Build Thread The Hoopty Chronicles - New House, New garage, New Car?

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Grinder and paint = $100 bracket
 
My wife and I are going to a NASCAR race tomorrow, we have hot passes for the pits, and we're staying overnight at a nice hotel. AND I'LL STILL HAVE TO DO SOMETHING FOR HER ON SUNDAY!

Women need to appreciate cars more, I think for Father's Day I'm going to tell my wife that I just want her to fetch fresh beers for me all day as I work on my car.
 
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I made a sheet metal skin for my alternator bracket and knocked down the welds on my a/c bracket. They're getting powder coated now. I am tickled ****less.
Those that can, do.

Those that can't, pay.

Good job on the welding too, Looks like you have decided to become a TIG Jedi....I was gonna challenge you, and say that you weenied out and took it to somebody to MIG, but didn't need another guy sending me to time out for being so mean.
 
Those that can, do.

Those that can't, pay.

Good job on the welding too, Looks like you have decided to become a TIG Jedi....I was gonna challenge you, and say that you weenied out and took it to somebody to MIG, but didn't need another guy sending me to time out for being so mean.
Funny story about the tig. It doesn't spatter as you know, so I've become very lax in my fabrication attire. Yesterday, I was wearing something I only know as a "wife beater" or sleevless tee as I was doing yard work before going in the garage. Between that hour mowing and another hour on the torch, my Scottish-German Lilly white shoulders are now a shade I can only describe as titty pink.
 
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Exhibit A.
DAAAMMMNNN!!!!.....

You are more burned than me, and I've been in the south Florida sun.

(Only most of the time I've been in a Burka)

The last time I experienced "ancillary damage" from a TIG, was after helping a friend tack weld a whole bunch of pieces together.

I was told to look away each time he struck the arc. (Which I did) only not far enough.

Imagine getting a burn like that on your eyes....
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The only solution short of an emergency room visit.