Stainless Steel Sink Cut and Welded together for Marijuana Grower

[Don52]

The back up Aluminum frame had three purposes:

1. Minimize oxidation of the back of the weld.
2. Act as a heat sink to pull some heat from the weld to prevent the weld from getting too hot.
3. Prevent the stainless steel from dropping out of the joint.

1. Oxida...

[Don52]

We supported both ends of the sink on their legs and we supported both sides of the middle of the sink with two service jacks. Here is a picture of the sink tack welded back together

11. Sink tack welded together


Here is a close up picture of two of the tack welds....

[Don52]

Here is what the entire back up bar looks like.

6. Entire back up bar


Here are two close up pictures of the welds, because this is after all a welding forum.

7. Weld on back up on rear of sink


8. Welds on back up bar on front of sink...

[Don52]

Here in Michigan we legalized Marijuana recently. My customer previously was growing Marijuana for medical use and now he is expanding his operation for recreational use. There is currently a lot of profit in growing Marijuana. Somehow they wound up with a ten foot restaurant quality 304 stainless...

[Don52]

We did heat the part with a heat gun, so that it was hot to the touch. (about 150° F)

-Don...

[Don52]

Yes, I was lucky. The threads were fine.

-Don...

[Don52]

Once we installed the bracket we discovered that the cast iron frame of the saw as also bent. We were concerned that we would crack the cast iron if we attempted to straighten it out, so we added a wedge spacer to compensate for the bent surface. We also noticed that the belt was too long and rubbing...

[Don52]

One side of the bracket, which I labeled good, had two 45° offsets. The other side, which I labeled bad, had one 45° offset and one ba$tard angle. My first step was to straighten the bad side with the setup shown below.

6 . Straightening setup


I applied force until I...

[Don52]

My customer stored his ancient table saw in the end of the garage in front of the car. One day his wife hit the motor of the saw with her car, when she was putting the car in the garage. It bent the zinc die cast bracket and it also bent the cast iron frame of the saw. The bracket is no longer available....