[TheForge] TIG welding -- was trade secrets

[Jerry Smith]

I TIG weld and Gas Weld, I di other processes also.
You must learn the right way to do things, generally
from a teacher. Do a local comminity college give
classes in TIG? It would be very work your while to
take such a class. There are lots of tricks to learn,
but TIG isn't that difficult.

I learned to stick weld from a former teacher, and the
I practiced, practiced some more.

I taught myself MIG and that was fun, the machine came
with a video tape that really did help that much.

Jerry


--- "David E. Smucker" <davesmucker at hotmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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