Let's say I'm a semi-skilled welder. Let's say I want to make money.
What could I fabricate on a shoe-string budget with basic welding equipment that I could sell that peeps will want to buy?
>>917679
Dildos. Use some round blank stock, cut it to size, weld 2 nuts to the end. Voila! Oh, and then put it in your butt for safe keeping
Heavy duty tomato cages out of rebar. Any dipshit can build them and I made them and sold them for 25 a piece. They were made with a 70 buzz box
>>917691
wow my tomato cages just broke this year, I guess I'll make my own. Suggestion for easy bending?
>>917679
I have the same question but for a small CNC mini mill. I thought about watercooling parts but idk how much money is to be made there or who would trust my parts in their rig...
>>917700
Heat them up, of it you want to you can cut and weld them with the long ones vertical and the short ones horizontal butted to the verts.
Yea cutting short sections sounds easier than bending them. Yay another reason to borrow my neighbors welder!
A coworker from the company where I learned to be a mecanic was in charge of the oxyacetylene cutter. Whenever some of the leftover material had an interesting shape, he welded a statue from it. His wife had an art shop, Apparently they made quite a bit of money when she sold the stuff as "her interpretation of a cat" and the like to well-off hipsters.
>>917716
It's the way to go unless you buy a cheapo bender from hf
this type of shit, its just a series of tubes and cast bits you have to source yourself.
Sell welding lessons.
>>917679
There's a market for go kart frames. They're stupid expensive. If you could make one that someone can just build on, and keep it around 200-250, they'd probably sell.
>>917679
super tall jack stands for lifted brodozers
>>917760
this. a frame like the manco dingo woold sell very well
>>917739
Saving my shekels
>>917760
That's a neat idea
Work repairs m8. Ive been working repairs on small stuff and building frames for things, works well. Do you know how to TIG weld?
>>917701
Make knives. If you do well, you can go far.
>>917679
bbq pits. you can also do repair for pits that have sentimental value to the owners.
>>917968
Surely there can't be that large a supply of idiots that don't know you can get knives from factories?
>>917973
Some people like custom knives. I had a smithy make me a custom karambit out of spring steel for $80.
Glassblowing tools or anything specialized really.
>>917716
>>917739
Weld a couple of plates with slots in it for the size of the bar you are using.
Bolt it onto one end of a table with a 2x8x16 top, grab a long pipe and voila you have a bar bending bench.
You can have a bar bent every 10 seconds, including positioning. Significantly quicker and stronger than cutting and rewelding.
>>917968
I already made a few out of files, hardened them myself in a forge I made. Definitely would be fun to make pretty knives in my spare time and sell them to rich fantasy dweebs.
>>918152
0/10
Too brightless
>>918167
too brightless? I'm going to assume you meant brittle since that is true of files and 1095 steel, but on the bigger one I differentially heat treated it by covering the backside in clay before hardening. It seems to have worked, the backsides softish and the edge is quite hard.
I'm not offended by the 0/10, I was 18 and made them on quite a shoestring budget, for fun.
>>918167
If you meant it's too bright, here is the big one again
>>918180
Forgot pic
>>918183
tiny forge/oven type thing. No pics of it fired up but
>>918186
Quad Barrel shotguns.
>>917768
rolling for this
I have a oxy acetylene set. The reason is you can do more than just stick metal together with it. I make small sculptures using bicycle parts. Small is the key to selling at craft, flea markets, and on line. You will have a better chance selling because everyone else is doing wood bird house shit. Second is your art should be recognized right away. Not some abstract shit. Then draw them in with recognizable parts you made it with. Third price it between its good a investment and what the fuck is he thinking.
>>918192
Those are cute desu
>>917679
Had a pal that started a portfolio of his past jobs, ornate gates, etc and eventually became self employed with a healthy clientele list that passed on his talented works to others. He has a good reputation and standing in his field in that city.
