LET’S WELD UP SOME NIPPLES!

No different then went out in the field you’ve got to come up with some Bush style fixes to get things done more efficiently and save your back and effort for more important things! Follow along as I build a simple table but Decrease production time by almost in half! It cost me about $1.20! Teach your kids young a good skill set and common sense follows along and they can use that wherever they go in life. 

[@MrBlackbutang]

What works for you is the best thing since sliced bread. Thanks old drill press table worked well for me.

[@leyderness3553]

You need to teach me how to weld. Love those beads!!!!!!! That is like art.

[@gnmatsu]

Not race car but still fun. Entertaining. And yes. Makin' life easier when simple things will do.

[@paulboone44444]

What an artist you are ... with talent like yours ... use any damn clamp you want to sir..😎

[@ronhodgkinson7683]

Rob, It's always good to hear about your new project s. Why is it that some of your followers have to have a opinion about how you do your work. I do enjoy the opportunity to see the process that you do.

[@zmotorsports62]

Great idea Rob. On high volume welds I can see that being efficient. Thanks for sharing. Mike

[@vehdynam]

Great idea ; I have one of those little welding tables, now it needs wheels. Many thanks .

[@RandomAuto12]

If it fits it ships. it’s always awesome to see life hacks like this

[@robwendland]

Appreciate it brother!

[@joannehart9624]

Some really nice welding right there! I love to watch talented welders.

[@alexfraser8506]

Every time I watch your videos I find myself muttering god damn he’s a good welder!

[@markwatkins4416]

Thanks for the welding tip. Now if you can come up with a way to easily TIG collector headers, you'll have something. I hope your recovery is going well.

[@promodracer2191]

It was nice meeting you in person at Pedregon's in Indy. Would have loved to see your shop across the street. Thanks for what you do.

[@bcbloc02]

I used to think Tig Aluminum was the only way, then I got a spool gun and holy smokes what a time saver! With the right settings the spool gun does a super nice job on new aluminum like this. With a lot of these to do it would easily pay for itself.

[@bartarkis]

I have used an old stub axle for a rotary table. Wheels on stubs and plate on the wheels for a flat work area. I have seen it where the stub axle is down with a plate for you to turn with your feet low, and riser to metal work table top, with a horn button style spring loaded ground under the foot disk.

[@robwendland]

Great ideas!

[@mikebaldwin9972]

Great idea

[@jamesbarisitz4794]

Circles go on a lazy Susan in my shop. One of these days I've got to build a rotary table out of a pottery wheel with a variable speed motor. Nice job with the Hazard Fraut dollies! 👍 😃

[@dogsarebest7107]

Definitely man. Those little HF folding welding tables (clones of the StrongHand folding) are worth every penny. I think I have 4 or 5 of 'em, some even have wo..woooh.whoohd tops to make them general use tables. You can build this, you can build a ghetto indexer with some bearings and a windshield wiper motor and some offcuts. It ain't gotta be pretty with 0.0001tir, it just gotta spin. Gravity helping hands are super useful, built a few telescoping ones from 1" dom and 5/8" round with a t-handle / nut welded to set the length, tig brazed some silicon bronze on the tips and the toes of the 'feet', good to go. Easily one of the most useful things, so I don't know why people were talkin' about your spring clamp hands like they're a bad thing.. I was gonna make an aluminum-bronze tip for one of 'em to keep any copper contamination from sparking during initial arc on the ground helping, but like you I just end up throwing a small chunk of al between the hand and part anyhow. Good job. Those hf skates are quite good, but the hydraulic-lift kind.. I have not had good luck with them fwiw

[@crazyrat51]

Welding time and probably just as long setting up the table and jigs!!! NOBODY EVER thinks of the setup time and making jigs time!!! Thanks for the videos! ( former A/ Fuel crew guy and welder for 50 years!)

[@bobjons7]

Beautiful picture perfect welds!!

[@adambergendorff2702]

love the strong hand clamp,going to have to make some!

[@adsexton2]

Great Idea!! Worked out good. And I actually remember the old Lawrence dragstrip, Don's Speedshop, and Dale Wilch.

[@robwendland]

Now you’re starting to date both of us!!

[@adsexton2]

@@robwendland unfortunately yes. Good times, and good friends.

