Random thoughts thread

[Dimman]

Originally Posted by Giccin

Damn. -_-'' This doesn't give me much confidence. Lol

Post a pic of what was welded up.

[Guff]

Originally Posted by old greg

Funny story.

I was at FSAE Michigan several years back and the University of Florida team sprung a leak in some aluminum doohickey from their cooling system. So they take it over to the Lincoln Electric tent, because teams aren't allowed to weld anything in the paddock. The guy that Lincoln sent along to man the tent says "Sure, I can fix that. No problem." and he grabs a filler rod and goes to work. After several minutes of much swearing, wire brushing and multiple attempts to get a decent weld he hands it back and says, "This stuff just won't weld for shit. This is the best I can do." The guy from UF takes it back to the trailer and puts it back on the car, it still leaks. So he brings it over to our trailer to show it to a buddy of his on our team who happens to be a bad ass Al welder. So as he's telling us the story and bitching about the Lincoln Electric guy he passes the thingamajig around, and trust me when I say that this was the ugliest, nastiest weld I've ever seen. It was the sort of thing you'd expect from a blind monkey out of his mind on meth. So The UF guy and our guy take it back to the Lincoln tent to find out WTF is going on. ~10 minutes later they come back and it's fixed up as good as new.

The guy had been using a stainless steel filler rod.

Lol, when I started TIG, my instructor made sure as hell that I knew what rods were what materials. Although, Al ones are usually shiny as hell, while SS ones are not so much, so idk how that guy messed up lol.

[serialk11r]

Darn, I never got around to learning to weld. I attempted to make my own arc welder with a microwave oven I got for free, but not enough amps :/ It would hold a weak arc maybe if I got within 0.5mm. Needless to say, the rod would touch the plate and short out.

[Guff]

Originally Posted by serialk11r

Darn, I never got around to learning to weld. I attempted to make my own arc welder with a microwave oven I got for free, but not enough amps :/ It would hold a weak arc maybe if I got within 0.5mm. Needless to say, the rod would touch the plate and short out.

That sounds really dangerous lol.

I suggest taking a class if you can find one available to you. I was lucky and did it through my high school. I got a years worth of training under Marty Rice's instruction and I learned a lot!!!

[serialk11r]

Originally Posted by Guff

That sounds really dangerous lol.

I suggest taking a class if you can find one available to you. I was lucky and did it through my high school. I got a years worth of training under Marty Rice's instruction and I learned a lot!!!

I figure someone at FSAE club might be able to teach me, if I go more often... just too busy to be spending entire weekends working there!

Hey hey my homemade fail welder was not dangerous. When it shorted I would just yank the rod away. Never had a cooling problem either.

[NickD]

pfft, welding.

Here's what you need right here:


and



:p

[M-17]

I remember doing some welding before when my foreman wanted to teach me. I forget exactly what equipment I was using, since there are better ways to weld now. But holy crap do I remember how I would fuck up on some of the easiest things.

[SVTSHC]

Originally Posted by NickD

Holding components together on my current hooptie. But it's okay I got them from my job so they're high performance BMW ziptie's. Add 3hp each.

[Dimman]

Originally Posted by serialk11r

Darn, I never got around to learning to weld. I attempted to make my own arc welder with a microwave oven I got for free, but not enough amps :/ It would hold a weak arc maybe if I got within 0.5mm. Needless to say, the rod would touch the plate and short out.

I think I saw some guy's website about this. He took apart more than one microwave. I flipped through it, and then perused Miller's site for pricing. Figured he must be a mountain climber, or something...

[Snoopyalien24]

Originally Posted by SVTSHC

Holding components together on my current hooptie. But it's okay I got them from my job so they're high performance BMW ziptie's. Add 3hp each.

I hear that if you pay $2 more they come with automatic tightening and washers

DAYUM GERMANS, DEY KNO IT ALLLLLL

[SVTSHC]

http://www.thcfinder.com/marijuana-b...etic-marijuana

Regular zombies I can deal with, but I consistently died to zombie dogs in all the resident evils.

[Abflug]

Originally Posted by Snoopyalien24

DAYUM GERMANS, DEY KNO IT ALLLLLL

[SVTSHC]

Taking my xbox apart and adjusting the laser for the SECOND time -_-... stupid Open Tray error.

[ichitaka05]

Damn you Sakamichi no Apollon! I still have bad taste in my mouth!!!!