Getting my Russian shop set up

[DIYSwede]

Jerry - I certainly hope Sharon & you will escape unharmed by the "special military operation" nextdoors.

Seems like the Big Red Wheel suddenly became a Time Machine by instantly throwing the Motherland more than half a century back...

ATB
Johan

[jdurand]

Jerry - I certainly hope Sharon & you will escape unharmed by the "special military operation" nextdoors.

Seems like the Big Red Wheel suddenly became a Time Machine by instantly throwing the Motherland more than half a century back...

ATB
Johan

Well, the US/Ukraine was warned for 8 years to knock it off or Russia would stop them. At least the US bio weapons labs have been incinerated. They US admitted to 11, there were a lot more.

Anyway, the most impact here is with our business. Because of counter sanctions we had to adjust our stock holdings so our General Manager (native R) has 51%. We took some cash out of the bank in case of need, but it looks like that wouldn't be a problem.

We were just about to start selling again and then eBay and PayPal folded up shop. So, it looks like Yandex Payments or something like that and sales only to BRICS countries.

There is an inconvenience in getting payments we receive in the USA to here, but there's so many loopholes in the USA sanctions that I'm told we'll be able to route through a BRICS country without much trouble. We just won't have the 2 hour transfers from USA to Sberbank that we used to have.

On the plus side, we had to go into the region capitol, Krasnodar for some of our immigration paperwork so stopped at METRO (a German version of Costco/Sam's Club) and bought a metric crapload of supplies. Cheaper in bulk and they have a few things that our local market doesn't have.

Oh, and Ikea has closed. Not sure if that's good or bad.

No more political comments on the forum, this isn't the place. But I'll leave you with this

[Frank S]

I always liked the reactions of my students the first time they actually did something on their own. I imagine she will cherish that flowerpot stand repair for many years

[Frank S]

My problem with the thin wall stuff is to me it always seems I need to add more bracing for rigidity than with thicker materials, which leads to more work and more material, but sometimes you have to do what you have to do with what is available

[jdurand]

My problem with the thin wall stuff is to me it always seems I need to add more bracing for rigidity than with thicker materials, which leads to more work and more material, but sometimes you have to do what you have to do with what is available

Since this is a pretty lightweight item, the thin wall should be fine. But for other stuff the bigger tubing has thicker walls. I guess since it's used for fence a lot they had to go thicker or everything would fall over.

I can also weld on it without too much fear of vaporizing the tube. On the thin stuff I'm using 33 amps and 13 volts for 1mm FCAW wire.