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Building a Aluminium I Beam Trailer

Started by gazza2009au, 25th Mar 2014 04:03 PM

4 Pages •: 1 2 3 4

100x100mm, 130x80mm, 50x50x3mm, 6082, aluminium, bar, beam, boat, build, building, complicated, cross, design, draw, dreaming, flat, google, grade, guys, ideal, nice, possibly, roll, search, shs, sufficient, thickness, trailer, undecided, wide

Replies: 58
Views: 32,465

Last Post By:: Last Post: 30th Mar 2015 11:45 PM; by soundman

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TRAILERS & OTHER FABRICATED STUFF

Cheap U-beams?

Started by Legion, 31st Mar 2014 03:18 PM

1/3, 150mm, 2.0mm, 75mm, 90mm, beams, bit, cheap, gather, gumtree, industrial, metalwork, nice, norm, patio, price, rebuild, repurpose, rotting, shs, sizes, strength, structural, timber, u-beam, u-beams, u14, ubeams, welding

Replies: 13
Views: 6,853

Last Post By:: Last Post: 8th Apr 2014 03:45 PM; by Legion

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WELDING

Welding thick to thin

Started by garfield, 16th Dec 2013 03:18 PM

1.6, 180, 45x45, 65x65, 6mm, advice, blow, camp, challenge, dilemma, gday, geoff, heat, hitch, hole, penetrate, receiver, shs, stuff, thick, thin, thinner, trailer, unimig, wall, weld, welding

Replies: 7
Views: 7,205

Last Post By:: Last Post: 29th Dec 2013 09:23 AM; by Yonnee

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TRAILERS & OTHER FABRICATED STUFF

Copper block idea - advice?

Started by Legion, 9th Sep 2013 12:51 AM

advice, bead, bit, block, build, butt, chamfer, clean, copper, edge, fit, flange, heat, idea, lower, material, matter, melt, melting, nice, piece, run, running, shs, sink, square, steel, straight, surely, unclamp

Replies: 8
Views: 6,741

Last Post By:: Last Post: 20th Oct 2013 01:30 AM; by Magnus88

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WELDING

Ideas for bending some 25 SHS

Started by SurfinNev, 28th Sep 2013 11:12 AM

35mm, act, attached, attaching, bender, bending, bends, bent, braces, canopy, ceiling, centre, drawing, fibreglass, ideas, inside, install, legs, length, nev, panel, proper, roof, section, shs, simple, straight, support, welded

Replies: 7
Views: 6,731

Last Post By:: Last Post: 13th Oct 2013 07:05 PM; by SurfinNev

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METALWORK GENERAL

CK Flex Loc torch

Started by Pete F, 6th Jun 2013 04:38 PM

absolute, accessories, cable, company, connection, couple, delight, flex, flexible, happened, happy, loc, mid, phone, piece, quality, quick, shs, snaps, stop, stream, super, tig, torch, torches, water, weld, welding, workshop, worldwide

Replies: 3
Views: 6,949

Last Post By:: Last Post: 9th Jun 2013 10:28 PM; by Pete F

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WELDING

Tipper Trailers

Started by buildspacetrain, 19th Oct 2010 09:02 PM

2 Pages •: 1 2

1/4, 4.5, 50x50x3, 6.5, ago, angle, appreciated, axle, basic, box, built, chaps, cheers, drawbar, feet, finished, frame, hydraulics, ideas, inch, location, pivot, rails, rear, shs, single, tipper, trailer, trailers, welding

Replies: 18
Views: 19,824

Last Post By:: Last Post: 23rd Feb 2013 12:00 PM; by ggates1963

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TRAILERS & OTHER FABRICATED STUFF

Long stroke drill press

Started by chalmers888, 27th Dec 2012 12:28 AM

100mm, 50mm, align, andrew, belt, bolt, carbatec, drill, drilling, driven, hafco, holes, lengths, long, lot, mind, operation, planning, press, project, shs, stroke, units

Replies: 10
Views: 8,509

Last Post By:: Last Post: 3rd Jan 2013 12:54 AM; by Ueee

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METALWORK GENERAL

There must be a better way - mesh to shs

Started by Legion, 11th Dec 2012 10:47 PM

bar, coplanar, fence, flat, frame, gate, heaps, intensive, labour, mesh, months, neat, panels, shs, weld

