whats the coolest thing you've ever built?

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weather it was on your own or as part of a crew, an afternoon or a year what was it. pictures get bonus points. personally i have grown to love my Titanium mash paddle that i use to home brew with. very solid and long, i still wonder how i ever made beer without it?
Reply:I don't know that any of these qualify as 'cool'.   Most of the things I do are mundane repairs on this or that and making gates, railings, fence and various ornamental stuff that anybody here can easily do in their sleep.I was welding metal school buildings for a contractor recently.  We built 14 buildings in this school yard.  My friend and I welded all the structural sheetmetal framing, using self shielded fluxcore with our Passport migs.  There was quite a bit of welding to do on each building, as the code required all king studs to be seam welded 1" every 6" from floor to roof both sides and all tracks to beams to be welded 2" every 12" or 1" every 6" both sides, depending on location.   It was fun and tiring and I loved it!  Another company did the heavy iron framing with 232 fluxcore wire and some stick.Sometimes I build motorcycle carriers for customers.  This is one for a lowered, stretched street bike, to be carried on the back of a lifted Suburban.  I made an extra long ramp for it too in the same style but couldn't find the pic of it with the ramp connected.This was a workout gym I build for a local cross-fit fitness center.  The pull-up bars have several height adjustment positions.These were some aluminum sign frames I made for a local taxi company.  I made about 30 of them, as I remember.MM350P/Python/Q300MM175/Q300DialarcHFHTP MIG200PowCon300SMHypertherm380ThermalArc185Purox oaF350CrewCab4x4LoadNGo utilitybedBobcat250XMT304/Optima/SpoolmaticSuitcase12RC/Q300Suitcase8RC/Q400Passport/Q300Smith op
Reply:I have built so much stuff over the years it's hard to say..But here are 2 of my favorites..http://weldingweb.com/vbb/showthread.php...ghlight=intakehttp://weldingweb.com/vbb/showthread.php...ghlight=intake...zap!I am not completely insane..Some parts are missing Professional Driver on a closed course....Do not attempt.Just because I'm a  dumbass don't mean that you can be too.So DON'T try any of this **** l do at home.
Reply:This definitely took me the longest Attached ImagesFire!, Fire! Oh wait, that's my torch...Lincoln PT-225 TIGLincoln 175 MIG
Reply:Me and a few hundred other craftsmen built a paper mill recovery boiler.  Way cool job, took about 18 months. All my pics are old fashioned film type and I have no scanner so no extra points for me...- If you can jump across it you can weld it!  - anonymous old boilermaker
Reply:I built a mobile refrigeration system run by a 4(?)hp  Briggs and Stratton engine, using QD fittings on the hoses,  a truck plate I filled with a -5*F eutectic solution, and having the aluminum food box well-insulated inside a wooden box.  Well, I did silver solder  the fittings on the freon lines and I did weld  the aluminum inner box!
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Reply:A giant stainless steel meat grinder that would process 14,000Lbs of meat in a day.    A turn key hard chrome plating plant for stamping dies with 10'x22'x8'deep tanks.Diamond level seating for Oakland A's Oakland Alameda county coliseum.Repaired the end zone goal post on the south end (Black Hole) of Oakland Alameda county coliseum.stage support stands for AC/DCA lot of things i cant recall right now.    I never really was much of a picture taker and im starting to regret that as im ageing.Vantage 500's LN-25's, VI-400's, cobramatics, Miller migs, synch 350 LX, Powcon inverters, XMT's, 250 Ton Acurrpress 12' brake, 1/4" 10' Atlantic shear,Koikie plasma table W/ esab plasmas. marvel & hyd-mech saws, pirrana & metal muncher punches.
Reply:I built my Explorer. Front suspension components, steering, beadlocks. Everything but the bending of the tube.
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Reply:The coolest thing I've ever built, I don't have a picture of it even, but during shutdown one year I went down to my folk's in western Nebraska and there was a guy that needed help so bad he was willing to hire me for while I was on shut down.$9/hr, I needed the money and figured for $9/hr I'd be doing some mindless production work.  Nope.  He had me welding on these buildings he built, the were sheds/barns that were on skids so you can move them around.  Steel frame work I welded up.  Interesting work but way too hard on me for only $9/hr.  Worked 2 days, got my $180 and enjoyed the rest of my time off.  What killed me is he kept going on and on about how it was nice to have someone that actually knew how to weld working there.  $9/hr I can't see why he can't get someone who knows how to weld?
Reply:Okay, so the the thread is The Coolest Thing You've ever built. I'm on the foothills of the learning curve, so don't expect great things but I wanna join in the fun.Plus I'm thinking not a lot of guys in the US will have seen the best way to work on a Mini body shell (as in Austin/Morris Mini).I got the shell on there myself, and it can rotate through 360 degrees pretty easily. The Mini has holes in the rear seat back and the firewall, so there's a 85mm pole right through it and that's how they rotodippped them in the factory. This shell is from 1967 (like me), and appears to only have had one panel replaced in 42 years (front wing due to an accident rather than rust) and has the original sills.
