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This fall sometime I decided I was going to learn how to weld and and fix this light material/snow bucket.
Not only did I not finish fixing the smaller bucket started to learn to weld on... I had not fixed this one either. The holes made snow stick in it pretty bad although the bucket worked fine with the holes, it was a personal goal... And the skid steer was in the garage anyway for a shredded belt.
Instead of messing with welding in new metal, I had some pieces from some aluminum screen doors I was scrapping. I decided to plate the bucket and pop rivet the plates into place. They are stamped with a pattern so pretty rigid and hard to work with. I bent them by smacking them along the bends I needed with a dull hatchet which worked to flatten the design.
It's not often I do something for myself. There it is.
Not only did I not finish fixing the smaller bucket started to learn to weld on... I had not fixed this one either. The holes made snow stick in it pretty bad although the bucket worked fine with the holes, it was a personal goal... And the skid steer was in the garage anyway for a shredded belt.
Instead of messing with welding in new metal, I had some pieces from some aluminum screen doors I was scrapping. I decided to plate the bucket and pop rivet the plates into place. They are stamped with a pattern so pretty rigid and hard to work with. I bent them by smacking them along the bends I needed with a dull hatchet which worked to flatten the design.
It's not often I do something for myself. There it is.
Category Photography / Still Life
Species Land Vehicle
Size 1280 x 960px
File Size 196.5 kB
nooooo.... I was not sheetmetal, but I did watch a lot of repairs as an inspector. There are good tin peckers and then again those who shouldn't be allowed anywhere close to the tools. Our guys replaced an entire right rear lower quarter of the skin on a B737 once and it was compound curve on compound curve. They actually built what's called an English Wheel for rolling the metal. They saved the company thousands and thousands of dollars as the skin from Boeing is chemically milled.
A true tin pecker is an artist.
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A true tin pecker is an artist.
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Ive seen Jesse James do it on motorcycles but can imagine that on an airplane it's beyond more complicated. Interesting they're called tin peckers I wonder if they're all bird furries.
Luckily this didn't need to be too precise in fact I had some soft material pop rivets that allowed me to use the next size up when all my 1/8" drill bits broke and two of the next size up, to. Shopping list for drill bits is extensive at this time. The machine blew two hydraulic cylinders and had a flat tire too.
Luckily this didn't need to be too precise in fact I had some soft material pop rivets that allowed me to use the next size up when all my 1/8" drill bits broke and two of the next size up, to. Shopping list for drill bits is extensive at this time. The machine blew two hydraulic cylinders and had a flat tire too.
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