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This week's bike, "The Pacific"
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In the lab at MCC, just practicing. Gonna be getting some certs for the new gig soon. This was just a few hours of laying beads.
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A Triumph chopper
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At MCC, practicing for the certs tomorrow. I was using this super slick machine Miller use to make called the Aerowave, it's supposed to be the rolls royce of tig machines. But we were trouble shooting it all morning. For whatever reason I couldn't get a decent bead, no arc control, burnt beads, it was just bad news. My first guess was bad gas, but we went through and messed with everything else first. It turns out it was the gas :lol: They got a shipment in a day or so ago and it looks like all 15 bottles were contaminated. It welded mild and aluminum fine(although I was having arc control issues on .040 aluminum, and this is probably why), but the SS looked burnt and bad.
This is a nice picture of it. Far right is with the bad argon. The middle bead is when we tried a bottle left over from the last shipment, and the far left is the new gas.
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So then I had to take it for a test drive :D
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tig is sexy...I really want to learn and put some things together...
I guess someone in the night class was trying to show off his knowledge and was explaining to someone else that "this weld was done by hand, and these two were obviously done by a machine", using that piece above with the good gas/bad gas welds :lol:
a few different style nails, an eye bolt, cap bolts, a couple allen wrenches, tig rod, fuel line, steel tubing, some random clip, the tip of a bolt, and a piece of scrap sheet metal. I threw it all in a box and shook it up, and this dropped out:
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So...I've been a little busy. Working 12 hours a day, 7 days a week, and getting out to my shop to do my thing.
Here is last week's YOTC, Full Metal Jacket:
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I Also did this piece for Quick86 and his now wife for their wedding cake table :D :
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Then I had to do an art bra for this year's Bras for a Cause in Royal Oak: http://www.brasforacausemichigan.com/Site/Home.html Come on down and buy it!
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And this week's YOTC, "MotoHawk", the second to last bike for this project.
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The last YOTC: http://www.flickr.com/photos/browndo...th/4911018313/
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/browndogwelding/4911018313/" title="The 52nd and last Year of the Chopper by Brown Dog Welding, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4119/4911018313_7686abd59c.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="The 52nd and last Year of the Chopper" /></a>