{"id":2721,"date":"2021-04-03T18:11:58","date_gmt":"2021-04-04T02:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/?p=2721"},"modified":"2021-04-03T18:11:58","modified_gmt":"2021-04-04T02:11:58","slug":"bumper-progress-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/2021\/04\/03\/bumper-progress-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Bumper Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"

I made a little progress with the bumper project over the last week, up to the point where I need a welder. To recap: I originally bought 1\/4″ box steel which wound up being way too thick, and bought another length of 1\/8″ box steel which worked out perfectly. After a little coaxing I cut the edge off the bar and then cut two sections from that, leaving me with a pair of C-shaped sections ready for pilot holes.<\/p>\n

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I used a stepped drill bit in the drill press and then ground off about 1\/8″ of each edge to get them flat, parallel, and shallow, then test fit everything on the bench.<\/p>\n

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As for welding, Brian took his rig back a month or two ago so I’m without anything here to use (and truth be told, the welds I was making before he came and got it were terrible<\/em>). I called a local mobile welder who quoted $125 just to come out; while everybody’s got to make a living I’m having a hard time rationalizing that when I could spend another $150 and get a decent 110-amp starter MIG for myself. Or, I could spend $40 and grab a simple 110 MIG from the local rental center, and I wouldn’t have to deal with yet another large tool taking up space in my already cramped garage….perfect!<\/p>\n

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I made a little progress with the bumper project over the last week, up to the point where I need a welder. To recap: I originally bought 1\/4″ box steel which wound up being way too thick, and bought another length of 1\/8″ box steel which worked out perfectly. After a little coaxing I cut […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bumper"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Ac2-HT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2725,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2721\/revisions\/2725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}