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A couple of weeks ago i had a question about running gear. I was instructed to fab my own since i bought it to weld with. I did so and below are picts of my stickmate hand truck. Thanks for the encouragement!
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SPARKSINMYSOCKS..............CONGRATULATIOS.....Lo oks like you can move it around with ease...........ah and a low center of gravity........big tires..............Looks nice.................
Enjoy the site.................Rock..
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Nice job. Sparksinmysocks reminds me of a welding burn I received 30 years ago. Still have a mark on my left foot from slag that burned through my sock.Originally posted by sparksinmysocks
A couple of weeks ago i had a question about running gear. I was instructed to fab my own since i bought it to weld with. I did so and below are picts of my stickmate hand truck. Thanks for the encouragement!
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Yup, looks good. There might be times I might buy the factory gear, if time was a real big issue and setting up a machine in someone elses shop and to get a move on, but building your own is the way to go, you can keep adding or changing too,, dont paint yet,,, haComment
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Thats not as bad as about thirty some years ago when I was skinny. I was cutting off a Safety valv,e on a on a boiler, in a destroyer, with a torch. There was barely room to get between the steam drum and the uptake. I had to lay down and crawl in to get at the valve. Of course a chunk of slag bounced off the overhead and went down the back of my shirt, burning all the way down. I think I must have set a record of crawling back out to the front of the boiler. seemed like forever with that chunk burning to get out, as I was standing up it fell out of a hole it burned in my shirt, and fell down to the lower level and I guess into the bilge. I've still got the scar, among many.
JimJim
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