Comments on: TIG Weld of Doom

By: Keith Cockburn

Keith Cockburn — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 09:34:09 +0000

Hi
I quite like the ordinary stick welding, I have made a lot of stuff. The latatest is a power hacksaw. See my efforts at
http://www.calenterprises.co.uk\hacksaw.html

By: Paul Woodhouse

Paul Woodhouse — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 13:42:44 +0000

Karl:

Whilst it does have sponsors at the end of the article, I don’t find them intrusuve – and I’m quite a stickler for this kind of thing.

But, such is life in the world of online publishing these days.

By: Karl

Karl — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 08:55:52 +0000

It’s a magazine article with sponsers all over the webpage I see it as a sponser friendly article not informative but gets the DIY wanting to possibly buy some welding eqiptment which is linked at bottom of page. So I see it as an indirect advertisement after all the more you click on the sponsered links the more money they make off of the advertizers on the page. sad really most magazines cater to there sponsers and are very buiest and are more looking to sell than to actually be informative.

By: Paul Woodhouse

Paul Woodhouse — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 10:04:17 +0000

If anybody asks us how to weld then we’d be more than happy to hand out a bit of advice.

However, this post doesn’t address welding advice.

Yes, it’s a glib post. This also isn’t a site dedicated to helping home metalworkers. However, if you do take the time out to search some of the links and maybe a post or two you’ll find links to sites that do provide advice.

By: Ed

Ed — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 22:49:31 +0000

If a guy asks a question regarding How To Weld –then answer the question and not try to be smarter than you aren’t I dont know how to weld simply because you guys are too full of your self importance and not prepared to throw in some advice

By: lloyd moffitt

lloyd moffitt — Mon, 24 Oct 2005 05:36:36 +0000

fun read article but not informative

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 08 Nov 2004 10:15:44 +0000

You can always go by the old painter’s addage – ‘But for putty, paint and glue, what on earth would joiners do?’ Good polishing skills can hide many a bad weld.

But you’re right. It isn’t rocket science.

By: Derek Woolverton

Derek Woolverton — Sat, 06 Nov 2004 09:18:07 +0000

I’ve taken a couple classes in metal work, so now I can fabricate about half of the stuff I can think of. Learning wire feed welding really isn’t that hard, and if you’re willing to burn up a few practice pieces, you can end up with a half decent job. Of course more practice would help with that, but right now I’m spending all my spare time tuning up a CNC plasma table (built from a kit).

I think the Lost Arc article is pretty useless as an explanation of anything, but I agree with the thought that anyone who has an interest should check try it out.

Now the DIY stuff you probably see is more like what my high school buddy used to do. He had seen his dad stick weld once, and so when he broke his bike, he figured “how hard can it be?” Boy did he make a mess.

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