MosquitoMoto wrote:Jeff, are your compressors portable...or even easily relocatable?
They look positively huge! I'm just running a couple portables. They have to be small enough to come to the race track with me.
Kym
Kym, they are not portable, in fact, they are bolted to the floor otherwise they will walk across the room when running. I have a couple small portables that I use when I do carpentry work. I use air impacts on repairs that eat up a ton of air so hence, the big compressors. I am going to re-mount them in the back room as they scare the shit out of me when they kick on...have a teeny air leak I can't find so I never know when one will fire up.....its usually in the middle of a weld that is looking good
We have a ducted vacuum in the house and the big barrel motor unit lives in the garage. I start welding, wife starts vacuuming, I go through the ceiling with fright!
weldin mike 27 wrote:The pic of the bikes explains why there is no MONEY to put more things in your shed.
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Some nice bench space there Mike!
Yes, guilty as charged regarding bikes taking up what money I have. The TIG was purchased to enhance my usefulness in bike parts fabrication and repair - my first love is and always has been bikes. A real obsession.
However, TIG is fast becoming a real focus of its own for me. So much to learn and I enjoy the details, the intricacy, and the fact that when its all said and done, all the fancy settings in the world won't bail you out if you don't have a 'feel' for what you are doing.
At least you can make good money welding, fairly easily. Evidently, the only way to make a little money out of bikes is to start with a lot. Lol. I'm going to get rid of some benches. No room for activities.
You can make good money fairly easily welding...if you're good at it! I've always been a writer. Can't imagine my career path deviating from that. But welding is a nice contrast for me. My shed, my bikes, my tools and welding make a great change from a screen and a keyboard when I've had enough of my desk for the day.
Are you guys sure you live in Australia? When I watched Crocodile Dundee, I was under the impression that you all went walkabout, ate goanas and ants, and ran around the woods all night shooting kangaroos...so whats the real story?
Poland308 wrote:Thanks to you OZ guys I now have to read most of these posts with a machinists rule so I can do the metric conversions.
For some reason, homebrewers in THIS country speak metric too but it is good to know both systems. I remember when I was a kid they were going to convert the US to the decimal system but I guess never bothered just to permanently confuse guys like us.
MosquitoMoto wrote:Doesn't everyone have two air compressors?
Heck, even I have two. One for tyres, one to run my sand blaster. Oh, and now my plasma cutter.
Kym
I don't have any compressors... Guess I oughtta getat least one, huh?
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Northern Industrial1HP 3/4" chuck, 16 speed drill press
Poland308 wrote:Thanks to you OZ guys I now have to read most of these posts with a machinists rule so I can do the metric conversions.
For some reason, homebrewers in THIS country speak metric too but it is good to know both systems. I remember when I was a kid they were going to convert the US to the decimal system but I guess never bothered just to permanently confuse guys like us.
Well from what I understand they decided to keep it imperial because of the cost of changing the road signage to metric, here in Canada we just had to change 12 signs.
A simple system for simple souls like me. Everything based on tens, hundreds and thousands. No sixteenths or five eighths of anything, ever.
I have a huge collection of auto/motorcycle tools I've collected over the years, and because most kits are based on 'metric and imperial' I have hundreds of imperial tools I've never even used. 'Kilograms' of them, if you will! My cars are all metric...last time I worked on an AF/imperial car was when I was a kid. I've never, ever worked on a road or race bike that was anything but metric...although I have a mate who wants me to help him out with his Harley in the near future.
Oh, the horror! 'Is this half inch or nine sixteenths?'
I have a foot in both camps, both due to age and having worked mainly on US aircraft which are A F and the occassional european helicopter which are metric.
I have far more metric tools as all my cars, bikes, mowers etc are metric, even the john deere mower which was a pleasant surprise.
Pete
God gave man 2 heads and only enough blood to run 1 at a time. Who said God didn't have a sense of humour.....
OK,
Heres mine.
everything is on wheels so I can move it around to make room for whats actually getting worked on.
Area in these photos probably 5.5m x 7m bare floor.
Shed is 12m x 7.5m x 3m
Pete
God gave man 2 heads and only enough blood to run 1 at a time. Who said God didn't have a sense of humour.....
I just put a new front tire on my Harley and I'll be damned, the brake caliper bolts were 10 mm 12point, those sonofabitches! At least on a Harley I KNEW it was imperial so now they go metric AND 12 point. WTF is going on in this world? I'm the only constant in a ever-changing world so I can't figure out how to cope with change
35 years of stealth purchasing, just got to keep her out of the shed........
I only moved out of my last house because she dangled the ":you can buy any shed you want" carrot.
That was her way of expunging the ghosts of the ex wives in the old place.
As you can see I took the carrot.
Harleys,
Only the frame and the tanks are made in USA, electrics and suspension are Japanese, some wheels and cases are Australian and therefore metric
Now you need some European influence to get it to go around corners
Pete
God gave man 2 heads and only enough blood to run 1 at a time. Who said God didn't have a sense of humour.....
You would be suprised what I can make that Harley do. Im an old ex-road racer so I punish every bike I ever had. But what I really think is I am not afraid of corners but everyone else is so it appears that I AM fast Harley is really going to the dogs. They get away with it because the old die-hards are dropping like flies and the new breed of biker-fag just doesn't care where the parts are made....as long as its a Harley they feel tough. I got a sort of friend who acts all biker but has a 2001 Ultra in his garage with a fuckin shrine around it and 2000 miles on it and wears nothing but Harley shirts I must be getting old
Dzljon, you're in North Texas, right? I think we are Facebook friends and I follow you on Instagram.
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Owner/welder at Homegrown Metal Fab
Lincoln Weld-Pak 125 HD Lincoln AC/DC 225/125 Lincoln Port-a-torch
30" 40 ton homegrown press brake
Northern Industrial1HP 3/4" chuck, 16 speed drill press
(I want to build a 8 metre x 10m shed across the bottom of my yards, for the topic)
Mick.
Nice to have your work tied up in something like that...big career credibility, too. Interesting article. My brother is in defence so I see a little bit of what is going on.
Have always been a writer. Radio, ad agency stuff, now more film and docco work, books (kids books right now) and I have also run creative teams for political campaigns. A gun for hire, really.
Flying to Sydney this coming Monday to ride all the new Yamahas at Eastern Creek and then write up reviews on them. Riding and writing = living the dream!
I must be getting old 
