How are you dealing with lock-down during this crisis?

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  1. squidward

    squidward Well-Known Member

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    Bring a some bourbon and some ammo.
    We'll have us a time!
     
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    FatBack Well-Known Member

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    Just got 5 fifteen packs of my favorite, 12 ounce Natural Ice, from the dollar store today. My effort to limit trips to the store. I got some black powder and a round ball, .454 dual cavity mold, for my cap n balls!
     
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    squidward Well-Known Member

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    Let's do this!
    What could go wrong?
     
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    FatBack Well-Known Member

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    My buddy lives on a stilt house on the river floodplain in a redneck/biker enclave along the river, a couple miles in on a private dirt road, we can shoot till you figure that's enough ammo, plinked away. My bug out spot!
     
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    roorooroo Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Smushed beer cans and used up grinder disks. Gotta love it! :clapping:
     
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    FatBack Well-Known Member

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    My "pile of shame" is not fully visible, lol.
    I'm meticulous about grinder safety, especially those thin ass, cut off wheels. Full face shield AND safety glasses and a thick denim jacket and gauntlet gloves. An exploding wheel and metal or grit in your eye, can ruin your day.
     
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    I'm masturbating a lot, on this forum, so to speak. In the closet I've a cold fusion project that's just moments away from completion. My time with my Gibson Les Paul has been so successful that I can replicate both Page and Young. I'm almost finished with my C# program to rule the world - it is surely only 10,000 more lines to go. For fear of them dying, I've shot both Ma and Pa. And I'm having a couple of beers between all of these projects.
     
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    roorooroo Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Shorts and a t-shirt is generally my PPE... add welding helmet and gloves when burning some rods. I fully realize I will regret that one day.
     
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    Maybe I'll try my hand at small metal art. Mostly common hardware, tack welded into whimsical sculptures. Stuff like that can fetch 20-40$ at our market days. Once a month on Saturday, downtown open air market in our antiques district. On indefinate hold, over the Rona virus. Here is our downtown, very historic and quaint, most of it is antiques shops. upload_2020-4-6_2-21-27.jpeg [​IMG][​IMG][​IMG][​IMG]
     
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    Not a question of if...
    I recently managed to get grit in my eye (despite my face shield, go figure) After a few days, I see it at the edge of my iris, flushing with water failed, a magnet failed. I laid a sewing needle at a very flat angle and dislodged it. No such thing as to much PPE. I weld in my Croc sandals and pay the price, once in a while. I try not to stand right under it. I just hardle ever wear shoes, here in SW Fl.

    I recently got this welder from Harbor Freight for 200$. Very nice welds, 16 pound DC inverter, flux cored, wire feed. 120V. I cant recommend it enough.

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    I hear you and agree 100%. I'm a barefoot kind of guy myself. The price is paid on occasion. I do wear glasses, so there is that!

    I am a crackerbox dude, never tried the Mig deal.

    I bought a Miller plasma cutter 6 months ago. Man, that thing is the bomb!
     
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    I'm looking at getting (I guess it's called) a radial arm chop saw? Makes angled cuts. Safer and more precise than a grinder.
    FluxCoredArcWelding FCAW... is kinda like stick, in that a burning flux provides the shielding gas. Unlike Metal Inert Gas MIG, where a bottle of shielding gas is used.
    Plasma cutter would be sweet! Love to get my hands on a TIG welder, but pricy. Hell, I'd like to have my own pole barn and full array of machine shop equipment, if $ was no issue.
     
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    FCAW... so it is like stick welding but the stick is constantly feeding. Gotcha. Hmmm.... do I need one? Will check it out.

    I will admit that the plasma cutter is freaking sweet. But pricey at 1200 bucks, and that was with a $200 Miller rebate, normally $1400. Plenty of cheaper ones out there, but the reviews were poor. Went ahead and spent the bucks for a genuine Miller with warranty and local service if ever needed.
     
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    I'd have to justify tool purchases with the expectation of a return on the investment. May I ask what kind and amount of cutting, spurred your purchase? 1,200 aint no chump change (for us, anyways) that's close to one month of our income.

    If we both get this 1,200$ kungflu check, some new tools are definitely coming. I'd love a plasma cutter but cant shell out that much unless I had jobs lined up to pay for it.
     
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    A vege man, I picked one of my husbands pumpkins he's growing near the vegepatch with the lawnmower the other day... he wasn't impressed
     
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    And FYI, I have searched many different reviews, from many sources on this "Easy Flux" welder. Out of maybe 200 I found one bad review on some mechanics forum. I was tempted to register to tell him that sometimes, operator error is the problem. If you do any amount of welding, you wont be dissapointed. It even has enough heat to fabricate general purpose, trailers as long as you respect the duty cycle, parameters.

    IIRC it's 30% @90 amps. You can weld for 3 minutes as long as the machine rests for 7 minutes, between.
     
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    Oh well... stuff happens.
     
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    Your hat and your testicles are mouldy????

    I definitely need a translator
     
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    I used to run a cnc plasma cutter but never was a welder. I own a wood chop saw and it is very good at cutting angles for trim work. Love my chop saw with laser guide.
     
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    Excellent . . . we know know what Brain of 'Pinky and the Brain' does during his downtime!
     
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    I am praying to the Lord everyday...

    to forgive me for enjoying this apocalypse so much.. I know people are suffering and dying so it is wrong for me to be relishing the time I have to actually do some of the long list of projects I have (and most of them ARE things I need to do). \
    I have been reading and enjoying apocalyptic literature for over 50 years, I just never envisioned that when it befell our times, it would have water and power. The wife wants to drive .... somewhere, yesterday she wanted to do the 180 mile round trip to the nursery for another pecan tree (one of the three we bought last year ain't making it) BUT turns out we are under a stay at home order. As for the materials for the projects.. they've been sitting for years waiting for me to have "roundtoits"

    ($200 for that little wire welder?)
     
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    20200406_082640.jpg 20200406_082654.jpg These beds were planted before I put down the roundup. It is just mulch over the weeds the goats ate down. I may put cardboard around the plants and add more mulch. Especially around the tomato plants. I don't ever get a good tomato harvest here. Neither does my neighbor. I just covered the plants with plastic pots .... 2 for each plant and sprayed the roundup. Left the pots on the plants overnight. I don't know how long the spray mist stays in the air.
     

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    I agree. Most 'end of the world' scenarios have the loss of water and power up front and a massively higher body count. I keep privately crunching the available numbers and the deaths to infections ration still remains incredibly low. It's just that the infection ratio itself is off the charts.
     
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    Well yeah!:banana:
     
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    You and I definitely need to hit an ice house and have a fight! Or just a brew..... hahahah. Biden has no chance and we’re stuck with Twitter ******** for four more - this should not make you happy my friend
     
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