Today I have a bunch more warehouse racking coming for the garage, so my older boy and I rushed to finish the extended safety railings for the forklift platform.
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Kinda went a little nuts.
Looks great! You can't have too much pallet racking! HD teardrop racking like that is the best there is. You could fill all those shelves with heavy crates and they won't care.
I love the stuff. It is hard to see in the photos but the mill is in a bay with 42" racking and the space next to it will get the 13" South Bend lathe in the other photo, once I get it completed. I do find myself wondering if I can put a built up 1HZ above the mill....
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If those are 5 or 6" crossbeams you can put 3 fully dressed 1HZ's on each shelf no sweat.
I have a section of 3" square upright 30" teardrop racking with 5" double wrapped beams currently carrying four complete 5.9 and 6.7 24 valve Cummins engines, a 6.0 Powerstroke and a 6.7 Powerstroke on two 9ft wide shelves.
I have three 20ft shipping containers beside my shop. Two are full of the same 30" deep racking. One of those containers is just remnant/surplus material from my machine shop. I have wide 1/2" steel plates under the uprights to distribute the load into the 1" thick plywood floor. There's conservatively 50K lbs of steel and aluminum on the pallet racking inside that one shipping container. Multiple tons per shelf.
It's amazing what the stuff is rated to hold.
next time you're in Costco or another big box store just consider that on average, a pallet stacked with stuff and stretch wrapped weighs around 1000-1400 lbs each.
I asked the racking company how much I could put on the wire racks. No answer yet, but I was thinking that with some 1" OSB it should be ok. In case anyone is interested, the narrow stuff is 24" deep and the wide stuff is 42" deep and the tall racking is 16' high and the short is 12'.
I use wire racks for lighter, smaller stuff. For heavy stuff I just use 2x lumber solid across the entire shelf.
I actually prefer the 2x lumber to the wire racks for everything, but it's so much time to cut hundreds of boards.
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We got maybe 20-30hrs on this machine at most now.
If you are bummed on the blue( Miller) as we are or the red (Lincoln) really give the silver a good solid look!
I am super happy with this machine, for $3k it rocks real hard and anyone wanting to get into a good mig machine should give the HTP a consideration. It has exceeded my expectations for the money by a lot! In fact, with me, HTP has earned a loyal customer. Perhaps for the rest of my days!
Any DIY guy or hobbyist will be 100% stoked on this machine. Not the best for 20g sheet metal using .035 wire but besides that give it a long hard look if you are in the market for a new mig welder. We are going to compliment this machine with a much smaller mig that we will run .023 in all the time for sheet metal work. For the bigger jobs this “3000 Pulse” from HTP has been rock solid so far! Couldn’t be more stoked for the price!!
Cheers
If you are bummed on the blue( Miller) as we are or the red (Lincoln) really give the silver a good solid look!
I am super happy with this machine, for $3k it rocks real hard and anyone wanting to get into a good mig machine should give the HTP a consideration. It has exceeded my expectations for the money by a lot! In fact, with me, HTP has earned a loyal customer. Perhaps for the rest of my days!
Any DIY guy or hobbyist will be 100% stoked on this machine. Not the best for 20g sheet metal using .035 wire but besides that give it a long hard look if you are in the market for a new mig welder. We are going to compliment this machine with a much smaller mig that we will run .023 in all the time for sheet metal work. For the bigger jobs this “3000 Pulse” from HTP has been rock solid so far! Couldn’t be more stoked for the price!!
Cheers
I was working on some garage lighting and spray painting handy boxes when I asked myself whether I could try powder coating.... One trip to marketplace later...
I still have a lot to learn but it is hella-better than spray paint.
I still have a lot to learn but it is hella-better than spray paint.
Like using a glass bead cabinet. 30 years after I moved out of my garage and into the pole barn, the tops of the rafters in the garage ceiling had bead dust all over them. I used it for a few weeks when I first started without the vac system ….3 decades earlier
Even with the "sock" over the vacuum exhaust I was getting dust so finally plumbed to outside.
Someone gave me a bunch of Snap-on spline sockets. Never heard of them before. One 1" drive, rest 3/4. Three sets of 13/16, 7/8, 15/16, one 3/4 and one 1. Must be really special - $1535 total if bought from Snap-on site. Dayam!!
So I broke down and bought a diesel tool.
@John Young this is a thing of beauty in my neck of the woods…even though it is the most populated state in the US. Power goes out routinely for the last 48 years for hours or days at a time. Now with our high tech fiber internet and amazing variety of cellular providers…we have mediocre wi-fi and crappy phone service. You would think I lived in a cave on some unknown atoll.
I am envious !!
I am envious !!
Same here in Florida re power. And when the hurricanes blow through sometimes the water makes the roads really difficult. Coupled with the fact that aircon is almost a necessity...
I got a small gas generator a year ago, but it would not power anything but the fridge and a few small electronic items. Whole home generators are pretty common but mostly they are pretty unreliable. I started looking at these military surplus units a few months back. This one had a very high first bid from the seller (a reserve essentially) at 7k, which was way too much. Even then there were a couple of dozen watchers. There were no bids at the auction, but afterwards I was able to negotiate something I thought was high but reasonable.
The 803A seems to be the sweet spot because it has 120/240VAC and is a size where it won't cark the engine for having too light a load if you switch over the whole house. Fuel consumption should be between .4 and .9 gallons per hour which is manageable. I will have a real electrician install a proper switchover.
Ritchie Bros seem to have a few of these up for auction every week. I've also seen 803's on Marketplace. There are plenty that are less expensive than the one that I got. Here is a scatter diagram of all 81 Ritchie Bros auction results they made available on their website:
They vary a lot in terms of condition. I needed one that hopefully will operate right out of the box.
BTW, the R suffix on the one I picked up may refer to a depot refresh. The generator paint looks a lot worse than the engine paint which would seem to support that theory. Plus the dang thing has two Optima batteries in it which is not something I've seen before in these surplus auctions. The only defect I could see from the listing is that the temp gauge appears non-operational, but I'm not troubled by that.
I spent a few bucks on a paid AI to help me sort through all the listings to narrow down condition, etc. I allowed it to use my browser to actually look at all the photos. I spot checked the results and it seemed to be pretty good at differentiating and also focusing on the more important aspects. Otherwise because there are so many up for auction and they all look pretty much the same, it would have been a lot more work to figure out which one to focus on.
If I had more time I would have waited for a reasonable one that already has a trailer. That would be kind of convenient, I think.