Wisdom in a Sentence

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I remember two aphorisms related to welding.  These are short phrases that a noob repeats while trying to figure out how to do something.I was given one welding lesson by a friend about 20 years ago.  He said:"Welding is a casting process" and I often repeated it to try to mix the 2 pieces of parent metal and the rod into a nice puddle in the years that followed.When I worked in a fab shop I used the overhead cranes.  I really liked the power to lift heavy stuff but I sometimes I'd get the load swinging and didn't have an intuitive way to dampen the movement.  I asked the old crane operator and he said:"Catch up to the load" and it completely worked.  It was really satisfying to be able to see the load start to swing, pick the right button, wait for the right time, and move the crane over where the load had swung to.  The load stopped dead in space.I didn't get much training.  Do you guys know other sayings that sum up what to do or how to do a thing?In particular, is there a phrase that describes how to fill in a keyhole while stick welding?  So far I just end up with a mess that I have to go over several times (after removing the slag and maybe grinding.)Miller Syncrowave 180SDLincoln WeldPak 100 with gasHandheld Milwaukee BandsawO/A Cutting Torch
Reply:I've always thought ""The only thing standing between most people and their dreams is themselves"If you have an idea go for it you have a 50/50 chance of it working or failing, either way you can hold your held up and say, Yep i gave it my best Shot!!
Reply:"When you change the way you think about things, the things you think about change." ~ Dr. Wayne DyerMastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.
Reply:Originally Posted by Gerry1964I've always thought ""The only thing standing between most people and their dreams is themselves"If you have an idea go for it you have a 50/50 chance of it working or failing, either way you can hold your held up and say, Yep i gave it my best Shot!!
Reply:If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
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Reply:"Slow the f@#k down!"zap told me that at least 10 times a day. Originally Posted by zapsterYou wanted to be the welder....zap
Reply:Originally Posted by soutthpawlMore like the only thing standing between most people and their dreams is: lawyers excessive liability premiums and frIvilous lawsuits.   Not to mention too much government regulation, taxation, over priced health insurance, and illegeal workers undercutting the legal business. etc...
Reply:Originally Posted by soutthpawlMore like the only thing standing between most people and their dreams is: lawyers excessive liability premiums and frIvilous lawsuits.   Not to mention too much government regulation, taxation, over priced health insurance, and illegeal workers undercutting the legal business. etc...
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Reply:Thanks guys those are some good ones.My wife just said:"Righty Tighty"Miller Syncrowave 180SDLincoln WeldPak 100 with gasHandheld Milwaukee BandsawO/A Cutting Torch
Reply:My dad always told me "if it flys, floats, or F*%$#, its cheaper to rent" Not applicable to welding really, but it has always amused me and made me really consider what I was buying.
Reply:Make it like you plan to keep it for yourself.There are no problems. There are only solutions. It's your duty to determine the right one.Hobart Handler 210Airco 225 Amp MSM Stinger
Reply:The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding. Proverb 9: verse 10City of L.A. Structural; Manual & Semi-Automatic;"Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place where gold is refined. Iron is taken from the earth, and copper is smelted from ore."Job 28:1,2Lincoln, Miller, Victor & ISV BibleDanny
Reply:"You can't help those who can't help themselves".  Words from my father that ring true everyday.TA Arcmaster 300CM3XMT 304S22P12 suitcase feederX-Treme 12VSOptima pulserTA161SMaxstar 150STLHypertherm PM45OP setupStihl 020AVP, 039, 066 Magnum
Reply:You guys are philosophical!What about:"spark, fuel, air" when figuring out why it don't start?Miller Syncrowave 180SDLincoln WeldPak 100 with gasHandheld Milwaukee BandsawO/A Cutting Torch
Reply:"Hit it like you mean it" when I changed lug studs for the first time on my car. "Don't saddle a dead horse" in reference to cable clamps"You can't Newton this one off the ground, you have to Bernoulli it into the air" when flying a low horse power airplane. "When in doubt, power out" if you are uncomfortable with an approach for landing.  "Aviate, Navigate, Communicate" fly the airplane, know where you are, then talk on the radio. I have heard a bunch but these have served me well. I came up with an analogy for the hit it like you mean it saying. I don't think I should post it, but it involves a new girlfriend.
Reply:How about the classic "The bigger the glob, the better the job!"
Reply:Originally Posted by Drf255"You can't help those who can't help themselves".  Words from my father that ring true everyday.
Reply:'Measure twice and cut once''stratum proposito itinere ad inferos'
Reply:There are a few in my trade, "loose wires start fires"  and "neutral is always white but white is not always neutral" to name a couple.Miller Challenger 172Miller Thunderbolt AC/DC 225/150Miller Maxstar 150 STLVictor 100CVictor JourneymanOxweld OAHarris O/ASmith O/A little torchNo, that's not my car.
