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welding stainless steel
Thursday, October 3 2024
I suppose I shouldn't be too surprised that I woke up this morning with a moderate hangover, the first I'd had since before the trip to Germany. It made me not too eager to get out of bed, but Neville had an appointment at Pretty Pet Parlor to get his nails done at 10:30am, and I needed to walk the dogs before that. So I got my ass in gear and did all the usual morning chores, though I then climbed back in bed and lingered for awhile watching a YouTube video about a cruise ship bought by some ignorant crypto bros who thought they could found a libertarian utopia in the ocean if they could park a boat in international waters. I then read the article the YouTube video was apparently inspired by at the Guardian. That's the kind of story I just can't get enough of. In the course of creating a fabulous independent libertarian utopia free of taxes and regulations, these knuckleheads got a lesson in why taxation and regulations are a necessity no matter what your intentions are. Because without taxes, who pays for, in this case, the upkeep of the ship? And without regulations, who makes sure your neighbor doesn't ruin your life by getting a yappy dog?
Neville came on the walk this morning, something he never does with Gretchen, unless she's walking with Nancy or our neighbor A. As I couldn't risk Neville getting distracted by a big chipmunk mining operation in the forest, I had to cut the walk short, making just a small loop through the forest west of the Farm Road from only about half way down it.
While Neville was having his nails done at Pretty Pet Parlor, I thought I'd try taking Charlotte back to the Forester and leaving her alone in it while I went back to wait and then retrieve Neville. But she immediately started whining and making a fuss, so I brought her back with me. By then, Neville's nails were already done.
While I was in the area, I thought I'd go to the Harbor Freight store and see if they sold welding sticks specifically for stainless steel, since I had a stainless steel eyebolt and wanted to weld the little gap in the eye (which compromises its strength). But there was no mention at all of stainless steel anywhere in Harbor Freight's large welding section. I ended up just buying some magnets designed to hold pieced together while welding them as well as a circular blade for an oscillating tool.
Back home, I decided to just weld my stainless steel eyebolt with a regular welding stock, folding a washer in half and cramming it first into the little gap I wanted to fill. The weld I produced seemed good, though, since the filler material is not stainless steel, it will probably rust.
Gretchen returned in the mid afternoon, having come up the Taconic Turnpike, hoping to run across some bakers she knew in Poughkeepsie but then running across someone else she knew instead. Something similar happened in Kingston. When she got home, she took Charlotte for her afternoon walk and Neville decided not to go. He really doesn't seem to enjoy walking if Gretchen is the only human on the walk.
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