My wife likes fall colors. So I went to the shop awhile back and made her a maple branch in fall colors. Textured the main branch under the power hammer, cut the leaves out, attached stems, welded to branch, colored and clear powder coated. Her liked it :) I cut the angels in the heart on the plasma...

I am willing to drive a long way to another dealer rather than walk into my local Airgas dealer.

Sometimes I scratch my head over it too trying to figure out how to keep parts from dropping out.

New boiler starting up and I was the first welder to test for the job. Foreman told me "You ain't gonna believe this weld tech these idiots hired". Got paper work done and this really cute and trim little blond comes out and hands me a couple of coupons for the tube test and then goes back...

Never seen coupons for a bend test cut with anything but an oxy/acet torch or in later years a plasma cutter. I have cut literally hundreds if not thousands of straps with a torch. Now here is where we get serious - when cutting straps I cut them then threw them in a bucket of water to cool them of...

Here is a link to how I went about making it.
http://www.cnczone.com/forums/plasma-ed ... ost1414410

What is the thickness of the metal, and what type of metal did you use? 14 ga. CRS What is the brand name of your plasma cutter X-Y table? Self made What is the brand name and model number of your plasma cutter? Hypertherm How do you like the user interface of the plasma cutter X-Y table software pr...

Hypertherm - nuff said.

Sort of like the Boilermaker Common Arc program then.

I'm closer to being expired than aspired - but don't have a clue what QC7 is.

Toxic is not extreme, come w/ me and I will show you the grave of a friend that died of heavy metal poisoning from welding galvanized,

I am so dependent on my 2x72 that I even use it to sharpen pencils on!

Redwing slip on Pecos boots. Wore out more of these than I can count. Had a boss going to step on my toe one day to "test" and see if they were steel toed or not. Told him that was when the fight was going to start! Never had a pair of steel toed boots that were comfortable.

Made up a saying for a lady today - cut and powder coated flat black. 47.5" long

I had one guy ask me for some new tungsten because something was wrong with the one that was in the TIG torch. What?? Checked and he never swapped polarity. And another one gone down the road. Caught a guy trying to hook up an oxygen bottle to the TIG - another one gone - If he had succeeded it woul...

Most boiler inspectors (Hartford especially) really frown on window welds. The only window welds we ever put in were on some radiant reheat tubes that had zero clearance to water wall tubes on one side. Combustion boiler design. Hated working on those damn radiant tubes.

Bingo to trackranger - ozone.

I gave many, many test's to welders in preparation for boiler repair jobs down thru the years. I have seen funny things happen in the test booths as a result. I have walked in and found folks that had taken down the coupon and were rolling it on the table for the root pass - and another one gone. I ...

Two boilermakers buddy welding a reheat tube. Note how tight the space is. This is the cap so they have a TIG root in, filled and capped w/ 8018 or 9018. Reheats can have 3-4 metal combinations according to the place in the row and elevation. These are some of the easier tubes to weld in a boiler. T...

Well I might as well give you the bad news. You ain't gonna be a pipeline welder is six week pal. If you are not already a skilled welder then yes go to a good welding school/class and that will teach you the basics. Then find a job somewhere that will let you get some practical welding experience. ...

Good luck! Take your time, think about and plan how you will progress before you start each step. Roll your wrist around it several times before starting and get a good body position.

Sam out where I live in the sticks we have very few scrap places and those send all of their stuff to China. Don't know of any that sell to the general public around here.

I used to make a lot of Damascus steel for knives I made. I made a press to forge weld under and use it for general forging work. Will add in a pic of it. Used a 4" cylinder on one side and a 6" on the other. This monster would press a 1" wide x 6" long x 6" tall Damascus bi...

Starting this thread to encourage others to tell the story about your test booth experiences. Share with all of us guys. I will start it off. Got a call from a friend one day to let me know Babcock and Wilcox had a big boiler repair job starting in Bullhead City AZ. So I made a call to the local in ...

Cut out and powder coated a sign for a rancher today. Circle part is their registered brand.