Finishing up a Christmas gift

We get so busy in the shop at times that we don’t have time to finish gifts for our friends and family during the Christmas season.  So this Christmas gift came a bit late.

Some 10 gauge 44w steel CNC cut on the table, mill scale stripped, lightly sanded and sealed.

Cutting weld on nameplates

We enjoy supplying other fabricators parts for their projects.  Here we’re cutting out some weld on nameplates for JGG Fabrication.

Fabricating a gift

We’re making these pieces for a returning customer, they’re CNC cut out of 10 gauge 44W steel and have a few inches of plate marking. Here they are sitting in a muriatic acid bath to strip the mill scale off. Much easier more cost effective to remove the mill scale this method as opposed to using a flapper disc.  Besides it leaves a more consistent surface, which is important in this case!

After the acid bath and a light sanding it’s all prepped and ready for a light copper plating.

Finished with a light copper plating and sealing.

Cutting away

Just another busy night in the shop.  We’re CNC cutting some 10 gauge 44W steel pieces for a half dozen weldments to be used for pressure testing at the Gardiner Dam.

CNC cutting fish

After our fish went over so well the first time, here, we figured it would be a nice thing to donate some more fish to a cancer fundraiser for my father-in-law.

A few fish prepping for a bath.

Trying something new.  I never enjoy grinding mill scale off steel so a 4:1 ratio of Muriatic Acid to water does the job for me.

What the fish look like after the acid dip, compared to the hot rolled material it came from. Bye bye mill scale!

Scotchbrite and blowtorch, works every time. They were sealed with boiled linseed oil and a coat of carnuba wax.

Mixed it up by adding a copper rod to the muriatic acid and leaving these two pieces in at the same time. Semi plated them with copper and gave it a translucent pink hue.