Project Reaper Round Hood Rod

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6 hours ago, fast88pu said:

upgrade time

Kyle, you aren't old enough to remember a TV program called the Six Million Dollar Man ( 1974 to 1978). The opening lines of the show came to mind when I saw this.

Gentlemen we can rebuild him 
We have the technology 
We have the capability to make the worlds first bionic man
Steve Austin will be that man 
Better than he was before 
Better, Stronger, Faster

source: https://www.lyricsondemand.com/s/sixmilliondollarmanlyrics/sixmilliondollarmanopeninglyrics.html

 

[19richie66 17,532]

When you get bored and your mind wanders

[fast88pu 3,324]

3 minutes ago, 19richie66 said:

When you get bored and your mind wanders

That's awesome.   Out of metal? 

[19richie66 17,532]

I was working on a couple of cup decals and threw it together 

[Tractorhead 9,065]

You build a pretty cool tractor.

 

I'm curious what is next ! 👍

[Tractorhead 9,065]

Where is the Fueltank from ?

is it selfmade part ??

 

I like it 👍😎

Edited November 12, 2018 by Tractorhead

[fast88pu 3,324]

21 hours ago, Tractorhead said:

Where is the Fueltank from ?

is it selfmade part ??

 

I like it 👍😎

Ebay

[Tractorhead 9,065]

Thanks for info,

i'm thinkin about to use it maybe as Hydraulictank.

[fast88pu 3,324]

Pipe dreams

[Pullstart 63,204]

Going for compounds?

[fast88pu 3,324]

Had some fun welding today. 1st time welding stainless steel. NEW exhaust manifold is all made. 100% 304 stainless now. Just have to Polish it up now. And a old vs new manifold photo.  

[Pullstart 63,204]

How many horsepowers will that add?     Or was design #1 like a capacitor keeping extra boost energy on tap?  

[fast88pu 3,324]

5 hours ago, pullstart said:

How many horsepowers will that add?     Or was design #1 like a capacitor keeping extra boost energy on tap?  

Lol. Bout 3.99 hp

[fast88pu 3,324]

All polished up now

[fast88pu 3,324]

NEW header is all mounted an it turning blue and gold

[fast88pu 3,324]

This past weekend I ran my towns local tractor parade with it. I was asked lots of questions about it and had a lot of interest in it by all ages. 

[Tractorhead 9,065]

It seems to me, you did it Wig welded? 

How was your experiences in Stainless steel welding after that?

Found it hard or was it more simple in compare to Aluminum WIG welding?

Looks pretty good! 

[fast88pu 3,324]

1 hour ago, Tractorhead said:

It seems to me, you did it Wig welded? 

How was your experiences in Stainless steel welding after that?

Found it hard or was it more simple in compare to Aluminum WIG welding?

Looks pretty good! 

That is all mig welded with 308 wire. It takes a lot of heat and I didn't use the tri blend of gas on it so harder yet. Now I have a tig welder for next time I weld stainless. Aluminum is much harder to weld because of spool gun use.  

[Tractorhead 9,065]

Ah ok, 

i thought you did it Wig welding.

 

i try WIG last time on Aluminum, in my experience i found it's more complicated than Mig,

but the result looks massive better.

So Wig just needs more training to get clean seam.

 

Thanks for your info.

 

 

[fast88pu 3,324]

2 hours ago, Tractorhead said:

Ah ok, 

i thought you did it Wig welding.

 

i try WIG last time on Aluminum, in my experience i found it's more complicated than Mig,

but the result looks massive better.

So Wig just needs more training to get clean seam.

 

Thanks for your info.

 

 

The original plan was to tig it but the rods didn't show up in time for me. So that will be next time. 

[Pullstart 63,204]

Stefan, I believe there may be a translation barrier here...

 

TIG for us is Tungsten Inert Gas, it has a hand held torch with the shielding gas and an electrode, with hand held filler rod.

 

MIG is Metal Inert Gas, it has the hand held gun with wire feed filler, sometimes also with flux core (shielded and gasless) wire.

 

what is WIG, I’m assuming that’s our TIG?

[fast88pu 3,324]

1 hour ago, pullstart said:

Stefan, I believe there may be a translation barrier here...

 

TIG for us is Tungsten Inert Gas, it has a hand held torch with the shielding gas and an electrode, with hand held filler rod.

 

MIG is Metal Inert Gas, it has the hand held gun with wire feed filler, sometimes also with flux core (shielded and gasless) wire.

 

what is WIG, I’m assuming that’s our TIG?

Tig and wig are the same

[Pullstart 63,204]

32 minutes ago, fast88pu said:

Tig and wig are the same

Got it, I had never heard that!

[fast88pu 3,324]

Header is all warped up now to hold heat in

[fast88pu 3,324]

I finally got a chance to play with my tig welder and make my exhaust. 2.5" 304 stainless with header wrap on it for heat. Lots of stuff to try snaking 2.5" pipe around and out of the way.