Recent content by mikefromnh

Hope it helps someone �� Nothing worse then watching paint dry so you can paint the other sides. Of course, for new construction, my favorite method is to just paint the door in place on the hinges. I have a bunch of old hinges that I swap onto the doors for painting. Spray it...

It's interesting you have it labeled 0.0 arc force. This was the first time I was wondering if I could have benefited from adjustable arc force. A couple more pics 117 amps Before and after wire brushing the flux.

Up to 110 with better results

105 amps Before I wire brushed the flux off. The mess to the left is the original weld

Figured it was a good thing for a newbie to try. Here's the broken wheelchair ramp. Probably about 20 broken or cracked welds. And the hobart 4043 stick rods that I got on amazon for $15 delivered. It took 2 and half rods to fix the ramp. So about four bucks. Saved over $150 vs having to...

Well I'm a newbie welder that just ordered some aluminum stick rods to fix this wheelchair ramp. Almost every weld underneath is cracked and it's getting kind of spongey to walk on. For $15 it's worth a try to fix. If it works I think I'll run a 110v extension cord out to the barn and build...

For those prices I think I'd reverse engineer the power-trac hydraulic winch setup. I don't know that there be way to make it free spool though.

I love build threads on TBN! Really brings out the experts ;) Five pages on a ledger, LOL. fwiw almost every basement framed with dimensional lumber around here uses the same method for the center beam. As far as the lack of a header above one opening.. It looks like there is going to a...

Here it is using the other pin holes. Obviously it has more rollback and a better dump angle at full lift. Unfortunately it looks like its at about +5 degrees from vertical. I'll have to get it in an even surface to be sure. I think I could live with the latch boxes at 90 degrees if I...

The pic I posted already had the curl cylinders retracted all the way. It doesn't have much roll back as is. Here are a couple more The cylinder rods could be shortened 3-4" but that seems more trouble then it's worth. If i cut on the blue to save the ears then I would have to add a wedge...

How about a swing out arm with an adjustment rod/bolt -- mounted on the inside of the orange legs. (Opposite face of where the hinges are.) Instead of the threaded rod use a bolt that you can use a cordless impact to raise to the right height. If you mount them offset at different heights (or...

I know I need about a 65 degree back angle on the face of the ssqa. I see now that i cut the ears off straight (blue line that wont work). Ill have to see what would happen if I switch the pins to the other hole in the ears and cut on the red line. I may end up making new brackets. But that...

Not all the repair kits come with one of these pivot pins. But the toolcat one showed it in the pics so that's what I went with since they were all the same price.

Alright I'll try again...was trying to do too many at once.

The wedge pins are 1.21". I was going to use 1.25" dom tubing but I couldn't find any locally. I had some sch 80 pipe and 1-1/4" type l copper. The pins slide nicely in the copper and the BFH persuaded the copper into the sch 80 1.5" pipe ;)