Yes you should. Or my house. I have a 220v hobart there as well. That I run mixed Co2/argon with. Welds like a dream

 

so i stopped by lowes and picked up some snap fasteners. the male side has a screw in it to attach to the homemade bracket, and the female side is like a regular fastener like a rivet where it holds the canvas in place. the instructions inform me that i need to drill a 1/8"hole into the material (steel) and screw it into place. of the 6 that came in the package, 2 broke off. i went back to lowes, told them what happened and got another set. same thing happened. i even tried drilling the hole slightly larger which you guessed it, to big. i then went to michaels (arts/craft store) and picked up some regular style snap fasteners and found that the fasteners post? the part that attaches the 2 pieces together is to short. i cannot find a snap fastener with a longer post to make this work. getting bit by mosquitoes and the sun now gone made it even worse to work on. if you know of another place that sells a longer shaft fastener id really appreciate it!

 

Are u making a soft top?

 

I think they're for his bib overalls

 

i just made a huge post about this setup and when i clicked submit, it signed me out and i lost everything.....im just going to post the pictures now.

 

Oh man! Totally happened to me a few times! Sucks.

 

finished project



original fastener used was a 1/4in hex self tapper. this is to tall for the snap fastener and wil not work



#8 1/4in phillips head screw does the trick.



contour of the aluminum flat bar i used along with the brackets i made out of steel that bolt to the factory bolt locations on top. the brackets are 2in long 1in wide and 1/8in thick. i drilled an 1/8in hole for the screws and the bottom side has a hole large enough for the topper bolts to go through. this was flat steel that bent with a vice and a hammer.



snap fastener kit from michaels (arts/crafts store) the snaps and punch tools were about 10 dollars. i used the tool for the female side through the fabric, the male side i used the screws as the rivet style connection was to short to go through 2 pieces of metal.



this is the bostitch fastener kit i got from lowes that broke off when it hit the steel 4 times. i used an impact drill the first time and a screw driver the last 2 times and gave up. the instructions say to drill an 1/8in hole in the material you are attaching them to. steel is not a material these will bolt to. this is where ace hardware came into play with the #8 phillips head screws.



bracket installed. this has the hex head screws which i swapped out for the phillips head screws.



well ive spent the past 2 days dealing with this and mosquitoes. it wouldnt be so bad i had i saved my password on here and lost that entire write up. i need a beer i feel like this dude. have a good night.

 

Nice job!!!now its almost winter...put the hardtop back on.

 

Awesome job buddy. Looks good.

That pic of the dude is hilarious.

 

Did some fishing yesterday and caught a few nice ones. Crappie was about 12in long, first bass id guess 3-4lbs. In the background is my yota that just happened to start some clutch slipping. I have a spare disc/pp and a friend has a flywheel lathe so hopefully I can get this fixed for little to nothing.

 

Nice lookin fish!

where was that? I caught a few crappie yesterday too, just a bunch of dinks though

 

Private pond down by tecumseh. Lepa was with me as well.

 

Let me know if you need anything. I have multiple Flywheels laying around for the taking and I have a few decent Clutch discs. You can have whatever you want.

 

Can you resurface a flywheel with the students? If you can do that I'd take one.

 

theres a clutch and flywheel still bolted to the 3.0 I bought at well. not sure if they are the same or not

 

We do not have the lathe. But I have a guy that machines them for 40$

 

I usually just get a tigerpaw disc on a grinder and gently smooth out the flywheel.that is if its not to bad a shape.by the way that guy in the fishing pics looks like a unionhand Weiner.haha.nice softop and nice crappy,I mean crappie.

 

Hey don't make fun of him, I have that same exact hat lol.

 

My bad...

 

I prefer this hat when I'm feeshin tho lol.