WOO HOO! I welded!

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Well I finally got my Lincoln 175HD up and running!  My 100' 10ga extension cord seems to be working fine as well!  My wife doesn't like that the dryer is unplugged when she's doing laundry though.  Anyways, my first few welds weren't all that great.  I finally figured out that I was going waaaaayyyyyy too fast!  I finally figured out to slow way down and the welds looked a lot better.  I got a whole lot of little scrap pieces of metal at work to practice on.  I welded and welded until they were all one big piece really.  I did butt welds and fillet welds mainly.  I wish I had discovered welding sooner.  This stuff is fun!  I also like my other new tools like my big metal cutoff saw.  That thing means business!  It's loud as hell too.  Now if my O/A torch will get here, I can cut up my big hunk of welded up scrap and weld it all back together again!  Matt in OKCLincoln 175HD
Reply:well good welding and many years of sticking metal together. can you post some pics, if you do im sure you will get tons of advice from this forum.
Reply:omg, alert the media, send a crew out, take some pictures, get an exclusive, Say halalooya and amen, brother KC10Chief has welded...(news at 11)...Good job man, your hooked now, a mild mannered man has been turned into a frenzied welder.. Youll be thinking of all kinds of ways to keep from drilling and running a bolt.  Youll never look the same way at a grocery cart again.  Youll cringe when you look at those 69 buck carts at hf.  Youll get the joneses when you dont weld for a day, everything you own will have a film of metal dust on it.. youll be haunting ebay looking for that one gadget you cant live without..  Dunno, may need therapy after a while.  Welcome to the group.. Hi my name is Doolittle and Im a welder...Various GrindersVictor Journeyman torch200cf Acet. 250cf oxygenLincoln 175 plus/alpha2 gunLincoln v205t tigLincoln 350mpEsab 650 plasmaWhen you can get up in the morning, Its a good day.Live each day like its your last.
Reply:Hahaha...good stuff. This is funny too, " Youll be thinking of all kinds of ways to keep from drilling and running a bolt."John -  fabricator extraordinaire, car nut!-  bleeding Miller blue! http://www.weldfabzone.com
Reply:Yay..Pics are what we're after..So we can ridicule and degrade you so bad you'll even wonder why you decided to do this in the first place...On the serious side...Pics are what we're after..So we can straighten you out and that in the end you will never wonder why you decided to do this in the first place..  ...zap!I am not completely insane..Some parts are missing Professional Driver on a closed course....Do not attempt.Just because I'm a  dumbass don't mean that you can be too.So DON'T try any of this **** l do at home.
Reply:Prometheus was a cool dude.  Let the projects begin!!!Smithboy...if it ain't broke, you ain't tryin'.
Reply:Great to here you are up and going. Maybe we can get you started on the dune buggy project soon. Have fun and keep welding.Post pic'sMiller DVI2Lincoln Precision Tig 225Thermodynamics Cutmaster 38Everything else needed.
Reply:As much as we all insist on pics..................why don't new welders come with a digital camera packaged with 'em??!!    Something like a "Hobart Handler 187/Kodak Easyshare C533 Zoom Digital Camera" combo!/Last edited by BigEd36; 02-09-2007 at 11:27 PM.When the  drops the  stops!Check out my website at:  Tombstone 180 ACHandler 120Millermatic 210Powermax 380Harris & Victor torchesSawzallChop Saw
Reply:SSgt,Congratulations,  We all started somewhere. There was no Internet and the only people that you could ask were so busy attempting to make a living for their family wouldn't talk to you.  The world has changed and we welcome anybody brave enough to melt metal together. Point # 2, just chop up all that welded metal with you new Sawzall and start over until the OA set up arrives.
Reply:Hang the laundry off the extension cord. If you're leaning on the Linc hard enough you might create enough heat in the cord to dry the clothes Craftsman 230a Buzz-box,  Lincoln 140T & 180T, Century K2789, PUROX W202 O/A14" cheapo chop saw that cuts straight and square!A toolbox of the cheapest Chinese tools money can buy"Real" tools all old reliable Husky/Craftsman/Proto stuff
Reply:Originally Posted by Doolittleomg, alert the media, send a crew out, take some pictures, get an exclusive, Say halalooya and amen, brother KC10Chief has welded...(news at 11)...Good job man, your hooked now, a mild mannered man has been turned into a frenzied welder.. Youll be thinking of all kinds of ways to keep from drilling and running a bolt.  Youll never look the same way at a grocery cart again.  Youll cringe when you look at those 69 buck carts at hf.  Youll get the joneses when you dont weld for a day, everything you own will have a film of metal dust on it.. youll be haunting ebay looking for that one gadget you cant live without..  Dunno, may need therapy after a while.  Welcome to the group.. Hi my name is Doolittle and Im a welder...
Reply:When all a man has is a hammer, he sees all his problems as nails.So trueWelcome to the asylmDavidReal world weldin.  When I grow up I want to be a tig weldor.