Great job. I enjoy when repaired equipment is painted before returning to the customer. To me, it shows pride in workmanship. When I had work done, it impressed me so that I'd be a returning customer. BTW, honesty is still the best policy.
Repainting THIS type (piece) of equipment seems to me like waste of time and utter frills - most of the paint will be stripped the moment the bucket is put back to use. I'm not against painting repaired stuff "as such", it's this particular instance when it is, from practical point of view, a total waste of time and money. But then this might be done cuz the customer is, erm, "tad peculiar" in his choices and preferences - "no, don't replace cracked ears" (although it would be the best choice in this case), so maybe he enjoys freshly painted buckets too, who knows...
I grew up in So.Cal 60s-90s. I miss it. I go back, and In 3 days I want to leave? The vibe is gone? San Diego was the best city in the world to live 40 years ago.
I've never seen the weld and cut at the same time with the Climax, very cool. You have one badass operation, all the big boy toys 😁. I wanna be just like you when I grow up😂. Thanks for taking us along! ✌️
A tremendous amount of quality work! I enjoyed this video as I do every one you post. Couple questions come to mind: 1) How many people do you currently have working for you? And 2) What do you guess are your personal total number of hours spent working in all aspects of your business per week. I’m guessing it’s a huge number given that you’re out when the sun’s coming up and still out way past when it sets not to mention the weekends that you’re working. And, owning a much smaller mobile welding business myself, I know there’s a ton of hours spent in getting the work, parts and materials lined up as well as all the associated paperwork that nobody (except your family) will ever see.
Currently I have 3 employees. I personally work about 80 hours a week. Including phone calls and networking with customers. It’s far better to manage a couple good guys than to do all the work yourself.
You boys do get some interesting and challenging 'Can Do' repairs to somehow accomplish. As always, great video and dialogue. It's great to see your channel grow up!
Greg thank you for another great video! Hey your first mistake you ever made and RUclipsrs are privy to it, wow thank you! Jk/jk! Greg would you make a video on your marketing and pricing tactics! How you’ve developed them over the years! I’m not asking for your exact pricing just a sort of direction or a model others could utilize as a stepping stone of sorts! I’m here in Santa Teresa, NM on the border of El Paso, TX and Juarez, MX! Take care and God bless you sir! P.S. All these videos and your valuable time that you commit to making them is greatly appreciated!
Thanks for close up on of the CLIMAX. Although it’s almost normal to see, it’s absolutely crazy how you can maximize man & machine without compromising the workmanship.
Hi Greg it's good to see you hide nothing none of us are perfect and some of us are not afraid to show when we miss judge or calculate something wrongly, I have heard you say this before and that you make mistakes and its great to know your not a deva unlike some RUclipsrs, thank's for another great and interesting video and I can't wait to see the video on how you armor a bucket of this size.
This is so Weird Mr Greg..., I was thinking of the time I overshot a bore, rushing on the lathe, 2" plate by 24" diameter, and had to do a bore weld on our converted 30" lathe we only used for welding, we could slow down to 1/4 rpm.....anyway, I was wondering if you ever had that happen and 2 minutes later, Boom 31:00, you had the same issue.....thanks for sharing that, we are all human, we try and not do this, it makes us better in the future......onward and upward......great rebuild..... all that gouging of cracks was insane and the amount of filler it took.... Best Wises, Paul..
Great vision, and yes you are totally correct. Complete replacement required. Customer will be sorry for his choice, too thin on outter ends. In Australia, he is known as a tight arse fool.😂
yeah its great owning the company. Everyone thinks things are easy for the boss. Guess they dont see you out at 10 Pm still working. Then you need to go home and do the real hard work. Thats the office work for a couple of hours. Keep it up.
The boss takes the risks; if he makes money, just like those employees who take no risks he’s taxed on income. His company profits are taxed, with no benefit to him or the company. And then you pay the government payroll tax, you’re taxed to employ people in a capitalist country (I’m speaking for UK, not sure if the USA does.
You shouldn't tighten the chuck the way you do with a jerk of your body; you'll hurt your back. Use an extension and position the handle of your sliding T-handle wrench so that you can extend it by sliding it into the hole of the wrench.
G'day Mate, Could the pin boss have been made bigger OD to cover the crack repair to the ear? Or would clearance become an issue. That area seems like a problem in the future. Thanks for all the effort you put into these vidios. cheers, Butch
Yes, they could have but there is a dust seal that goes around them to prevent dirt getting in between the faces and the stick. It’s basically a big o-ring so you could go a little bigger. I already had the new ones before the cracks were discovered.
