Re: anyone there?? ...welding

[Charles Simone <dkanarr@bellatlantic.net>]

David Buchner wrote:
> 
> At 0936 -0500 11/01/99, Dale's wrote:
> >     is anyone still out there??? I never got one  e-mail over the weekend..!!!!
> 
> Maybe p-subbers aren't all such geeks after all, and they had something to do with their weekend. ;-) Maybe everybody had the same weather I did.
> 
> To the dismay of many: I went and got that big old pressure tank thing from that guy, the cool one with all the rivets. $10. Even if I don't make it into a crude working semi-dry sub -- I've been thinking of welding junk onto it, painting it, and making it *look* like a sub -- and putting it at the end of the driveway...
> 
> Could I start a discussion of welding basics for beginners, who hope to one day aquire the necessary skills to build something? I'm talking I-don't-even-have-a-welder-yet sort of beginners here. Curses!: As a kid, I watched my dad, a pipefitter, weld all sorts of things all the time -- and it never even occurred to me to pay attention in a learning-how sense.
> 
> I've been looking in the Northern Hydraulics catalog, and wondering which of these sorts of welding arrangements would work for the sorts of little junk I'm likely to weld together around here -- and still be useful for the occasional sub-experiment type projects I have in mind.
> 
> * AC? DC? Gas? Wire-feed?
> 
> * Can a smaller welder simply *not* weld together thicker, heavier stuff -- or would it still get the job done... just take much longer and therefore be more annoying, like any other underpowered tool?
> 
> [remember: I didn't ask "What kind of welder should I buy to build my own atomic submarine out of scrap?" I'm thinking long, long range here]
> 
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>  David
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> Osage MN USA



Small welders do not have the duty cycle to weld for a long time. 
Example:  The smallest lincon welder Home Depot sells can not weld for
more the 15 seconds with a 7018 rod 1/8" thick.

Charles 
"Owner of a Fabricating shop"