Santa has spies in my shop!

[dragoneggs]

Nice shirt Bruce

I find when I'm fabbing stuff that Algebra RARELY enters into the process; but I DO use Geometry and Trig fairly often, then I cheat with a few digital angle toys :laughing: ...Steve

Pythagorean theorem! 3-4-5 is very useful.

 

[orezok]

Pythagorean theorem! 3-4-5 is very useful.

I find that 6-8-10 is MUCH more accurate

 

[Sodo]

Wear that shirt at any kind of open market and you will make lots of friends up until the point your wallet's empty. The gist of that shirt is the path we're being led down (to get fleeced).

I find that 6-8-10 is MUCH more accurate

Perhaps on items more than 10 feet long. (Same problem I had back there with the unnecessary constants)

I have a hard time thinking someone could avoid algebra for a whole day if you're out in the the modern, complicated world. Algebra is the difference between winners and losers in every financial transaction, starting with the purchase of food. Its certainly applicable to fabrication - except when you're building stuff out of your scrap pile. You're trying to make something worth $40 out of $1 of material +$1,000 of your time. <--- (spoken like a guilty party)

 

[BukitCase]

"3-4-5 is very useful" Yeah, 'cept when ya gotta work with a guy that thinks 4-5-6 works the same
"6-8-10 is MUCH more accurate" Yup, biggest scale that'll stay on the work :thumbsup:
"Perhaps on items more than 10 feet long" Ermmm, there's also mm, cm, m, INCHES, yards, rods, furlongs, hand spans, cubits, paces...

Wow, 'nuther "zing" and a couple "one-ups" - day just keeps gettin' BETTER :laughing: ... Steve

(Even MORESO since Motorola says my phone battery is NOT replaceable, yet Amazon will sell me one with a mini-tool kit for $20 delivered )

 

[BukitCase]

"You're trying to make something worth $40 out of $1 of material +$1,000 of your time"

OK, 'nuff "mean kid" stuff fer the day; it's my (possibly) humble (but definitely based on experience) opinion that anybody with more than a few hundred$$$ of tools that disagrees with Sodo's comment (quote above) either didn't understand it or they're LYING :laughing:...Steve

 

[Sodo]

Ermmm, there's also mm, cm, m, INCHES, yards, rods, furlongs, hand spans, cubits, paces...

Real hard to any economy from the 3,4,5 or 6,8,10 method using hand spans or paces. You could span out (or pace) a ruler to do it. Like when you're walking a property line and want to turn an accurate 90* at the corner pin it's a good way.

I'm going out to the shop now, I think I recall a $1 scrap that can get me a $40 return-on-investment (with a little labor input, ignoring tool cost, and how long it took to learn to use them (etc).

 

[Jstpssng]

Does anyone worry about their pets looking at the weld in progress and damaging their eyes?

I know that I'm not worthy to even read a welding forum but my dog goes inside anytime I am welding, grinding, bushhogging, or any myriad of things which could injure him. (He also wears his life jacket in my boat, but is with me when doing safe things such as felling, limbing and dragging trees. )

PS; JB Weld is topped with black paint is my weapon of choice to clean up my bubblegum beads. It's not just for repairing holes anymore.

 

[dragoneggs]

Real hard to any economy from the 3,4,5 or 6,8,10 method using hand spans or paces. You could span out (or pace) a ruler to do it. Like when you're walking a property line and want to turn an accurate 90* at the corner pin it's a good way.

When laying out plots outside I have used a piece of string 36ft long with a 'mark' at 9ft and 21ft. Using tent poles or whatever and you can quickly make a square area.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I leave my dog out, he's a much better welder.

 

[Sodo]

When laying out plots outside I have used a piece of string 36ft long with a 'mark' at 9ft and 21ft. Using tent poles or whatever and you can quickly make a square area.

Or use a 12 yd string with marks at 3yds and 4yds.
If you can still find a yardstick.
If I said to my kids, "plz get me the yardstick in the corner of the garage" they wouldn't know what to look for.