MY GATES

Sick work man! Some of the cleanest metal work I've seen!

I'm going to have to get some tips from you. What grit do you usually finish off with? Do you have any pics of all the supplies you use for finish work? I usually just use roloc discs.

wow....that is very good man. i used to build custom stairs and hand rails for a company. we did steam fitting, structural fab--buildings, machines, about everything.

my favorite was making rails and stairs.

sweet job. great work. keep it up and the updates flowing

Baha, These are what i use for grinding and finishing. To the right is what i use to knock down everything smooth. Its an 80 grit quick change sanding pad. Works wonderfully. These have a seperate piece that mounts them to the grinder. Best money every spent in my opinion. They are not cheap but damn they work great. I will not use a grinding rock. Worst money ever spent in my opinion. I dont like the roloc disk because they are flimsy and you cant bare down any at all or shape the disk to the metal and work it. To the left is an 80 grit flap disk that i use to buff with for a finished product. The reason i buff everything so smooth is because these gates are powdercoated. Meaning that there is absolutely no bondo or filler of any sort in any of my gates. If tubing doesnt match up perfectly i step beads down and grind and repeat until i have a smooth surface with no dips. The circle piece in the cut out gate, after being bent was a quarter inch larger than the other tubing. So after splitting the difference i had an 1/8" drop from circle tubing to other tubing. I walked it down until its smooth and you cant even tell it





-Justin

Other side of the cut out gate finished. Wanted to hang it to make sure it didnt flex since there is not a whole lot of metal on the hinge side. Didnt even flex 1/32".






-Justin

Both sides slid together. This bish is 24ft long. Gah i love it. Im very happy with how it turned out.







-Justin

bro will u come teach my customers how to fabricate gates...i am tired of these guys getting shit powdercoated and then complaining of streakers....i keep telling them seal weld seal weld weal weld or leave gaps of at least 1/8 on abutements..they still dont listen..love that slider gate its a whopper... very nice work

lol that is not a slider gate. that is a double swing gate believe it or not.










-Justin

Amazing work, hopefully I can afford one of your gates when I'm ready to build my house lol

Simply awesome work Justin! Very impressed with the less than 1/32" drop. Testament to good manufacturing.