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The Mad Industrialist Rides Again
March 23rd, 2010 at 9:52 pm » Comments (2)
So before I've even finished my 10 day course, I've been accepted to a 6 week course. Unlike the last course (Manual Metal Arc Welding) this one will be Oxy-Acetylene ...more »The Mad Industrialist Part 6
March 20th, 2010 at 9:03 pm » Comments (0)
Laying perfect weld is always awesome. However, today was a remarkably stressful day because next week is the test. Trying to get each and every weld perfect can really stress ...more »The Mad Industrialist Part 5
March 13th, 2010 at 8:54 pm » Comments (0)
Today was a good day. We kept on welding the three composite runs the same as we were doing last week: One foundation run, and two further runs for strength. However there ...more »The Mad Industrialist Part 4
March 6th, 2010 at 1:47 am » Comments (0)
Today was an awful day. It was long, hot, and difficult. What's worse, I could not get into the swing of welding at all. Laying down loose welds, full of holes, ...more »The Mad Industrialist Part 3
February 27th, 2010 at 12:52 am » Comments (0)
Back to work. This week we were doing multiple layers of weld on single joints. The top weld in the picture is a single weld, the bottom joint has one weld ...more »Today, I’m just like everyone else
February 20th, 2010 at 11:05 pm » Comments (0)
No Mad Industrialist today. One inch of snow and they called the whole thing off. I'd say all of us lads on the course would have made it. We love ...more »The Mad Industrialist Part 2
February 13th, 2010 at 3:28 pm » Comments (0)
Week two of my welding course and today is the first day that we joined two pieces of metal together with both tack welds and fillet welds. The line where the ...more »Today I became…
February 6th, 2010 at 3:42 pm » Comments (0)
The Mad Welder! This here's my booth. After the jump the first pictures of my first welds. more »Prospective project #1
August 10th, 2009 at 4:39 am » Comments (1)
I have the house to myself this weekend. I'm considering doing a project. Google sketchup is a fantastic program to use when you're thrashing out some details. The picture is ...more »Tool Review: Challenge Xtreme Impact Drill
July 12th, 2009 at 12:51 am » Comments (0)
Hello there are welcome to the second of The Mad Carpenter's tool reviews. Today we have a look at the power drill, one of the corner stones of the woodworking ...more »BP Thursday
June 25th, 2009 at 3:59 pm » Comments (0)
So today is bit devoid of information, so I'll give you something else: Autocad design after the Jump. It's a coffin. more »New Project Monday
March 23rd, 2009 at 12:17 am » Comments (0)
Hello there my dozens of fans, readers and well wishers. After getting back to Letterkenny with my workbench, the rest of my tools and clean laundry (Thanks for the lift ...more »Tool Review: Challenge power screwdriver
March 11th, 2009 at 5:17 pm » Comments (1)
Hello and welcome to the first of, hopefully, many tool purchases and reviews. As an amateur carpenter there is seldom greater a joy than purchasing a new gizmo or whirlygig ...more »The Mad Carpenter: tech hacker
February 21st, 2009 at 12:38 am » Comments (0)
Ok, so I've been geeking on tech-hack all night, and I've been reminded of something I've wanted to do for months. I bought an old camera in a charity shop, and ...more »Tech-hacking, a marvellous source of inspiration
February 20th, 2009 at 9:39 pm » Comments (0)
I've been geeking all evening over at some weird blogs based on people who like to tech hack, and tinker with things. I'm watching a video right now about an elliptical ...more »Fix it day
February 17th, 2009 at 11:58 pm » Comments (0)
If I look contented in this picture, it's with good reason. I love doing things, especially handyman sort of things, so today, after getting back from collecting some money from the ...more »Flying car off to Timbuktu
January 16th, 2009 at 10:20 am » Comments (0)
Oh you are going to love this one. I know I do. A FLYLING FUCKING CAR is setting off from London to Timbuktu in Africa. Some complete nutter decided to build himself ...more »