December 03, 2004

welding (I guess this isn't really design)

over thanksgiving i did a little welding to my glider. It had large area of the bottom of one of the arms rusted out. So we cut it out, found a similar piece of metal, cut it and formed it to fit, welded it in, and ground down the welds. good as new!

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Posted by winslow at December 3, 2004 01:34 PM
Comments

pretty sweet,
does your dad already have a welder, or did you have to rent one?

Posted by: david at December 5, 2004 12:44 AM

we already have TWO welders, a MIG and a ARC welder. This was a kind of practice for all the body work my dad plans on doing on his '73 jaguar xke

Posted by: Winslow Taft at December 5, 2004 04:29 PM

I am a huge fan of gliders. Can't wait until I can have one. Mine would get stolen in about 2 seconds here.

Posted by: angie at December 8, 2004 12:02 PM