I enjoy your videos. I wonder about the line boring/welding everytime the bore wears out. Could you greatly oversize the bore and insert a sacrificial sleeve that could be replaced when it wears. Thanks for the videos.
Yes you can, but it’s not a good practice with commercial equipment. If that fails they have to have something custom made. If they stay on top of it they can just replace factory bushings if they are available.
I agree that a total mounting bracket delete was the way to go on this project, but I'm not the customer. Nice welder/borer. Amazing work from everyone involved, even with the little overbore hick-up. Thanks for keeping it honest. Thomas, Mississippi!
3 comments 1, the little mistake, you put your pants on 1 leg at a time 2, the customer is always right even when he’s wrong 3, it’d be fun to bring a machinist from Pakistan over here to help you for 3-4 days, steel toe boots, not a hand held face shield etc the culture shock would be interesting
How long did the repairs on this bucket actually take? How long does the bore welding and cutting to size take? Sure is a massive bucket. Do you use different wire for welding on the wear guards and armor plates? Thanks for sharing.
Could you share the bore diameter and pin diameter specs? Im curious if you generally oversize the bore ~0.005" for a good fit or what your rule of thumb is.
How do you repair smaller bores that cant fit a welder? And where do you get information about welding specs, heat inout etc for this tyoe of repairs? Do yiunjsit assume its a G350 or equivalent material
Probly a dumb question, but on the first set if bores, if you're bore welding anyways, is there a reason you made new pin bosses rather than weld up the entire bore? Thinking about buying the SPower set up, so im going down all the rabbit holes
@@greatestgigliello3282no, kits like S power, Elsa, and sir meccanica use the same drive motor to run the welder. You would need another bearing mount and a complete drive system to do it. Climax is all separate allowing you to run it separately.
700 amps, 3/8 carbons. That's playing hardball. At the risk of sounding elitist, I wish you would make a video now and then that doesn't cater to the armchair observer crowd. Us old timers can see exactly what the job is and are watching to observe your expertise. We don't need wordy explanations. We know you need new boss's with X OD and Y ID and it's a couple of hours cooling your jets with the line borer. Of the greatest interest is what your experience is on display and what measures if any you will undertake to prevent this mess in the future. ->Never discount the savvy of the old timers like OFW and their bag of tricks. Mistakes? We never make mistakes!!! If you swallow that one I've got some lovely swamp land for sale a few miles west of San Francisco. One thing I wonder about. What would the condition of those welds be in, what cracks would have developed, it is had been stick 7018 instead of the hot glue gun? How about cutting into the ears about .125 and recessing the bosses? Then the weld wouldn't have to handle all the force? Stick weld can go down past the recess to solid parent metal.
I have been thinking about explaining less in my videos and just showing me doing the work. Maybe explain what it is. I don’t even want to get started on stick vs hot glue gun. Hahaha.
@@OFW You know better than I the capacity and limitations of MIG. I admit being prejudiced against it. Back in my day MIG was scoffed at. A quick and dirty weak get by. Certification then required X-ray and scarfed flat, vertical and overhead 6010. 7018 was acceptable but 6010 best demonstrated how well you could weld. Had I been on that bucket I'd have left some MIG metal as tacks and let 6010 get the job done. Maybe 7018 final passes to make it look pretty., Welding has come a long way since then.
@@OFW As for the talk, you know best what your audience wants. I have to admit I enjoyed your screw up immensely. My best one was completing a day of welding parts to discover one of the two was the incorrect ones. Same length, same miter, but a left hand instead of a right. Recut and redo 70 assemblies. What's that about double and triple checking? 😫 (My boss cut me a little slack. Commenting if they give us another order we already have half of the mounts built.)
I do not know Greg , if anybody has mentioned it, but the stereophonic sound on your videos is really cool.... I use ear buds to watch, so I hear compressors on one side and hammering on another.....it is just like being in the shop with you guys.......Bravo on the paint job.......Midnight Auto Paint......PB
Beautiful work ..... as always. Thank you for noting that the customer made certain decisions as to how the work was executed. Saves a lot of "Why" questions. I had a few. Some you answered. Others I could assume the made the decision. Pin bosses are always a tricky thing. May I ask what material was used, and were they flame cut by your supplier, or ??? Thanks
You and ic make the carbon arc look really easy, I did a similar job a week ago on a bucket coupler,carbon arc all the weld off and still ended up chunking up the pin bush with a torch to get it out. Nice job 👍
as a fabricator my philosophy was, the only people that don't make mistakes, don't do anything. NASA makes mistakes. another thing i went by was, a good fabricator will build on his/her mistakes and the end result will be better than the original attempt would have been.
