Good morning!!!!

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Popgadget, that is a nice welder gift for your friend! Has a lot more dials on it than our Syncrowave 250 had. Getting the oxides out of the way is just 1 thing you have to worry about for aluminum. Looks like your's did great. Practice practice practice.

Your Fusion looks good to go. I'm trying to lear it too right now. Students actually use the CAM side to make G code with it too. Like pulling teeth for my old man brain. I was getting decent at CREO at my last job. We teach with Fusion at school, but the 2 cad teachers want to switch to Solidworks. So, I might be spinning my wheels learing Fusion.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

2 years ago, I was repairing the K46 tranny in my riding mower. It still works great now, almost wanting to "wheely" if you get the weight transfer just right. Sadly, the plastic hood has thrown in the towel. Since it only has a 42" deck, it gets passed over for the Steiner Beast by my son. So it is pretty much a barn queen now. I get it out for quick mowing jobs around the house.
The main things about repairing the transmission was I lapped the critical faces, and put fresh 20W-50 synthetic oil in it. The old oil was dirty and tired after about 18 years.

 

[kenmbz]

Morning all, 23 going to 32 and cloudy, light snow overnight.
Brunch with the kids was nice.
Minor cleanup of walkways, not knowing it was going to snow overnight, just a dusting though.

Will leave the snow on the shared road, as it's good traction over what's left of the ice.

We have driven past the area where the bar fire was in Switzerland, lots of SKi resorts. Horrible news.

Drew - having worked gov, I always look for the exits etc. when I walk into any place , restaurant, theater , the paranoia never leaves, though it's not as intense as it was when I was in country.

I only avg 6146 steps/day for 2,065,388 total

Don , hope Bil recovers quickly

Dog to vets later for a follow up, not sure what I am doing until then.

Be well,

 

[Looking4new]

Also thrown into a ford dump truck at age 19 with the red high low switch on the gear shift. Worse I did in a dump truck was break an axle.

Not much done yesterday. Just stay warm. Too cold for hiking.

Commonly called a 2 speed axle.

Worst I did was roll one onto its side backing up in the tracks made by other dump trucks to back fill a basement at 10 minutes to 12. Super asked me when I climbed out with my lunch pail what I was going to do about it and I told him AFTER lunch I would make the arrangements to get it righted.

 

[Popgadget]

I am thinking the skills to use TIG welding is similar to ox/acc welding

Exactly this.
The only learning is which materials use AC vs DC, and for a square wave machine like your Primeweld, the effects of AC balance and frequency. You will enjoy it. Much faster than a torch, but slower than MIG, but its the most precise. Did you get the 225 or the 325?

 

[kenmbz]

My first truck drive was unexpected. I was 19 and my friend called and asked if I could help her mother move all the inventory from her closing clothing store.
I showed up and they had a full size truck dropped off and no one to drive it.
So I got volunteered and found out a little about truck vs van height when I took down a branch at the storage warehouse.
Not a great start.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Commonly called a 2 speed axle.

Worst I did was roll one onto its side backing up in the tracks made by other dump trucks to back fill a basement at 10 minutes to 12. Super asked me when I climbed out with my lunch pail what I was going to do about it and I told him AFTER lunch I would make the arrangements to get it righted.

I was back filling a slip in the road that had been cribbed. Backed up to dump, jerked it forward to get the load to slide, then no movement.
Worse part was getting towed back to town, by another truck and a chain. Up and down hills, trying not to let the chain go slack, to avoid the big jerk .

I was tailgating stone on a road and took down someone’s power line across the road.

 

[m7040]

since we are talking truck mishaps mine was shortening a car by a couple of feet.

Dad had asked me to back in the truck at the freight terminal and little did I know that there was a small car parked in the slot between trucks that I was backing into

 

[Looking4new]

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This picture is a good example of square gears. The teeth are straight across instead of helical/angled.

BEF, I was hauling all one day to downtown Toronto. At the end of the day the bosses would have us do two or three local loads. This one day I was on my first local load spreading granular 'A' on the shoulders. The guy signing for the loads went up one side of me and down the other for ripping down all the phone lines that crossed the road. I told him it wasn't me, but he wasn't having any of that and wouldn't listen. So I upped the box and spread the load just like he wanted and ripped the last phone wire out of the repair guys' hand as I justified the bawling out I had just received.
Moral of the story...You make damn sure I am the culprit BEFORE you give me a blast, because if I don't deserve it I WILL justify the blast.

 

[Looking4new]

We had a DoT cop that loved giving out overload tickets and would stop us half way between the pit and the job (we were building the Pickering Nuclear plant in Pickering, Ontario). I had to go right past the yard where I got my fuel ('65 Ford gas powered with dual tanks and a manual transfer switch/valve) I always ran with one tank empty. Sure enough the DoT guy got to me before the yard and ordered me to the scale. I went but OMG I ran out of gas before I got to the scale. I switched to the empty tank. He wasn't happy and I didn't care. He found the truck in the exact same place as he left it the day before (with fuel in it and a legal load on it, which I didn't have the day before). We went to the scale, I was legal and he was some pissed, but there was nothing he could do about it.
Hauling gravel in those days was a game, haul as big a load as you wanted and try NOT to get caught. If you did get caught, save up all the overload tickets and at the start of the half load season (spring breakup) go to court, plead guilty and do the time. A couple of weeks of 3 hots and a cot on the Province.
Provincial time is always 2 years less a day and that is only for the real serious stuff, not overload tickets.

