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Another Homebrew Lightbar

One of my best buds asked me if I would be willing to make another light bar, one that would mount to his stock bumper. This is what I came up with. Its my first start to finish fab job done 100% by myself. Its defiantly not perfect, not even close. But it will look good and do its job in a sturdy fashion. Its a much better bar than the one on my XJ.

Materials:
50" of 1" square tubing
26" of flat stock

Tools:
Angle Grinder
Bench Grinder
Hand Drill (Drill press would have been much better)
Flux-Core Welder.

This was the first time I had used Flux-Core in our welder. I had only used MIG before. For some reason flux was so much easier for me to dial in and create a decent bead.

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I can't wait to see the thing mounted on his rig. I will do my best to add pics once it does.

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It's nice to see what can be done with such very minimal tools.

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Yea it is, Andy. And like you told another member here; once you work on something yourself you get the confidence to do it again. Not a direct quote, and I think you were referring to a lift. The same lesson can be pulled from this though. I now can think of only METAL...I need more metal!

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Nice job

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Thanks Gar.

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ya, I have not fab'd with metal yet, don't have a welder.  One thing that I would love to learn to do though.

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It had defiantly been fun messing around with the welder and learning what works and what doesn't.

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He has still got some bending, pushing, and pulling to make it level. Mine looked worse than his when I first put it on, but now it looks good. I am still happy with how it turned out. And for any critics, it will look better and more straight soon. These are pics he sent me today.

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all three

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cool. I am very impressed.

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His lightbar is now straight and makes it look even better. Plus we just made a d ring mount for the front of his rig that will look awesome with two 3/4" d rings. I will post pics when I can find the camera.

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Thank you Chevelle!

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