12-27-2015, 10:56 PM
Yeah that dumpster was gold. I can see how people get addicted to dumpster diving.
I had to make some of the main beams longer to span between posts in the shed, there's a lot of work in scarf jointing these things.
Cut the ends
Ground them to match, bevelled the edges and clamped them down on another piece of beam to get them straight
Ran a bead of weld along the join on the inside, then veed the outside down to the weld and filled 'er up.
Had three of these long beams to do, took me a full day to do the three scarf joints. Used a heck of a lot of mig wire and had to go out for a gas cylinder change-over as well.
I had to make some of the main beams longer to span between posts in the shed, there's a lot of work in scarf jointing these things.
Cut the ends
Ground them to match, bevelled the edges and clamped them down on another piece of beam to get them straight
Ran a bead of weld along the join on the inside, then veed the outside down to the weld and filled 'er up.
Had three of these long beams to do, took me a full day to do the three scarf joints. Used a heck of a lot of mig wire and had to go out for a gas cylinder change-over as well.
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