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Two beads laid side by side ![[Linked Image]](http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u52/doetail68/20161012_085914_zpsh0nrkj8r.jpg)
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"Not in an open forum, where truth has less value than opinions, where all opinions are equally welcome regardless of their origins, rationale, inanity, or truth, where opinions are neither of equal value nor decisive." Ken Howell
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I can weld pretty good, but nothing like that
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a 'while' ago in high school, a few of us got to take an elective class called 'bus shop'. The bus mechanic was a good guy and if you were a good football or bball player you got to take the class and basically BS for an hour and learn to weld/solder/etc and occasionally have to wash a school bus. There would be two guys every hour/period of school. On welding days, it would be a competition. Each of us would weld a bead, whoever's bead looked the worse would have to clean the shytter. I learned several skills that are still in use to this day. I made several projects that are still in use also.
I'm sure a stop would be put to that class real quick these days. Mucho hijinx, like taking the HOT vise-grips that were used to hold a welding project and innocently tossing them to the freshman student who just walked in, and howling while they squealed.
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1mm electric heater post on the left is fine. The one on the right shorted off due to a water leak. The post is individual single dot beads that I took straight up to rebuild the burned off terminal ![[Linked Image]](http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u52/doetail68/20160921_173803_zps7zikvyof.jpg)
Maker of the Frankenstud Sling Keeper
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Looks like he was walking the cup. Not a machine. I'd say that he was too. Looks like he's got it down pretty good. Or her, some of the most precise tig welders I have ever seen were woman.
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I'll bet that pipe is 304 stainless. It makes those rainbow colors when you TIG it. My guess would be oilfield service so 2205 duplex stainless alloy
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There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. -Ernest Hemingway
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.-- Edward John Phelps
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I gotta slow down reading. I read wedding porn and clicked fast.  that's kinda funny!
if a man speaks, and there isn't a woman around to hear him, is he still wrong?
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The best I have seen were either Korean or Filipino.
Conduct is the best proof of character.
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1mm electric heater post on the left is fine. The one on the right shorted off due to a water leak. The post is individual single dot beads that I took straight up to rebuild the burned off terminal that's called getting it done! Nice job!
if a man speaks, and there isn't a woman around to hear him, is he still wrong?
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There are some good ones..I made a living as a welder for awhile, but I'm a damn hack compared to my old man.He was Navy trained and finished up as a contractor for NASA.
he tells me the best he ever seen was a woman that worked on a service vessel for the Navy.
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Fabulous work at that link!
"There's more to optics than meets the eye."--anon
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I learned to gas weld in gunsmithing school 40 yrs. ago, picked up TIG when I worked in Browning's gunsmithing shop. Toward the end on my career I did MIG welding when I got involved in special machine building, welded machine bases and various other details. It is a skill that came in handy over the years, most of my welding was on carbon steel with just a little stainless and aluminum.
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My ex is capable of work like that. Spent most of her life on her back welding stainless overhead for a defense contractor then went to TIGing rocket engines.
Talented lady.
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Saw this on FB and thought of some of the welders on the fire. ![[Linked Image]](http://i560.photobucket.com/albums/ss49/mack5511/Campfire/FB_IMG_1481239577859_zpsx4qnxpcw.jpg) I know just enough about welding to be very impressed with that job.
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
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There are quite a few us. And I have worked with many Korean and Vietnamese that were as good as they get!
If your a leftist, whatever Donald Trump says or does, that pisses you off rest assured, I am a Happy Camper!
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My welds look like stacked boogers.
Fight fire, save lives, laugh in the face of danger.
Stupid always finds a way.
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Fabulous work at that link! That is for sure! This one really caught my eye: ![[Linked Image]](http://canyouactually.com/wp-content/uploads/welding-art-by-david-madero-10.jpg) John
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Laffin' I am....... ![[Linked Image]](http://canyouactually.com/wp-content/uploads/12137.jpg)
I am..........disturbed.
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