[@danielsmith-ze3wy]

Job well done

[@DJ-yp4kc]

very cool idea

[@DennisTotman]

Heard you’re coming back to top fuel. Looking forward to it and I wish you the very best. Love the videos.

[@dezertraider]

LOL..NIPPLES ROCK,SO DON'T YOU ROB.STAY WELL

[@waltercobb4675]

Kool

[@cdnbluesdriver]

Well this video is aptly timed! Just starting to learn about hydraulics and building my own manifolds. I also have one of those tables that I have hung onto for years but only rarely used. This seems like the best use for this thing yet!

[@fredygump5578]

Good tip! My only suggestion is to add a stool with good casters! I felt it made my life easier and saved time.

[@robwendland]

Good idea!

[@stretch8390]

Would you consider doing a video on the future of top fuels with regards to how they might possibly get faster? Its something I just can't imagine but I'm sure there are people with ideas out there

[@ronhodgkinson7683]

You know someone will have some sort of opinion about what ever they see. But some of us enjoy the McGiver the heck out of what ever you want. I think that it is truly fricken haliaours and it works. Screw the naysayers and enjoy the process.

[@user-ud4hd3qw6h]

You feel like a barber with that table huh lol

[@ANotSoHotRodGarage]

Rob I miss your videos, hope you plan on making more.

[@metalillness5951]

Love all the videos you post for us, speaking for many I'm sure, wish there were more. Now what kind of ignorant masochist train driver designed that manifold with soft aluminum fittings? Yikes!

[@PaulSongas]

Burst out laughing at "Pain in the Dick" LOL!!!

[@Daniel-S1]

Just make sure you don't slip while welding.

[@JK-hw1bb]

👍👍👍🏁🏁🏁

[@waynep343]

Hot sleeves or leather welding sleeves save your forearms.

[@rescobar8572]

Another great video Rob! Do you preheat the thick parts?

[@WilliamPayneNZ]

People who say use C-Clamps like doing things the hard way. Also the huge pain with C-Clamps is if you want to clamp something to the table you can only clamp around the outside. Huge pain in the butt. Holes for clamps in the table are hugely handy. It’s is incredible how many people refuse to spend time and money making tools like you did with your strong arms that will help dramatically with jobs. Some people want to be able to do everything with a hammer and a screwdriver.

[@abrahamgoldsmith1684]

I love the content. Is it typical for crew chiefs to do so much machine and fab work?

[@robwendland]

Nope! Only a handful of us left. So many crew chiefs out there that can’t put two pieces of metal together without having someone else weld it….#facts

[@abrahamgoldsmith1684]

Man, for someone who remembers the world before youtube, there is nothing cooler that sitting on my couch and leaning how 10k hp nitro methane race cars are built. Thanks for taking the time to make these videos.

[@ronhodgkinson7683]

Rob, I need your expertise. I have a question for you. When do I change my spark plug heat range. I have a good e85 tune up with a 250 shot. Timing is pulled out at 4500.

[@timothymilam732]

Suggestion, wouldn't be lest physical movement, if you welded half of the thread a let,("NIPPLE"), on each one, before turning to the opposite side, and then doing the other half at one time. I don't believe it will effect the welds any as your on thicker aluminum, and it does retain the heat better than if it was say 18 to 20 gauge material. That way you could use one foot on your pedal, and the other to slowly move the table left or right which ever is more comfortable for you. Then also you could make you a padded arm rest to lay your forearms on instead of trying to suspend them in the constant motion of moving the table as your going from side to side. Just a thought, that maybe hasn't crossed your mind, and that way if you're brackets are tacked on, you could do those at same time as your doing the nipples on that side too. Even slowing the video down I couldn't tell if you were doing the whole weld at once, are just half of it. Couldn't you adapt your clamps to a magnetic base that you can turn on and off when you need it. I know Starrett makes them for their different sized dail indicators.

[@whiteysdemo1]

you really need a wireless foot pedal!

[@miatafan]

Square corners on pressure vessel seems like a bad move to me.

[@robwendland]

You don’t see the insides. Plus you don’t understand how it operates so how and why must you judge?

[@miatafan]

@@robwendland not really judging you.. Welds look great, ive just seen enough square cornerns blow out from pressure concentration to worry about it