[TheForge] TIG welding -- was trade secrets

[Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer]

I'm self taught in gas,TIG, MIG and stick...and after 40 some 
years i can finally gas weld OK.
But that's because i've done it so much that i can gas weld 
pretty well when i'm too drunk to walk....pf

Jerry Smith wrote:
> 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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