Thanks, practice practice

Some advertising is to be expected, it takes a lot of time away from the shop to edit videos, and people have to make a living. Don't hold it against them unless they pitch crap they wouldn't actually use.

@@42Fab Agree with making a living issue...... but the ads have to be relevant. Some woodwork channels have cost me a fortune in router bits and measuring devices I never knew I needed. Now I just need to justify why I need a stud welder as a gas engineer.

@@royarmstrong3537 I'll take the blame there, stud welders are awesome to have around

Thanks, simple, but classy I like to say

the stuff is great!

I have actually been decently impressed with these. Killed one over discharging it, but that's my fault

Wow, I must be magic or something, because this thing's still working great. Also, try heating it up, I've heard that is a great way too.

I cover the costs, bidding process, time involved, final profit, etc over on patreon in my bid breakdowns of each project.

I use and HTP microcut 875 plasma cutter and also draw in Corel

We wear gloves when needed. Any metal thicker than 16ga is basically not sharp, so we're not worried about cuts, for thinner stuff we wear gloves as needed with them being mandatory with anything 20ga or less. When grinding, I am in the "no gloves around spinning objects" camp as I'd rather get sliced by a tool or workpiece then have some part of me or my employees drawn into a tool by a snagged glove. When welding, the hand closest to the gun is most often covered, though we'll admit to tacking things up bare from time to time. The dutch Health and Safety organization (IDK the actual name) did a study on welders in the 80s and 90s and found that the only example of skin cancer was one guy with it on his nose, which they ruled as an outlier. The primary concern is not UV exposure but burning, which is why the operating hand (in my case, the right) is often ungloved. As fabricators, we are not laying into welds all day, we're transitioning from task to task, meaning we need the dexterity of an ungloved hand. Anecdotes do not make rules, but in 7 years the worst cut I've gotten is a laceration on my pinky from moving a sheet of 20ga, where as I have had MANY burns from mistakenly grabbing things that were hot, most often from where someone else welded or ground a piece and I touched it thereafter, meaning that my gloved PPE during welding would have made no difference. It's a fair questions, and everyone gets to make their own decisions. I'll respect yours, but I'll only tolerate the same respect in return.

@@42Fab Thanks for responding. I agree with your assessment. I am just starting in fabrication and like to listen to a diverse range of experts and hobbyist to help me make up my mind. Great points and I definitely defer to your actual experience. Just another reason I love your channel!

Yes, my powder coater does so in house

@@42Fab ohhh ok. You hats actually incredibly convenient for people’s like me that don’t have a blasting cabinet. Miasma seeing your concert ent brother. When will you upload more?

I have a complete bid breakdown of the project over on patreon

Not any time soon. The size oven I need for something that is a 1x a week need, just doesn't make sense for me

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You can email me at sales@42fab.com

I totally over paid, but even at $300 it's worth it

Just like this one? I'd be around $3k

@@42Fab Thank you so much. Love your videos.

Shop built

Yeah, I worded that wrong. Think 10ga was over kill?

About 2 years before I was comfortable turning when stuff I didn't want to do. You gotta earn a reputation

@@42Fab thank you I was getting a little discouraged but I am not giving up

If you've done your work right, there won't be a burr, if you haven't it's motivation to do better. We all decide what risks to take, but we don't do safety police on this channel

A real man does some of the best work when he's bleeding on it.

...terrible car, 285k miles and not giving me many excuses to have to work on it. My wrenches feel neglected.

@@42Fab Mine never went a month without problems and it was under 100K miles, biggest POS I ever owned.

And you end up seeing bridges. Stencilling is appropriate in lower cost projects, single layer work, and for unskilled sign makers. In 6 years, I have had one counter fall off and the client was warned and still wanted their sign installed in sub freezing temperatures. If you're worried about falling parts, you've never used VHB tape

Electricity takes the path of least resistance. The ground clamp (hidden at the far end of the table) is a much better conductor than going through me, my boot sole, then through the concrete floor, and ultimately the rubber feet of the plasma cutter itself.

Thank you for the Reply, I'm getting my first plasma table this January and you have been of much help. Thanks again for that!

Good to know

If you want to wear a glove around a spinning tool, by all means go for it, I would much prefer the chance of an abrasion on the skin (which a glove could maybe stop) over the chance of a glove drawing my fingers into a spinning tool if it were to snag. No glove you'd want to wear is going to stop a major puncture wound, so that's a moot issue. Personally I am aware of where my body is, I cannot be aware of where the accessories on it are with that same "resolution" The "gloves and spinning tools" argument is going to go on forever, and everyone gets to have their opinion. For me, and in my shop, gloves do not get used with spinning tools. I'm not going to critique if you decide differently for you or your shop, nor am I going to tolerate a debate about something that is objectively an opinion. You do you, I'll do me.