I second that obsewrvation!
JohnD
Graduate
1 Semester of trade school welding
Grade: A+
Several efforts at garage welding
Grade: D- up to D+ with a bunch of practice on the thin stuff with the
four-position Hobart wire feed welder from Tractor Supply Co.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles Christ [SMTP:cfchrist@earthlink.net]
> Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2003 8:40 AM
> To: spridgets@autox.team.net
> Subject: so ya wanna go ta school ta learn ta weld?
>
> for mig welding i would reccomend getting the welder and practicing on
> some
> scraps from a local body shop's junk pile! use real automotive gauge
> scrap
> metal. welding steel plates and structural metals is rather easy. doing
> thin guage metals takes a bit of practice to get the right heat range and
> proper wire feed speed.
> expensive really really good mig's have near infinite adjustments for heat
> and wire speed. 110V. units are rather simplified in their adjustments.
> get a welder and use yours for practice! all units are similar but! you
> will find the welders at a trade school of any type far exceed the welder
> any hobbyist will ever own. learning tig and doing aluminum work again is
> far beyond most hobbyists abilities. unless you are extremly anal about
> doing evrything by the book, wich in most cases goes right out the window
> on
> your first attempt, try teaching yourself. all the carefull rules are a
> good thing to know. but in automotive restoration work it's always at an
> odd angle, a tight confined area, and so on! in school running a perfect
> bead on a welding table is nothing like laying under a car with hot metal
> dropping on you burning into your flesh! they will tell you wear all the
> protective clothes and heavy gloves. they end up laying by the welder to
> pick up a hot piece to take it to be cooled or quenched! you will be
> told
> to wear the protective garments too! and the darn helmet! just wait
> untill
> you try to weld a spridget front floor in wearing that stupid welding
> hood!
> yes safety is a good thing! but in the real world it's almost always a
> compromise. get a welder and start a few fires and burn yourself a few
> times and burn through some metal ! you will find out that the welders
> at
> schools are nothing at all like the welder you are going to rent or own!
> then you begin learning all over again! i'm not trying to be negative
> about
> this. just realistic.....
>
> chuck.
>
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