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The CEO of Nike paid us to build a slew benches and beds etc for the new Ducks "training center." Really just a high tech locker room.

My preference is bikes and hotrods but since leaving white collar industry to fabricate full time it is certainly jobs of this type that have paid the bills for the most part...



Steel frames, there were two types of the same general shape and matching "benches" as well. I didn't have anything to do with the bench creation nor do I have any pictures for that reason..


various pieces of 304SS were tacked to the frame (by me mainly) with tri-mix and stainless wire



after the frames were shelled in 304 all the seems were TIG welded (by me, stace, some redneck) and then had to be ground down to match the in house graining patterns on the panels



most of the wood shop had been laid off and got called back in to grind out the TIG work



one type with the top sections back from the apolsterist and mocked up





second





Stace ran down to the site (Eugene) for some other shit (she made the benches and is still dealing with them) and got some pics post install, apparently they are already getting good use











now that you're bored out of your fucking mind.....

I need a new bed.  I choose you to take on the task.

Those are pretty pretty.

Stainless MIG is pretty mellow... just get a bottle of tri mix and a spool of stainless wire if you are really curious.... the splatter is hard fucking core and you have to be sure to cover any surfaces that you dont want slag balls on.... I used chunks of masonite in this case.

TIG is actually easy as fuck, you just need an oppertunity to do it and learn the basics. I learned on stainless so when I came to start on mild it was fucking hilariously easy. Basically the pool control you get with mild is reduced by about half in stainless.

Alumininum TIG is a mother if I tried that first I would have quit trying. Get some super thin mild sheet or pipe and just run some fusion welds to get your pedal control down. Adding wire after that makes learning easier.

hold, on here...... u dont realy care for peopel but yet u made equipment for people be taken care of. odd........ next thing i know ull be down at a green piece meeting handing out recycled tampons.

looks good, is this stuff welded 100% on the edge?.....

me no have power to move, pm tim or travis or baby jesus!..

any hoot, iv been looking for a good project to jsut weld my lill heart out on. talkin hrs and hrs of just welding welding. for no reason but to work on refining my skills a bit more, im about to start doing a lot of parts for my cars and figure its time to bursh up on not sucking!.....

so does the wood style belt sander wrok well for fininshing your work off?

Thanks for the TIG tip.  Aluminum MIG isn't hard so much as it is just butt fucking ugly.  Even when you get your welds absolutely perfect they look fucked up and dirty. Aluminum MIG was easy as pie once I threw down a couple of welds.


Oh and Im building a truss for Nellis Airforce Base but that doesn't mean I have to like the Airforce.