What are you working on today?

[D60]

FIL welded the frame of my RV gates. He used to be a career welder. For today’s project, he wanted to stick weld, so I picked up a Titanium Stick 225 from HF for him to use.

He was pretty happy with its performance on 240V with ~85A output. We used 3/32” E6013. The frame is about 3mm thick.

I have no idea what I’m looking at - how does this look? Paging @D60

Before:
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After:
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That's pretty £ugly but I'm sure it's plenty strong. Stick welding 3mm is kinda brave as that's relatively thin for the process.

 

[UCN195]

I just slapped a new starter on the old Chevy Express, since the old one was starting to get flaky. I would have probably rebuilt it if I had the parts, but it has to be back in service at 5 AM tomorrow. Battery and cables looked sharp so I’m sure that was it. It was pretty rough inside when I popped it open.

Of course while I was under there I noticed a small trail of coolant on the oil pan. Looks like the stupid NAPA water pump I put in a couple years ago is starting to leak from the weep hole. I’ve got an AC Delco on the way, hopefully it holds up better than the NAPA. I gotta say, the NAPA unit was terrible looking with some of the worst casting I’ve ever seen, but I needed it right now! so it went in anyway.

 

[D60]

2013 Express:
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He'll have it powdercoated

Quoting myself, he got this powdercoated