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Used to be a fellow here that had a machine shop, fix-it type place. Wife worked for him a couple of days a week bookkeeping when we first married. I was working on the brakes on my pickup and twisted off the bleeder valve. I took the piece off and took it down to his shop, figuring he had a tool to get it out. Instead he welded down in that tiny hole and built it out the top, took a small pair of pliers out of His pocket and unscrewed the valve. No way I could have stuck a rod down in that hole with a hood on. He had lots of tricks to do things. miles
Look out for number 1, don't step in number 2.
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Another fellow that I knew made some fantastic belt buckles out of small stainless pipe of differing sizes. I think while working in Alaska but not sure. miles
Look out for number 1, don't step in number 2.
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I'll bet that pipe is 304 stainless. It makes those rainbow colors when you TIG it. As does any 300 series stainless steel.
I got banned on another web site for a debate that happened on this site. That's a first
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It's unbelievable what a good welder can do. Personally, I flunked metallurgy in college. I can only stick weld enough to get myself in trouble. 
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"Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem."
Ronald Reagan
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I am a stick hack at best, but picked up a TIG capable machine a while back (Miller Econo-Twin II) and while researching TIG guns ran across this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSnj8AASuFsHis TIG finger looks like a cleaver idea.
If you are not actively engaging EVERY enemy you encounter... you are allowing another to fight for you... and that is cowardice... plain and simple.
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I am a stick hack at best, but picked up a TIG capable machine a while back (Miller Econo-Twin II) and while researching TIG guns ran across this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSnj8AASuFsHis TIG finger looks like a cleaver idea. I finally broke down and picked up a tig finger. I didn't like the price to much but it sure works for what it's intended to do. Somebody's made a boat load of money off of them.
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I used a build up of 680 TiG to remove a broken 8-32 bolt ![[Linked Image]](http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u52/doetail68/20160219_093841_zpsaonrmrvn.jpg) ![[Linked Image]](http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u52/doetail68/20160219_094521_zpslhtxkm7f.jpg)
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That is the ONLY technique to use for frozen and gakked out percussion nipples !
Nice work !
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I gotta slow down reading. I read wedding porn and clicked fast. I was about to say the same ...
I do not entertain hypotheticals. The world itself is vexing enough. -- Col. Stonehill
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I gotta slow down reading. I read wedding porn and clicked fast. Plus you're a sick bas%$^d.
I do not entertain hypotheticals. The world itself is vexing enough. -- Col. Stonehill
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