 

[Hay Dude]

Good Morning
Caught a quick shot of this nice healthy fox this morning.

 

[m7040]

Exactly this.
The only learning is which materials use AC vs DC, and for a square wave machine like your Primeweld, the effects of AC balance and frequency. You will enjoy it. Much faster than a torch, but slower than MIG, but its the most precise. Did you get the 225 or the 325?

So far I have the Primeweld MIG 285 and the CUT60 plasma cutter and also their plasma cutting table and large welding cart
Also have an Everlast stick welder and a smaller Miller MIG welder plus the oxygen/acc set up
Sold the 400 amp Miller diesel trailer mounted welder since it was mostly taking up space

 

[sodamo]

66°F and .04 inches rain.

A nice, laid back, relaxing holiday yesterday.

Off to Hilo this morning. Cardio consult for my Oct 31 echocardiogram at VA. Guess I find out if still alive

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great tractor day

 

[Hay Dude]

66°F and .04 inches rain.

A nice, laid back, relaxing holiday yesterday.

Off to Hilo this morning. Cardio consult for my Oct 31 echocardiogram at VA. Guess I find out if still alive

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great tractor day

Wanted to tell you I was in Maui back in August. We loved it.
Never been in sunshine that bright ever in my life.

 

[WinterDeere]

Noticed it was snowing at midnight last night, which wasn't in the forecast at all. Found it amounted to less than an inch on driveway and walkways this morning, and again light and powdery enough to clean up with a leaf blower. Had some service guys at the house this morning, small repair on the boiler, so was able to clear a path for them before they arrived with the little handheld blower.

So, everything is pretty and white again, without having to plow... hard to complain about that!

Hoping to finish up installing wire loom on the new trailer wiring today, so I can put that away and set up for the next project on the list.

Starting off 2026 with a bang, $57k in shipments on my first day back, this Monday. If only I could do that every day for a year!

 

[rswyan]

25F and cloudy @ 15:30, heading down to around 13F tonight. High today was 26.7F. Low this morning was 8.6F ... which is about 10F below normal.

Yesterday went much better.

Got meds mostly doled out for another week, was short on one ... placed the request to refill that with the pharmacy. That one should be ready for pick up now.

Cell phone bill paid.

Got hopper feeder refilled as well as scattering some seed for the ground feeders.

Garage was down in the 30's so fired off the torpedo heater for a bit.

Walkway to front door shoveled off.

Feral kitty fed and watered.

Put up more un-faced fiberglass in the joist cavity where the gas and electric services come into the house.

Caulked about 12' of foam board along the bottom.

Moved an empty set of shelves over so it could be used as a weight for bracing.

Got adhesive applied to 1 (of 2) foam board panels that had come loose and put that back up using the shelves above as bracing.

Finished trimming out the foam board panel that goes between the main breaker and sub panels, got it glued up, placed and braced.

Only have maybe 10' or 12' left to go on foam board on the west wall and then all the foam board will be up, except for the second layer at the top.

Those last few feet will require removing the whole house vacuum and the stationary tubs ... and both will probably be "out of service" for some time.

Some additional clean up and organizing.

Took some measurements for the next/last section of studs on the north wall, is about 75" long. Will need to haul down a couple more 2 x 4's from the garage to build that.

Cut the top piece of foam board for that section, but will need to get the studs up before it can be glued up, placed and braced.

About to head down and see what mischief I can get into this afternoon/evening.

Hope everyone is enjoying the second day of the New Year ...

 

[Thomas]

There will be another draw on Friday but not for 80 million, only 46 million dollars. That is still enough for me to buy a new tractor.

....and tractor dealership also offering free coffee.

 

[Popgadget]

Good brisket doesn't need sauce.

Truer words have never been spoken!

 

[Thomas]

14F thin clouds -0F this morning Saturday morning bit warmer 12F.

Relaxing day enough boredom sat in did the food shopping for the Mrs.
Decided to take short nap and said to Scooter nappy time,that kitten made mad dash to couch pick my side I hadn't even taken step

Plans for the evening little to nothing.

Enjoy your evening all.

 

[Popgadget]

Students actually use the CAM side to make G code with it too.
We teach with Fusion at school, but the 2 cad teachers want to switch to Solidworks. So, I might be spinning my wheels learing Fusion.

I also use the CAM side to run generate the G code for the plasma cutter.
But….
Solid works would be a much better choice overall. It’s almost universal in industry. My son has used it since high school and all through college, and now in his job as an engineer for the Navy.