Combustion engineer fabricator

[Sberry]

I have a simple idea for a piece of shop heating equipment. Multi fuel type boiler. Rodger maybe?

[Franz]

Comon now S you know dang good & well you gotta give us more details than that. Are you planning on adding 6" to the shop floor and installing PEX over styrofoam so your not gonna catch a chill sleepin under a truck? Or is this part of your plan to grow early strawberrys in Michigan while you listen to your loop atpe of DaYoopers?
It certainly can't be another modification of your genetic engineering of the plants so you can grow chocolate covered strawberrys.
Multifuel is easy, just think vortex burner, although logs are a bit hard to run thru them even with a chipper.

[Sberry]

Whats gonna happen if I have a decent fire in here and throw a tire in???? Am I gonna hafta call the fire dept? Or will turning down the draft keep it regulated?

[Sberry]

I bet with an outdoor wood boiler type thing you could put a tire in one, especially if you had a storage tank.

[Franz]

Originally posted by Sberry27
Whats gonna happen if I have a decent fire in here and throw a tire in???? Am I gonna hafta call the fire dept? Or will turning down the draft keep it regulated?

You put anything bigger than a wheelbarrow tire in there and it will burn the top out of the stove. Tires burn hotter than coal, and CAN'T be choked back like coal or wood.

[Sberry]

Ok, thats why I check,, ha, been sniffing too many paint fumes I guess. Somehow it didnt seem like a good idea,, ha. Now, I need to skin my snowplow, think I can press it to the curve of the frame? I dont remember if the local fab place has a roller that big.

[theonlybull]

c'mon S, ya wanna burn rubber, just fire up one of them ole-ferd's, that'll burn ya some rubber...

[Franz]

Originally posted by Sberry27
Ok, thats why I check,, ha, been sniffing too many paint fumes I guess. Somehow it didnt seem like a good idea,, ha. Now, I need to skin my snowplow, think I can press it to the curve of the frame? I dont remember if the local fab place has a roller that big.

Snow plow skin, SLEDGOMATIC and come to jesus clamps my boy.

I done warned ya bout that paint huffin, now knock it off.
Check yer in box.

[Sberry]

The snowplow skin I think if I use a whole sheet I could about radius by hand with a couple of us. Cut it off afterward. Real light, about 14 ga.

[Franz]

If it's a straight blade, like a Western or Myers, just tack the sheet at the bottom, and use a 6" I beam and a couple CTJ clamps to pull the sheet to the radius braces every few inches.
They actually skin up pretty easy.
The old one way highway plows that were about a foot tall on the drivers side and 5 feet tall on the curb side were **** to do unless you had a press brake.
If you do a lot of them, and have a pair of hydraulic presses and a I beam, you can skin a plow in about an hour with a good helper. I just put a piece of 1 1'2 pipe across the top rather than trying to roll that edge.

[Sberry]

Mine is a simple skin, Myers, doesnt appear to be a big deal, was just curious how you done them. I should probably do it as sooner or later its going to snow I guess.

[Franz]

Put a gouging tip on the plasma and remove the welds from the old skin, tack down the bottom edge nice and square on the new skin, and commense squeexin the new steel toward the ribs.
I've got 4 or 5 big cast iron venere presses that would work real slick for this job, assuming the blade would slide in them.
Fellow over at the Highway garage can reskin a 12 footer in 4 hours if he wants to, and 8 if he is relaxin on the job, but he orders in the preformed skins cause they won't buy him any more tools.
It's one of those jobs you can work hard at or think hard and work easy.
Myers are a lot easier than Western cause you have angle iron on top of a Myers.
If you really want to learn about plows from the EXPURTZ, check out www.plowsite.com they got some real brilyuntt weldurz over there too. Them guys can build anything with a 110 volt mig.