Welding Tips and Tricks

Well, they now have a pardon our dust page up...

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Penton

That's better news than the complete black-out. I've seen it happen before and in one case the had to start over from scratch.

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Just like life! Loose it all. Start over and make something new.

** update **
I've been told progress is being made on the website issues

MinnesotaDave wrote:** update **
I've been told progress is being made on the website issues

I could have built a building faster.
Actually, I have

Antorcha wrote:

MinnesotaDave wrote:** update **
I've been told progress is being made on the website issues

I could have built a building faster.
Actually, I have

Pretty much everyone has, who cares.

I'll be sure to pass along that their computer work is slower than putting up a building... Wait, no i won't since they have nothing to do with each other...

MinnesotaDave wrote:

Antorcha wrote:

MinnesotaDave wrote:** update **
I've been told progress is being made on the website issues

I could have built a building faster.
Actually, I have

Pretty much everyone has, who cares.

I'll be sure to pass along that their computer work is slower than putting up a building... Wait, no i won't since they have nothing to do with each other...

Hit a raw nerve did he?

Bill Beauregard wrote:
Hit a raw nerve did he?

Not really, just don't like him

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Perhaps it was someone’s way of saying “ take this job and shove it”.

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Even you must realize that when you're going on 2 weeks, it is obviously not the highest priority. Any half ass technician could rebuild that server in an afternoon. I don't know the company but somewhere it was stated they had 6 or 7 major sites go down they were responsible for.

Is there any evidence they brought up their other websites before weldingweb? And yes bringing up a webserver could be a quick task. But reconstituting data might not be. And you are assuming the issue is technical and not financial. I dont think you know as much about hosting as you think you do.

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aland wrote:
Dave,

Even you must realize that when you're going on 2 weeks, it is obviously not the highest priority. Any half ass technician could rebuild that server in an afternoon. I don't know the company but somewhere it was stated they had 6 or 7 major sites go down they were responsible for.

This tells us that those other sites were much more important than WeldingWeb. If you're loosing revenue, the bean counters will be even less happy...I'm pretty sure they will get around to it when they can, it's not as if nobody is letting them know that people are waiting patiently for WeldingWeb to come back up.

I wouldn't want to be in their shoes...somebody has been in the fire for going on 2 weeks...and that is no fun...my condolences to whoever that may be...

Alan

I actually have no idea how long it takes, but I wish they would finish because there's a lot of excellent information on that website.

But, for all I know it's been sold and some new owner is deciding what to do with it

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aland wrote:

MinnesotaDave wrote:But, for all I know it's been sold and some new owner is deciding what to do with it

Good point, and for me also, I have no clue why the server hadn't been up for almost 2 weeks, I was merely going by what you said previously in the following post. For all I know that isn't even the case. I can think of a lot of "for all I knows...", but will refrain from comment as it seems nobody really knows what happened. And, for all I know, the servers are still up and a router went down...

Never liked the "D" handle router, too bulky for my tastes. Plunge routers are OK, but a little heavy and awkward for many tasks.

New one hand routers are small and cute - easy handling for little jobs.

That's the extent of my router knowledge

I bought the Dewalt router with three bases. But I mostly leave it attached to the router table.

Poland308 wrote:I bought the Dewalt router with three bases. But I mostly leave it attached to the router table.

I'm looking to buy a router table for school. Sometimes it looks like it would be easier for younger kids.
I have a 7th/8th grade wood shop class.

Can't decide if that would be safer, or more dangerous, than using the regular router though.

There’s a huge range of bits available for the dewalt. There’s even one multipak called megabits


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MinnesotaDave wrote:

Poland308 wrote:I bought the Dewalt router with three bases. But I mostly leave it attached to the router table.

I'm looking to buy a router table for school. Sometimes it looks like it would be easier for younger kids.
I have a 7th/8th grade wood shop class.

Can't decide if that would be safer, or more dangerous, than using the regular router though.

Every hand held tool is very hazardous. I've spent a lifetime using the biggest hand held drills on the market at the time. The only injury I ever suffered was of my dignity one day when a 4-1/2 " hole saw on a 18" arbor went errant, and swallowed my pants. Not a drop of blood was shed that day, but I'm not mentioning embarrassment.

A year and change ago I observed a counter man in a plumbing supply store struggling to put an auxiliary handle on a compact cordless drill. I was amused. A little drill like that won't require an extra long handle. Ten minutes later, I bought two of them. The first time I used mine with a 4" hole saw cutting through multi layers of sheathing boards, clapboards, lath, and plaster, sheetrock, I injured my rotator cuff in my right shoulder. Adding the auxiliary handle, and trying again, I finished off my rotator cuff. A year plus later, I'm back to normal.

Tools are dangerous, Without coaching, tools are very dangerous. Personally, based purely on logic, a stationary tool seems less hazardous than one that can swing around, engaging flesh.

There was a show on television called, (I recall) Real Stories Of The E. R. There was a man standing on a ten foot tall step ladder, It sat on uneven ground. Reaching over his head, probably too high for his ladder, he used a Hole Hog, a Milwaukee drill notorious for injuries. The auger bit, made for wood was 18" long, 1" diameter. His ladder gave way, he fell, and the still running drill drove the auger in his eye, and out the top of his skull.

Miraculously, he survived, and will spend the rest of his life with coloring books, and crayons.

PS: I'm sort of saying that whatever happens at Welding Web will happen without us. They haven't opted to confide in us. They will, or won't be back. In the meantime, no thread ever was more ripe for a derail.

Willie

**** New update ****

THIS JUST IN FROM FIX IT CENTRAL IN NEW YORK..

We have not forgotten about you. The IT team is literally piecing our sites back together one by one, and byte by byte, from the failed SAN array. It’s obviously a catastrophic issue.

from the failed SAN array. It’s obviously a catastrophic issue.

Wow...completely preventable.