DIY Sheet Metal

Welding Stainless Steel Pocket Protectors in your Sleep

Posted on 9, Nov

I’m obviously something of a visionary. Well, when I say visionary, I mean I’ve found another blog post about stainless steel pocket cups after I’d touted a return to the vest-pocket ashtray. Anyway, the above fella somehow got somebody at Boing Boing all excited because he’d made his own – wait for it – stainless [...]

Antique Sheetmetal Fabrication Books?

Posted on 30, Oct

Following on from the same lady who gave us the antique sheet metal tools, we also have the list of sheetmetal fabrication books dating from as early as 1907. Here’s the listing of the books as it was provided to me in the email: Antique books 1. sheet metal a) Sheet Metal Work; Neubecker; approx [...]

Antique Sheet Metal Tools?

Posted on 22, Oct

Three or so weeks ago I was contacted by a lady who’d inherited her grandfather’s entire set of sheet metal tools and has had them in her garage since he passed away 30 years ago. She’s not only wondering what’s what, but would also like to determine how much, if anything, they’re worth. She could [...]

WeldingWeb™ – Professional Welding Forum

Posted on 17, Aug

Unlike a decent wine, Google’s blog search doesn’t seem to improve with age. Well not when you look for something sheet metal related that is. It doesn’t bother me so much that it displays any sheet metal site that’s come within a country mile of an RSS feed, but call it an RSS feed search [...]

Gormless Go-llerblader

Posted on 8, Aug

DIY Sheet Metal

Are you asking whether some guy wearing roller blades has an angle grinder duct taped to his ankle? Well he has. It’s such a dumb idea that even Wile Coyote never even thought of it. Everybody knows you’d fly along at a rare old rate of knots if you strapped a couple of sanding belts [...]

Scarecrows, Streisand and Arms of Steel

Posted on 19, Jul

“Time flies by when I’m the driver of a train And I ride on the footplate there and back again” Chigley It doesn’t seem too long since I spoke to John. In fact, I tapped him up for a reference if memory serves me right. And he obviously supplied me with something half decent…..bless him. [...]

Welding of Stainless Steels in English, Czech, Dutch and Turkish

Posted on 14, Jun

Oh, and don’t forget Polish. (You’ll have to scroll down a bit to find that one.) Found this lurking in my inbox and thought it might be useful: The frequently downloaded Euro Inox Welding brochure is available now in an updated English version as well as translations into Czech, Dutch and Turkish: The Welding of [...]