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From my experience the tempered glass lasts a good long time. I bought 3 of them several years back and I am on #2 so far. you have to be aware of the bounce in the cabinet and try not to aim the gun so when you are blasting the edge it is not firing right at the glass, or bouncing off the material right at he glass. You can gain some more life by switching hands too. If you are right handed the left side of the glass will be pitted the most and difficult to see through. Switch to left handed and view through the clearer side.

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Cool video. Subscribed to your channel.

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you speak the truff [as always] I switched hands just due to wimp fatigue and noticed I was getting a different angle of shooting the media at the component I was blasting and that by itself was worth it and paid dividends in the form of additional strippage of gunk and junk in nooks and cranies not reachable by my dominant paw

South Paw FTW!

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Hey Chicogonian, thank you so much, how about them winds today?! lemme know if you wanna stop by for some tacos and parts cleaning ha ha I'm just 90 minutes away as the crow flies South on 99 in North Natomas the very tip os Sac Town

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Why should you convert to electric? any questions, ha ha

and that was no where near fill up of the 21 gallon petrol tank of da wife's 2010 Honda Pilot, but the pump quit

Quick Maff, $100 bucks twice a month is $2,500 per year so I can buy two almost three BMW 530e battery packs every year with that money

and since I have two 2018 packs already that tells me they is at least good for three plus years - Good Times!

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looks like we can check off number 1 off da list

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looking good. This really makes me want to do an EV conversion on something.

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thanks and Two Words: "The COE"

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there comes a time during a project where you had enuff of doing something [like cleaning gunk off of suspension parts... I'm looking at you lower control arms] and just do something else, so lets weld some sheet

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for this we're gonna need two things, one file folder and one dirty thumb

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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.