Small project from work

[Dan]

If I remember right Russell asked a while ago to see some picture of my projects that I do at work. Well I had planned on taking some pictures of the stair project that I recently completed but as soon as I completed the stairs. The warehouse people stacked product in the area so I am unable to get far enough away from the stairs to even being to fit them into a picture. The most recent project that I completed was a pipe welding job. We redid our waste water plumbing. It was originally PVC which was an design flaw,because over time the glue joints would vibrate loose. So it was all replaced with steel pipe and all the joints were TIG welded. The most interesting part of this project was that I had to branch into one of the pipes at a 45 degree angle. When my new boss showed me his drawing of the pipe layout and I saw this branch I questioned him on why we just didn t use a 45 degree Y instead. All he could say was that was a good question and then apologized for his blunder. You see 25 years ago he was a pipe weldor/fitter and he said that point in time he had to fabricate all his own joint designs. So whenn he was drawing up the pipe run he didn t even stop and think that there was actually a Y available to use instead. In the end the the funniest thing was that since it had been such a long time since he had worked with pipe he for got how to do the layout. To be honest with you it took me quite some time to remember how to also.

Anyway, I guess I need to speed this up. So, I have some pictures to post of the current project that I am working on. Sorry it isn t anything impressive. It is just a simple rack that holds a roll of our potato chip bag film so the the packaging machine operator can prepare the roll for installation on to the packaging machine that turns the film coming off the roll into a bag with product in it. In the end there I need to make 10 of these. This is the first one and Im not quite finished with it. There are a few more welds and a stop that needs to be added. The rack is going to be welded to a conveyor belt support leg, and pivots out of the way when it isn t being used.
So here is picture #1

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PIC 2

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Close up of the pivot point

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The next few picture are just examples of how many joint design even a simple project like this can contain.

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pic 5

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pic 6

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last one

[d110pickup]

Dan,
Those are some beautiful welds!
Keep it up.
Mike

[JohnV]

Those are some nice looking welds!!(as he bows down to the welding god) ...what was the setup they were done with??

[Dave Haak]

Dan,

Beautiful welds! Nice to see them in projects! Keep the pics coming.

Dave

[chub380]

Great Welds Dan,Looks like fun. Chub

[russell]

Yeah Dan, that was me ,THANKS for the photos and remembering.
I knew you could make excellent welds,and I was curious what you made that required that level of precision.
Like your design on that rack...like the way you closed the ends of the tubes,rounded the corners on the flats,beautiful job of fitting up...and with those nylon washers should be smooth moving and stable.Verrrry nice work.
I really enjoy seeing how weldors who weld for a living do it...only welding I get to see is mine..except on here..



thanks again,
russell

[redbeard]

Great Pics

Very nice work like Russel said, it is a good learning tool for amateurs like myself to see good welds. You did not specify what process you used though. You mentioned TIG for the pipefitting, but it looks like you may have used stick for the bag film holder pictured though. My TIG welds should look so good.

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[Dan]

Re: Great Pics

Originally posted by redbeard
Very nice work like Russel said, it is a good learning tool for amateurs like myself to see good welds. You did not specify what process you used though. You mentioned TIG for the pipefitting, but it looks like you may have used stick for the bag film holder pictured though. My TIG welds should look so good.

Most of the welds on the film holder are TIG. The 2 welds that attach the 1/4" X 2" flat bar to the 2" sq tube in the close up of the pivot point are MIG welds. I work in a food processing plant,and the QA department does allow us to use stick, because of the potential product contaminent that any missed slag could create. By the way, the project is made out of stainless steel.