Dennis had a busy weekend.
All the joists on his replica gas station are screwed together using screws and hangers, he likes the job done right.
Remember the house/workshop/shed his son Adam and Hanna were building?
Progress there too.
Plumbing laid out and a backhoe brought in.
By end of day all the trenches for plumbing were dug and created, leaving a pile of dirt and trenches everywhere.
Tall building. Welcome to America.
My Sunday was filled with two reasonable Bootfairs followed by some stuff I needed to do.
Nice heavy duty bogey for the garage, cost me £5.00 or $7.50-ish.
Then into the garage to carry on welding.
A few years ago I managed to get a nice lump of copper to use as backing, both thermal and also for plug or infill welding.
Two rounds later, alternate welds.
Ground back and inspected.
Thankfully patience delivered and no warping.
Unfortunately I am not always very bright, admittedly.
I kept snapping belts on the powerfile, JohnnyBravo suggested I may need to fine tune the setting and alignment.
Ultimately had to stop work as I ran out of belts to snap.
Ordered more off eBay, and will check setting of the finger.
So job not complete yet.
Point at which I shut shop and came n to shower and wait for Joy to visit.
Happy so far.
Not perfect, but at least all metal.
Today I also got some more bits that may just help make the finishing easier.
