Friday, October 9, 2015

Welding WIP

Getting ready for the final install...

Below image: the final frames (top) new and improved, painted with primer and studio paint, which blends them in with the wall behind. Not unnoticeably, but discreetly.
It would be nice to have the conveyors mounted to the wall with no frame/bracket in sight, but this is extraordinarily tricky for health and safety reasons. 200+ kilograms of heavy metal equipment protruding from a drywall? Not a good plan. The force of gravity would have a thing or two to say about that. (As Pete says, 'physics is nature's way of inconveniencing lazy artists...') But hooking it over and securing it to the top = far more safe, tried and tested.


The original harness-style design (bottom) - stroke of luck that my steel got stolen and I had the chance and the time to re-think the design. 

Accidentally welded the first two the wrong way around (right 2) - lucky again that I bought more steel than I needed the second time round!