justin_o_guy2
Serious Thumper
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East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.
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Heck, just walk by & look in the shop.. The other day he asked me "Papa,, why are you always building something?"
I am STILL working on getting that propane tank & regulator mounted. Listened to Coast to Coast last nite & fiddle farted around with it some more. Gonna be a real tidy, well thot out installation, but dang, finding that "Just right" piece of junk, cutting, fitting, cleaning,, AAAGGHHH!! It just takes a lot longer than it looks like it should, Finally got all the bits & pieces cut out, just 2 more plates to weld onto the generator frame, to hold the vapor regulator. To make the "seat" for the tank I sliced across the 1X2 bracket & laid in pieces of 1/2" square tubing( you dont even wanna know how long it took to get the distance between & angle of the cuts & then opening them to the right depth to lay the tubing in & making sure I didnt set them deep enough to have the bottle sitting on the bracket where the bottom of the bottle is kinda rounded instead of sitting on the ring/base its supposed to sit on.) that I cut one side out of, tack welded & then brazed up gaps. Ive used parts from a manual treadmill, a regular bed frame, the 1/2" square tubing was part of a hospital bed some guy had me store for him,, It didnt sell, so, he gave it to me, & the last 2 bits came from a junk riding lawnmower. A cut off disk in a grinder is a mighty handy tool,,OHH, & FWIW,, I may be the worlds worst welder..weld & grind & weld again, grind some more,,, BUT, NOt blowin holes in that stuff is more important than getting a full weld down on the first pass..The welder is at its lowest setting, using some skinny rods. Theyre not 1/8th, idk what they are,, I like them, so, I better get some more. NOT from Harbor Freight..
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