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meinhoutexas

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    League City, Tx
  • Biography
    started welding at 16 have been working with various steels all my life
  • Interests
    knife making cable damascus and general fun
  • Occupation
    aviation fire ex. tech

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  1. working on cable knife

  2. happy birthday to a fellow texan,and many more,jimmy

  3. search online for coal and also go to your local feedstores sometimes they have coal.if not the next time you go into houston lookup conroe ferriers supp.? they are the people the man i learnunder buys from.
  4. brothr go to conro ferer supply they have very good coal.

  5. some of the isssues you have are settled with the type of cable you use i have some prestressing cable that you cant bend and is aprox 1/2 inch in dia. amd then i have used some 1 inch stuff for heavy rigging you could bend into a one foot loop. really depends on the wires the cable is made of ie. ind. dia. within the wire and the matl. the wire is made of. one minor caution the stiff cable i have will air quench to the brittleness of glass so it you weld it plan on quickly stress relieving it with oa torch and insulation to slow the cooling properties. just my .02$
  6. hint to all look for the companys that recycle freon. and contact me for som info if you live up near indy. . Just walked away from a aircraft fire supression maint.facility. have collected quite a few tanks of all kinds of shapes. the O2 tanks have a parkerizing coating in them but it will vaporize at low temp. And if you can find an aircraft maint. facillity you can get thin walled O2 tanks that make some nice bells have a few at shop.
  7. heck talk really nice to the man he may bring you some of that "spring " steel they use to hold down some of the track!
  8. may soon have a working prop. water heater. could the heating element/burner be reused for a forge? and anyone in the kerrville/ingram texas area wanting this let me know .
  9. sounds like he may have had to small a rod for to big a hole.
  10. could you cut a deeper relief and mix blood with clear two part epoxy?then overlay with more epoxy?
  11. could his have been over heated at the mill and they just missed it?
  12. so did you see the flames? and where were they coming from? do you use a wrench to tighten the nut?how old is the regulator?the sealing surface does go bad after a while no mater how good you treat these things.o/a rigs need to be leak checked every time you set up the regulators.and for the welding permit up north thank a union member who wanted to make it harder for you to do than calling his union .
  13. funny to read these posts down here in south -east texas we think cold is anything below 40. wish we could bring some of that cold down here...lol
  14. they make a "squareng" jig it kinda looks like a z but the diagonal is sq. basicly it chucks up and gives you a whitness mark 180 deg. from each other. if you have a dial indicator you can use it here and dial in the cross slope. contact me if you need to. sorry bout the spelling guys lol
  15. i thought you were a blacksmith when you could identify a lg frame on the side of the road at 70 mph
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