Reply:LMAO!  A car rotisserie!     Interesting idea, would never have crossed my mind!   Great 'outside the box' thinking there!MM350P/Python/Q300MM175/Q300DialarcHFHTP MIG200PowCon300SMHypertherm380ThermalArc185Purox oaF350CrewCab4x4LoadNGo utilitybedBobcat250XMT304/Optima/SpoolmaticSuitcase12RC/Q300Suitcase8RC/Q400Passport/Q300Smith op
Reply:Here are some things around the house I have made:Since I collect antique and vintage snowmobiles I have built a couple of storage racks on wheels that allows me to stack 2 snowmobiles on top of each other in my garage. This saves me valuable space.I have built a few steel handrails for the stairs in the house.I built the wife a neat spice rack with SS for the kitchen. She likes it so much wants a SS shelf now for above the stove.I built a set of steel mount brackets to hang a swing for my daughter on the balcony of her tree house (big bonus for that one).Last summer I bought a used boat trailer for my boat. I fab'd up some heavy D handles and welded them to the back of the trailer for anchor points to strap down the boat.Right now I'm welding up a cracked steel belly pan on a kitty cat snowmobile that I'm restoring for my daughter......The projects keep coming.JasonLincoln Idealarc 250 stick/tigThermal Dynamics Cutmaster 52Miller Bobcat 250Torchmate CNC tableThermal Arc Hefty 2Ironworkers Local 720
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Reply:heres a 6 sec 1/8 mile drag bike i done the frame on Attached Images
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Reply:Over 9 years time I have changed this to thisLots of welding as that it is not a spring lift, but a spring over axle/shackle flip job. Frame build down in the rear,  custom shackles, driveshaft work.Perches going onAxle install  The bigger fab job was making a Chevrolet SM465 4 spd trans fit in place of the original auto. Every one I have ever talked to used a body lift to accomodate the taller chevy trans and modified a chevy crossmember.   I cut, ground, welded, and figured my way to this. Which uses stock chevy rubber mounts and retains about 90 percent of the original amc crossmember in it's stock place. every thing stayed tucked up pretty good, this is the approach view.Never a fan of bodylifts I cut a bigger hole, boxed it up and ended up with this.Owning this old Jeep and wanting to build on it led me taking a welding course at the local college which ultimately led to my current occupation as a 3rd period Boilermaker apprentice. I've welded, tested and everything else in that pursuit but my first Jeep is still "neat" to me and it has taught me a lot about welding. There is still a ton of work to do as that old Jeeps are never "done'Not The Neatest but The Necessary for the at home outdoor fab types such as myself. A good welding table and my modified dolly for moving Mr. Miller and all it's associated welding goodies. Miller ThunderBolt AC/DCMillermatic 130XPDewalt 4 1/2Dewalt RecipCE Chop Saw3rd Period Boilermaker ApprenticeLocal 454, Chattanooga TN
Reply:Here is some of the stuff I built.. Not everything was the coolest but I'm not good at taking pics of everything.Not the coolest but the weirdest!! Solid axle conversion on a Ford Ranger.. Before:After:One of my earlier cages in a CJ7:A trailer I built awhile back for a customer..One of my favorite bumpers to build because its a money maker.. Coil over conversion on a 69' Jeep CJ..Another coil over conversion on a Jeep CJ8 Scrambler..Miller 252Miller 250Miller Syncrowave 250Esab Plasma Powercut 1250HF Basic oxy/act torches
Reply:Just a couple of quick pictures.Not necessarily the coolest jobs I've done, but they're up there.I can't take full credit for the brewery pipework. There were a heap of us there.Truck-mounted Stainless water tankRotor-mould for poly rainwater tanksOnly two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. - Albert Einstein
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Reply:Originally Posted by FireZapperI built my Explorer. Front suspension components, steering, beadlocks. Everything but the bending of the tube.Originally Posted by jericho777Is it a kit car? Very nice I would like to see more specs on your ride.
Reply:I posted this way back before...but it is cool...especially when you get to use it. Attached ImagesEsab Migmaster 250Lincoln SA 200Lincoln Ranger 8Smith Oxy Fuel setupEverlast PowerPlasma 80Everlast Power iMIG 160Everlast Power iMIG 205 Everlast Power iMIG 140EEverlast PowerARC 300Everlast PowerARC 140STEverlast PowerTIG 255EXT
Reply:17' controll pitch Rolls Royce props.made of nickle alum bronze with two 55,000 hp turbine engines Attached ImagesLast edited by ed mac; 09-21-2009 at 10:01 PM.
Reply:I was one of a couple guys who built the door on the Boeing/Vought Aerospace 787 Dreamliner Composite AutoClave.    32ft inner diameter door puts it at the largest autoclave in the world.   Built to cure the huge composite fuselage sections, its so big that they put the 'clave together on-site and put up its building around it!!!!   I built this bumper for a friend's truck (frame horns are courtesy of Mike at Carli Suspension, Orange CA):The red truck is mine, I built the lightbar on that as well as a bunch of other goodies on it. But this is by all accounts the coolest thing ive ever made: And he happens to posing on my 1930 Ford Model A I built from the ground up....
Reply:I renovated a house i lived in. Plenty of structural steel but most of it is hidden, so it might not count. It was a great house to live in.http://www.archmedia.com.au/aa/aaiss...cle=8&typeon=2Yeah, I carry.House keys, wallet, some change, usually a newspaper, maybe a pen.