{"id":139,"date":"2009-06-28T21:42:19","date_gmt":"2009-06-28T21:42:19","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-01-13T22:38:57","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T22:38:57","slug":"garagenew-toy-takes-stand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/?p=139","title":{"rendered":"New Toy Takes a Stand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always wanted a TIG welder, and after looking for years for one at sensible money on eBay I decided to bite the bullet and buy a cheap one. It&#8217;s a 160 amp AC\/DC one from R-Tech. Slowly getting the hang of welding with it but moving it around was a complete pain in the ass. After catching the bottle as it got knocked over for the hundredth time, I decided it was time to make a stand for it.  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"443\" height=\"332\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/General\/Tiggy.jpg\" alt=\"Tiggy.jpg\" \/>   Nothing spectacular, just a box shape on wheels with a shelf underneath for the foot controls and stuff. I made the mistake of tacking it together on the garage floor which turned out to be not quite level so the top shelf was ever so slightly wonky. I welded the other 3 corners on and bent it back into shape with some spring compressors. A couple of wheels plus some chain from B&amp;Q and it was done. May even paint it one of these days. Now all I have to do is learn how to weld properly with it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always wanted a TIG welder, and after looking for years for one at sensible money on eBay I decided to bite the bullet and buy a cheap one. It&#8217;s a 160 amp AC\/DC one from R-Tech. Slowly getting the hang of welding with it but moving it around was a complete pain in the ass. After catching the bottle as it got knocked over for the hundredth time, I decided it was time to make a stand for it.  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"443\" height=\"332\" src=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/General\/Tiggy.jpg\" alt=\"Tiggy.jpg\" \/>   Nothing spectacular, just a box shape on wheels with a shelf underneath for the foot controls and stuff. I made the mistake of tacking it together on the garage floor which turned out to be not quite level so the top shelf was ever so slightly wonky. I welded the other 3 corners on and bent it back into shape with some spring compressors. A couple of wheels plus some chain from B&amp;Q and it was done. May even paint it one of these days. Now all I have to do is learn how to weld properly with it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":318,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions\/318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}