Replies: 8
Views: 5,850

Last Post By:: Last Post: 14th Dec 2012 02:14 PM; by Legion

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WELDING

Arc control with basic stick machines

Started by Legion, 3rd May 2011 02:50 PM

2 Pages •: 1 2

1.6mm, arc, basic, beginning, butts, control, fill, hover, inverter, lay, lays, length, lots, machines, material, metal, nice, opposite, penetration, pulling, rest, rods, short, shs, start, stick, tees, temperature, tips, weld

Replies: 29
Views: 17,447

Last Post By:: Last Post: 6th Dec 2012 05:19 AM; by beefy

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WELDING

How many would like a procedure for welding 1.6 Duragal

Started by Grahame Collins, 14th Jul 2012 05:20 PM

2 Pages •: 1 2

1.6, aware, box, completed, creating, duragal, electrode, enquiry, forum, grahame, harder, hollow, inverter, machine, picture, procedure, question, rhs, section, shs, stick, times, transformer, type, weld, welders, welding, written

Replies: 19
Views: 16,890

Last Post By:: Last Post: 11th Nov 2012 10:00 PM; by Grahame Collins

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WELDING

extending frame of tandem trailer

Started by firstchoicecp, 14th Oct 2012 11:59 AM

2.5, 45x45, 500, 50x50, 9x6, bolting, box, chassi, chassis, easily, extending, fit, frame, front, galavanised, guys, left, question, rear, remove, section, sections, shs, shsinto, slide, solid, tandem, thinking, trailer, weld

Replies: 5
Views: 5,558

Last Post By:: Last Post: 16th Oct 2012 05:00 PM; by jatt

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TRAILERS & OTHER FABRICATED STUFF

Enclosed Trailer design

Started by Avitus, 1st Jun 2012 09:27 PM

3 Pages •: 1 2 3

100x50x3, 25x25x2, 4mm, 60/40, 70x50x2, aluminum, ball, bar, brakes, building, chassis, composite, correct, covered, crack, design, designed, draw, enclosed, enclosure, location, materials;, panels, rhs, set, shs, tia, trailer, weight, wheels

Replies: 39
Views: 30,863

Last Post By:: Last Post: 1st Oct 2012 06:19 PM; by Wallie

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TRAILERS & OTHER FABRICATED STUFF

Home cutting tools

Started by Legion, 25th Aug 2012 11:13 PM

2 Pages •: 1 2

accuracy, angled, biggest, couple, cut, cuts, cutting, easier, fit, floor/pedestal, frames, grinder, handheld, home, inverter, life, light, mitres, mounted, notches, notching, power, project, reckon, shs, similar, square, steel, tools, trailers

Replies: 26
Views: 13,401

Last Post By:: Last Post: 14th Sep 2012 05:35 PM; by Grahame Collins

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METALWORK GENERAL

Made a new bench... Anyone need some firewood?

Started by Call Me Jack, 15th Jun 2012 01:50 AM

27mm, 32mm, ago, bars, bench, bought, calculations, coming, decided, firewood, frame, front, leftover, measurements, months, mounted, overkill, piece, plans, rebuild, rebuilt, rope, round, shs, steel, threads, trailer, tube, vice, welded

Replies: 3
Views: 5,884

Last Post By:: Last Post: 15th Jun 2012 06:59 PM; by Call Me Jack

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TRAILERS & OTHER FABRICATED STUFF

Flat Top Trailer for the Bush

Started by rod1949, 3rd Jan 2012 10:29 AM

2 Pages •: 1 2

1.67, 10x5, 2.4, 2.5mm, 3mm, aluminium, break, bush, checker, deck, flat, gear, pictures, plate, quad, rhs, shs, size, thickness, thousand, top, tow, trailer, traverse, tray, vehicle, wall, wide, width, words

Replies: 18
Views: 16,920

Last Post By:: Last Post: 12th Jun 2012 04:14 PM; by mid life crisis

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TRAILERS & OTHER FABRICATED STUFF

Advice for trellis

Started by nayler, 25th Aug 2010 07:15 PM

3 Pages •: 1 2 3

2.4, 40x40, advance, advice, air, climbing, compacted, drilled, fence, flex, gauge, grey, heavy, holes, introduce, metre, metres, move, perth, posts, running, sand, shs, soft, sticking, tall, tighten, trellis, vine, wire

