Perfect Farm Welder

[the old grind]

Laissez les mendiants manger du gateau mon ami, quoi s'attendent-ils?

Nous ne pouvons pas tous être parfaits.

(le garcon jean)

 

[Sberry]

I am getting to be an old timer, I been at this since I was young and lots of guys my age retired or in steady jobs. I agree there is a lot wrong with the world but I can manage to *** up well enough my own self. I just had a big epiphany and duh moment a couple hours ago when the helper come by and pointed out the error of my thinking, It was a thing stuck me for a day of greif cause I didnt look at it right and start my "research" . Didnt help I had help at one point and just outright missed it someone had put it together wrong last time and it took me some wtf time to finally get it right. Something simple, sip right over my head and I miss it. No mystery looking back, well less of a mystery.
I am thourly convinced that at least 1/2 the worlds problems are caused by stuff not put back together correctly at the first service.

 

[user.69169]

Laissez les mendiants manger du gateau mon ami, quoi s'attendent-ils?

Nous ne pouvons pas tous être parfaits.

(le garcon jean)

Dat upstairs parlor french. When I in high school had class called French wid nice lady gonna teach french talk to room wid 10 coonazz talkin kids in it and maybe another 20 kids from town and around. she run off wid gaspump guy from Gulf station maybe October/November.

Ain't what dey expect, it what dey demand cause dey entitled.

Maybe not, but we can try. Sign on school office wall said dey want to make me lifelong learner. Not sure lifelong part yet, but I try learn every day. Been days and things wish I hadn't learned. Russians got saying about more you know more painful life is. Some days I think dey right.

laissez les bons temps rouler sur

 

[user.69169]

You still a kid S. Love it while you can.

What give you idea thing was put together right coming from factory?
How many tore up O ring & gasket you find on new machinery? How many dry bearings?

Hope for de best, expect worst and be ready to deal wid what comes.
Teach yer boy best you can and teach him always be wary of what others tell him.

laissez les bons temps rouler sur

 

[/pine]

Parlor view front seat ?

 

[BufordBoone]

American Standard English my second language. US government been trying to supress coonazz since 1902 wid very little success. As of 2009 as a non native eenglish speaker I am in preferred minority by Federal Regulation.
Long and short, you got DUTY by Law to learn my language or provide translator.
Deal wid dat!

laissez les bons temps rouler sur

I love hearing the "coonass" dialect. It is a very pleasing accent to the ear...to me.

Reading it, however, is quite a bit different. I think I have a lot I can learn from (removed). I try reading his posts and must admit: While I understand the spoken "coonass", I don't read it very well. I can't afford a translator so just skip over a bunch of it.

My loss.

 

[yomax4]

Ten minutes of my life I'll never get back. I'm out.

 

[user.69169]

I love hearing the "coonass" dialect. It is a very pleasing accent to the ear...to me.

Reading it, however, is quite a bit different. I think I have a lot I can learn from (removed). I try reading his posts and must admit: While I understand the spoken "coonass", I don't read it very well. I can't afford a translator so just skip over a bunch of it.

My loss.

Not loss you put little effort into de learning.

Little secret to de Conazz, long ago when people run out Canada and settle along shore to de South dey knew best way survive keep to self. Better if nearby peoples not know what bein said. Worked better as time went on as Cajun developed a melodic quality. Don't so much matter if words in "proper sequence" according to some book long as dey all get said. Cajun even smart enough to hook onto Arabic number system and not stick to french system. I go back and look what I wrote thru english eyes I leave lot verbs out. American standard english use too many keystrokes, only Canadian english worse. Canadian use cheque fer check and colour fer color. Lot other words too. Coonazz use culr and chek. All sound same when you say.

Probably need little credit to Mark Twain guy too, "Never trust a man who can only spell word 1 way". He right bout dat.
Sorta like Amishmen speakin Dutchie, not english, not German sorta more 2 languages stuck together in 1 word. You can always say if you not understand "I don't know de word." Nobody gonna get upset. Whole much better den not understanding.

 

[/pine]

Jive Speak Aeroplane! - YouTube

 

[the old grind]

Culture. When we don't really listen to and try to understand, all we hear is ..

Bee Gees - Jive Talkin' (Official Music Video) - YouTube

I may have to work a bit to get everything (removed) says, but I'll keep panning for nuggets. Meanwhile ...

Niech nadejdą dobre czasy!

btw, can't wait to take a welding class. I'll do my best to get help in the meantime.

 

[user.69169]

You talk & understand de polish Coonazz should be walk in park fer you.

