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... think 43/14.

... you have long phone conversations with someone you've never met but have been in contact with for months over MJ parts. *Edit: Brought this back up one year to the day and didn't even notice right away.

... Yup... Pretty sure it isn't happening this coming weekend.

... I can't wait until we get away from these predictable numbers. Ke$ha though... ew... dirty... :no:

Predictable. :roll:

j5Sz9Ms54ho ... ON SNAP! I just took this to a whole 'notha level!

... On a side note, anyone else get sea sick when looking at Rob's pictures? For reals...

Really depends on what kind of trailer you want to put together. Just a utility?... maybe enclosed?... maybe a camper?! viewtopic.php?f=7&t=34251

I've had a few XJs... each one has been bought with full intentions of using it as a donor vehicle however. I only have a picture of the one for my old '89 Eliminator. Oddly enough, all three of the XJ donors I've had were red with gray interiors, no radios, broken side view mirrors, broken tailgate buttons, steel five spoke wheels, and the same 89.1 radio station sticker in the lower left corner of the rear window. Each one was purchased in different parts of the state and over a period of four years. :dunno: The daily is a '95 ZJ... ... but I really don't care for it.

I've got a similar setup. When I changed out the MC on my '91 I took the cover from the old MC, drilled a hole, and welded an air fitting to it. Then I just ran a line from my compressor with a regulator in line. 7 psi worked for me as well. Yours looks cooler than mine though!

... and now I wait until Friday to backfill.

Multiple 6G certified welder. I've had all kinds of cool jobs... for years I did repair work on anything from lawn mower handles to chromoly chassis, I did stainless milk pipe mixed in there for a while, recently been working in an aircraft facility doing jig work and frame repair among machining, wood repair, body work/paint, and a technical college instructor in welding technology for going on four years. awesome, I take it you enjoy what you do? You might say that. There's just something about watching that little 3000* puddle. Whether it be from a roll of 1/16" metal core wire being fed through 45 volts or walking a bead around on 24 gauge stainless... yeah, I'd say I like what I do. The trick is not to just chase a paycheck. Currently in the US, there a need for about 230,000 welding jobs and that number will only go up. If you look at the average age of a production welder, that number is 55 years old. Over the next ten to fifteen years, the number of available jobs may close to double! What we need right now are younger aged individuals to get exposed to the manufacturing environment to try and spark interest... pun intended. You're heading in the right direction that many employers like to see people coming in and applying who are younger and have some welding education. For one, they have less time training you in, and two you aren't coming to a different facility already with "bad habits". Yes, there will still be some training, but it'll be showing you how they want to see things done and not to hear, "Well... that's how I've always done it!". After school, you'll have plenty of options as far as where you want to go and what you want to do but keep in mind that "not chasing a paycheck" comment. Employers still like to see their workers stick around for a while, gain some seniority, and climb the ladder. In my part of MN, employers all have roughly the same starting pay and they know it. Anytime that someone posts up a fifty cent more per hour rate, another employer looses a bunch of workers and they have to start all over again. It's unfortunate, but it happens. What works out so much better is just find your niche and just keep at it both for you and the employer. Think about you ultimate goal too. Do you really want to be just a welder for the rest of your working life? Probably not... but for some, they're happy with what they have and just leave well enough alone. There's way more than just being a trigger puller or a machine operator in the welding community. Maybe you want to be a lead man one day and overlook production. Maybe you want your own pipe rig and travel around the country. How about custom fabrication? Just like picking out a new welding helmet, the sky is the limit for options but you need to understand that you have to start somewhere... typically that's at the bottom. While I have had a bunch of cool jobs in welding, they seem to overlap each other by quite a bit. While doing repair, I started working weekends welding on stainless pipe. It wasn't that I didn't enjoy doing repair work anymore, but it was more of a change in how the company was being run. I went to just working part time there and that freed up all kinds of time for my other job. Repair slowed down and then I moved into education. Moving across the state meant letting go of the pipe gig. Now at the school, I've got a four day per week schedule leaving some open time at the end of the week for welding on airplanes. I've learned a ton of stuff from each job that I've had and I've never left an employer without either being as high as I could advance or close to it. Now I'm going to correct myself when I said that I like what I do... it's more of a passion! Find something you like, keep at if, climb the ranks, and be successful. ... I thought we were talking about welding helmets... :hijack:

My next helmet will have one of these, they All of my darkening helmets have this setting and I really don't care for it. Yeah... it's nice if you're up in a man-basket or something to the like, but the grinding setting is still only as big as the viewing area. On top of that and depending on the helmet, some aftermarket cover lenses are not Z-87 approved. Buying the cheaper lenses to save some coil can void manufacturer's warranties. That brings up another swing to things... the cover lenses. If you're buying your own (many employers will supply them if you use a standard helmet) consider the cost of them and think about how many you might use in a month, week, or maybe even per day. That all will depend on how much welding you do, why type of welding you do, and if you can refrain from trying to watch the weld puddle on the molecular level and can keep your face out of the spatter/plume. A big, fancy SpeedGlas with all its sexy lines might cost anywhere from $7 to $15 for a pack of five lenses depending on the supplier. Where as a Jackson could be as low as a $10 for a box of 40. Multiple 6G certified welder. I've had all kinds of cool jobs... for years I did repair work on anything from lawn mower handles to chromoly chassis, I did stainless milk pipe mixed in there for a while, recently been working in an aircraft facility doing jig work and frame repair among machining, wood repair, body work/paint, and a technical college instructor in welding technology for going on four years.

I thought about doing that, but the goal isn't to make a work space. I need storage! The stall that's on the house now will get insulated and will hopefully pacify me until I can build a proper shop space again.

If you're after cheap, easy to handle, and just about bullet proof, then you can't go wrong with a Jackson HSL 100. It uses a standard 4"x5" cover lens which you pick up just about anywhere for about a quarter a piece. Huntsman makes a good product too and they use the same size lens. From there, the options for a Jackson shell can be use for a laundry list of auto darkening lenses. I would suggest the NexGen. Miller also makes a good product. Don't fool around with the Pro-Hobby of Performance series. I'd go straight to the Elite. Again, cover lenses are easy to come by but are Miller specific. The down side to Millers are that the helmet shells are sort of flimsy. They're great for an educational purpose or even for the happy home-hobbyist however. You can't go wrong with just about anything from SpeedGlas either. Really, the sky is the limit for options on welding helmets... just think of them as good tools that you get what you pay for.

Monday: What's that?... up in the sky?... Footings! Tuesday: Foundation walls! ... and another plug: Kluver's guys will be back in the morning to remove the forms. After that it's more waiting but at least it's only for a couple days to let the walls setup a bit. Then I get to do the backfill and tamping. Once that's done, then it's on to framing later this weekend and into early next week. The timing is a bit tighter than I'd like due to next. I've been working with an Amish group to help me out with the tackling the roof. They're scheduled to start early next week. Roof... then siding, windows, and doors... sneak in having the garage floor poured at some point... aprons... sidewalks... then enjoy! Just as easy as that... right?

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:hmm: No real plans really. Just engineered as I went along. Thanks for the props though!