{"id":110,"date":"2006-03-14T23:16:52","date_gmt":"2006-03-15T05:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imheavyduty.com\/?p=78"},"modified":"2006-03-14T23:16:52","modified_gmt":"2006-03-15T05:16:52","slug":"balls-of-steel-stainless-steel-that-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/2006\/balls-of-steel-stainless-steel-that-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Balls of Steel, Stainless Steel That Is"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.weareheavyduty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/ballsofsteel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-541\" title=\"Stainless steel ball scuplture\" src=\"http:\/\/www.weareheavyduty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/ballsofsteel.jpg\" alt=\"Stainless steel ball scuplture\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I made this when I was working in a sheet metal shop in a shipyard. Why? I do not know, but it probably had something to do with &#8220;the man&#8221; getting on my nerves and me reacting by doing a little &#8220;goverment job.&#8221; This ball is made of 16 gauge stainless steel. Two discs were cut on a circle shear. Then they were taken to a spinning lathe where the disks were shaped against a hemispherical steel mold. Before the two shells were TIG welded together I decided to put a large steel ball, maybe 1.5 inches in diameter, inside. Then they were welded along the seam and the center holes were carefully filled. Finally, the ball was ground smooth(ish) on a belt sander.<\/p>\n<p>In hindsight I wish I had tried to partially fill it with water instead of a steel ball. Although that would have made the welding difficult I think it would be more interesting. Still, when you hold it there is a compelling urge to whip it in a circle to feel, and hear, the internal ball whirring around. But it&#8217;s like playing the drums &#8212; fun for you and irritating for everyone else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I made this when I was working in a sheet metal shop in a shipyard. Why? I do not know, but it probably had something to do with &#8220;the man&#8221; getting on my nerves and me reacting by doing a little &#8220;goverment job.&#8221; This ball is made of 16 gauge stainless steel. Two discs were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[348,353],"tags":[446,404,421],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-handmade","category-tracy","tag-handmade","tag-metalwork","tag-sculpture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}