I don't need an excuse
I need a source of stimulation and fun and skills building. I really want to weld to create a metal box to have directed air flow to melt metal and generate steam to power a generator. But that's later.
I want short-term little projects to build the skills. I can always fall back into throwing a wooden box together. Or French cleaves on the walls with no box whatsoever. I can throw the cabinet structure together for this project in about 2 days. A professional would take 2 hours. It's the pretty stuff that takes time. And I have lots of time for that. I'm not near deadline. So I'm going to play with metal for a while.
https://youtu.be/pmNVH1XtWBA?si=zY6YBVSXNGQFT92m
I want. I want. I want. I want I want.
My neighbor, the professor in charge of the welding department, as if there's such a thing, will not be teaching this class. But I did email him and ask for a recommendation of a device to buy. For the welding, not talking about plasma.
He told me to wait until the class and then go to the local welder supply and get everything from them. Very good advice of course. Which I ignored of course
The class is gas welding. I assume argon but it doesn't matter. I'm not interested in pursuing anything that will require gas supplies. The class includes oxyacetylene torching. I won't be doing that either for the same reason. I want something that I can use forever with supplies that I can accumulate and store myself. I can't store gas.
The class is angle grinding. Yes I can use one but I'll never be comfortable with one and I don't intend to try. I have a humongous cut-off saw that will pretty much cut through anything, but that will only give me a straight cut or a 45° cut unless I start setting up guides and jigs which I'd prefer not to. And I can do without all the metal dust.. Let me walk over to whatever I want to cut and cut it. Without holding a heavy vibrating spinning wheel of death. I'd rather hold a feather weight lightsaber.
I want to do touch welding to start. I'll do flux later. Flux machines require the rollers and feeding cable through. I don't want that mechanical complexity in this box so I'm not getting that. I'll start with a cheap tig box for about 40 bucks and go from there.
Plasma cutters started around $120 and for the feature that I want, initial touch arc, they start around $150. My rolling household battery can supply 220 so I get full cut depth and portability.
At that point besides my personal enjoyment, I have a business. I'll haul away your junk metal that you'd pay someone else to do it. I'll do it for free and use the metal myself or I'll charge a slight bit just to cover gas. It will be exercise for me. I have a winch that runs nicely off the battery. I have a compressor, which is required to feed the plasma torch, which runs nicely off the battery. . Those together with my Yukon (Four-Wheel drive, trailer hitch, and I can quickly build a trailer now) can haul a lot of metal that I've cut up on site to pack to fit.
Exercise, that's another goal of mine. I'm 150 lb of pure muscle right now. I'd like to keep it that way.
After the equipment shows up and I've studied the manuals, I will go to the local welding supply as recommended. I'll get my safety gear there. I'll get the gloves and mask and goggles and whatever else they tell me to. I'll make sure I can see through it though and that it doesn't strain my neck. I'll buy some stick supplies. And babble a bit and try to make a friend.
And I'll have followed the professor's advice because I'm not getting the machine from the class. So until the class I am waiting until they teach me how to use that particular machine and then I'll choose if I want to get it.
He really doesn't like me. But he really tries to put a friendly face on it. I think his wife has told him to stop being mean to me. She likes me. I love playing in that space.
The spot where I will be using the device shines into his house. There will be brilliant sparks in the distance that he will see. It will be obvious that I am doing major metal work next door. After I told him I would wait until the class. And I am. I was already doing the construction before I started this communication with him.
I'm legally allowed to do construction 24 hours a day. Welcome to the wild wild West. If I was having a party I'd have to be quiet at 10:00 p.m. But if I'm running a jackhammer I can do it all night.
M sleeps during the day and works during the night and I sleep whenever I want to and work whenever I want to, trying not to make too much noise to annoy M. I don't care about the neighbor's next door in the middle of the night having occasional brilliant sparks shining in their window. The alternative would be an angle grinder plus the sparks. On the other hand, that compressor does make a serious chunking noise. Good thing I can't hear it inside the house when it's running outside on the porch. Annoying the neighbors.
