[TheForge] TIG welding -- was trade secrets

[David E. Smucker]

TIG welding is magic and not hard to learn IF you have first learned to gas 
weld.  That I know is a big IF.  I started out learning to torch braze and 
gas weld.  Learning the use of both hands and when it came to TIG welding it 
came easy.  I can't stick weld worth a damn -- just haven't done enough of 
it.  That is the key, practice, practice and more practice.  Not sure they 
teach anyone to gas weld anymore.

Dave Smucker
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "martin paietta" <mpaietta at iglide.net>
To: "'Sponsored by ABANA'" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2006 12:32 AM
Subject: RE: [TheForge] Re: trade secrets


> Wow. I have been doing TIG for about two years now and it does not help 
> just
> watching. I actually am in class for TIG pipe welding. It is a pain in the
> ass and just watching someone doesn't help. It takes a ton of practice. 
> Well
> know that I think about it there are a couple of things that we were shown
> that did make it easier, but unless you were already fairly good at TIG it
> would not really help.
>
> Cheers
> Martin
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net
> [mailto:theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Woolley
> Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2006 7:42 PM
> To: Sponsored by ABANA
> Subject: Re: [TheForge] Re: trade secrets
>
>
>>>Many years ago (Early 70's) I was cutting out of school and working in
>>>a body shop, mainly sanding cars, and I used to watch this old guy who
>>>came to do the lead work on the old classic cars. I watched him a
>>>couple of times and he came over and yelled at me ........
>
>
> I started working as a boilermaker in 1974, pretty much right out of high
> school.  I started out in a small boiler repair shop, then oil refineries 
> on
> big turnarounds when an inexperienced kid could be of some help, then 
> power
> plants, mostly coal fired boilers. When I started meeting and getting to
> know some of the older guys who had been in the business since the 50's 
> they
> told me that if you approached Tig welders working on a tube repair or
> replacement they would just stop working till you left so that you 
> wouldn't
> see the process.  Weldors have always been more valuable than mechanics 
> and
> riggers etc to the contractors cause they always assumed a weldor could 
> also
> do their work. Tig weldors even more so.  Thus they protected their 
> special
> station within the field as long as they could.  That hasn't been the case
> since I became involved but it's part of  field contruction history in the
> Philadelphia area and probably in many other areas of the country.
>
> Best,
> Bill Woolley
>
>
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