Where I retired from we had some tight tolerances (0.30 to 0.60) to hold post welding. Flatness, squareness and frame members being parallel post welding. It was fairly common these weldments wouldn't get machined so to get the weldments back into tolerance we used a torch to straighten. Heat opposi...

Good evening everyone. Topic concerns fabricating furniture for the man caves. Material would include 11ga A36 tubing. After the finish work (sanding/polishing) is completed what does everyone use to protect the steel from spills, moisture marks from fingerprints, etc.? Car wax, some type of light o...

New member. I've enjoyed this site from afar until now. After forty four years of fabricating, wrench turning and being a supervisor and manager that last thirteen of those years, I retired last spring. I built a shop on my piece of land in the hills and am in the process of setting it up for my own...