Official Fabrication & Welding Porn Photo Thread

[gearheadE30]

damn... I work at a machine shop, and that looks like hell.

[lambo]

That is frightening...

[$hane]

Time for a cmm perhaps?

We have 2. The radius' are too tight in the groove to get an accurate measurement. In the end we did it the way the customers qc said they check it and everything came out fine.

[acolella76]

^Now what would it take to make those work on my E30...

lol jk, that looks awesome.

A lot of money haha. We have E30 two way and three way adjustables available, but they are pretty pricey since they have to be custom made.

[mattrabbit]

We dont engineer anything. Companies send us blue prints and request quotes. We tell them how much per part. The shop i work at is whats known as a job shop. We do small runs, anywhere from a single part up to about 200. Because of the high turnover rate i get to see many different things. Youd be surprised how often youll find simple mathematical errors.

Since this is a photo thread take a look at the detail for this groove. We called the buyer and asked how they planned on measuring it so that we could do it the exact same way because there is really no good way to check it with the accuracy they have speced out.


Said groove

Time for a cmm perhaps?

[Nsquared97]

^Now what would it take to make those work on my E30...

lol jk, that looks awesome.

[acolella76]

Not if you don't post pics.

Didn't take any of the cup car set, but here is a one of the E36 M3 shocks I built:

[Nsquared97]

that's a horrible print

This. I could dimension parts better than that in high school.

[Thizzelle]

that's a horrible print

[RedDefiance]

Love seeing fresh welds, wish i had that talent.

[Nsquared97]

I built some shocks today for a 996 GT3 CUP car, does that count?

Not if you don't post pics.

[acolella76]

I built some shocks today for a 996 GT3 CUP car, does that count?

[Jand3rson]

This thread makes me happier than just about any thread on R3V.

Need to see more progress on the Zorg cannon NOW.

[$hane]

We dont engineer anything. Companies send us blue prints and request quotes. We tell them how much per part. The shop i work at is whats known as a job shop. We do small runs, anywhere from a single part up to about 200. Because of the high turnover rate i get to see many different things. Youd be surprised how often youll find simple mathematical errors.

Since this is a photo thread take a look at the detail for this groove. We called the buyer and asked how they planned on measuring it so that we could do it the exact same way because there is really no good way to check it with the accuracy they have speced out.


Said groove

[TwoJ's]

no

Sounds like a brilliant engineering team you've got there