Nice balance of activities!!! Gee 107 degrees, I've noticed you have a "swamp cooler" fan unit that is huge, no wonder. For shame, ya made a mistake, I won't send you anymore work!!!! LOL I'm moved to confess, I made a mistake in my bathroom remodel job. I installed cement board on the ceiling but won't be putting tile on the ceiling and was a bear getting the darn board up there over my head.. After two shoulder replacements I find my extended reach doesn't have the strength it once had. How much paint did it take to paint that beast???? I admire your attention to detail, such as painting to finish the project.
I knew what line boring was but never had seen it done and didn’t think about building up the worn metal inside of the bore. I’m curious as to how long line or align boring has been around and how were the bores built up before wire feed or if they even were or were new pin bosses just manufactured or did the welder fill it up with stick and then bore? Regardless I enjoyed watching thank you.
That’s a great question. I wonder that all the time. I imagine the cutting came first then bore welding some time later. I have seen bores welded by hand with stick. It can be done. It’s slow and probably irritating to do.
if you pull the tool through when boring rather than push you have less need for a centre bearing anyway and should get a cleaner result as the bar is under tension and not potentially bending slightly under compression.
Great job. I enjoy when repaired equipment is painted before returning to the customer. To me, it shows pride in workmanship. When I had work done, it impressed me so that I'd be a returning customer. BTW, honesty is still the best policy.
I agree 100%, Great comment
Looks better but sometimes it's best leave them unpainted, some might be using the paint to hide poor work
Repainting THIS type (piece) of equipment seems to me like waste of time and utter frills - most of the paint will be stripped the moment the bucket is put back to use. I'm not against painting repaired stuff "as such", it's this particular instance when it is, from practical point of view, a total waste of time and money. But then this might be done cuz the customer is, erm, "tad peculiar" in his choices and preferences - "no, don't replace cracked ears" (although it would be the best choice in this case), so maybe he enjoys freshly painted buckets too, who knows...
Disagree. Show me the welds and machining. Making it pretty with paint is up to the customer
There's only two types of folk: Those that make and admit their mistakes, and the others that never tell the truth.
some people would rather ask forgiveness if something goes wrong rather than permission to begin with
'Magic eraser', that was classic! Someone should come up with a brand name, using that!
We all make mistakes..and it always seem to be when we’re in a rush. Best words on a project like this..”final pass”..
Saturday morning coffees on! Here we go! Cheers!;-)!!!!
Dude has a non-stop work ethic and integrity. It’s fascinating watching this equipment being repaired. Thanks for the good filming.
Happy days buddy, everyday is a day in school, thanks so much for sharing. Have a great one
I grew up in So.Cal 60s-90s. I miss it. I go back, and In 3 days I want to leave? The vibe is gone? San Diego was the best city in the world to live 40 years ago.
I mean Fresno is basically the San Diego of the San Joaquin valley…..
I've never seen the weld and cut at the same time with the Climax, very cool. You have one badass operation, all the big boy toys 😁. I wanna be just like you when I grow up😂. Thanks for taking us along! ✌️
At least you have the capability to repair your mistakes ! Great work .
Wow ! Absolutely tremendous. The artist dit it again. Bravo.
A tremendous amount of quality work! I enjoyed this video as I do every one you post. Couple questions come to mind: 1) How many people do you currently have working for you? And 2) What do you guess are your personal total number of hours spent working in all aspects of your business per week.
I’m guessing it’s a huge number given that you’re out when the sun’s coming up and still out way past when it sets not to mention the weekends that you’re working. And, owning a much smaller mobile welding business myself, I know there’s a ton of hours spent in getting the work, parts and materials lined up as well as all the associated paperwork that nobody (except your family) will ever see.
Currently I have 3 employees. I personally work about 80 hours a week. Including phone calls and networking with customers. It’s far better to manage a couple good guys than to do all the work yourself.
You boys do get some interesting and challenging 'Can Do' repairs to somehow accomplish. As always, great video and dialogue. It's great to see your channel grow up!
Greg! You’re honestly make this channel better then most! Great content as usual! Keep it up! Sir.thanks for sharing! 👌👍
An awesome repair job... even including the mistake. It happens to us all, but it makes us better in the long run.
