{"id":3909,"date":"2023-07-12T16:58:27","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T00:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/?p=3909"},"modified":"2023-07-12T16:58:27","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T00:58:27","slug":"practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/2023\/07\/12\/practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a set of practice tack welds I put down on a sheet of 20 ga. metal this evening. I think, after some trial and error, I&#8217;ve got a good setting for this thickness. Most of the metal on the Travelall is between 16 and 18 ga. so I&#8217;ll have to do more practice with a new sheet of that before I touch the truck.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3910\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_6151.jpeg?resize=800%2C600\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_6151.jpeg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_6151.jpeg?resize=400%2C300&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_6151.jpeg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3911\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_6152.jpeg?resize=800%2C600\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_6152.jpeg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_6152.jpeg?resize=400%2C300&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_6152.jpeg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3912\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_6153.jpeg?resize=800%2C600\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_6153.jpeg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_6153.jpeg?resize=400%2C300&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_6153.jpeg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Overall I&#8217;m pretty pleased; on this last piece there was no burnthrough and I got solid welds down the line. You can see the places where I hadn&#8217;t snipped the blob at the end of the wire\u2014I&#8217;m going to buy a spring-loaded wirecutter especially for this. I was rushing things so the metal did warp a little, but when I do the truck right I&#8217;ll definitely take my time and space things out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a set of practice tack welds I put down on a sheet of 20 ga. metal this evening. I think, after some trial and error, I&#8217;ve got a good setting for this thickness. Most of the metal on the Travelall is between 16 and 18 ga. so I&#8217;ll have to do more practice with [&hellip;]<\/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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s58Ac2-practice","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3909","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=3909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3913,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3909\/revisions\/3913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}