Official Fabrication & Welding Porn Photo Thread

[$hane]

Do the design engineers get their rocks off on "perfection"?

yes

Do they consider manufacturing feasibility when designing things?

no

Heres a tricky one i made the other day. several +/- .0002 dimensions, the rest was +/- .002.

[RedDefiance]

Love..... This..... Thread..... :)

[TwoJ's]

Thought I would bump this with a part I am making at work right now:



This one was out of tolerance so it was scrapped. The diameter of the smaller end is 0.0002" too small.

It's a part for one of these:

http://www.accu-tapper.com/

The company I work for makes them.

What is the application of that specific part? I understand that I guess that can be considered a "precision" piece of equipment (relatively) and that there are exceptions for everything, but especially since it is threaded on one end, I really wonder what would necessitate holding tolerance to 1 or 2 ten thousandths... Do the design engineers get their rocks off on "perfection"? Do they consider manufacturing feasibility when designing things?

I'd be really surprised if there wasn't some legitimate reason why I'm wrong... I'm actually just curious what that is.

[pharow]

Great video!

I agree.

[Cronopoulos]

Great video!

[Nsquared97]

I think this video belongs here:

[deutschman]

Repost.

He ordered some wheels and tires and a mustang rear end and gutted his car and showed off a talented welders handiwork but , maybe i am missing something...

How many build threads are there on R3V where guys buy all their parts from manufacturers like VAC, Ireland, UUC, and other places, and never make any of their own parts or really do anything custom? I dont think I could even count them on two hands, because there are just to many. I guess it is kind of a point of contention in the car community. Did you really build a car if all you did was buy parts and bolt them together? This doesnt really belong in this thread so Ill stop. I think he should still have a build thread though.

[jaywood]

In his thread he said he does it that way because his customers wanted the "look" and ever since then he just stuck to doing it that way.

I think it looks pretty cool, but I bet that would cost a pretty penny ;)

[mattdk318i]

looks like TI, In that case thats one of the few wasys to get a bend.

[Lof8]

I guess. I just don't see the point in doing that much extra work just to say you can do it.

I concur. It looks amazing and certainly takes great skill, but I would guess it probably reduces flow slightly when compared to a much simpler, smooth bend.

Either way, its impressive.

[87e30]

I don't understand the reason for doing so many pie cuts for the turns? You could jusy use a donut or a u bend to make the turns without all the sectioning and welding. Umless he is using ti tubing. Even then, I am pretty sure you can buy ti donuts and j/u bends to do it with.

For someone that knows almost nothing about welding (me) that looks really really cool. I'm guessing that's really the only reason.

[TurboJake]

Aesthetics... Maybe it's purely to show off his abilities for one reason or another.

[der affe]

I guess. I just don't see the point in doing that much extra work just to say you can do it.

[F34R]

I don't understand the reason for doing so many pie cuts for the turns? You could jusy use a donut or a u bend to make the turns without all the sectioning and welding. Umless he is using ti tubing. Even then, I am pretty sure you can buy ti donuts and j/u bends to do it with.

Challenge? cool factor? He mentioned early in the thread that most of the stuff he was doing was to show off the welds.

[Habla]

Zorg cannon.....

Build thread??