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Mike please tell me those are TIG welds, if you say those clean spatter free welds are MIG I'm going to feel like a total failure at MIG welding.
 
Mike please tell me those are TIG welds, if you say those clean spatter free welds are MIG I'm going to feel like a total failure at MIG welding.

No TIG welds, those are merely MIG using C-25 gas.

Don't feel like a failure @ MIG, it just takes lots of practice. Trust me, I am no where near where I want to be yet either. I think I need much more practice.

Mike.
 
Does brazing count?

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It's the next size up bicycle for my quickly growing daughter. An elegant join for a more civilized age (to paraphrase Obi-Wan.)

-Ryan
 
Last August I decided to build a welding table that would out live me. I started with $900 dollars worth of steel. :eek:
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Built the frame and legs using 2x2x1/4 thick stock.
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I put it on wheels so I can move it around. I also added a tool box underneath. The top is 1/2" thick.
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Here is a small drop bed trailer I built I lost most of the photos of the main frame.
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Quick little project I started on last night for my wife. When we were sitting watching a movie on New Year's Eve, she casually mentioned that she wished she had a small end table to put her drink on next to the love seat in the living room. I don't know if it was an actual hint of just a passing thought. Either way I am not going to risk it.

A couple of nights ago I scrounged through my metal pile and found a few 4' stick of .5" square tubing. Yesterday I ran to Lowe's and grabbed a couple of 12" tile off their clearance pallet that I though matched our entry way and bathroom tile as close as possible. Turns out it matches quite close and since they are going to be 10+ feet apart, they will work perfect.

I started with this last night after work.
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Using my new Baileigh BS-210M miter head horizontal bandsaw to 45 the ends.
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The gauge is pretty accurate. When it is placed on 45-degrees....
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It cuts at 45-degrees.
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In one instance I was a tag long so I had to take a sliver off.
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And a sliver it was measuring .036" and dead nuts parallel all the way through the cut.
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All clamped together for tacking.
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One of the corner welds.
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I then was able to get a feel for my new Birmingham KB-45 vertical bandsaw and was able to see it's accuracy as well.
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I needed to cut some spacers to space the tile down into the frame so that the top will be flush with the .5" square tubing. The tile measures .3" so I needed a spacer for each side (4 total) measuring .200". I scribed a line and then manually cut them and was able to consistantly be about .010" over is all, just enough to kiss them on the belt sander and debur them.
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Four spacers cut, one already welded in the background to the underside of the framework.
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Close-up.
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And top frame perimeter completed with tile test fit.
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Tonight I can get the legs done and I will frame out a lower section for another 12" tile closer to the floor. My thinking is by having a heavy tile lower on the table it will make it not so top-heavy and be more stable. Plus this way she can put a small planter or something decorative on the bottom shelf.

Stay tuned for the completed project.....

Mike.

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