musings from the lab

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Location: Manhattan, Kansas, United States

7.2.06

Modern Art

For all who tried to call me the past two weekend, sorry but Nextel does not provide complete coverage across Kansas.

Lamont is down along a river valley so even if they did provide coverage, it would be spotty (think IN SR 25). Lamont is also on the fringe of oil country. A week ago, we visited an abandoned oil field powerhouse. It was a big engine that powered a huge (like 30’ diameter) belt wheel that then raised and lowered all the pumps on the site (maybe 10 or 15 pumps).

Really cool.



Not as cool as this modern art.



So this is the work of Alan Banwart and me. It was the first time MIG welding for either of us (I think) and is a lot easier a old stick welder. For each weld, one did one side and the other did the opposite. We also took turns placing the additional piece.


Made in the USA.

3 Comments:

Blogger Anon said...

you and Alan did a be-a-u-ti-ful job MIG welding.

I made a strain gage once. :)








*random*, huh?

9:29 PM, February 08, 2006  
Blogger Leo Marvin Lestino said...

Wow...good enough for the guggenheim.

12:06 AM, February 10, 2006  
Blogger Tifani said...

That is great! I"m thinking art museum for sometime in the future!

12:53 AM, February 15, 2006  

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