......is an issue around Albuquerque. We do a lot of these arms to prevent the electrical transformers from being broken into. The thieves will cut the incoming cables at the service entrance to the buildings, and cut the lines at the transformers, tie the cable to a truck or vehicle and drive off w...

What are some of the craziest things that have happened to you on a job site? A few years back I went to finish up a few small things on a cage we fab'd & installed for a club/bar in downtown ABQ. Their trash cans were in a small alcove in the rear of the building in an alley and they were havin...

What year was it when these were taken? How old are you? Did you work on any of this job? I love seeing things like this.

I buy most of the abrasives used in the shop from Benchmark Abrasives. Their stuff is inexpensive and holds up fairly well.

You will find it very convenient. The necks of my guns tend to get chewed up over time but not too big of a deal really.

I have pieces of 1.25" pipe tacked all over my tables so I can rest the gun when not in use.

Your helmet setting depends on the amperage of the weld. For most everything we do I leave my helmets on 11 or 12.

thanks for the compliments. It's been hot lately burnin' metal!

cool! good luck.

Sweating Bullets here in NM.......

...and a wee pedestrian gate to go with.

We installed these the other day. The design was the client's. We used a NiceApollo operator for the automation and set it up with a solar panel.

We did 5 of these doors last week with a matching 26' long automatic sliding gate.

try adjusting wire speed just a bit. It might help.

tungstendipper wrote:You do beautiful work!

thank you sir.

We use Muriatic Acid to etch & then H2O2 to color. We can get some very cool coloring depending on the ambient humidity, and rain storms.

So the last couple of weeks in the shop were filled with some cookie cutter stuff, nothing too exciting. We did do these pretty cool security doors though. We usually put perforated sheet (24 ga. steel screen) on our doors for bug proofing but these folks weren't concerned with that. They have prett...

you will end up having to weld a nut on the end of the pliers, at least on the clamps, when the threads wear. I have done this to all of my clamps. It makes them much easier to use.

my wife has had operations to cut the sheath on 2 fingers in the past 4 years and now it is happening again on a third finger. It sucks getting old.

Beautiful work there, BTW have you read your guestbook lately?[/quote]

yes !! I haven't had time to redo my site and sue to a new app that Godaddy is using I have to completely redo it. I can't edit the site currently.

yes we do. links in my sig. line.

thank you. I stumbled on Jodi on youtube. I wish his stuff was on youtube 25 years ago!

These are 2 of the things that have left the shop this week. A mailbox cage for a very nice older gal whose poor husband suffered a mental episode due to a nasty side-effect of some cancer medication he was taking, and destroyed their old mailbox!....an easy job. This took 5 hours to fab & get r...

yup...I have pieces of pipe tacked all around my fab table for holding the guns.

! We do a lot of doors. There is a big difference in price from this style to that other.