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"Instructions unclear Welded dick to table 1 star, would not recommend"

Believe me I was welding my dick to the bench a few days ago. I burnt my arm on the filler rod, stabbed the red hot tungsten through my work pants into my leg and heat the fark out of my fingers through the gloves regularly. I need a welding bench cos the current (no pun intended) one is wooden. All will happen in time, there's no shortcuts to practice.

Today's job, 12mm stainless balustrade for glass, sanded to a 600 grit finish Will be electroshined on completion Only 74 to make [emoji39]

Unlikely when I've had all of 4 hours practice on aluminium Here's a few runs I just did on an old ali pipe

Steak [emoji3]

I'm broke so crap cheap beers for me tonight

Since I'm running Stablebit Drivepool on my server PC it's been trying to unload the drive it picked up as starting to fail, but my other drives were full... so I effectively had no storage left on my server... lame. Ended up buying a couple of WD Red 10TB drives and a Pcie sata controller and jamming them in this evening. Not really how I'd planned on spending $1,000 at this point in time...but at least I can claim it on tax for uni and work, so there's that.

The waft of singed hair and burning skin is pretty distinctive also @Puffwagon if you haven't already add Welding Tips & Tricks to your YT list, old mate is pretty easy to watch and covers all levels

welcome to the wonderful world of welding Puff

with the missus to nearer to where her new job is (2 hour drive to the location, from 110km one side of Melbourne to 30km the other side haha). The move went quite well, other than the usual niggles.

Day 3 - done. Hit my 3 day attendance target, so I'm happy with that.

Bottle of Gentleman Jack received as payment for doing an Airport dropoff/pickup Might be having a sip tonight I think 😄

Ahh the simple joy of molten metal down your socks and the smell of burning Levis. Literally. On fire. The whole flames yelling and running bit. Good times.

It can get a little complex when dealing with continuous incrementals and Image Manager, but I've had to use it to ground-up rebuilds a few times now over the years and it's just a life saver. Last one was an Exchange server - rebuilt perfectly. It lets me sleep at night.

Still +1 for r/weldporn though

I'm MIG welding stainless steel, Puff is TIG welding aluminium Same same but different I've been doing this for a living for 30 years Puff's been doing it for 30 minutes [emoji39]

Was only stirring you and BCB I'd probably weld my thumb to the sheet if I tried 1

Small quick tacks on the side that is welded second and weld over them No tacks on the side that is welded first Can't guarantee straight, so we have a jig for straightening after welding

This one: https://www.ple.com.au/Products/618590/Startech-4-Port-PCIe-SATA-III-Controller-Card Was easy enough to setup and get up and running.

You're going to feel pretty bad when Puff posts pics of his practice welds that look better Very nice BCB

Cheers @bloodycrashboy. Rab I'll post a pic later. No need to see the sh*t stuff while I worked out the machine settings and welding techniques.

buy yourself gas flow meter so you can measure the output at the nozzle most regulators read incorrect 12 to 15 Lpm should be enough if you are welding inside also, using gas lens improves argon distribution so you can turn your flow rate down even more example here happy welding

Ran these kits on my focal system but in 2 gauge power to distribution block but I was running AAAALOT more than 1500wrms 4gauge for a 1500watt system is totally fine so I’m not sure why you are stressing about that so much and if you are going constant power you should be running a cap. In my my truck I run 4gauge the whole way and that system is 3000wrms constant (same knuconcept kit as above on both amps also)

Still $2 too much

'Rough start' you can do better than coronas bcb

The french is implied and not required when referring to champagne as all champagne is French. It’s from the region Champagne, hence the name. If it’s not from that region then it’s infact sparkling wine even though it may be the same as champagne. Got my certificate in wine appreciation, went to Melbourne for it... work paid me to do it. #winesnob