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Originally Posted by doubeys_nova
made everything myself, sitting with a sharpie, a welder, and 20ft of 2.5" pipe from the parts store.
Kudos to you man. I thought about doing it myself but that takes incredible patience. I always enjoy hearing people doing stuff like that themselves. Makes me jeleous.
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I often have the luxury of time, so its less patience...and more persistence. Truthfully though, it was all necessity. I just hate paying people to do things...I hate taxes, I hate service fee's, I hate tipping waiters. I do things out of my ocd need to control everything....and in this case it ended up with a bunch of new skills haha.
A welder is the best investment you can ever make. I would tell anyone starting a project, to think of it like this; You can have a $5k budget for parts, or you could have a $4k budget for parts and a welder... Then figure that you would pay a shop $350-500+ for an exhaust, which cost about $125 in parts. Each time you do the math, you "get" a few hundred back on the cost. At the end of your project, you spent less money, got the same or better results...and you STILL keep the tool at the end. Its like buying a house vs renting a condo.
I say to anyone that wants to stop up by me; I will MIG weld anything for you on 3 conditions...
1. My labor is free but my time is expensive. Things happen when they happen, and I happen when I happen.
2. Materials are always on you. Gas/filler/raw/juice all cost money, and not my money.
3. I get to film anything and everything. *this has to do with rule 1 also.
(this whole thing doesn't apply to welding body panels, as that is part of the metalworking process for the body, and goes well beyond welding. That sh!t would cost ya)