Back Into The Backyard Workshop.

Via Joe

Some three decades ago I was finishing up a ten year stint at a large valve manufacturer and my employer made a gift to me of a surplus 8″ x 16″ sch. 80 pipe reducer along with an 8″ sch. 80 pipe end cap. My intent at the time was to weld them together and make a large bell. This was something I had done a few times before on a smaller scale.

This 4″ x 8″ sch. 80 bell presently hangs on the side of my work shop. It is in need of some sanding and a new coat of paint but that will have to wait until other things are finished.

I also did a larger 6″ x 12″ sch. 40 that was donated to the church I was attending at the time and is used as the call to service bell. But as the old saying goes, life is what happens when you’re planning to do other things and these parts languished in my storage building until last year when this project finally began.