Re: FWIW first welding job, 2 years on

"Bob La Londe"  wrote in message news:vk72q0$61ss$1@dont-email.me...
There is something to be said for trying to finish a project on a
Saturday afternoon, and being able to make a part complete the job
today.  As opposed to waiting until Monday to run down to the store if
you have the time on Monday and if the store actually has the part you
need.  Or worse have to order the part and wait until Monday until they
ship it... at the earliest.
I've spent $100 (or more) worth of my time to make a $2 part more than
once to finish a job and get it DONE rather than having another
unfinished job on the list waiting on parts.
Bob La Londe
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I'm likely to want something I can't buy, like those bolts threaded far enough that the solid shank bore the shear load and the flange nut bottomed on the threads held the parts just free enough to pivot. Most of the sawmill and gantry bolts have been turned smaller and beveled on the end to help align the heavy parts.
When I was driving lasers at microwave frequencies I made everything at home because of severe packaging and operating constraints, and uncertainty of what I could get away with until the signal path had been partly completed and tested on a Vector Network Analyzer. I even made 0-80 x 1-1/4" fillister head screws and hand-fitted a heat spreader to a warped heatsink too thin to fly-cut.
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20190030264/downloads/20190030264.pdf
622 Mbps is the T5 link speed.