Hehe
I want short-term little projects to build the skills. I can always fall back into throwing a wooden box together. Or French cleaves on the walls with no box whatsoever. I can throw the cabinet structure together for this project in about 2 days. A professional would take 2 hours. It's the pretty stuff that takes time. And I have lots of time for that. I'm not near deadline. So I'm going to play with metal for a while.
https://youtu.be/pmNVH1XtWBA?si=zY6YBVSXNGQFT92m
I want. I want. I want. I want I want.
My neighbor, the professor in charge of the welding department, as if there's such a thing, will not be teaching this class. But I did email him and ask for a recommendation of a device to buy. For the welding, not talking about plasma.
He told me to wait until the class and then go to the local welder supply and get everything from them. Very good advice of course. Which I ignored of course
The class is gas welding. I assume argon but it doesn't matter. I'm not interested in pursuing anything that will require gas supplies. The class includes oxyacetylene torching. I won't be doing that either for the same reason. I want something that I can use forever with supplies that I can accumulate and store myself. I can't store gas.
The class is angle grinding. Yes I can use one but I'll never be comfortable with one and I don't intend to try. I have a humongous cut-off saw that will pretty much cut through anything, but that will only give me a straight cut or a 45° cut unless I start setting up guides and jigs which I'd prefer not to. And I can do without all the metal dust.. Let me walk over to whatever I want to cut and cut it. Without holding a heavy vibrating spinning wheel of death. I'd rather hold a feather weight lightsaber.
I want to do touch welding to start. I'll do flux later. Flux machines require the rollers and feeding cable through. I don't want that mechanical complexity in this box so I'm not getting that. I'll start with a cheap tig box for about 40 bucks and go from there.
Plasma cutters started around $120 and for the feature that I want, initial touch arc, they start around $150. My rolling household battery can supply 220 so I get full cut depth and portability.
At that point besides my personal enjoyment, I have a business. I'll haul away your junk metal that you'd pay someone else to do it. I'll do it for free and use the metal myself or I'll charge a slight bit just to cover gas. It will be exercise for me. I have a winch that runs nicely off the battery. I have a compressor, which is required to feed the plasma torch, which runs nicely off the battery. . Those together with my Yukon (Four-Wheel drive, trailer hitch, and I can quickly build a trailer now) can haul a lot of metal that I've cut up on site to pack to fit.
Exercise, that's another goal of mine. I'm 150 lb of pure muscle right now. I'd like to keep it that way.
After the equipment shows up and I've studied the manuals, I will go to the local welding supply as recommended. I'll get my safety gear there. I'll get the gloves and mask and goggles and whatever else they tell me to. I'll make sure I can see through it though and that it doesn't strain my neck. I'll buy some stick supplies. And babble a bit and try to make a friend.
And I'll have followed the professor's advice because I'm not getting the machine from the class. So until the class I am waiting until they teach me how to use that particular machine and then I'll choose if I want to get it.
He really doesn't like me. But he really tries to put a friendly face on it. I think his wife has told him to stop being mean to me. She likes me. I love playing in that space.
The spot where I will be using the device shines into his house. There will be brilliant sparks in the distance that he will see. It will be obvious that I am doing major metal work next door. After I told him I would wait until the class. And I am. I was already doing the construction before I started this communication with him.
I'm legally allowed to do construction 24 hours a day. Welcome to the wild wild West. If I was having a party I'd have to be quiet at 10:00 p.m. But if I'm running a jackhammer I can do it all night.
M sleeps during the day and works during the night and I sleep whenever I want to and work whenever I want to, trying not to make too much noise to annoy M. I don't care about the neighbor's next door in the middle of the night having occasional brilliant sparks shining in their window. The alternative would be an angle grinder plus the sparks. On the other hand, that compressor does make a serious chunking noise. Good thing I can't hear it inside the house when it's running outside on the porch. Annoying the neighbors.
Hehe