Replies: 36
Views: 21,448

Last Post By:: Last Post: 11th Jun 2012 07:48 AM; by Steamwhisperer

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METALWORK GENERAL

A sorta-dodgy micro brake press

Started by Gerbilsquasher, 26th May 2012 04:02 PM

2 Pages •: 1 2

16mm, 6.0mm, 90-ish, applying, bit, block, brackets, brake, cheap, correcting, degree, doubt, fold, home, improved, line, lining, material, micro, over-fold, plate, press, punch, ram, round, shop, shs, situation, sortadodgy, tooling

Replies: 16
Views: 12,319

Last Post By:: Last Post: 27th May 2012 07:40 PM; by Oldneweng

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METALWORK GENERAL

Boat trailer structural repair

Started by WelderMick, 20th May 2012 10:30 PM

2nd, 50x50x, avoid, axle, badly, beam, boat, central, compromising, cross, cross-beam, cut, galvanising, guys, joins, measure, mick, middle, photo, pretty, rail, rails, repair, replace, shs, similar, size, structural, trailer, welding

Replies: 8
Views: 8,981

Last Post By:: Last Post: 23rd May 2012 10:21 AM; by Yonnee

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TRAILERS & OTHER FABRICATED STUFF

Some home made corner clamp tools

Started by Corgan, 3rd Jun 2011 06:34 PM

angle, bar, bit, bits, check, clamp, clamping, corner, crotch, deal, decided, design, easier, flat, frame, frames, home, idea, lying, piece, prefer, reading, rectangle, shs, sitting, square, tack, tools, tube, upright

Replies: 13
Views: 15,129

Last Post By:: Last Post: 30th Nov 2011 12:06 AM; by Dave J

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METALWORK GENERAL

cig 175i or 200

Started by fatty500, 8th Sep 2011 12:26 AM

2 Pages •: 1 2

$100, 175i, 2-4mm, 200, amp, cheers, cig, concerned, consideration, cycle, duty, easier, fatty, garage, gasless, guys, home, huge, mig, noob, plug-, portability, power, preference, robust, shs, stick, store;, welding, welds

Replies: 15
Views: 20,507

Last Post By:: Last Post: 3rd Oct 2011 11:42 PM; by Grahame Collins

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WELDING

Welding/Brazing Storage cage in Carpark questions

Started by johan99, 20th Jun 2011 11:48 PM

1.8mm, 50mm, bernzomatic, bike, brazing, build, cage, carpark, disadvantage, frame, frames, information, mapp, mmap, neighbour, option, painted, people, power, price, questions, reading, reasonable, shs, steel, storage, torch, weld, welding, welding or brazing

Replies: 2
Views: 6,350

Last Post By:: Last Post: 23rd Jun 2011 11:38 PM; by johan99

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WELDING

iron contamination from painted mild steel?

Started by Corgan, 17th Jun 2011 11:38 PM

act, advance, alright, barrier, clamping, close, concrete, contamination, corgan, flat, frames, height, i.e, iron, level, mild, paint, painted, perfectly, plan, protective, purpose, roll, shs, slab, stainless, steel, stock, surface, table

Replies: 6
Views: 6,032

Last Post By:: Last Post: 20th Jun 2011 10:01 PM; by Stustoys

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METALWORK GENERAL

Problems with 1.6mm Gemini rods

Started by Legion, 14th Sep 2010 04:44 PM

4 Pages •: 1 2 3 4

1.6mm, 16mm, 2.0mm, 4-6, 60a, angles, arcs, bead, bit, clean, fillets, gemini, heap, join, joining, magnets, material, messing, penetration, perfect, play, problems, pushing, quickly, rods, section, short, shs, surface, weld

Replies: 48
Views: 31,970

Last Post By:: Last Post: 21st Mar 2011 10:39 AM; by Legion

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WELDING

Horizontal bandsaw or cold cut saw

Started by Nielsen, 1st Aug 2010 01:12 AM

$1000, 100x100, bandsaw, budget, chinese, cold, cut, horizontal, ideally, phase, shs, similar, single, suit

Replies: 6
Views: 6,881

Last Post By:: Last Post: 14th Sep 2010 10:44 PM; by dazza3690

Forum:
METALWORK - Machinery, Equipment, MARKET

Total NOOB begs nicely for help.

