[TheForge] TIG on a budget?

[Ries Niemi]

On Wednesday, November 12, 2003, at 09:41 AM, Dave Brown wrote:

> Anyone ever wanted to try TIG on a budget plan?  Check this one out:
>
> http://www.turbomustangs.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=8872
>
>


That looks great, but what if you only drive a Dodge?

Seriously, you can make tools out of almost anything, and you can do a 
lot with the most primitive tools. I have a friend who is terminally 
cheap, and he can make the most amazing stuff using almost no tools at 
all. He gets all his supplies either out of dumpsters or at the 
goodwill. A while ago, he was building a small airplane from a hang 
glider he got at the goodwill, and a lawn mower and exercise machine he 
got from the curb on garbage day. He was turning his own wooden 
propellers from pallets. And his whole shop has  maybe $500 worth of 
tools in it.

In my own case though, its a case of continually reminding myself to 
look at the donut, not the hole. I try my best to focus on what it is I 
really want to do- to make things out of metal. And if I have high 
quality, reliable tools that work every time when you turn em on, I can 
do more of what I really want. Of course, I am full time, hopefully 
money making, and able to make the jobs buy me tools. So I aint giving 
up my miller syncrowave for an alternator anytime soon. But it looks 
like it works.

ries