It happens to the best of them. That thing was a few scoops after from some major damage. Great job look forward to the next one
Greg thank you for another great video! Hey your first mistake you ever made and RUclipsrs are privy to it, wow thank you! Jk/jk! Greg would you make a video on your marketing and pricing tactics! How you’ve developed them over the years! I’m not asking for your exact pricing just a sort of direction or a model others could utilize as a stepping stone of sorts! I’m here in Santa Teresa, NM on the border of El Paso, TX and Juarez, MX! Take care and God bless you sir!
P.S. All these videos and your valuable time that you commit to making them is greatly appreciated!
Thanks for close up on of the CLIMAX. Although it’s almost normal to see, it’s absolutely crazy how you can maximize man & machine without compromising the workmanship.
Hi Greg it's good to see you hide nothing none of us are perfect and some of us are not afraid to show when we miss judge or calculate something wrongly, I have heard you say this before and that you make mistakes and its great to know your not a deva unlike some RUclipsrs, thank's for another great and interesting video and I can't wait to see the video on how you armor a bucket of this size.
Greg you are a master at what you do.
Wundabar Greg......hope your weekend is Marvelous, Paulie in Florida.....
I feel like I need to wear safety glasses while watching this video
very good job !!!!
I am very happy !!! because you like !!!! Is a long time I see your video , For me you are a very big mecanic man !!!!
You do such good work!
This is so Weird Mr Greg..., I was thinking of the time I overshot a bore, rushing on the lathe,
2" plate by 24" diameter, and had to do a bore weld on our converted 30" lathe we
only used for welding, we could slow down to 1/4 rpm.....anyway, I was wondering
if you ever had that happen and 2 minutes later, Boom
31:00, you had the same issue.....thanks for sharing that, we are all human, we try and
not do this, it makes us better in the future......onward and upward......great rebuild.....
all that gouging of cracks was insane and the amount of filler it took....
Best Wises, Paul..
Happy to see I’m the victor.
Seems it would be easy to make a mistake I find it amazing how you get everything lined up correctly 👍
Great vision, and yes you are totally correct. Complete replacement required. Customer will be sorry for his choice, too thin on outter ends. In Australia, he is known as a tight arse fool.😂
yeah its great owning the company. Everyone thinks things are easy for the boss. Guess they dont see you out at 10 Pm still working. Then you need to go home and do the real hard work. Thats the office work for a couple of hours. Keep it up.
The boss takes the risks; if he makes money, just like those employees who take no risks he’s taxed on income.
His company profits are taxed, with no benefit to him or the company.
And then you pay the government payroll tax, you’re taxed to employ people in a capitalist country (I’m speaking for UK, not sure if the USA does.
Love watching.
One hell of a job !
Nice job welder
Brother , you work some long hours.
Wow that’s quite the job to do well done
Old saying I have if you’re not making any mistakes means your not doing anything great job as usual
That armor job is gonna be an awesome project i hope you have time to make a video👍
You shouldn't tighten the chuck the way you do with a jerk of your body; you'll hurt your back. Use an extension and position the handle of your sliding T-handle wrench so that you can extend it by sliding it into the hole of the wrench.
G'day Mate, Could the pin boss have been made bigger OD to cover the crack repair to the ear? Or would clearance become an issue. That area seems like a problem in the future. Thanks for all the effort you put into these vidios. cheers, Butch
Yes, they could have but there is a dust seal that goes around them to prevent dirt getting in between the faces and the stick. It’s basically a big o-ring so you could go a little bigger. I already had the new ones before the cracks were discovered.
It will be covered by bugs in the morning, they love yellow.🇨🇦
I enjoy your videos. I wonder about the line boring/welding everytime the bore wears out. Could you greatly oversize the bore and insert a sacrificial sleeve that could be replaced when it wears. Thanks for the videos.
Yes you can, but it’s not a good practice with commercial equipment. If that fails they have to have something custom made. If they stay on top of it they can just replace factory bushings if they are available.
I agree that a total mounting bracket delete was the way to go on this project, but I'm not the customer. Nice welder/borer. Amazing work from everyone involved, even with the little overbore hick-up. Thanks for keeping it honest. Thomas, Mississippi!
YOUR FIRED!......LOL MAYBE IF THE BOSS LIKES YOU SHE'LL GET YOU SOME RETRAINING. LOL TAKE CARE
3 comments 1, the little mistake, you put your pants on 1 leg at a time 2, the customer is always right even when he’s wrong 3, it’d be fun to bring a machinist from Pakistan over here to help you for 3-4 days, steel toe boots, not a hand held face shield etc the culture shock would be interesting
I bet one of those guys from Pakistan could really get some stuff done with proper professional equipment!