Reply:stratum proposito itinere ad inferos = the road to hell is paved with good intentionsIan TannerKawasaki KX450 and many other fine tools
Reply:I was mowing the grass and remembered:A before O or up you go!Reminding a guy lighting a torch to start with only acetylene, spark it and then turn up both knobs slowly.I used that often.Miller Syncrowave 180SDLincoln WeldPak 100 with gasHandheld Milwaukee BandsawO/A Cutting Torch
Reply:Hammer to fit, weld to hold, paint to hide.A variation on #21 above:"Measure long, cut twice; measure short, buy twice"JohnA few weldersA lot of hammersA whole lot of C-clamps
Reply:I read in one of ZTfabs posts recently "90% of a good weld is in the fit up" or words to that effect. That is just so true!Cheers Andrew.
Reply:From Tim the tool man off that show on TV:Every job has two things in common. 1. It has to be done and 2. It has to be done right.I say it to myself all the time especially when staring at some pile of crap someone drug threw the door for me to fix.
Reply:Never trust a naked bus driver.Gorilla tapeZip tiesJB weld
Reply:Whatever doesn't kill you outright makes you stronger.What is a saying for sharpen the soapstone before laying anything out.Is there a saying to remember when to use DCEP verses DCEN?There is something about drag stick and push wire but clearly I don't remember it.Miller Syncrowave 180SDLincoln WeldPak 100 with gasHandheld Milwaukee BandsawO/A Cutting Torch
Reply:"Is there a saying to remember when to use DCEP verses DCEN?"I was wondering something similar; how to remember if  DCEP is Straight or reverse polarity?I was told to use my hand to make a minus symbol. The minus stands for Straight or DCEN.Since I know more about electricity than welding, I think about electron flow. The electrons flow from the more negative to the more positive. So, in Reverse polarity DCEP, electrons flow from work to electrode. In Straight polarity, DCEN, electrons flow from the electrode to work. I did mention more positve or more negative because with a negative voltage, electrons flow from the negative voltage to ground. Electron Beam Guns use negative voltage supply's rather than straight polarity to make the Tungsten last similar to DCEN for TIG. DCEP evaporates Tungsten when Tigging. I self learned that the xpensive way.To answer your question, when to use DCEP or DCEN;  what I do is, TIG is opposite of 7018. To know what 7018 uses, I look at the crib sheet taped to the inside of a toolbox.
Reply:It's a woodworking saying but it could apply here as well:"utty and paint make a carpenter what he ain't"
Reply:" What in the hell are you doin" Good ole boy Jay Seamen's way of saying hello in the morning. Your missed 2011.I forgot how to change this.
Reply:When there's slag you drag.You can't fix stupid.When dealing with my co-workers,Smart as a sack of wet mice.Stay the course,a thousand points of light.Off we go like a ruptured duck,Bert Paturalski RIPLast edited by vwguy3; 09-11-2012 at 10:33 PM.
Reply:I'll start with one of my own random thoughts, "I think that a mentor is someone who inspires confidence; albiet, open to interpretation, for a mentor to truely become a mentor, they must inspire...even lead individuals towards their true potential, free of political strife..."Here are all the quotes that mean something to me, so far!  (Facebook does have it's uses, I suppose...a dumping ground for quotes I like, etc...)  I suppose some of them are sentences, but they all mean something to me in my daily routine.  "Tu ne quaesieris, scire nefas, quem mihi, quem tibi Finem di dederint, Leuconoe, nec Babylonios Temptaris numeros. Ut melius quidquid erit pati, Seu pluris hiemes seu tribuit Iuppiter ultimam, Quae nunc oppositis debilitat pumicibus mare Tyrrhenum: sapias, vina liques, et spatio brevi Spem longam reseces. Dum loquimur, fugerit invida Aetas: carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero." --Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Carmina, Liber I, Carmen XI "For the Warriors that fight and die...so the rest of us may fight and Live" -- Otherwise "Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity; From discord find harmony; In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity." -- Albert Einstein "Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." - Theodore Roosevelt "Truth is great and will prevail if left to herself, that she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless by human interposition disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate, errors” - Thomas Jefferson A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some spot of a native land, where it may get the love of tender kinship for the face of the earth, for the labors men go forth to, for the sounds and accents that haunt it, for whatever will give that early home a familiar unmistakable difference amidst the future widening of knowledge. The best introduction to astronomy is to think of the nightly heavens as a little lot of stars belonging to one's own homestead. - George Eliot “When life gives you lemons, don’t make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don’t want your damn lemons! What the hell am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life’s manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM? I’m the man who’s gonna BURN YOUR HOUSE DOWN! WITH THE LEMONS!! I’m gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!” - Cave Johnson, Aperture Science (Portal 2...) "You may tear apart the baby’s rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart." - Francis Church "There are plenty of others willing to call you a failure. A fool. A loser. A hopeless souse. Don't you ever say it of yourself. You send out the wrong signal, that is what people pick up. Don't you understand? You care about something, you fight for it. You hit a wall, you push through it." - Captain Haddock (The Adventures of Tintin)Last edited by mb_welder; 09-12-2012 at 06:04 AM.
