Quote Originally Posted by jakeru View Post
once I even set up a booth at a model hobby expo where I not only met people and handed out cards, but I actually brought in a bunch of welding and metal preparation equipment including my vertical wheeled air compressor and my Everlast Super200P, and set up in a a corner booth with 240V service behind a custom arc ray curtain I fabricated, and welded up people's new and broken model airplane, battlebot, etc projects they'd bring in.
That sounds like a fun (and hopefully profitable) way to spend a day- meeting up with people with the shared interest, hearing their stories and welding up their broken parts. Is it an annual or every-so-often expo? You could imagine people thinking, hey i'll go to the expo, and that welder guy can fix up this part. If you posted pictures of that landing gear rebuild you did some time ago I bet you'd have a line at the door.

Nearby there's an annual event called the Sheep and Wool festival (more interesting than it sounds), and every exhibitor from the 4H-ers to the concession folks to the people selling skeins of wool brought animals or gear on a trailer... I've wondered about how a mobile welding guy would do if he went from tent to tent and offered to fix trailers on the spot, in the parking lot.

PS I think your Craigs List stories would be a blast!