@@OFW
Yes I have to agree with you that they’ve never had modern equipment so they wouldn’t have a clue what is possible
How long did the repairs on this bucket actually take? How long does the bore welding and cutting to size take? Sure is a massive bucket. Do you use different wire for welding on the wear guards and armor plates? Thanks for sharing.
About 80 hours in the bucket. One set of holes took 6 hours one set took 8 hours. I typically use dual shield Lincoln 71a75 for welding AR plate.
Thanks
Bon Boulo😆😆👍👍
Great Vid 👍👍👍👍
Did they deliver the bucket or did you go get it? Thanks for the video as usual I learned something.
They delivered it.
Are you gona wet and dry it to get any bits out
Could you share the bore diameter and pin diameter specs? Im curious if you generally oversize the bore ~0.005" for a good fit or what your rule of thumb is.
I cut to .002 over then polish the bore for about 20 seconds with a fine sand paper wheel. Usually ends up.003-.004
How do you repair smaller bores that cant fit a welder? And where do you get information about welding specs, heat inout etc for this tyoe of repairs? Do yiunjsit assume its a G350 or equivalent material
If they are too small they would usually get replaced. Most bores like this are a36 or grade 50. But the ears are probably T1.
Probly a dumb question, but on the first set if bores, if you're bore welding anyways, is there a reason you made new pin bosses rather than weld up the entire bore?
Thinking about buying the SPower set up, so im going down all the rabbit holes
I made them for the faces not necessarily the bores.
Nice work. How long was that project? Looked like a week of work to me!
I think it was about 80 hours
Yeah that looked like a good amount of repairs on that bucket. Keep up the good work
Do perfur working at the shop/ yard or on the road
Great Repair Video. What filler wire did you use on the ears and to weld on the pin bosses? Thanks
Lincoln 71a75
Was that dual sheild wire? And if so what size and which machine did you run it in? Please, and thanks for another great video. Awesome job done.
@@michaelbigelow367yes, dual shield. 1/16” miller 252.
BEST WELDER SOUTH OF McMURDO STATION
Where are you out of?
Fresno California
👌🏻🤘🏼🤘🏼
Did the customer share with you why they didnt want to replace the ears instead of repairing them?
Time restrictions.
Don’t like using the Milwaukee boring kit anymore?
You mean the S Power kit. I didn’t have the right bearings to run that on this project.
@@OFW does the S power kit let you weld and cut simultaneously?
@@greatestgigliello3282no, kits like S power, Elsa, and sir meccanica use the same drive motor to run the welder. You would need another bearing mount and a complete drive system to do it. Climax is all separate allowing you to run it separately.
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🤝👍🤩🥳👍🤝
I would be too slow at doing what you do, or I would be afraid that I would make a lot of mistakes.
Lack of grease
No notification again, thanks for nothing YT
RUclips does some weird things.
700 amps, 3/8 carbons. That's playing hardball.
At the risk of sounding elitist, I wish you would make a video now and then that doesn't cater to the armchair observer crowd. Us old timers can see exactly what the job is and are watching to observe your expertise. We don't need wordy explanations. We know you need new boss's with X OD and Y ID and it's a couple of hours cooling your jets with the line borer. Of the greatest interest is what your experience is on display and what measures if any you will undertake to prevent this mess in the future. ->Never discount the savvy of the old timers like OFW and their bag of tricks.
Mistakes? We never make mistakes!!! If you swallow that one I've got some lovely swamp land for sale a few miles west of San Francisco.
One thing I wonder about. What would the condition of those welds be in, what cracks would have developed, it is had been stick 7018 instead of the hot glue gun? How about cutting into the ears about .125 and recessing the bosses? Then the weld wouldn't have to handle all the force? Stick weld can go down past the recess to solid parent metal.
I have been thinking about explaining less in my videos and just showing me doing the work. Maybe explain what it is. I don’t even want to get started on stick vs hot glue gun. Hahaha.
@@OFW You know better than I the capacity and limitations of MIG. I admit being prejudiced against it. Back in my day MIG was scoffed at. A quick and dirty weak get by. Certification then required X-ray and scarfed flat, vertical and overhead 6010. 7018 was acceptable but 6010 best demonstrated how well you could weld.
Had I been on that bucket I'd have left some MIG metal as tacks and let 6010 get the job done. Maybe 7018 final passes to make it look pretty., Welding has come a long way since then.
@@OFW As for the talk, you know best what your audience wants.
