Should have done this years ago! Fixing my Millermatic 200 MIG welder and building some heavy steel sawhorses. 3D models. Hopefully they work. www.patreon.com/posts/cad-fil...
For real. I just checked and couldn't see prices for parts on their website but their parts manuals are excellent. Every small component is listed along with it's measurements and part number.
You know a man's attached to his welder when he goes out and buys new hand grips for the thing. Once tools earn your trust, you can't help but spoil them a little.
A bear I would rather not poke………..Truer words have never been spoken. I absolutely love this channel. Not only for the content but the dry sense of humor as well. Keep on rocking these videos Wes.
This is why kiddos you're Dads spend hours in their Shed, fixing stuff. That will run for another 40 years with no issue, always try and repair before replacing. 👍👍
For the saw horse feet - I like to use a square plate with a nut welded to the center of the topside. When needed, you can thread a bolt in to act as a leveling foot. Not as critical on a saw horse I know, but still useful at times.
Thanks for the tip on stenciling. I'd never considered using the base color to seal with. You might consider adding a layer of spray-on bedliner to the tops. It takes abuse well and things don't slide easily on it.
Those first six minutes was like watching an old pimp my ride episode. Good job with the horses and its nice to see you kept your humor in your stickers
I've rarely seen RU-vidrs with CNC Plasma machines nest their parts so well. If you make another pair of saw horses, then you will have a pair of shorts and a pairs of longs! That's an awesome costume btw. Lucky kid.
I think a part of it comes down to the software, from experience I can say that CAM software ranges from terrible and inhumane to simply okay. If it takes you 30 minutes to set up a simple nest of parts that you're only going to cut once then you're likely to take the easier option of running single part programs.
Probably the difference between guys who have their primary experience around fabrication vs. manufacturing. Most fab guys aren't going to be bothered with wasting a couple of bucks of material on a bespoke, one-off, CNC job. The customer gets charged for the whole sheet anyhow. Time is more expensive. In a factory, it's almost the opposite. You get paid what you get paid, but the scrap material gets more expensive every day.
This is scary....half way through your build I thought "I hope he makes one longer than the other so they will stack". I'm beginning to think like Wes!
I love all of your videos. I’m a mom from NJ and I drive a ‘22 SuperDuty. It’s our dream vehicle!! My husband showed me your channel and I’ve watched every video. I’m not easily offended by phrases like “wife-proof” lol. Because it’s TRUE a lot of times!!
I owned an old white face 200. I had some repairs done to it one time and the repairman told me to never let it go. Said my grandchildren would still be using it long after I was gone.
Yeah Miller welders are great - the old stuff still works well - and you don't have to replace a "board' when it needs repairing. The new welders are throw away items that don't last like the Miller gear. Great video Wes
One great thing about the older style transformer welder’s is, as long as the transformer is good, they can usually be repaired fairly easily. The inverter type / boards can be a real challenge to repair, especially DIY.
Hi, Wes. I am one of two hundred. As soon as I saw the video for them I ordered one... I didn't want to get left out. I now have one of your masterpieces right here with me. Thanks for trashing out your shop just for me!
I will be honest, this is why youtube was invented as far as I am concerned. I cannot express how much I enjoyed this end to end as everything you did is either "stuff I do the way I do it" done better OR shit I want to do and how I would do it if I had a plasma table.
Wes, Glad you were able to make some better Saw/Load horses (with new shoes of course)! If the High/Low range is what controled the wire feed then I understand but if it doesn’t, how did you fix the wire getting stuck? I think the new hand grips made the welder work better. I’m going out on a limb here, but I’m guessing you had “someone" in the house (that’s even better with Math), check you notebook planning calculations?? BTW, Please tell Mr. Dinasaur he looked Great!! Hope the wife, Kido, and Pup are all doing well and ready for winter.
I remember watching the video, but you are now a professional TouYube guy? Dude, you are doing awesome. I remember the first video you showed your face! Keep it up, Wes. Sky’s the limit, brother.
