Oh my! You have out of this world skills!

That looks awesome Rick!

OT, but how do you like that Eastwood TIG?

It looks like the copper strip is held on with clecos. Do you just weld the cleco holes to fill them when you're done? I should do more with my TIG but the MIG is just so EASY to use.

That tig works awesome! Aluminum and steel. Best bang for the buck.

Yep. Easy to tig the 1/8" holes when your done. I switch from my mig to tig depending on what I'm doing.

Dude,

Can you show the shield you are using with the speed blaster?

Rich

Are you talking about a spot blaster (sand blaster)? I use gorilla duct tape and heavy plastic and tape off the area I want to spot blast. Then I either stick the nozzle through the plastic or insert the whole gun through. when your done there is less clean up. Not sure if this is what your asking.

I'm wrapping up the Mercedes shell. My friend wants me to transport it to Romulus Michigan to get it e-coated. http://www.redi-coat.com/photos.html

He asked me to build a trailer that mounts the car by the jack points and has a single torsion axle that can be removed. So I'm building the frame on top of my Celette. The pins that lock the trailer frame to the car slide out and are locked with a grade 8 bolt. I drug out the old buzz box today to burn in the first pass on this 1/4 wall 2"X3" tubing. Then I multi pass over with the wire feed. With the heat the arc welder develops I don't have to pre-heat the 1/4 wall before running the mig welder.

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You must have smoked something when you were younger....

Wild stuff man....nice job

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What a privilege it is that you share your work with us Rick.

After several years of sitting mounted to my Celette the Mercedes is finally off. I have to add a removable tong and axle to this frame and haul the car to e-coat.

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Glad to see it getting done, that car has been appreciating all the years it's been on that bench....Ha

Just reviewing this thread and discovered I failed to add some cool photos of the Mercedes after it was e-coated. The end result of all that welding.

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A buddy of mine is thinking about picking up a little Mercedes compressor from auction so he can strip out the drive train and put it in an old Mercedes. way more skill than I have, but a cool idea.