How to Change Your Big Rig

There may come a time when you need to re-think how your equipment is working for you. Do you try to sell what you own or do you you re-purpose your equipment to meet the needs of your changing business.

If it’s a large industrial or commercial change you might need the help of a great welding shop to make the physical changes to your equipment or to bring your ideas to life.

The Welding Shop Calgary is no stranger to creating custom welding projects for any idea that might suit your immediate needs.

Like this rig that needed a custom welded flat deck to meet its changing job description.

Need To Replace a Stairway

If you need to replace existing infrastructure let us help. This stair and landing design was brought to us on paper and needed to be specifically fit to a location. Here is an example of The Welding Shop Calgary’s upgrade for this kind of project.

Give us a call to discuss your next design and see how we can quickly bring it to life.

Phone: 403-273-7717
Email: theweldingshop@telus.net

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Calgary Stampede July 6-15, 2018

Celebrating 106 years of the Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth!

Join us at the parade Friday July 6th, 2018 with this year’s Grand Marshal Olympic snowboarder Mark McMorris. The parade procession through downtown Calgary streets is the annual kick-off to the Calgary Stampede. It begins at 8:55 am, but head down to the parade route early to ensure you get a great viewing spot.

For 10 days it’s a citywide celebration of true western hospitality in a party atmosphere!
So much to see and do…

The Calgary Stampede has grown into one of the world’s richest rodeos, one of Canada’s largest festivals and a significant tourist attraction for the city.

The Stampede attracts over one million visitors per year and features an exciting parade, thrilling rodeos, the midway, concerts, stage shows, agricultural competitions, chuckwagon racing, First Nations exhibitions and so much more…

Don’t miss out! Head downtown to the parade Friday morning and on to the Stampede grounds for some foot-stomping, heart-pounding action and a truly memorable experience.

For event information visit www.calgarystampede.com/sta…/attractions/parade/watch-parade

Worlds Best Ping Pong Table

The Welding Shop Calgary Solid Metal Ping Pong TableBefore you make the worlds best ping pong table you have to take a moment to see where the common particle board, stuck in the corner of the basement, suburban ping pong table came from.

Table Tennis or Ping Pong, originated in Victorian England, where it was played among the upper-class as an after-dinner parlour game.

It has been suggested that makeshift versions of the game were developed by British military officers in the 1860s or 1870s, who set up books across the middle of a normal table and hit a golf ball back and forth using other books as paddles.

The next major innovation was by James W. Gibb, a British enthusiast of table tennis, who discovered novelty celluloid balls on a trip to the US in 1901

In the 1950s, paddles that used a rubber sheet combined with an underlying sponge layer changed the game dramatically.

The table itself underwent various iterations as technology advanced until 2018 when The Welding Shop Calgary hand welded the first Full Metal Ping Pong Table.

Want one? Get one!

Give us a call 403-273-7717 or get in touch and we’ll build you a Ping Pong table to last a lifetime.

Need Extra Tool Storage?

As your business expands so will the amount of equipment and space you need to haul that equipment around.

What are the solutions to the need for more space.

Well, you could go out and buy a big new expensive trailer but if you just need a little more room for some new tools, why not give The Welding Shop Calgary a call at 403-273-7717 and see if we have a solution to your expanding business needs.

This trailer was just running out of space when it’s owner decided that it still had a few more good years in it and with an add on tool cage to the front he gained the extra space he needed for his expanding tool needs.
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How to Fix Your RV/Trailer Hot Water Tank

The Welding Shop Calgary RV Water Heater RepairWith the great weather everyone is getting their RV’s and Trailers out of hibernation. Some stored in good health in the yard or driveway, others at a local self storage facility just waiting for their owners to come and dust of the dash board.

Here’s a common occurrence that many will encounter after such a cold winter. If you left some water in your RV or Trailer water heater you could be left with a nice crack in the casing.

If you are one of the unlucky one’s, don’t panic.

The Welding Shop Calgary can get that water heater fixed up good as new in no time and for a small percentage of the cost of going and getting a new one. If you take a picture of the damage and send it to us we can estimate the cost and down time and get you on the road.

For a free estimate or more information give us a call at 403-273-7717 or contact us online.
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Everyone Needs an Upgrade

Every now and then everyone needs an upgrade.

The Welding shop Calgary built these brand new hoppers for the City of Calgary asphalt plant but that was only half the battle. Getting them into place took a little nudge and a big crane but the upgrade was a success.

Check back next week to see a really cool custom tilt deck trailer we’re working on.