Tech library for weldin

[Gerry]

Hi everyone thats contributed to the welding thread.
There is a LOT of good tips and advice in that thread which it would be a shame to get lost in the past,and I wondered if we could do a tech article for the library on welding. Trouble is that we need to get rid of the 'banter' we love so much and trim it down to facts and one liners. Sort of Q's and A's.

OK MIke
Is this possible. Can we make up a tech thing from the info we have already got or do we need to start agin in preformed Q and A type of thing.
Anyone got any ideas or is this just a fantasy on my part?

gerry

 

[VegasBruce]

Gerry, I cleaned out some of the banter in the welding thread for now. A Q&A welding thread might be cool.

 

[Youngster]

This is an excelellent idea. Some topics that need to be covered IMO are joint prep, technique, best bang for the buck when buying a welder, practice and testing. Learning to weld is an ongoing process, even those among us that have been welding for year might find something usefull.

Ron

 

[ruggs]

This is an excelellent idea. Some topics that need to be covered IMO are joint prep, technique, best bang for the buck when buying a welder, practice and testing. Learning to weld is an ongoing process, even those among us that have been welding for year might find something usefull.

Ron

Youngster,
Anyone that can't find something useful or learn something new might as well just roll over and well...?
Every good frame person that I have ever worked with has shown me a trick or two and taken from my tricks,we all gain from the other.....Ron(ruggs)

 

[lkeuten]

I pick up a lot of good info from Miller, Lincoln and Hobart websites naturally they hawk their products but they do have a lot of useful info. Gowelding.org and Weldingtipsand tricks.com are another resource on the web. My local Linweld rep and my pipe welder friend are two more of my usefull allies. My pipe welder friend is actually a power piping/ process piping contractor who is also an AWS certified inspecter, let me tell you if he sees one of my boo boo's before I get it fixed I get ribbed for months.

 

[Mike]

OK, you asked for a Welding Category in the Tech Library and you know have it. http://www.tbucketeers.com/page/index.html/_/articles/welding/

If it gets as many articles posted to it as the other categories, I imagine it will be empty, come this time next year. I really have to say I am disappointed in how the entire Tech Library was received. It wasn't as if the license for the software driving the Library was all that much money, but the learning curve to setting it all up was near-vertical and yours truly was battered, bloody and bruised by the time I got myself worked through it. And I did all that for exactly what reason?? :shrug2:

The licenses for this site are all due for renewal within the week (<----- If you're an advertiser and have yet to pay your October statement, this is why you're being pestered for payment. My expenses don't stop, even when the cash flow does.) and I'm really wondering if throwing good money after bad on the IP.Content license is such a good idea. It seemed to me most people were wanting to see tech articles set aside in a home of their own, but we were certainly getting more submissions to the tech forums. Which hasn't been hard to chart, as I don't believe we've had a single submission to the Tech Library yet.

At this point, I'm simply putting off all the hassle of moving the tech articles back into the forums because it is an enormous, time-consuming PITA. I suppose I need my head read for ever bothering with them in the first place. Had I left things as they were, I would be about $80 richer and would have saved myself more hours than I care to even remember. It's a bit like the Member Map. That was a piece of Beta software and it threw me and two coders for an absolute loop, trying to get it set up and running. For fewer than 100 users, I put myself and two others through all that hassle?

I've added the Welding category to the Tech Library, but if I ever get a couple days time to myself, don't be terribly surprised to see the Tech Library has been cut loose. Because it's really nothing more than a resource burner with a price tag.

 

[Gerry]

OK, you asked for a Welding Category in the Tech Library and you know have it. http://www.tbucketee...ticles/welding/

If it gets as many articles posted to it as the other categories, I imagine it will be empty, come this time next year. I really have to say I am disappointed in how the entire Tech Library was received. It wasn't as if the license for the software driving the Library was all that much money, but the learning curve to setting it all up was near-vertical and yours truly was battered, bloody and bruised by the time I got myself worked through it. And I did all that for exactly what reason?? :shrug2:

The licenses for this site are all due for renewal within the week (<----- If you're an advertiser and have yet to pay your October statement, this is why you're being pestered for payment. My expenses don't stop, even when the cash flow does.) and I'm really wondering if throwing good money after bad on the IP.Content license is such a good idea. It seemed to me most people were wanting to see tech articles set aside in a home of their own, but we were certainly getting more submissions to the tech forums. Which hasn't been hard to chart, as I don't believe we've had a single submission to the Tech Library yet.

At this point, I'm simply putting off all the hassle of moving the tech articles back into the forums because it is an enormous, time-consuming PITA. I suppose I need my head read for ever bothering with them in the first place. Had I left things as they were, I would be about $80 richer and would have saved myself more hours than I care to even remember. It's a bit like the Member Map. That was a piece of Beta software and it threw me and two coders for an absolute loop, trying to get it set up and running. For fewer than 100 users, I put myself and two others through all that hassle?

I've added the Welding category to the Tech Library, but if I ever get a couple days time to myself, don't be terribly surprised to see the Tech Library has been cut loose. Because it's really nothing more than a resource burner with a price tag.

Mike
I feel the same. I cant see any comments or things in the tech section that shows people visit them I have a look every couple of weeks just in case. Just trying to get it to swing by bringing it up every now and again.
If you feel we need to loose it then your judgment is more informed than mine.
After trying with a new name, and that didn t seem to work,dont know where we go from here.
If its costing money for no results then kill it now
Gerry

 

[Youngster]

This isn't a welding tip really but someone might find it handy. I have a 60" extention cord for my welder. I didn't like the idea of it hanging on the welding cart so I cut a whole in the side at the bottom of a 5 gallon plastic bucket, fed the male end of the cord thru it and coiled the rest in the bucket. I keep it on the bottom of the cart so when I need it, I just unplug the welder lead from the wall and into the extention. Then lay the bucket on the floor. As I move the cart, the cord comes out of the bucket untangled. I also have a 40" air hose and a 50" regular extention cord set up the same way.

I can't believe no one out there has a question about welding. Don't be shy, ask away. Chances are someone else has wondered about the same thing.

Ron

 

[Youngster]

Sorry, I meant for that post to bein the tech thread. Could someone move it there for me? ty

Ron