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Big day at the shop today.....my (our) first introduction to working with a power hammer! It arrived today (earlier than expected) we unpacked it and now the electrician is wiring up the outlet for where we needed. Hopefully in a half hour or so I can start testing it out on some scraps (or making scrap!ha)
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Congrats Dane. From what I see of your work, you deserve the help.
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Dane
I just spent the last few days reading all of this topic. Really great work and talent. Thanks for taking the time to show the results of your work. One question I have is: what type of cutter did you use to open up the spot welds? It looks like maybe a Blair type. I really have a problem avoiding cutting through both layers of metal. Maybe its my age and poor eyesight. Phil
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Impressive design and work,!
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Thank you guys for the compliments, really appreciate it!
Phil, You are correct in the Blair style spot weld cutter bits. I use the reversible (double ended) ones. Also have what I refer to as a Spitznagel style, air drill with a flat ended carbide drill bit. This you have to have access to the backside. However, 95% of the time I’ll just use the Blair bits. The main thing is to center it in the spot weld and go through slow (you typically should see a “puff” of rust / dust pop up the instant you go through the first layer.
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It's a bit of an art to cutting spot welds juuust right. Makes the diff, tho. Blair makes good cutters. A dab of Westlube in the cut does not hurt ...
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Updates
I see Dane hasn't been around since April. Sure would like to see how this one has progressed.
Best, Kelly
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Dang, you got my hopes up of an update.
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Me too!🤣
Sorry guys….I’m still here, I’ve just been lacking badly on the updates. 1. It hasn’t been a lot of exciting stuff. 2. I was actually off of the project for two months as I was really swamped with other work. 3. Summer has been busy in terms of personal life, not much time to sit down and create posts / updates. 4. The biggest…I have never figured out how to size, edit and most importantly upload a useable photo from my iPhone to the forum. So it’s a real hassle for me to send to my computer, resize and upload from there. Sorry, I’ll try to get better and do a photo update sometime in the nearish future.
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You could try an APP like image size to edit photos on the phone. You can crop photos using the native Iphone app though difficult to get a specific size.
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