(05-24-2016, 10:20 PM)Vinny Wrote: Been working on this for a couple of weeks as time and weather permitted.  It's a riser for my surface grinder to sit on a table lower than the factory stand.  The available vertical room I had (over the grinder's height) was about 10".  So this riser raises it about 8".  Made from that steel I bought last year (or the year before), 4x4 5/16 thick and 2x4 1/4 thick.  

I haven't arc welded in over 40 years, prolly closer to 45.  I can still strike an arc but the welds look like crap, which is why I didn't take pics until AFTER I painted it, yet they still look like crap.  You'll need a plasma cutter to get it apart tho!

Back view:


Side view:


Front view:


Yeah, I tried to put the paint on really thick, hence the runs, to hide the ugly welds.  But then again, you guys already know my welds are ugly!

The important part is the surface grinder is NOT moving once it's installed.

Gotta do some cement work outside before I can move it to its new location, but coming soon.  I also need to make a stand for my cement mixer (dumpster dive find a few years ago).

(05-30-2016, 10:45 AM)Dr Stan Wrote: First machine shop job I had was general labor at a drive shaft & U joint manufacturing facility.  We had a huge (100+ gallon) tank & pump on wheels to remove old coolant from big honkin' vertical broaches & WS chuckers machining cast iron & steel.  Well, when new it had a shut-off that would engage if the tank was full.  It was not new and some Einstein wired around the shut-off so when full it would pump out the nasty coolant in about a 1 1/2" to 2" solid stream.


Guess who was "downstream".  If you said Stan you're a winner.  That was 43 years ago and I still shiver thinking about the "bath" I received.

(05-30-2016, 12:27 PM)Black Forest Wrote: Let me venture a guess.  The rods you used had been sitting around for a long time in the open air.   Before you use them again bake them in your oven for 2 hours at 250 F.   Those welds look typical of wet flux coating.

(05-30-2016, 12:34 PM)Black Forest Wrote: Stan that is not so bad.  A friend of mine was pumping cow piss and the fluids that run off cow manure with his vacuum tanker out on his pastures.  His tractor has an open cabin towards the back.   The sight glass on the tractor end of the big tank blew out and a 3 inch stream of cow piss filled his tractor cabin waist high.  He was a stinky boy!   Here in Germany you have to have an underground tank with drains to it to catch the piss and fluids off the manure.  When it gets full you pump it out and spread it on your pastures.  You can tell when someone is spreading their "Guille"  from a mile away.  Very stinky stuff.

My friend says the upside to it happening is no one asks to borrow his tractor anymore.

(05-30-2016, 03:07 PM)Vinny Wrote:

(05-30-2016, 12:27 PM)Black Forest Wrote: Let me venture a guess.  The rods you used had been sitting around for a long time in the open air.   Before you use them again bake them in your oven for 2 hours at 250 F.   Those welds look typical of wet flux coating.

Actually it was a new box, bought a couple months ago and just opened to do this, but I will bake before I use them next.