New Addition to the Tool Dept.

[Smokin Mike]

After suffering with a POS Harbor Freight clamp, I decided to break bad and spend some money on something that might actually work.
Looking forward to getting her dirty.


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My current cookers: 80 gallon vertical tank
The Ultimate New Braunfels Makeover

[Maniac]

Mike nothing better than a third hand, now lets get some sparks on her
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RF Smoker
20" disc
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[gandrfab]

I don't have any but I have worked with magnetic squares in the past. Handy tool.

[k.a.m.]

Nice addition Mike Congratulations.
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Always remember slow and steady wins the race.

Hybrid Cooker

[Smokin Mike]

Thanks Maniac. Yep, not too far off from starting a new project and burning some wire.

Thanks gandrfab. I got a set of the magnets also. A man just can't have too many tools

Thanks Kevin. I'm cleaning out the garage today so I can make a place for it. Yeah, it's that bad.
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My current cookers: 80 gallon vertical tank
The Ultimate New Braunfels Makeover

[jess]

Nice addition. My son asked me once what else he needed for welding. I told him more clamps. As you are learning you need all you can get and after you are more proficient you will use all you can get.

[gandrfab]

I have worked with clamp abusers.
I don't use very many at all.
The clamp happy people have asked me.
"How do you do it, do you just wish stuff together?"




Most of the time I hold it with my hand, tac. and
Adjust as it as it's going together.

[k.a.m.]

[Maniac]

[k.a.m.]

[gandrfab]

On aluminum pipe I use a wood wacker.
Aluminum sheet and steel I use hammers.

A lot of time wasted when using to may clamps.

[gandrfab]

Example, my 1st 10 years of welding was working for others.
My production and quality work was almost double of just about anybody that worked around me.

But I didn't get double the pay, that is one of the biggest reasons I'm self employed now.

[k.a.m.]

I stand by my original post.
"I woulda bet a pay check you weren't gonna wish that hitch on this boat trailer."
I have been fabricating for over 30 years 10 of those years was my own shop fabricating oilfield trucks. I can promise you with the tweaks I had to put on those frame rails to meet that A frame hitch no hammer was going to help you there.
But you can keep on believing you're that special we won't hold it against you.
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Always remember slow and steady wins the race.

Hybrid Cooker

[gandrfab]

Sure I still get jobs that are a pain.
Most of my work is custom one off kind of stuff.
Makes me the sales man, engineer, planner, builder and so on.

Now that I have a shop at a airport and started welding on airplanes.
I get to not be the engineer, every fix is written in books I just have to do it right.

[Smokin Mike]

My name is Smokin Mike and I am a clamp abuser.

I hereby solemnly swear that the next time I decide to spend my own hard earned money on something as silly as a clamp, that I will abide by the terms and conditions of the Clamp Abusers Association.


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My current cookers: 80 gallon vertical tank
The Ultimate New Braunfels Makeover

[gandrfab]

I do have more clamps then I like to admit and I still want a badass 6" C clamp.

[Wreckless]

I am a lone wolf in my shop. To this day, I have yet to receive a reply to my request " Hey, hold that for a second, would ya?" I figure I have " MacGuyvered " a way to make up for lack of a third hand more than McDonalds has made hamburgers. No way I could have ever gotten much done without my C-clamps and magnets. Yah, I need more. Smokin Mike, FWIW... Stillwell Chuck has an awesome assortment of clamps.
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Backyarder
Smoker Grill
Trailer Rig

[TrailerBuilder]

Nice collection Smokin Mike I would take a pic of all my clamps but the Bear would come in here and bust me for my pics being too big Yep, I have that many clamps. A true fabricator knows that if a clamp can act like an extra set of hands, why not have a few on hand. One that brags about how great they are usually aren't that great

ganderfab, since you talk TIG all the time, Im wondering how you hold the material with one hand and tack with the other
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X2 Finished Build
Disco Time
Fire Pit

[Flyingj]

[gandrfab]