P1000 Delton's painfully slow build

[Delton]

1.75"?

Yeah. That sound high? 1.25 is 60 a stick. 1.75 is 65.

 

[Admin]

 

[snuffnwhisky]

Yeah. That sound high? 1.25 is 60 a stick. 1.75 is 65.

Pretty good for DOM. Quoting closer to 5-6' around here.

 

[snuffnwhisky]

Can't hardly find it around my place. Probably why it's so expensive.

 

[Delton]

It's not dom lol. That is too expensive, especially for my first batch.

 

[snuffnwhisky]

That's pretty close. Mid 2 to low 3 a ft around here.

 

[Delton]

Making headway with repeatability. There's 3 tubes there lol

 

[Delton]

And here are those 3 tubes in action. Everything looks crooked cause they are just barely balanced on each other. Took me many attempt to get them to stay put lol.

 

[snuffnwhisky]

Your not going to have enough bends left over to make a jungle gym are you? lol

 

[snuffnwhisky]

Looks awesome BTW

 

[Delton]

Your not going to have enough bends left over to make a jungle gym are you? lol

Oh I've got a scrap pile started believe me lol. But honestly not as bad as I thought. And since I need Tig practice anyways, it's not that big a deal. They won't totally go to waste.

 

[Delton]

Considering doing 90s on the top tubes towards the center to connect it to the bottom tube. Still debating

 

[snuffnwhisky]

Considering doing 90s on the top tubes towards the center to connect it to the bottom tube. Still debating

I was thinking the same but 45 deg.

 

[Delton]

I tried adding that 90 to my first top tube. That ended very ugly lol. Not enough room.

 

[Delton]

I was thinking the same but 45 deg.

That'd look good too. I got enough tube left for a couple of attempts. Unfortunately I go back to work tomorrow. Just when it was getting good too

 

[snuffnwhisky]

That'd look good too. I got enough tube left for a couple of attempts. Unfortunately I go back to work tomorrow. Just when it was getting good too

You can always sleeve it and butt weld it.

 

[Delton]

You can always sleeve it and butt weld it.

Or what do you think about mounting one of my vertical supports right at the buttweld? There should be enough weld strength there to make it strong enough. Opinions?

 

[Delton]

Btw I'm digging the 90 so that's what I'm going with.

 

[snuffnwhisky]

Btw I'm digging the 90 so that's what I'm going with.

I say it's 67.5 deg. so we both win! That should be plenty strong especially tigging it. Maybe a chamfer first but good. Looks great.

 

[Delton]

I say it's 67.5 deg. so we both win! That should be plenty strong especially tigging it. Maybe a chamfer first but good. Looks great.

I only had 3" to play with so yeah it's not a 90 lol. I kept chopping and chopping trying to get the horizontals to line up. Dang I love this stuff. I should've started this in my 20s. I could do this all day every day.

 

[snuffnwhisky]

It gets interesting trying to cope a tube in the middle of a bend, especially if it needs to be at an angle.