Then: Disappointing Fabrication Session Now: Success!
Well, just wanted to vent to those who would understand. Just finished up (translate kicked a project from one end of the garage to the other) a fabrication session and after doing literally dozens of somewhat complex cuts (60 degree miters on 1/8th inch thick 1x2 rectangular tubing - harder to do when your chop saw only goes to 45 degrees), lots of simple cuts 30 to 45 degrees, dozens more welds and hundreds upon hundreds of measurements, checking twice, three times etc ... I get to the last piece and screw the pooch by neglecting to check twice after tack welding. Everything looked good, emphasize looked, so I welded er up and could hardly wait to stop welding and start some congratulatory number sixes. Its only then when I go to bolt the project on that I realize I've cocked that last piece about 4 degrees and as a result, short of some ugly cutting and grinding and such, the project is trash! So after five super precise hours of measuring, cutting, and welding, I f**k the whole thing up in five minutes.
Yes, I'm already thinking through how to do the next one better, but arrrggghhh, what an awful way to finish some fabricating. Like I wrote, just venting, dont expect any sympathy, just venting to those who would understand.
Well, just wanted to vent to those who would understand. Just finished up (translate kicked a project from one end of the garage to the other) a fabrication session and after doing literally dozens of somewhat complex cuts (60 degree miters on 1/8th inch thick 1x2 rectangular tubing - harder to do when your chop saw only goes to 45 degrees), lots of simple cuts 30 to 45 degrees, dozens more welds and hundreds upon hundreds of measurements, checking twice, three times etc ... I get to the last piece and screw the pooch by neglecting to check twice after tack welding. Everything looked good, emphasize looked, so I welded er up and could hardly wait to stop welding and start some congratulatory number sixes. Its only then when I go to bolt the project on that I realize I've cocked that last piece about 4 degrees and as a result, short of some ugly cutting and grinding and such, the project is trash! So after five super precise hours of measuring, cutting, and welding, I f**k the whole thing up in five minutes.
Yes, I'm already thinking through how to do the next one better, but arrrggghhh, what an awful way to finish some fabricating. Like I wrote, just venting, dont expect any sympathy, just venting to those who would understand.
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