Its been a while....



I have been playing around with gas welding a new tank. It is going really good right now, but I think I need an English Wheel for professional quality... I think I will make one.

I took a CT50 tank for most of the tank and started adding sheet metal and hand forming the rest of it. Clamp and gas weld the peices together. I blew through a couple times but that can be fixed. I will continue and update as soon as I figure out what I'm doing next.......

1 comments:

themancafe February 26, 2010  

lookin good cannonball run! I just read this interview yesterday..

"GARAGE: An English Wheel is too modern for you?

ROB: “Yea, I basically used hammer, obviously had to use a welder, but I didn’t use any of that [English Wheel type of] stuff. Just heated it up until I get the metal to shrink up like I wanted…. It took forever. A lot of people would be able to do it the easy way, or should I say the convenient way. Before we had any of that stuff people were able to build that stuff – Trial by fire, jump into it. When you come out of it you have way more knowledge than just rollin’ it out. You’re more of yourself than the beast. Just more of the craftsmanship of the process.”"

http://garagemagazine.com/a-mans-worth-artist-profile-rob-harbison/