Reply:Alcohol never solved anyone's problems....but neither has milk!Lincoln SA 200Esab Caddy 160Thermal Arc 201TSMiller Dialarc HFI don't like making plans for the day because then the word "premeditated" gets thrown around the courtroom....
Reply:Originally Posted by walkerMy dad always told me "if it flys, floats, or F*%$#, its cheaper to rent" Not applicable to welding really, but it has always amused me and made me really consider what I was buying.
Reply:A liar has to have a good memory. If you always tell the truth there is no need to worry.
Reply:“If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.” ― Winston ChurchillHF 151 Dual Mig Welder (with mods)Lincoln 225-S AC WelderBuffalo MM-1 Milling MachineCraftsman/Atlas 6 inch Metal LatheBuffalo RF-115  4 x 6 inch Band-Saw
Reply:"If a job is worth doing...it's worth doing right"and"Cleaning up...is part of the job!"...my DadLast edited by Galaxieman; 09-15-2012 at 06:58 AM.HF 151 Dual Mig Welder (with mods)Lincoln 225-S AC WelderBuffalo MM-1 Milling MachineCraftsman/Atlas 6 inch Metal LatheBuffalo RF-115  4 x 6 inch Band-Saw
Reply:Keep your words soft and sweetYou never know which ones you may half to eatThe main thing is not to panic or get excited Bobcat 250, X-Treme 12VS,  MM211Meltabo, Milwaukee,Porter Cable,Dewalt,MakitaVictor O/A, Ingersoll-RandEvolution Rage2, 40 amp PlasmaLincoln 225 AC/DC
Reply:Originally Posted by soutthpawlMore like the only thing standing between most people and their dreams is: lawyers excessive liability premiums and frIvilous lawsuits.   Not to mention too much government regulation, taxation, over priced health insurance, and illegeal workers undercutting the legal business. etc...
Reply:**** happens.
Reply:If you don't have enough time to do it right the first time, when will you have time to do it over?I offer three choices: Good, Fast, & Cheap. You may pick two.Hobart AC/DC StikMate LXHarbor Freight AD HoodHarbor Freight Industrial Chop SawDeVilbis 20 Gallon, 5 HP Compressor
Reply:Originally Posted by Strangedex"Hit it like you mean it" when I changed lug studs for the first time on my car. "Don't saddle a dead horse" in reference to cable clamps"You can't Newton this one off the ground, you have to Bernoulli it into the air" when flying a low horse power airplane. "When in doubt, power out" if you are uncomfortable with an approach for landing.  "Aviate, Navigate, Communicate" fly the airplane, know where you are, then talk on the radio. I have heard a bunch but these have served me well. I came up with an analogy for the hit it like you mean it saying. I don't think I should post it, but it involves a new girlfriend.
Reply:I do my best work in the dark.
Reply:E  L  I the I C  E man Voltage E leads current I in the conductor L.        ELICurrent  I  leads voltage E in the capicitor C.        ICELast edited by Insaneride; 09-16-2012 at 06:10 PM.Reason: period+ needs spacing
Reply:Originally Posted by InsanerideE  L  I the I C  E man Voltage E leads current I in the conductor L.        ELICurrent  I  leads voltage E in the capicitor C.        ICE
Reply:Ive seen where weldors are needed in Elko, NV for repairing mining equipment I guess. This is wisdom I got from an old miner: Dont worry about the mule going blind, just load the wagon (I gues mules went blind in the mines).  Its all about getting things doneI have a couple newer takes on that philosophy; Less talk more rock and shut up and rock. It would sound better if it was like ; less talk, more welding or shut up and weld.This one is for naysayers but always cracks me up;  It'l  never work and it'l never be the same.
Reply:"You have to understand what you are attempting to accomplish before you start."This was some advice given to me when I started to TIG. Don't go in without having a thorough understanding of what is actually going on and what you are really trying to accomplish besides just making a nice bead. Your practice time and self-critiquing will have a much higher value if you do. "Don't skip any f*cking steps."Another piece of advice I received when I started to TIG. It's so easy to get excited about getting under the hood. I now view the hood time as the reward for all of the hard work during the prep, fit-up, and cleaning.