The new welder (Ray) is working part time at the moment while he completes the last of his obligations at his previous job. Even working part time, we can already tell a big difference. For example, his first day he worked here at the shop my dad set him up on welding manual tunnel caps and he welded out 20 of them in one go.
Another night he welded up a large batch of formed front shock towers. Yesterday he worked a full day here at the shop and he and my dad were able to weld out a frame on the rotisserie (Leo C's track frame) and got most of the way through another frame on the jig (Andy M's city frame).
In the photo below, in front of Andy's frame you can see our new tubing rack. It is divided off to store every unique tube included in chassis construction (minus longer/larger tubes like lower frame rails, main hoops, halos, etc). Next week we plan to receive a big batch of tubing that will be turned into parts to load up the tubing rack.
About two weeks ago we lost power for 4 days. We were able to make the best of this down time by stringing extension cords from other buildings to prepare boards for 10 crates. Having all of the wood chopped up and ready to go will help us get kits shipped quicker.
We used two sets of the crate materials to build Waterdriver and K.Rollin's crates to send their stage 1 kits to the Tacoma YRC terminal.