Started by fatboycrash, 19th Jul 2010 11:35 AM

5mm, barely, bead, begs, bench, blowing, bought, box, broke, buzz, cut, helpfull, hold, holes, length, lengths, love, nicely, noob, piece, run, running, scrap, shs, steel, time, top, total, weld, welding

Replies: 10
Views: 7,909

Last Post By:: Last Post: 21st Jul 2010 08:50 AM; by fatboycrash

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WELDING

Advice needed

Started by scanfor, 22nd Feb 2010 09:49 PM

3mm, 40mm, advice, angle, angles, approximately, assume, bead, fit, ladder, left, needed, nice, racks, run, rust, scott, shs, slot, socket, sockets, split, steel, suggestions, thin, trailer, undoubtedly, untreated, welded, wide

Replies: 3
Views: 5,809

Last Post By:: Last Post: 23rd Feb 2010 06:25 AM; by BenM78

Forum:
WELDING

S.S. Distortion?

Started by DoctorWu, 5th Feb 2010 01:31 PM

1.6, 20mm, 56amps, avoid, bending, distortion, electrode, filler, form, joining, pieces, running, s.s, shs, stainless, steel, test, tig, top, wall

Replies: 8
Views: 6,416

Last Post By:: Last Post: 7th Feb 2010 10:02 AM; by rathkool

Forum:
WELDING

Coach Screws and RHS

Started by DMC666, 29th Jan 2010 12:03 AM

bolts, building, coach, free, gday, horse, join, nuts, o.k, objects, pointy, rhs, screws, sharp, shs, stable, structurally

Replies: 4
Views: 6,439

Last Post By:: Last Post: 29th Jan 2010 03:50 PM; by DMC666

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METALWORK GENERAL

TIG electrode positive/negative

Started by Pete F, 19th Sep 2009 02:42 PM

1.6-2.0, electrode, gauge, hooked, incorrectly, initially, machine, material, negative, pete, positive, positive or negative, positive/negative, posting, shs, steel, switch, thin, tig, understand, welding

Replies: 6
Views: 7,196

Last Post By:: Last Post: 21st Sep 2009 10:45 PM; by Edster

Forum:
WELDING

Bubble at end of TIG weld

Started by Pete F, 2nd Sep 2009 04:57 PM

2.0, arc, brush, brushing, bubble, bubbling, bunch, clean, cleaned, drill, end, finished, form, gas, gday, guys, looked, noticed, pain, pete, run, s/s, shs, tig, weld, welding, welds, wire, wondering, wrong

Replies: 7
Views: 7,835

Last Post By:: Last Post: 2nd Sep 2009 07:46 PM; by Grahame Collins

Forum:
WELDING

Welding Supplies around Hornsby?

Started by Pete F, 16th Aug 2009 06:19 PM

1.6, 10+, basically, bit, bucks/m, bunnings, charging, cheers, current, expecting, filler, gday, guys, hornsby, lines, literally, luck, metal, moment, money, pete, reckon, run, shs, streets, supplement, supplier, supplies, tig, welding

Replies: 2
Views: 6,282

Last Post By:: Last Post: 16th Aug 2009 07:55 PM; by Pete F

Forum:
WELDING

"Tube Ends" for thicker-walled Tubing?...

Started by Batpig, 18th Jul 2009 10:05 AM

Replies: 3
Views: 5,532

Last Post By:: Last Post: 18th Jul 2009 08:22 PM; by Batpig

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METALWORK GENERAL

Old SHS thor-2 welder

Started by BeaverGU, 22nd Jun 2009 05:31 PM

20kg, bad, biga@#, bit, cheers, copper, danish, fibreglass, free, heavy, info, inside, manufacturer, model-, newbie, overly, picked, replace, s.hansen, shs, svejsemaskiner, thier, thor-2, thor2, welder, wiring

Replies: 0
Views: 4,423

Last Post By:: Last Post: 22nd Jun 2009 05:31 PM; by BeaverGU

Forum:
WELDING

Bandsaw blade - I ripped a chunk of teeth off !!

Started by Matty5700, 17th Jun 2009 10:41 AM

14tpi, 2-3, 40x40x3mm, band, bandsaw, blade, blades, chunk, chunks, cutting, figure, h&f, matt, missing, occured, purpose, ripped, shs, sitting, starting, teeth, trashed, wrong

Replies: 12
Views: 7,032

Last Post By:: Last Post: 18th Jun 2009 12:23 AM; by wannabe

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METALWORK GENERAL

Welding SHS

Started by Karlval, 5th Mar 2009 07:10 PM

1.6mm, 120, 2.5mm, 20mm, amperage, amps, arc, butt, gauge, handyman, improve, jobs, karl, knocking, lower, mig, moving, pieces, practicing, result, rods, scrap, shs, steel, stick, track, type, weld, welding, wondering

Replies: 6
Views: 9,418

Last Post By:: Last Post: 15th Apr 2009 09:19 PM; by Karlval

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WELDING

Wall mounted racks.

