Nah. This past weekend the weather was nice, so the FEL and I worked on finishing digging the pond that I've been excavating since last summer and using the borrow to fill in behind a retaining wall that I also built last summer.
I'm at the stage of cutting the anchors for the cylinder. Cutting 1" plate with my plasma cutter is a significant job, albeit not as tough as cutting it by other means. I thought my plasma cutter (Powermax 1000) would handle it easily; it can cut 1" but you have to move pretty slow. Problem is, if you start going just a bit too fast and it hasn't cut all the way through yet, you start throwing the melted kerf into the slot that you had just cut. .... /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif Like everything else new, a learning experience.
Once I get the anchors cut and ground down to uniform size, I have to drill 1 1/2" holes in each for the "pins." That should also be an interesting process --1 1/2" anular cutter in a 3/4" Jacobs Superchuck, at slowest drill press speed with lots and lots of cutting oil.
May make some progress on that evenings this week and will take some more pics when I've got the anchors cut and installed.
I'm at the stage of cutting the anchors for the cylinder. Cutting 1" plate with my plasma cutter is a significant job, albeit not as tough as cutting it by other means. I thought my plasma cutter (Powermax 1000) would handle it easily; it can cut 1" but you have to move pretty slow. Problem is, if you start going just a bit too fast and it hasn't cut all the way through yet, you start throwing the melted kerf into the slot that you had just cut. .... /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif Like everything else new, a learning experience.
Once I get the anchors cut and ground down to uniform size, I have to drill 1 1/2" holes in each for the "pins." That should also be an interesting process --1 1/2" anular cutter in a 3/4" Jacobs Superchuck, at slowest drill press speed with lots and lots of cutting oil.
May make some progress on that evenings this week and will take some more pics when I've got the anchors cut and installed.