I have to admit I enjoyed your screw up immensely. My best one was completing a day of welding parts to discover one of the two was the incorrect ones. Same length, same miter, but a left hand instead of a right. Recut and redo 70 assemblies.
What's that about double and triple checking? 😫
(My boss cut me a little slack. Commenting if they give us another order we already have half of the mounts built.)
The final paint job is nice! I'm sure the customer appreciates your attention to detail. Nice video.
I do not know Greg , if anybody has mentioned it, but the stereophonic sound on your videos is really cool....
I use ear buds to watch, so I hear compressors on one side and hammering on another.....it is just like
being in the shop with you guys.......Bravo on the paint job.......Midnight Auto Paint......PB
16 👍's up on fire welding thank you for sharing 🤗
Great job Greg! You are a class act my friend thank you for sharing.
Why not build the face up with weld and then machine it flat? Was it just not critical to need that?
My daddy always told me, everyone makes mistakes, it's the real hero that can make it right again without breaking the bank.
"The customer is always right, in matters of taste." -the complete quote.
Looking good.
Beautiful work ..... as always. Thank you for noting that the customer made certain decisions as to how the work was executed. Saves a lot of "Why" questions. I had a few. Some you answered. Others I could assume the made the decision.
Pin bosses are always a tricky thing. May I ask what material was used, and were they flame cut by your supplier, or ??? Thanks
The material was a36. They were plasma cut by one of my friends.
Damn, you gouged out the Grand Canyon.
Also why didn’t any of those require grease ports?
Because they don’t rotate in the bores and the manufacturer believes they don’t need it. I don’t think it would hurt anything if they got grease.
You are human and you make it right mistake are come with the territory!.
loving that massive boring bar at 8:30........
You and ic make the carbon arc look really easy, I did a similar job a week ago on a bucket coupler,carbon arc all the weld off and still ended up chunking up the pin bush with a torch to get it out. Nice job 👍
Impressive weld and boring done simultaneously. Real-time repair and it's not a mistake when corrected. That hydraulic drive sure does the job!
That bucket is yuge! How much does it weigh you think?
Around 13,000 lbs
The bore welder is a fascinating tool.
It shows that you are human
Went straight from CEE to here, great start of the day with my coffee
as a fabricator my philosophy was, the only people that don't make mistakes, don't do anything. NASA makes mistakes. another thing i went by was, a good fabricator will build on his/her mistakes and the end result will be better than the original attempt would have been.
Millwright 35 years your skills are amazing !!!!
Hey brother, run a faster feed rate on your lathe turning and it'll break the chip for you, that way you don't get bird nests of long stringy chips.
Great job on another interesting fabrication and repair job. But most importantly thank you for not playing that obnoxious background music 👍
Ths video was on my bucket list.
To err is human to own up to a mistake is being a man !
Shit happens and u fix it !!
We all make mistakes man.
Good effort, keep at it…
Awesome job!!!
Nice balance of activities!!! Gee 107 degrees, I've noticed you have a "swamp cooler" fan unit that is huge, no wonder. For shame, ya made a mistake, I won't send you anymore work!!!! LOL I'm moved to confess, I made a mistake in my bathroom remodel job. I installed cement board on the ceiling but won't be putting tile on the ceiling and was a bear getting the darn board up there over my head.. After two shoulder replacements I find my extended reach doesn't have
the strength it once had.
How much paint did it take to paint that beast???? I admire your attention to detail, such as painting to finish the project.
Thank you! It took just over half a gallon.
I knew what line boring was but never had seen it done and didn’t think about building up the worn metal inside of the bore.
I’m curious as to how long line or align boring has been around and how were the bores built up before wire feed or if they even were or were new pin bosses just manufactured or did the welder fill it up with stick and then bore?
Regardless I enjoyed watching thank you.
That’s a great question. I wonder that all the time. I imagine the cutting came first then bore welding some time later. I have seen bores welded by hand with stick. It can be done. It’s slow and probably irritating to do.
if you pull the tool through when boring rather than push you have less need for a centre bearing anyway and should get a cleaner result as the bar is under tension and not potentially bending slightly under compression.
How do you go about selecting the right grade of steel for these projects?
A lot comes from experience and being in the industry for so long. You can also sometimes get the manufacturer to tell you.
How much oversize do you cut the bosses for the pin fit?
.002 then about 20 seconds with a fine sand paper wheel. So they end up .003-.004 over.
Thank you for sharing, another great project, always a pleasure follow your project 👍👍👍👍