Double Sided Pancake Hood - Thoughts?

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255 MM is rated:

Aluminum 18 ga. (1.02 mm) - 1/2 (13mm)
Mild Steel 24 ga. (.51 mm) - 1/2 (13mm)

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Yep, more Argon. You’ll love this machine once it arrives. You won’t be pulsing or spraying with C25. That does NOT mean you can’t do what you need to do with short circuit while you wait. I have this machine as well and it’s a blast. It feels weird at first spraying with it because the arc...

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I think I’ll cut the slats loose and check the individually, free of any stress. It might be possible the frame and the way they were welded to it is the problem. There wasn’t a lot of effort put in to this thing when it was made. Worse case is I have to drop a new slab on the old frame and I’ll...

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I couldn’t afford the 4x8 CertiFlat in this video but I found it interesting and something to note that it’s flatness if relative to the flatness of the floor. The floor is pretty damn flat in this video and still the CertiFlat exhibits some surface variations.


https://youtu...

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Beads not racks.

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So there are about 15 1” racks holding the slats to the frame. Wouldn’t be too difficult to cut them loose and drop a new sheet of 1/2” plate in their stead. Probably the most affordable and quickest solution.

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Will get some pics tomorrow

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I’m looking at pancake hoods and noticed Original Pancake had a double sided version. I don’t do pipeline but I’m interested in the ambient light reduction (zero) of the pancake.

Does anyone else have any experience with the two sided hood? Good/Bad?

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Grizzly1944 is correct. CPR is given in that scenario until the patient is delivered to a physician. At least that’s the way it was when I was an EMT in NY in the 80s/90s.

Using a TIG machine would make you vulnerable to every ambulance chaser on the planet. Might work, you’d be a creative...

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Inherited a very old and well used 4’x8’ steel welding table with a property purchase. It was used for pipe fabrication.

The surface is composed of four 8’ strips of 1/2” plate.

It’s not flat enough for example to lay out square tubing and have more than one leg...