Started by Yonnee, 21st Feb 2009 11:02 AM

2.5mm, 300mm, 350mm, 40mm, added, car, centres, depend, depending, extended, finished, garage, ground, happy, mount, mounted, outriggers, price, racks, requirements, set, shs, space, steel, support, thickness, upright, waldos, wall, wifes

Replies: 2
Views: 6,078

Last Post By:: Last Post: 22nd Feb 2009 12:32 AM; by Yonnee

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TRAILERS & OTHER FABRICATED STUFF

ozito 90 Amp Mig Welder

Started by Gaza, 29th Sep 2007 07:49 PM

2 Pages •: 1 2

$500, 1.5-5mm, amp, baby, baged, bit, blokes, borrow, bunnings, cig, comments, gear, guys, hate, looked, manly, mig, ozito, ozmw90, price, rhs, shs, silmar, size, started, stick, unit, welder, welding

Replies: 23
Views: 36,397

Last Post By:: Last Post: 9th Dec 2008 04:06 PM; by Edd

Forum:
WELDING

welding brass

Started by Gaza, 3rd Dec 2008 06:59 PM

base, brass, plate, shs, solder, sydney, weld, welding

Replies: 3
Views: 5,535

Last Post By:: Last Post: 7th Dec 2008 10:59 AM; by Grahame Collins

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WELDING

In the name of learning...rate my welds

Started by JontyG, 2nd Dec 2008 07:29 PM

0.8mm, 2tsup, 3mm, absolutely, argonshield, attached, average, criticism, furniture, gates, hopeless, hoping, hours, jonty, learning, learningrate, mig, outdoor, pics, played, practice, projects, rate, realise, recently, shs, stick, welder, welds, wire

Replies: 4
Views: 6,449

Last Post By:: Last Post: 2nd Dec 2008 09:47 PM; by Dean

Forum:
WELDING

Waldo's Dusty Enclosure

Started by Waldo, 29th Jun 2008 01:49 AM

3 Pages •: 1 2 3

2mm, 35mm, 44gal, bag, bit, clearer, drum, dusty, e.g, enclosure, erected, finally, gal, gday, house, intentions, overkill, picture, plan, post, shed, shots, shs, stage, substitute, time, tomorrow, waldo, wall, watching

Replies: 34
Views: 21,732

Last Post By:: Last Post: 26th Nov 2008 10:49 PM; by Waldo

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METALWORK GENERAL

Sizing for one square steel section inside another

Started by jeremy, 7th Aug 2008 08:56 PM

1-3/4, 1-3/4inch, 16gauge, 45mm, 50mm, appreciated, australia, decrease, equipment, equivalant, exercise, inch, increase, inside, jeremy, length, movement, piece, recommended, requires, section, shs, site, sizing, slide, square, steel, thicknesses, web, wondering

Replies: 2
Views: 5,702

Last Post By:: Last Post: 7th Aug 2008 09:50 PM; by Grahame Collins

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METALWORK GENERAL

steel price increase

Started by wonka, 14th Jul 2008 09:33 PM

2 Pages •: 1 2

$12, $16, 1.6mm, 20mm, 25%, 34%, curious, huge, increase, length, lengths, local, people, price, salesperson, shs, steel, supplier, surprise, told

Replies: 16
Views: 10,750

Last Post By:: Last Post: 25th Jul 2008 06:44 PM; by Gristle

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METALWORK GENERAL

Abbreviations??? Help please.

Started by Scribbly Gum, 12th Sep 2007 05:45 PM

abbreviations, colleague, hollow, ideas, meaning, moment, rectangular, rhs, section, shs, square

Replies: 10
Views: 5,885

Last Post By:: Last Post: 18th Sep 2007 10:57 PM; by Mech Engineer

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METALWORK GENERAL

Bending RHS & SHS

Started by geocacher, 3rd Sep 2007 01:27 AM

100mm, 25x25, 6mm, advance, afterward, angle, bend, benders, bending, buying, corner, corners, couple, covered, dave, drop, ebay, forum, inside, mate, mig, nice, ply, rhs, shs, sloted, thinking, tube, weekend, welded

Replies: 10
Views: 12,258

Last Post By:: Last Post: 4th Sep 2007 01:04 AM; by geocacher

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METALWORK GENERAL

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