Another great video and some mighty fine looking saw horses if I do say so. Least you don't need to turn them out to the pasture daily and they will be easy to find in a snow storm. Thanks for the morning video to help ease a bunch of us into a Sunday morning. Cheers Wes!
You're a perfectionist Wes, always an absolute pleasure to watch you work. No matter what you do, it is done perfectly. Thank You for allowing us to see you at work. My fave channel on YT by far.
for us shut-in old mechanics who watch endless videos, yours is by far the best. The RU-vid promo pic of you under the bucket is disturbing. It's a 60's playboy cover pose.
Wish I could hit “like” three times! Great project; the masking/base coat paint trick is a game changer; your son’s costume was the icing on the cake! Thanks for making my day Wes.
Mostly (I said mostly) you just remind me of things I learned along the way. But that painting the base color again to keep the bleed from happening is definitely a new piece of information, and is a great way! Those are some great saw horses, I would probably suggest loading them, and putting one cross brace between the legs in the V up about a foot off the ground.. not only make them way stronger, but make a good place to put your foot, and clamps.
Those grips went on super slick. A tip/trick for removing and installing any grips is to stick your blowgun nozzle in the open end and introduce compressed air in there. Off and on like they're greased! . Another great video Wes! Thoroughly enjoyed it as always
Wes, I am always thrilled about your attention to detail and the level of quality you achieve with sometimes cobbled together tools. I am super glad you quit doing CNC for "the man" it has been most excellent watching Wes work.
I had a Toronado one time and I needed a twenty foot piece of angle iron and a twenty foot piece of pipe. And when the guy brought the two pieces out they were kinda greasy and he looked at me with a grin on his face asking where I wanted them. I said watch this and I slid them under the car and with some wire i tied them up to the front and rear bumpers of that car. It worked great no fuss no muss. I drove them twenty miles home.
I like how you built your sawhorses. It took me three sets of sawhorses being built to do the non-matched pair. In my case my friends and cohorts borrowed my sawhorses never to be returned, so I had to build another set and added new ideas to the new set.
Lol. You're heading down a deep rabbit hole with the scale modelling. I've been doing it since I was 6, I'm 52 now and still haven't made a model I'm completely happy with. The other trick to avoid bleed through is to not pull the tape tight but to place it on the surface without stretching it.
Nicely done, these rapid prototype and production machines are awesome. I’ve had 3D printers both FDM and resin for 3-4 years now. It still amazes me how satisfying it is drawing something up and then being able to have the computer generate code for a machine to bring your creation into the real world. From one Wes to another cheers from Wa State.
My father had a ‘fully depreciated’ 1986 F150. He used to haul 20’ lengths of copper tubing in it. He would stick a concrete form pin in the rear passenger bed pocket, put the tubing in the bed and drape it around the cab until he could put the front of the tubing through the triangle passenger side mirror support. The concrete form pin was to keep the tubing from springing out of the bed when running over bumps. Great video as always!!
Hey Wes 👋, thanks for sharing the video. It was informative, and the sawhorses look great. The claws for your son, just made the costume. Thanks again and have a great day.✌️
You are inspirational Wes. I love how you just absorb information like the modeling technique. My motto is that if a human made it I can fix it. You help give me faith in that and continue to teach me patience and perseverance. Any task can be handled just not all at once.
"i don't think it's possible to make an interesting video about CAD" Hm. I think You could. I know I'd watch it. Can't speak for anyone else. I'd watch a little short introducing us to Your Truck too. Always had a soft spot for fully depreciated things still working hard.
I had a shop accident a year ago with a pair of yellow sawhorses like those - the legs were stuck, and like an idiot I grabbed it at both ends and shook the legs free - damn near lost 5 finger tips. Seeing you smash them flat with a machine makes me happy - new subscriber here. (btw, my neighbor took my sawhorses, had them welded in the open position while I was on the mend, they will never fold again)
