Your own dream welding shop!

[Wild West]

OK, you just won the lottery and uncle Jed has passed away and left you a large sum of money.
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Now, you are going to build yourself a dream welding and fab shop. This shop will be your own personal shop starting with a building and equipping it from there. Remember: Money is no object when doing this.

OK, what would it have?

Jim
www.pivotlok.com

 

[Michael Moore]

I'd want to equip it with an ace weldor, as that is not an accurate description of my welding ability.

I could probably think of another 15-20 fields that person could also be an ace in, just to make them really useful.

cheers,
Michael

 

[JL Sargent]

Ive always thought Id like a Miller Shopmaster welder with all the bells & whistles. They may not even make that one anymore.

 

[CBlair]

If you go to the Miller website you can register to win that dream shop. Dont remember what all it has but it was a lot.

Charles

 

[Metal Slave]

How bout one of those plasma cutters that has the built in air compressor,,runs on 110V,,,I'd get one of those.

 

[swellwelder]

It would have to have a shear, 8'metal brake so one could fab all the things you need before you can weld them into useful stuff. Might as well throw in lathes and mills, cause when you weld up a undersize shaft, you need something to get them back to the right size

Dale Nelson

 

[hammerhead74000]

Lets see -

CNC table with plasma and oxy-fuel heads

all welding processes (oxy-fuel, stick, MIG, TIG, laser, friction, etc...)

gantry 5-axis mill with probing, a MIG head, and a robotic parts-placer

turning center

automanual engine lathe and knee mill

ultrasonic, x-ray, IR, RF/inductive and magnaflux inspection systems

a couple of forklifts (one like Don's for indoors, and a nice big boom-type one)

full hvac with fume extraction

lots of forklift accessible storage

 

[Wild West]

CNC table with plasma and oxy-fuel heads

all welding processes (oxy-fuel, stick, MIG, TIG, laser, friction, etc...)

gantry 5-axis mill with probing, a MIG head, and a robotic parts-placer

turning center

automanual engine lathe and knee mill

ultrasonic, x-ray, IR, RF/inductive and magnaflux inspection systems

a couple of forklifts (one like Don's for indoors, and a nice big boom-type one)

full hvac with fume extraction

lots of forklift accessible storage

Let me add to the list -

A 6' x 12' water jet

6' x 12' 5 axis flame and plasma cutter

6' x 12' laser cutter

A few different sizes of welding tables

Vises large and small as well as a couple of size post vises

Forge furnace

Aluminum and grey iron foundry equipment

Brakes and shears

CNC punch

A complete saw area including horizontal, vertical, ferrous and non ferrous cold saws.

A fully accessible overhead crane system.

A 30,000+ sq. ft. fully conditioned building with ample outside storage.

Jim
www.pivotlok.com