Baby Grand
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- Nov 12, 2007
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- Windsor, CT.
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Getting your finished product to the intended dimensions and alignment is a pretty basic fabrication skill.
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It may be basic, but as you are learning, it aint necessarily easy. I think this one ability is what distinguishes a top notch fabricator from us mere mortals. When you watch them work, they often appear to be just sticking things together and it all works. But if you could see inside their heads you'd see all the cogs and cams spinning, all the what ifs and what if nots playing out.
As an apprentice welder in a fab shop it took me a while to recognize that I had a lot more to learn than I thought would be required for the "simple" work that I was doing. There was an "old hand" who would make suggestions whenever he walked by my station. I'd ask "Why would I want to do that?" and he'd stop and talk for 10 minutes, telling me all the reasons he "would do that". I learned a lot from that guy, and the shop steward didn't seem to mind me talking with him, which was unusual.
There's some of those guys on here and they are happy to share their years of experience, which I think is best part of TBN. So stick to your guns, and if it doesn't look right to you, then cut it apart, tack it back together and reweld it until it does. You're close to having the quick attach that you want, the way you want it.