On Friday 18 October 2013 12:05:22 andy pugh did opine: > On 18 October 2013 16:48, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@wdtv.com> wrote: > > Funny part is, you don't go shopping, and then > > make, I tend to make & then go shopping to see if I could have bought > > it cheaper & faster. > > I quite often go shopping in unexpected places when I decide to make > something on a sunday or late at night. It's amazing what useful > material you can find inside items sold by Ikea or 24-hr supermarkets. > > As an example, Ikea "Grundtal" is quite a lot of stainless steel tube
Looks like, for 12 or 17 pounds S., not too shabby for a Sunday. But I don't have anything to weld it with, limited to MIG, with steel or alu wire & have never tried the alu wire. IIRC that SS needs a TIG? > for not a lot of money, and available on Sunday (here at least). > http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/00011428/ And obviously you have learned to work with that which you can get, or already have. And while we have no local IKEA (nearest I'm aware of is west of Pittsburgh PA on US 60 headed toward the PIT airport, 2.75+ hours away on the superslab), we have an ALDI, but they're 99% grocery oriented here. Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Never tell people how to do things. Tell them WHAT to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. -- Gen. George S. Patton, Jr. A pen in the hand of this president is far more dangerous than 200 million guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60135031&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
