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Staging Lane
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From: Texas,U.S.A.
poll
Originally Posted by joecar
Poll:
Who owns a welder (of any kind)...?
Who owns a welder (of any kind)...?
Last edited by msb184; Sep 2, 2006 at 05:17 PM. Reason: Content
TECH Apprentice
Joined: Jul 2004
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How about don’t wear nylon gym shorts while sitting under the gas tank welding relocation brackets as your first welding project and get tired of the sparks so you put a towel in your lap which ends up catching fire…
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From: Scottsdale, Arizona
Miller 250 sycrowave Tig
Miller 250 MIG
Miller 2050 Plasma
Bridgeport Mill
Weiler Tooling Lathe
Hydraulic Tubing bender 5/8-2" dies
Mittler Bros. Tube notcher
Craftsman Drill Press
80 Gal. 7.5Hp Air compressor
80 Gal tank for xtra air volume
SpeedAire air dryer for incoming air
enco shear, brake, roller
Full set of Snap on tools
Some SK tools
Some craftsman tools
Buxton Engineering on head valve spring checker
Buxton Engineering bench mount valve spring checker
2 Snap on rolling tool boxes
Dayton 6" belt sander
Milwaulkee electric shears
Dewalt 14.4 cordless drill
Dewalt 12v cordless drill
Enco Tilt horizontal band saw
Full set of micrometers, calipers & indicators
Getting ready to buy a 2 post lift
Plus there is more I just cant' think of right now.
Here are some pics of some of the tools.
and yes everything is insured to the max, but dont get an idea of tryin to rob me. You will have to get past my arsenal of guns, cameras around the house and the house alarm. So try if you want, but don't expect to leave in one piece.
Miller 250 MIG
Miller 2050 Plasma
Bridgeport Mill
Weiler Tooling Lathe
Hydraulic Tubing bender 5/8-2" dies
Mittler Bros. Tube notcher
Craftsman Drill Press
80 Gal. 7.5Hp Air compressor
80 Gal tank for xtra air volume
SpeedAire air dryer for incoming air
enco shear, brake, roller
Full set of Snap on tools
Some SK tools
Some craftsman tools
Buxton Engineering on head valve spring checker
Buxton Engineering bench mount valve spring checker
2 Snap on rolling tool boxes
Dayton 6" belt sander
Milwaulkee electric shears
Dewalt 14.4 cordless drill
Dewalt 12v cordless drill
Enco Tilt horizontal band saw
Full set of micrometers, calipers & indicators
Getting ready to buy a 2 post lift
Plus there is more I just cant' think of right now.
Here are some pics of some of the tools.
and yes everything is insured to the max, but dont get an idea of tryin to rob me. You will have to get past my arsenal of guns, cameras around the house and the house alarm. So try if you want, but don't expect to leave in one piece.
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From: Texas/Somewhere in Southwest Asia
Millermatic 180, Victor Oxy/Acectylene torch setup, working on refurbishing an old plasma cutter for the garage. I waited so long for the welder and torch, but when I started to get serious on the Model A frame for my '25 roadster I really needed them. Just added: an old school aircraft tubing bender!
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Last edited by hotrodscrap; Aug 18, 2009 at 07:15 AM.
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Does anyone know of a heavy guage tubing bender for cages, and chassis tubing that wont kill a bank account? I have a tubing bender now but it's only good for brake lines, and quad/golfcart nerfbars and bumpers. Works great for thin-wall stuff, won't come anywhere near close to bending structural steel tubing.
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http://www.jd2.com/shop/ is pretty much the standard for DIY bending, from what I've read. Over on Pirate4x4, there's a lot of owners of the JD2 benders. JD2 is about the "cheapest" of the decent benders (again, from what I've read). Go browse over at pirate4x4.com, they do a lot of rollbar (whole truck, actually) fabrication.
IMO it's good to stick with a common name bender, so that you know that you can get dies in the future if you need a different size. Dies certainly aren't cheap, and an off-brand bender - if you can't find the right die for it - does you no good. The dies are as important as the bender itself.
And don't discount the usefulness of bending software. Pretty cool stuff.
http://www.2020softwaresolutions.com/products.htm
IMO it's good to stick with a common name bender, so that you know that you can get dies in the future if you need a different size. Dies certainly aren't cheap, and an off-brand bender - if you can't find the right die for it - does you no good. The dies are as important as the bender itself.
And don't discount the usefulness of bending software. Pretty cool stuff.
http://www.2020softwaresolutions.com/products.htm
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From: Texas/Somewhere in Southwest Asia
Appreciate it man, I was looking at the Woodward Fab. setup, but I may wait, save money and buy a better unit! Thanks for the info! Mebuildit, where did you score the VIDMAR storage?
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Last edited by hotrodscrap; Nov 25, 2009 at 02:09 AM.
Teching In
Joined: Sep 2010
Posts: 45
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From: Houston, TX
20 grand and still going$$$$$$ Sanpon Muscle Mig welder Stock #: MM140SL have argon gas with it
Matco 6's Triple bank toolbox full of Snapon, Matco, Craftsman, Cornwell, HF, Husky, Task Force and other tool brands.
Craftsman aircomprssor 30 gal
Craftsman battery charger/jump starter
Workbench with 6" diegrinder/wirewheel
More tools just can't think of them all....
Matco 6's Triple bank toolbox full of Snapon, Matco, Craftsman, Cornwell, HF, Husky, Task Force and other tool brands.
Craftsman aircomprssor 30 gal
Craftsman battery charger/jump starter
Workbench with 6" diegrinder/wirewheel
More tools just can't think of them all....
Teching In
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For those of us in southern California if your fortunate enought to live by a harbor frieght, they always have anything and everything you need, you can't walk in there without spending a couple hundred dollars worth of tools, granted none of it is snap-on or cornwell quality, but let's face it most of us can't afford a 40 thousand dollars worth of tools, but for the average enthusiest that needs a tool you can usually find it at harbor frieght, they're tools that are good enough for the job and cheap enough to replace when u break them, cause we all know how it feels to have a rachet that skips it's teeth before we're done or have a puller bolt bend, my hats off to harbor freight tools!
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To "silverback" have you ever removed a t56 with a Jack and a cooler lid? Haha, I had to r&r my tranny and I didn't have a tranny Jack, loads of fun, I also had to pull the motor for a 383 swap and the fbodies sub frame connected had to be 37 inches of the ground to drop the motor from under it, I built stands out of two by fours, set my Jack stands on top maxed out, unbolted the subframe connecter and lowered the motor onto a moving dolly, left the car in the air strapped to the cherry picker with tie downs, smooth install!! Lol ;D
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