Getting lots of gas metal horizontal and vertical down practice at work this week Moved over the the caster install for our racks. Let me know what you think. http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a46/mrkil2/A4AE24B7-F4C3-426D-8593-2B915E72F1D4-1239-00000170AC3F94B9.jpg Hmmmmm wish the pic was clearer....

I will be going for my tig aswell. My goal is allposition in all 4 and then look at more in stainless and aluminum

I actually enjoy tig the most. It's just so much more relaxing. I like how precise it is.

I purposely left them out. When I have to renew in 2 years all I have to do is my 4g and that automatically renews all the rest
It's cheaper than renewing each seperately.

I also was limited with time at school. I only had 6 months to go from never welding before to this point.

I'm super happy!
I just got a call from the school I went to and they let me know that 2 tests that the CWB failed for lack of fusion have passed my challenge!

So I have 10 tickets as it stands.
Smaw 1g 2g 3g
Gmaw 1g 2g 3g
Fcaw 1g 2g 3g
Gtaw 1g

I like it
It's a bit easier to navigate on my ithingy

Nothing to fancy, but here is what I have been building since I started my new job on Thursday. http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a46/mrkil2/3698C930-2842-4D6C-BF01-29500F8C30E2-159-0000000C334700DF.jpg I weld the ends on a jig and the head welder putsthe back together as wellas adding the wheels and...

I had that when I was in school for about a week. I chalked it up to eye strain.

Funny you say not to stop there I got a message from my old instructor that wants to take me to a company he refers the best students to. I have a welding test there tomorrow. It is all tig in an air conditioned environment and starts at $22 He says that my tig right now will get me hired as a junio...

Thanks everybody
It does feel pretty good happening so quick. I didn't even ask what the pay rate was. I told him I would like around 15.
As I see it anything is better than nothing and it's good experience that can go on my resume if nothing else.

All of their stuff is hard wire with 75-25.

So I gets a call at 2pm today asking if I can come in for an interview at 3pm. I get spiffied up and head out the door. They give me a quick interview and take me down to the floor. He shows me around and asks me what equipment I'm familiar with. He then sends over the shop foerman. He hands me a bu...

Did you get any tickets during the course?
The title said no certs, which is why I ask.

It would have been nice to have gotten to see some acid tests to gauge how well we where penetrating. Sometimes we would feel like we where flying blind. Btw a big thanks to everyone on the forum and to Jodi for offering so much help to everybody. The videos he has posted made it much easier to know...

Yeah sorry i mis-typed it says ndt and ndt but should have read nde and ndt.

We did cover ndt and ndt but only in theory. We only did bend test in practical.

All our theory was based on the Larry Jeffus books.
All of the codes we dealt with where CWB.

Thanks
We did OA cutting and scarfing, Plasma and blueprint reading

So today was my last class. I finished off by trying my hand at Al tig Here's my results from today. http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a46/mrkil2/5789DA99-5B48-4002-AF27-E292A154B8A6-1394-000001FE1499C421.jpg 1/8" lap, T and outside corner http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a46/mrkil2/9B4B416B-B5E...

I have the Thermalarc 181i and have not been happy with the tig torch that comes with it. When I first set it up i had trouble getting enough argon, causing a kind of sparkler action. It seems with the diffuser supplied would not let the end cap seal. Switching to a weldcraft diffuser sorted that ou...

Interesting. I'll have to look into that.

I've been working on this in school for a bit. My wife collects old tin robots, so I wanted to make he one cor her birthday. It is finished. I'm going to work on some patina methods to give it some "age" It's all 1/16 sheet with the exception of the feet and arms that are 1/8. http://i8.ph...

There are 3
Times when I have seem this lately.
1 tig gun plugged in but machine was still set to stick
2 reverse polarity. Electrode +
3 someone in my both stood on my agron line.......

I used to buy tools at our version of HB called Princess Auto.
Then I realized that buy real tools at the welding supplier is alot of times cheaper.

Btw nice looking table and I like the idea of having the vice on a receiver.

Thanks Alexa

Hey guys thanks for all of the advice, it's really appreciated. Just to clarify some things, it is actually a 3gf joint. 30 on one side and a 90 on the other. We are not permitted to grind test plates at all. I started the day by doing some t joints vertical to see what is giving me penetration and ...

Hey guys Looking cor advice on my 3G gas metal with backing plate issues. I am running at 19 and 220 with no visable issues other than a lack of root fusion and a lack second pass to root fusion. This is an inconcistent problem that comes and goes every 2nd or 3rd test plate. I was trying to run a v...

delraydella wrote:That's awesome!

Does she have a sister?


Other Steve

Bwahahaha nope. Just two brothers and neither of them can cook