{"id":4979,"date":"2025-01-14T18:27:04","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T02:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/?p=4979"},"modified":"2025-01-14T18:27:04","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T02:27:04","slug":"welding-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/2025\/01\/14\/welding-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Welding Practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s what I got back from SendCutSend last week, in the form of three laser-cut and brake-bent sections of 16 ga. steel:<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4980\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_1469.jpeg?resize=1170%2C658\" alt=\"\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_1469.jpeg?w=1778&amp;ssl=1 1778w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_1469.jpeg?resize=500%2C281&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_1469.jpeg?resize=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_1469.jpeg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_1469.jpeg?resize=1536%2C864&amp;ssl=1 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1170px) 100vw, 1170px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And here are the pieces assembled and welded:<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4981\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_1479.jpeg?resize=1170%2C877\" alt=\"\" width=\"1170\" height=\"877\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_1479.jpeg?w=1334&amp;ssl=1 1334w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_1479.jpeg?resize=400%2C300&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_1479.jpeg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_1479.jpeg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1170px) 100vw, 1170px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I had to trim the top section of the parallelogram just a hair to get it to line up with the underside of the main cupholder, but other than that, the whole thing went together as smooth as butter. Welding things up took about an hour after I&#8217;d squared it all, and I wire-brushed everything down in preparation for paint. I ran out of time before I could take it outside and test-fit everything, but I&#8217;m stoked with the progress so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s what I got back from SendCutSend last week, in the form of three laser-cut and brake-bent sections of 16 ga. steel: And here are the pieces assembled and welded: I had to trim the top section of the parallelogram just a hair to get it to line up with the underside of the main [&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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[68,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travelall","category-welding"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Ac2-1ij","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4979","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=4979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4982,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4979\/revisions\/4982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}