Spending some time tuning in a machine to weld aluminum soda cans! Coming up with a perfect program to weld such thin metal without blowing holes through it is a painstaking process!
Some interesting motorcycle parts came into the shop! This gas tank and fender are from a Jesse James motorcycle that the customer beat up pretty badly and brought in for repairs. We always love seeing the cool things that walk-ins bring!
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This is a fun repeat job that we do for our customer at Torrance Manufacturing. These are done by placing them on a horizontal turntable so that we can do a continuous weld with no stop-and-starts!
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We have discovered the advantages of selling some of our excess inventory on eBay!These are some of our popular high performance box truss corner blocks now listed for sale.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Corner-Block-12-x12-x12-High-Performance-Medium-Duty-Box-Truss/142549325538
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In looking over photos, I realized that we did not post about the enormous aluminum door we made for KD Clark Construction a few months ago (well, enormous to us!).
It’s almost 10 feet by 14 feet by 4 inches deep. Once it’s complete, it will have a glass insert and wood panels on both sides.
One of KD Clark Contruction’s employees sent us a picture of the door as they were testing before sending it out for final paint and finishing
.Can’t wait to see the house when complete!
Peggy Terzian
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I am surrounded by welding and fabrication talk all day-what’s the material? How will the part be finished after weld? What specifications are called out in the drawing? I find myself absorbing little bits of welding information and trying to fit them in with other things I know about welding & fabrication so that I can be as informed as possible when talking to customers. Am I a welder? No, but I work with welders, and try to serve as a conduit for our customers.
I was curious to find out more about welding history, and find that most of the advances in welding have been over the last 200 years. Even though evidence has been found as far back as 2000 years ago, the welding of metal was basically done by pressure (read heat and hammering) up until fairly recently. My exploring fingers led me to the Miller Welding website where they have a great synopsis of the history of welding: https://www.millerwelds.com/resources/article-library/the-history-of-welding
Speaking of heat and hammering, I also stumbled across a great article on the website “The Art of Manliness” about blacksmithing for beginners. We’ve watched blacksmiths exhibit their trade at several living history demonstrations, and this post goes into a little more detail about the four important things that a blacksmith needs: http://www.artofmanliness.com/2011/07/14/blacksmithing-primer/
It’s interesting to follow the trail from 2000 year old gold boxes that have been pressure welded all the way up to the friction stir technology being used today!
Peggy Terzian
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Sparks fly as we assemble more munitions ‘condos’ for Roger George Rentals!
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We have some large projects that we are working on right now. Currently here at Jaytech we are in the final stages of installing a view port in a 1/4″ stainless steel door of a vacuum process chamber! This is just one of the many things keeping our hands and brains working hard!
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We are assembling a jungle gym here at Jaytech today! We are putting the final touches on “the Condo” for a customer-a structure that can be moved around with a fork lift as needed, to provide storage and protection. This thing is big! Roughly 8ftx8ftx12ft-complete with a floor and a roof!
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Today we put our new Lincoln Squarewave 200 Tig welder to task welding an aluminum soda can in AC mode! This is not easy, but with the right settings, very do-able. Settings are 30 amps, 75 balance, 150 frequency, #7 nozzle, and 18 CFH Argon. Of course, it’s done with our signature weave weld!
