As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
I realize that not all of you are as gifted as me, most of you are gifted geniuses like Richard and Stephanie, so I have to come up with entertaining ways in the circus to fill content.
This ramjet stove.........yeah the first time I have called it that so if it appears earlier this is the post about the ramjet.......so any way, I was at the junk yard, and the JYG found a block of heavy metal about 5 by 5 inches, as I wanted a concentrated pressure to pack soil in, and a galvanized tube which was about like muffler pipe, which was too light, and I dug around here and found two handle kind of things, and with TL holding the pipe, I got to welding on that rusty steel and galvanized pipe, smoking pretty colors.
I'm quite pleased with the results as the real photo shows. The thing is with this I had to build up the foundation layer, like make up, in order to have something I could weld to, which would not burn holes in the pipe.
Welding is not all burning a bead. It is crafting like a blacksmith as when you have inch thick iron, it is different strength than 1/16th inch galvanized steel which of course the JYG said to weld, like all of us know nothings do, as we are told time and again that we can not weld galvanized metal. Just have to work at it and boil the galvanized off in poofs of interesting toxic smoke.
Smoke it did, out of the top of the pipe in a real chimney. If you start hearing a hollow sound in welding it means you burned through the pipe, so more puddling the bead.
I was welding at 90 amp. This old Lincoln burns hotter than other welders. In school we always ran beads on quarter inch metal at 120 amps. If I tried that with the Lincoln I would burn holes in thick metal. In fact at 225 amps I have cut metal nicely. They do not make arc welders like the old Lincolns.
So thank God I got it to hold. The wind was blowing like 40 mph, and just like a match, the wind will blow an arc out. Yes most of you have nice garages. Me, I am out in the elements welding away. I think I have only caught myself on fire twice and started a fire in the weeds only once in all my time perfecting the craft.
I sincerely wondered why in hell my coveralls were getting so hot. Then I saw I was on fire. Sister, a little flame heats up coveralls quick.
It was another pissy day with bad things going on, so I was in no mood and I figured if I worked it would be accomplishing something and I would not be so pissed off. It was blessed though as the handles welded on fine, like I knew what I was doing.
The thing seems to work, is what I wanted and is more deluxe than what I would have purchased for 28 bucks off of Amazon.
I had to have just a short 3 foot handle as I will be doing this in the cellar and I am not tearing out the ceiling to pound dirt, Probably finish it off with a brick.
As I said when I do projects it is always having to invent the wheel, and from poverty as I can't afford things. I saw some things online and one was a wheel brake hub......round is absolutely worthless in corners, and that tamper I was watching with some dude down on the border, was too big. Big does not compress ....is like a flat shoe or a high heel. A woman weighs more than a horse on her spiked heels than a horse does. It is about compression. Just like an H tractor from Farmall compresses more soil than these huge 9 wheel four wheel drive tractors with flotation tires.
So that is the tamper, which I should probably count the times I tamp things with it, as I would guess I will ram the earth 100,000 times for this stove I will be building.
That tampers was the easy part as I had to haul down a truck thing, weighed 200 pounds and I am not looking forward to getting that thing into the cellar or on the stove. It had a hole in it on the edge, so I had it up on it's side, and was running a series of beads like caulking, over the bottom of the hole. Think it was probably 25 passes and voila, no more hole. Now I just have to butt the ends together, grind things so they come close to fitting and then fill in the seam. I would weld this thing, but there is not any way, without a crane would I get that kind of weight into the cellar. Will probably try to plank slide them down. Take a great deal of metal to hold up a semi truck.
Ok I looked it up, apparently I have something old as dead people as they do not make what I have, which cost me 70 dollars a piece. Mine are heavier and I do not have the 5th wheel.........it is the mounting plate, which makes the stove top.
Ok you bastards donate on that one for me figuring this out as I know the people who make things, and the all got more money than anything and is why they are wasting time building their projects. I do mine to survive.
Goddamn Chinese probably bought up most of these old ones and turned them into shitty inferior metal as Chinese refineriers are all shit., like their quality control.
Now you know why I am so tired all the time. It takes years to figure this stuff out and find the parts.
Nuff Said
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