by DMcGirr | Feb 27, 2010 | Engineering
Back to work. This week we were doing multiple layers of weld on single joints. The top weld in the picture is a single weld, the bottom joint has one weld on top of the other, and there’s a third one to come. Check out more pictures after the jump. Three plates...
by DMcGirr | Feb 20, 2010 | Engineering
No Mad Industrialist today. One inch of snow and they called the whole thing off. I’d say all of us lads on the course would have made it. We love our welding, and I’d say we’re all pissed that we didn’t get to go in today. Here’s an old...
by DMcGirr | Feb 13, 2010 | Engineering
Week two of my welding course and today is the first day that we joined two pieces of metal together with both tack welds and fillet welds. The line where the top plate joins the middle plate has been tack welded. One tack welds something so the pieces of work do not...
by DMcGirr | Feb 6, 2010 | Engineering, Real life sort of stuff
The Mad Welder! This here’s my booth. After the jump the first pictures of my first welds. My first plate of welds. I’m rather proud of it actually. What I’m learning is Manual Metal Arc Welding; Sometimes called stick welding. You basically take a...
by DMcGirr | Aug 10, 2009 | Carpentry, Engineering, Woodworking
I have the house to myself this weekend. I’m considering doing a project. Google sketchup is a fantastic program to use when you’re thrashing out some details. The picture is of a craft table I’m considering; I could build the skeleton quite easily...
by DMcGirr | Jul 12, 2009 | Carpentry, Engineering, Woodworking
Hello there are welcome to the second of The Mad Carpenter’s tool reviews. Today we have a look at the power drill, one of the corner stones of the woodworking world. You need a drill these days; either for driving screws, drilling pilot holes or drilling…...
