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I've said this before and I'll say it again DeWalter White is my most utilized horse in the stable

first we deRustarize the rusty piece of scrap sheet metal maybe 16 gauge (I hope)

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then we cut out the proper shapeness roughly (going a bit bigger than need be, we can always trim the excess material off)

Note how the 4 1/2" angle grinder went from a wire wheeler to a cutterizer by simply switching the attachment

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Id need about 20 of those BMW battery packs and get 1 mi/kWh because of how big it is :lol:

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then another costume change from the cut off wheel to the smootherizer

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and after 47 nips n tucks, she almost fits perfectly, ah good enuff for the girls we date

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hence the Cab Over we got the whole bed to load up with them 20 battery packs, and I may know a guy who knows two Armenian brothers in L.A. who just might could get their hands on sum mint Tesla parts ~ just sayin'

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second verse, same as the first
but a whole lot larger and a whole lot worse

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oh yeah, since no one asked, lemme tell you about my spark machine setup

runnin typical 3 parts Argon to 1 part Carbon Dioxide commonly known as 75/25% blend

for sheet metal (which is way harder to weld then them 1/8th inch brackets) I like to use .025" wire

for that I try to remember to swap to the .025" roller as well as the .025" tip

hope that helps some of you Young Padawans out

don't mind the settings ie the knob position in this pic they got twisted by accident to the max

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also I don't read sheet music, I go by clock position, so for this type of thickness or I should say thinness, the wire speed is at 9 o'clock and the poweridge at noon

Top Tip: if the wire coming out of your gun is bouncing off or tapping the piece you is trying to weld, the wire speed is too fast, turn it down

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I just happen to find some scrap circular plugs that almost fit in them larger holes so I run what you brung

I think I had three of them so that took care of the three bigger round holes

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for them medium holes I use this Clint Eastwood backing plate thingie jobbie

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counting them extra 17 holes in the floor boards I think 206 holes done and 180 to go, it aint perfect by any no means but maybe two gallons of bondo and some distance will make the firewall look real good

oh dingle dangle, I still gots to do that BIG circle, darn it!

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this morning I was greeted by this dreaded hard drive failure on my primary home computer where I keep all my EV Conversion pics and documentation

the Intel SSD 535 Series hard drive just failed

480 GB Solid State Drive

I'm an IT guy but this sucks ballz! I tried to tether it to a working laptop as an external drive but it won't even power up

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I'd just quit! Man that really does suck. Good luck on any type of recovery.

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Let me be the tin hat in the room. Somebody doesnt want you building an electrified truck and them not share in the profits? Just a theory.

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that is on point, and you think Tesla's lab caught on fire by accident, hmmmm

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Cloud backup. I use Google Drive.

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yes me too, but I was manually copying stuff there and so I have about 90% of it backed up, I could not figure out how to make it automagical (I used to have it like that I think, then something changed)

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I agree with tutone. The same thing is happening to you that happened to that guy in the 60's that invented the 100mpg carburetor. Keep your doors locked and the blinds pulled. Good luck.

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just because everyone's out to get me doesn't mean I'm paranoid

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so we pressed on with the firewall

toper wear lids aint just for tuna casseroles you know

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let's put on our hole saw attachment on our angle grinder

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then a quick pass with the SharpEdge Eliminator 2,000 SemiPro

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I am 67-72% certain that I welded up some holes I should have left open, and forgot to weld up sum that should be shaved, anyway I just had to bazinga that firewall today and I hate spray bombing stuff even if the rest of the rig does look like death so out came the Dexter Starter Kit

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Oh Top Tip on the grindage of the firewall, get yourself some brand new coarse sand paper discs, the new discs will generate less heat than the old used up ones and prevent the sheet metal from warping

I think these were 36 grit

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I also paintarized the crossmember

KRYLON changed the nozzle on this paint so I no longer recommend it

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should look good from where you're sittin'

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ladies and gentlemen I give you the self leveling Inver-A-Jack ... now available in rustic white

If you recall the Inverter changes Direct Current coming from the batteries to Alternating Current for the motor to function [think of it as a distributor/carburetor combo]

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naturally the exhaust nipple and the firewall bulge won't allow us to set it on center

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Me: for this project I will only use the strongest and lightest of metals, preferably unobtanium or at the very least aluminum

also Me: let's just check the scrap pile first

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so some ideas taking shape

I call it the Tee Pee design

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just checking the Stick Outability

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if you tilt your head just right, it's perfectly level

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side bracketry

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so this is how far we got (me and the mouse in my pocket)

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I don't usually stop to check if the cables will reach the component I am trying to install, but when I do, I make sure it is when I am half way through making the bracket...

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I am really not a fan of this run both cables to one side design (ie East), plus one of my cables has a booboo owie so I decided to unwrap it in hopes of heeling it and seeing if it can be rerouted Westward

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then it was time to Xerox the driver side on to the passenger side

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looks pretty polywhompus out in the wild doesn't it?