As you're a welder by profession and realize time constraints and strength requirements not completely welding the joints made great sense. For me I would drive myself crazy welding and cleaning up additional welds in a lame attempt at making the unit look more "finished".

I like how you think outside the box to solve problems. It's really great to see you solve problems vs. just taking an easy way out. As usual, great work. Thank you for sharing your work for all of us to learn and enjoy.🙂

Work of genius SIR GEE

love the clamps! you should make a separate video of it, i found this video through the weldingweb forum

Fabulous welding skills! And I learned some useful tricks from watching you here. Thanks again. I had to lol a little at the electrical work though. I think that you used WAY too heavy a gauge of wire for the VFD control system. That's all low voltage, low current. Shielded stranded 20- or 22- gauge would've been a whole lot easier to work with and route into those small spaces -- and much cheaper too. But hey, it's done, and there's surely no sense in going back and re-doing it, 2 years later! 🙂

I've watched a lot of fabrication videos and I've never seen someone attach the electronic controls to the machine with the magnets like you did. That's an amazing idea. I am rebuilding an old vertical bandsaw and didn't want to drill into the body of the saw, so this is exactly what I'm going to do for the motor controls when I make it a variable speed machine. I appreciate the videos! Keep them up!

Thanks so much for sharing your mod on the Bessey clamps! I like that they now can do double duty on the table and still be used normally. I love my acorn table much more than those new light duty 5/8” hole welding tables, but tooling is hard to come by and super expensive.

I'm loving this series. I especially liked the trick of tacking the electrode to the blind ends of the electrical housing. Well done.

It’s great to know your limitations. Foolish people who don’t know, end up hurting themselves and sometimes others. Being uncomfortable is wise, proceeding with caution allows us to learn without the danger of just stumbling through life.

Aaron, I found your build, Thank You very much for taking the time to video your build, I have saved everyone into a separate Phil Vandelay Folder. Regards Dave.

Nice clamping idea. I'm embarrassed to say it, but mines, ah, a little smaller than yours.....Yep, that's a big table you're packing! Will hunt around to see if I can find a way to scale that idea down for my little strong hand rhino cart....

Maravillosa maquina 👌🤩🔧⚒️👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

"Sometimes you gotta use a beltgrinder to build your beltgrinder" -- West Weld 2020 :-)

@westweld

2 жыл бұрын

.you thinking about building one of these

@CraigsWorkshop

2 жыл бұрын

@@westweld I've actually bought plans from Jer Schmidt - but I love what you've done with this one. How do you think the two compare?

@westweld

2 жыл бұрын

@@CraigsWorkshop honestly I looked at both and I think this one is much better but there is a tremendous amount of work that comes with it......it took me a long time but its priceless to me and honestly I wouldn't change anything about it. Jeremys will work great I'm sure and also cost less to build. This one is also metric and the belts are longer which is nice. It will be easier for you because I had to convert everything to imperial. I think I used every tool in my shop to get this thing built......totally worth it.

@westweld

2 жыл бұрын

@@CraigsWorkshop it makes a great youtube series too 😉

@CraigsWorkshop

2 жыл бұрын

@@westweld Well, that's a glowing recommendation. 😁 Thanks for the insights mate. And - yes when the time comes - I would want to film the "making of", for sure.

You make it look so easy. Nice job!!

@westweld

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Mom

Aaron, Nice work on the electrics. Looks really good.

Beautiful job mate, I've really been enjoying your videos. I use small bar magnets for flush mounting difficult to hold pieces like your end caps. They hold the piece and make it flush at the same time ;) Keep up the great work... I just subbed :)

Parabéns ficou excelente

этот гриндер я ставлю его на первом мести ютуба, самый лучший ..класс

Yay! Thanks dude, your welding technique at 6:17 looks just the job for getting me out of a pickle 👍 Been stick welding for 5yrs (self taught) and just got myself a MIG but I'm running .8mm flux core as I have to weld outside and discovered that it's mainly blowing holes in 16 gauge and I have a set of custom tool storage drawers to put together for a bespoke lathe bench I'm making. Awesome grinder build by the way, you popped up in my recommendations and I've been catching up on your back content, loving it all so far but don't be afraid to make longer videos every now and again. They may not he for everyone but to those it is aimed at, particularly those looking for a personal machining project, longer videos are very much enjoyed and appreciated. Anyhoo, I'm'a carry on watching your content now, keep up the awesome videos, you have a flair for it, all of which make them very useful and enjoyable 👍

@westweld

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for checking out my channel im glad you like it hopefully the videos are getting better over time.......honestly the reason I keep the videos 15 min is for 2 reasons. Because 50% of people only watch half way as it is.....and because 15 min already takes me hours and hours to edit.....but thats probably because I'm still learning

@WrenagadeWorkshop

3 жыл бұрын

@@westweld I hear ya with the filming and editing, even simple projects end up taking three time as long to finish. If you get a chance, would love for you to drop in to my channel and say hi. I haven't posted in a fair few months though, covid thing happened so I'm still filming my next series, which is a new custom bench with integrated storage for my vintage lathe.

Excelente trabalho

@westweld

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks man heres the next part if your interested kzread.info/dash/bejne/fqVq1aiqZc_JnZM.html

Looks fucking awesome

Bravo! Hey just as you don’t like to go into depth on stuff you aren’t confident about like wiring, please DO going into detail about the stuff you know well like your welding. We could learn a lot from you about the wire you use, your settings, what you watch for etc.

@westweld

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks.......there will be lots of welding on this channel next time ill go a little more in depth next time

Fanclub from thailand 👍🏻 🇹🇭

@westweld

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks man I appreciate you

@limpbizkit398

3 жыл бұрын

@@westweld I wish you have a lot of followers, you are very good.

@westweld

3 жыл бұрын

@@limpbizkit398 thanks that makes me want to do even better

I have the same table with 1.5" sqaure holes. Tried to make some hold downs with 1.5" solid round bar but as u tighten them down they pop up. I noticed one of yours slightly moved upward. Wondering if you figured out how to remedy this.

What size of diameter of stock did you use on the inside of your F-clamp hold down?

How do you like that milwaukee soldering iron? Ive always been a dewalt guy(because i have the batteries), but the soldering iron and right angle die grinder both look super useful. Enjoy the videos! Glad i found your channel

@westweld

3 жыл бұрын

dewalt flexvolt are the best for the larger cordless stuff but the m12 stuff is awesome love the die grinders and little portaband and rachets.........my personal opinion the 18 volt milwaukee is crap compared to dewalt , weaker tools batteries dont last they suck

@josephharrington3530

3 жыл бұрын

@@westweld agreed i love my flexvolt grinder. It works as well as the corded grinders i have. Thanks!

Wether or not you are good at electrical you still did a professional job. What thickness is the rhs 1/4 or 3/16

@westweld

3 жыл бұрын

I used 1/4 but 3/16 WOULD BE FINE

How can you afford all of those great pieces of milling equipment and all of the hardware you use on them?

@westweld

3 жыл бұрын

In all honesty I have a small fabrication buisness and if I dont buy tools for write offs it just goes to the government

This is a Beautiful build! I just sent you a PM on Facebook.

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