Rollout Wheel (Welding Positioner)

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I welded the bolts on to the handles. I did *not* grind the finish off the bolts, & the offgassing from the vaporizing coating on the bolts contaminated the tungsten.

 

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Here are the welded on nuts:

 

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This gets me to here:

 

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I am knocking out the stock hub studs:

 

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I had to shorten the spindle, and now I need to go to work for the night.

 

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This is how far I got today. The only other tack welding that I need to do is to weld the spindle on to the fixture.



After everything is tack welded, I can go in and do all the permanent welds.

The rollout wheel gets bolted on with spacers.



The lathe chuck gets bolted on to the rollout wheel. The lathe chuck arrives Wednesday.

 

[erikmannie]

I am off to a wacky start today. Apparently I couldn’t do better than this for a spacer.

I am tack welding the spindle to the assembly. It needs to be square.



I know that looks very stupid, but look what I get to weld on.

 

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Here are the tack welds. Now I need to check straightness in a major way.

 

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Good thing I checked. It was significantly off. This is now square:



I had to bust one of the tacks to square it up.

 

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This is somewhere between tack welded and finished.