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I feel anxious and I want to create. I tore down the chicken wire fence with my brother so that there's more room to park and it's not so hard to turn around in the driveway. It felt good to be outside and to be moving around and talking with my brother. It reminded me of when we would build things as kids, we're just a lot bigger with more problems now. I can tell spring is coming but I still like the cold. I'm starting school in 4 days. I got my hospital bills in the mail today. I owe over 1,500 dollars now and I don't know how I'm going to pay it. I've been eating better and drinking more water, I still don't have a phone and I still feel sick but I'm trying to stay positive. I'm just tired. Don't mind me, this is a list of things to keep me organized. (I'm still a mess).
Short photo session tonight due to the weather, but thought this one looked half decent, bad light pollution though.
I can never remember what this is supposed to signal. Gangs? Broken
hearts? Hobos?
This is right at my usual Muni stop, so I guess I'd better start
bracing myself for whatever gang war/breakup/hobo convention is about
to go down.
The inert gas and wire come into the black tube emerging from the top box which is the wire feeder. The wire and gas come out of the welding gun which is laying near the bottom of the power source box at the end of the black tube. The inert gas tank source at the left goes on a shelf behind the power source box.
I wound the transformers to get the correct voltage and arranged several of them together to get an amperage of 320 amps.
The wire feeder can be used with any power source including my gas powered Hobart portable welder.
The two boxes to the right are a 120 amp plasma cutter and a current regulator for tig welding with a foot pedal for control--all of which I made also. I didn't finish the plasma cutter since I didn't want to buy the nozzle parts. I could not make my own that were good enough.
As with many other of my electronic projects, I got almost all the electronic parts from the surplus of the closing of Heath Kit in town. The surplus store also has since closed.
See details of the wire feeder: flickr.com/photos/21702692@N05/2123419439/
Gold Wires. Gold Flake Vein. Farncomb Hill. Breckenridge Mining District. Summit Co., Colo. (Collection of the Colorado School of Mines Geology Museum. Golden, Colo.)
Box I made to keep the long cables connecting my peripherals organized.
How -to and more photos in my blog.