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Midnight Auto Welding on the loose…. Ok, here they are. Well one of the pair. I cut two of these flanged plates from a 1/8” bent plate, identical to the one I used on this crossmember From the top, these will box my frame and gusset the headframe fully to it. They will weld to this...

I had these two heavy duty 3/16” (4.7mm) thick stamped steel gussets from that same set of RV steps. I decided these would make excellent gussets for the headframe weldment. Before I could shape these I had to trim off the frame rails and notched them down a little bit to get a good joint...

I am not surprised if this is hard to follow. I sm not doing a good job with the documentation. When I finished Bugs Bunny and Yogi Bear, at about 6 years old, I started reading my father’s books and magazines. Hot Rodder, Car Craft, Motor Trend, and this: I only have a few pages from those...

I am still going through various parts and pieces that I am going to use. I have some pressed metal steps from an RV, and they are in beautiful shape and the perfect size to box off my front frame rails, plus give me a safe hemmed edge and a ledger for my floor pan. I did have to take off...

Aw…I was hoping west coast.

Yesterday I got the frame rail notch cutouts tacked back in place. I laid down another 40 tack welds. There are still parts to fab and weld in, before I can think about flipping this over. The head frame appliance is only tacked on in 4 spots.

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Lennie the squirrel came back today and she was acting a bit strange. I practically walked right up to her, and I was only 2 1/2 feet away when I took these pictures of her on the ground. No, Lennie is acting very strange. I am talking to her and she is looking at me I am taking her picture...

I skipped the ledgers for today. BUT Finally I got everything as square, straight, and level as possible and started tacking things up. 42 welds later I had a celebratory beverage & let things cool down. Then, fortified by 5% ethanol, I felt comfortable enough to take off all the clamps &...

BTW I thought this was so cute it needed reposting. I want one of these for the garden.

Well thank you, but the good looks is mainly due to a good architect (IBI) who was willing and able. If it never falls down then I did a good job, as well as the welders and masons. This is the Buchanan High science building. Now here you see a bit more of the structure than traditional...

Some very unusual bikes in this thread, but I expected to see more rat bikes.

I decided to use the programmable trigger weld setup rather than the pedal, since this welding will require me to move about. When I set it up I realized that one blob of hot steel or careless brush on a fresh bead would ruin the plastic insulation in the trigger wires. I made this cover from...

KCCC is now Bakersfield college, but I showed my 3D computer model of this amphitheater a while back. Normally you wouldn't get to see my structural work after a building is finished, but this job finally was finished, and they sent some small photos. At the front, my structural steel work is...

After fighting the setup half a day, I finally realized a tiny bit of floor pan was hanging up one of the rails, pushing it out of position. This threw everything off 1/2” at the rear. I stripped off the clamps and rails and trimmed.it.one.more.time. Yeeesh! Finally, I was able to make...

Well, no welds yet. I am still trying to shape the floor pan. I thought I was close two days ago. It’s fighting me.

The pics are from the last pan trim, with the nibbler, yesterday. I got out early this morning and cleaned up the boat yard I took apart my chassis set up & laid everything out. I blew out the tubes and cleaned it all off. Then I reassembled the rails (for the last time!), clamped...

I did lots of grinding today, as I had to shorten my crossmember on both ends. I coped everything together with the frame rails as neatly as possible. This is only half-coped in the photo. I was going to avoid this tedious coping by using clips and gussets. I just couldn’t get enough body...

Busy and Ozzie. Busy (on the left) passed away a couple years ago. Ozzie is about 5 now. Baby Ozzie:

Yes but you’d have to paint it black. All old Russian limousines are black.