- cross-posted to:
- hobby@hexbear.net
- cross-posted to:
- hobby@hexbear.net
Decided to make a sierpinski’s tetrahedron as a first REAL project! I built a shitty angleiron workbench (with an old door ziptied onto it as the tabletop) before but I’m actually trying this time so it’s different
170 welds completed so far !! So, only 346 left to go!!..
This was a really good idea until I remembered how complex fractals are, like GIRL, DUH, fuck was I thinking hahaha
Its REALLY scuffed though, I’m talkin like using my stick welder to melt a half inch off the end off of the pieces I had precut to make it shorter so it will fit in the actual dimensions needed, I’ve been holding the smallest (~2") pieces with a wrench and holding it in place freehand. It’s been a lot of fun so far, and I’m definitely improving as I go, I weld my welding stick to my stock way less often now, and achieve arc much more reliably too, which is cool to see my own progress within the project!
I hurt my shoulder a bit ago so I haven’t been able to do much lately, but welding is pretty low impact in that I mostly just sit on a folding chair in my driveway next to my shitty workbench lol
Have some more views!
When it’s done it’ll look like this image I found on google
…I keep saying I won’t buy a cheap welder, then all these cool hobbyist comments. I don’t have space. Wait till after I can build a big shed…
You know what you can build the shed with? A welder.
Hmmm… you devil.
Welp, no choice but to watch five hours of shed-welding videos and gauge my chances of hilarious DIY accidents.
if you could kill yourself easily with an arc welder, I would be super mega dead right now
if you have a patch of grass you can put a folding table on within range of an outlet (mine is plugged into a long ass extension cord that is plugged in IN MY KITCHEN cause I don’t have outside outlets) then you have the space!