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View Poll Results: How deep is your Fab Addiction?
Minor: Cut to fit, drill some holes, bolt-on. 11 1.69%
Moderate: Simple custom designs, welded construction. 123 18.89%
Serious: Tubing benders, band saw, etc. (decent equiped shop). 355 54.53%
Nuts: Use of major machine equipment like Mills and Lathes. 182 27.96%
Nuckin-Futz: I don't buy NUTHIN, I make it all in my full CNC shop! 22 3.38%
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Old 01-13-2007, 06:33 PM
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i'm not allowed to vote but i fall inbetween the serious and nutz. I only bust out the 3 axis mill once in a while...haha
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Old 02-08-2007, 12:28 AM
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Where's the bench butcher catagory??

I guess it would just be serious!!! I don't have a machine shop here..
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Old 02-16-2007, 10:59 PM
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serious working on bankrupt
I am better equipt at home than the shop at work
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Old 02-16-2007, 11:25 PM
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Right now I fit in the moderate area, but I am striving for so much more. If only my wife was rich.....

I need a sugermommy....
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Old 02-28-2007, 10:56 AM
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Great this just confirms that I am nutz and getting ready to move on to freakin nutz. Dont forward this to my ol' lady, that is all the confermation that she would need to go off the deep end.
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Old 02-28-2007, 02:38 PM
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Well, I guess I would be moderate. Working on serious with asperations of one day being Nuckin-futz
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Old 03-01-2007, 05:51 PM
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I'm serious right not, workin on nuckin futz. Hopefully I'll have my cnc plasma table by the end of 07'.
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Old 03-02-2007, 04:14 AM
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I'm working on nuts. I just picked up a lathe a couple of weeks ago and I'm waiting to get the electrical done so I can fire it up. I have a bender, welder, drill press, angle and bench grinders, access to a torch and some other goodies.

I design some of my parts in Rino 3D and save them in Autocad format so that the local fab shop can laser cut and CNC bend them for me. I just picked up a small run of front A-arm braces for Suzuki Sidekicks / Geo Trackers today. When I can I'll post up some pictures of them.
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Old 03-03-2007, 12:52 AM
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I'm still moderate. Untill the cash cow commeth I'm stuck with torch, 220AC/DC stick, hand grinder, and hand drill. Sometimes I use the square....
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Old 03-03-2007, 01:03 PM
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Sometimes I use the square....
what's a square?
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Old 03-03-2007, 09:14 PM
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It's something the Mexicans didn't know about either when they built my house! Cheese and Rice! Some of my windows drywall is off by like 5/8s! It's just right for letting light in to wake you up when you work nights since the blinds obviously wont fit correctly.

That being put aside my primitive tools I think will let me enjoy even greater when I get the propper tools to do the job. I used two of my trucks as anchor points to bend out some bent tubing I had laying around to the right size. lol.
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Old 03-05-2007, 01:55 PM
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I am between serious and nuts.... I have a lathe but mostly use if for trans parts...
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Old 03-10-2007, 04:39 PM
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Should of been multiple choice.
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Sparkies are fun! Almost as fun as creating body damage!!
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Old 03-13-2007, 02:38 PM
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Why? It's cumulative...
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Old 03-14-2007, 08:53 AM
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tell the truth...
I had to vote Moderate because of the tools that I OWN...

I have access thru work to be NUTS but we are working on getting new equipment that will put me into the NUCKEN FUTS area. I wish we would get a CNC Mill and Lathe, but I have to settle for CNC punches and brakes....manual mill and lathe....

I am too broke to become nucken futs on my own...
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Old 03-15-2007, 10:56 PM
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Just serious here
I'm just a serious fabber. I have a bender, mig welder, plasma cutter, and a portable band saw. All my tools are in my buddies garage cause I just moved to Amarillo TX. Here is a picture of my bumper I made. I need to get off my rear and take a few more..


http://www.bolt.com/rgr/photo/k/3116985
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Old 03-16-2007, 07:31 AM
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im in between Moderate and Serious. I have a Bender, 220V Mig, 220V Stick, But im stuck with sawzall and handgrinder, for cutting stuff.
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Old 04-17-2007, 05:14 PM
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Can't afford to have someone do it for me, so I do it all my self. What I don't have at my shop I have access to at freinds shops. From fab equipment to engine building, to a dyno.
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Old 04-17-2007, 07:23 PM
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just serious here, I have dreams of owning a fully CNC'ed shop, but for now i will just worry about getting the plasma on a cnc table.
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Old 07-17-2007, 01:02 AM
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Just moved up to nutz. Got a good deal on a bridgeport clone and 12x60 lathe.

Wheel
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