Muffler Bearing
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I was just thinking about this dying art. Does anyone still have a machine with an intricate design on a bucket or edge? I'm looking for an image I could include in a book I'm writing.
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Like "Henry" In Seattle... Always liked his stuff. This is one by the canal in Ballard. You could sign me up for that bucket hard facing... I would even buy the barley installation fluid to help the bead flow!When I started doing hard facing it was all about two ideas. One was to trap fine dirt between the facings to let other dirt wear against that instead of the bucket. The other idea was to rise above the base material and channel hard rock to flow to the back of the bucket. All that stuff was about getting the weld on as quickly as possible and get the attachment back in the dirt. The rod or wire is expensive, the welding machines cost money to use and the labor is intensive and double expensive.
I love the work done in the photo as the pattern is pleasing and shows plenty of thought in doing it. If I were running the shop I probably would have told the welder he could go join the starving artists living out on the streets in Seattle.
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Not my work or anyone I know. Just lifted off the net. Welders are very proud of their work , when it looks good. Lol
I'd guess the guy that did that bucket probably has the skills that it didn't take him much longer than what the average guy would do.
Great welders are like artists.
Most of them have drug or alcohol problems.
That's a pretty general comment to make. I've worked with some true craftsmen and they didn't have any drug and alcohol problems. The pic. funwithfuel posted is exceptional work. Looks like it was done with Mig and they put their initials/name on it on the top left.