways to get the job done and it really is a lot of trial and error on my part to effect a good and affordable solution.
If I were in your situation, I would forget about that drill for now and get back on the shop.
If your stuck on the drill, I would check out, silicon bronze mig brazing wire for cast iron repair
I have to get busted drill parts out of the way before I can pour more concrete. Also the crane is tied up holding the drill together and I have to get it free so I can move teh compressor and surface plate before I can pour the next section. So there is a method to my madness and besides it all has to get done eventually anyway so the order is not important to me and I have no deadlines to meet.
Please check out silicon bronze mig brazing wire, it does not melt the parent metal so there will be no issues with cracking. I was reading about it at Millers web site.
Those are very nice hammers, I think it was very nice of those guys to send you one. I am no lighting expert but if you are concerned about that slightly zombie look you had in the first scene you may want to try a work light on the floor pointing up at you. Then again you have bigger fish to fry... I don't come here for the cinematography, but the great shop and machining content. Keep on it, and if you don't mind me saying, you ought to start cutting yourself some slack. Shit happened. You learned some hard lessons. Look forward.
Hi, following all your work and amazing progresses, I feel really sorry for what happen, have you thought to some remedy to fix the concrete damage?
Brian, Seems like the accident has made you a stronger person (if that's possible). Clearly you still have your sense of honour and are able to keep shit in perspective. Please believe me my friend when I say you are far from being a dummy in fact I think it takes amazing character to re cover from your dropping incident. Keep the goodies coming young man, kindest regards. Joe.
I like the fact that you are backing up the welding with bolted in bracing. It may not be pretty, but I've seen ugly work better than pretty most often. Just because it's pretty doesn't mean it's good. Just ask anyone involved in dealing with the aftermath of the Hyatt Skywalk collapse back in the early '80's.
As for the damage to the floor, did it get upset any, or is it simply cracks that probably would have developed over use in the future?
it is easy to stand back and watch while saying different things about you should have or what ever
to just get out and do it in the first place is to be miles ahead of where they will ever be
while they are saying this n that you and i are out getten her done!
That is the idea, I will have a drill while others are still saying it should have never been moved. :-)
Hi Brian, I know I have seen those hammers before. Where can I purchase one ? Love the channel BTW.
Contact Pierre to see if they have any hammers left. ruclips.net/channel/UCVgocYJ_HmT8EfXnVqScTeA
I like the new welder, I've been looking at getting one of those myself.
I got to thinking the other day, any chance you'll show your Kenworth in one of your videos? I know you briefly alluded to it in your boring mill video, but never showed it
It is no showpiece, just an old 600hp farm truck. I am sure it will appear in the boring mill unloading videos.
Congrats on the score welder! Divorce makes for good deals, unfortunately.
Funny as hell,you're too hard on yourself,I'd trade my big toe for a shop like that
Brian
Great video, and nice hammer. Are you planning on keeping the DC motor on it? What size motor is it.
Yeah I plan to keep it, it is a nice Westinghouse 20hp variable speed motor and seems well made and it all fits. Another major issue is I tried really hard to get the motor shaft out of the gearbox with no success so swapping it could really be a chore that might require destruction of the motor just to get it apart.
what about the concrete damage?
It is damaged and that is how it will stay I reckon. Not much can be done about that within practical and cost effective methods.
can you do a quick video of the area? I might have some repair ideas
Brian are you peening your welds ? Good video keep them coming.
oh PEENING, i guess ive been doing it wrong myself, i keep leaving puddles everywhere
I hope they don't start calling you bubble gum Bob. or say things like try using the hood next time I have heard them all .Is there no way you can bolt and plate the thing back together?
It aint looking so bad Brian, and who cares as long as its strong enough for purpose. Perhaps instead of plating over it you could grind out a touch, tap in some more studs around the welded area and run a pile o beads over the lot. Sure sounds easier than getting plates bolted up and youll have some sort of fusion joint to boot, could peen it some too. Can always slap a bit bondo over it if the looks bothers you.
Might be wrong but im thinking I caught whiff you being a bit down on yourself. If so, remember youre way ahead of any fucker who chastised after the event for having a go, remember that these are the fuckers who get nothing done cos there too busy dolling out the woulda shoulda couldas, remember that none of em gave you any advice on how to weld up your drill, they all to busy waiting for the fail so they can call you an idiot and tell how you shoulda done it! Wankers!!... Dont give em your peace mate, just look em right in the eye and smile 8)
Fingers still crossed for the win man, keep goin ;)
You sponsored by Pepsi now?
That would be nice! No sponsors here though.
Hobart welding machines used too be the Cadillac of welding machines next too Lincoln. That is until Miller got a hold of it. They turned them into the same garbage Miller makes as a welding machine, and they are garbage. one step above the cheap Chinese brands you can buy at Horror Fright.
I have two old Millers, the Hobart Mig and an old big Lincoln, none of them have ever given me any real trouble and they all seem to weld good. The big 330 Miller seems a bit smoother arc than the others but it's really hard to tell.
you look tired...
Quit calling yourself "Village Idiot" please. It is annoying, and makes me have to search for something worse to call myself :)