{"id":199,"date":"2025-08-14T19:30:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T23:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/?p=199"},"modified":"2025-08-14T19:30:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T23:30:13","slug":"engine-holder-prep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/index.php\/2025\/08\/14\/engine-holder-prep\/","title":{"rendered":"Engine Holder &#8211; Prep"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today I took the 6 pieces of 1&#8243; square tubing purchased at a local metal shop for $9 and cut out the pieces required for the welded assembly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"552\" height=\"774\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_0094-Medium-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-207 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_0094-Medium-1.jpg 552w, https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_0094-Medium-1-214x300.jpg 214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 552px) 100vw, 552px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>Tool of the day was at my neighbors.  I had a metal chop saw for a while, but sadly it was James&#8217; and so it&#8217;s no longer in my Garage.   I setup and measured all the pieces I&#8217;d need from the 6 24&#8243; lengths of 1&#8243; sq tube.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"625\" height=\"670\" data-id=\"208\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_0095-Medium.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_0095-Medium.jpg 625w, https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_0095-Medium-280x300.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"588\" height=\"680\" data-id=\"209\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_0093-Medium.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_0093-Medium.jpg 588w, https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_0093-Medium-259x300.jpg 259w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 588px) 100vw, 588px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"660\" height=\"554\" data-id=\"210\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_0097-Medium.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_0097-Medium.jpg 660w, https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_0097-Medium-300x252.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Neighbor setup a working table for me to measure and debur and you can see on the floor the finished pieces as well as some left-overs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The last photo (without the book) is the assembly table where we&#8217;ll start to tack weld and assemble.  Ended the day today with all pieces ready and marked for assembly.  Tomorrow we (neighbor) welds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I took the 6 pieces of 1&#8243; square tubing purchased at a local metal shop for $9 and cut out the pieces required for the welded assembly. Tool of the day was at my neighbors. I had a metal &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/index.php\/2025\/08\/14\/engine-holder-prep\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":206,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions\/211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}