I read someplace how it easy fer kid till about 14 to pick up languages because kid brain wired to keep addin new words till den by nature. Thinkin back, don't recall hearin eenglish much till I about 8 other dem Mr Weis and wife who owned sorta store on front of house sayin universal NO. Dey did de ASL too if wavin extended index finger back and forth ASL. Got to store maybe 2 -3 times a year. One dem 2 always NOin if kid about to touch something. Candy in glass front case, you had to show money or dey don't come to case and you got NOed if nose got close to case. I know I got no money so I just ignore candy case. Year or so later Mr hears me and brother rescuin propane tanks from river he wants to sell us candy on credit pad. No thanks savin money for more rope from Sears.

You bein Polish maybe you know name of cabbage leafs boiled and den wrapped around chop meat, rice and onion den cooked some more.

 

[the old grind]

Meh, restaurant stuffs peppers once/wk , dunno what cabbage is good for. Good golabki home-made or go without.

btw, Feb 16 is our 'Mardi Gras'. Got paczki?

(I'm about to post pics of my farm welding ...)

 

[user.69169]

Meh, restaurant stuffs peppers once/wk , dunno what cabbage is good for. Good golabki home-made or go without.

btw, Feb 16 is our 'Mardi Gras'. Got paczki?

(I'm about to post pics of my farm welding ...)

Golabki looks like right thing. Maybe I look into building some, least I make my own dey won't poison me.

Last time I went MardiGras went to de black MardiGras more like old days. Used to be fun, den tourist people all came and things got stupid real fast. Really got no need for drunk fools and pizzed cops. Had connection to get into crew sheds ahead of parade. Lot of money goes into dem floats, lot of work for free too. Good time unless crew bunch of drunks.

Pazcki look like jelly doughnut. Bud of mine makes German tater doughnut called Fastnacht. Real good but not filled. just throw in brown paper sack and sugar. Made one time and while dey rising his stepson eats a few not boiled yet. Kid 15, knows everything so he convinces kid he can get internal yeast infection and gut might explode. Kids mom is a Nurse and she pizzed at boy so she plays along.
Next day kid convinced he got the infection. Goes to school and trys mooching Monistat pills from girls. Goes to school nurse tells her story and she sends back to class. Kid scared to even look at food that night. Funny as he!!.
Kid had nickname rest of school, Pillsbury.

Gets decent warm we probably drag fryer onto porch of hotel/museum and make fastnacht things around before Lent. Good reason for gettogether.

 

[the old grind]

What Sberry mentioned in another thread, I'm sorting out what rods I want to keep on hand. I'd use the less useful ones for practice.

I'm working with 6013 and 7014 and have some 7018. I'll do my fast-freeze practice with 6011. What I learned during my apprentice time in the weld dept was that bigger rods make bigger puddles, which are easier to follow for clumsy rookies. That said, I don't plan on using 3/16" electrodes, welding 7/8" to 1" fillets or going much over 200a. btw, my brief attempt at TIG was in a word laughable. "Just leave the pedal there" I did get good at sharpening electrodes, but that's about it. :laughing:

I've tried different polarities with rods to 1/8" and my sloppiness makes seeing the different result difficult. Same with wire & gas, but I'm a grinder, not a welder. I'd rather be better with both skills.

 

[Sberry]

You hit on something really vital. I bought a Max S and thought I will get some little rod for light field work. Big difference if I am welding regular but used a couple rods and found myself back with the 1/8 I been using all these years. As you said the larger size makes arc length way less fussy for the "clumsy ". Big difference if a guy is off by a little as someone had explained in more detail in another thread, 1/16 is a huge deal on a 3/32 rod, not so much with 5/32.

 

[aczlan]

I am thourly convinced that at least 1/2 the worlds problems are caused by stuff not put back together correctly at the first service.

Someone at work today was talking about a cooler that they had repaired, it was a 6' tall glass display cooler for cakes, pies, etc. Apparently when it was put together at the factory there was a switch on the door that was supposed to turn off the fan at the top so that it didn't blow cold air around when you open the door. Somehow that switch got wired to control the compressor so that every time you opened the door, the compressor shut off.
As you can imagine, running the 8 amp compressor through a 4 amp switch did not do the switch well, and whatever techs worked on it couldn't figure it out so at 18 months old, it was sold for $200 to someone who had my coworker repair it.

Aaron Z

 

[the old grind]

Friend bot a Ford Crown Vic and the brakes howled. Rotors turned and they howled. New rotors & pads and they howled. I asked if he had a manual or instructions that said/showed which way to orient the 'squealers'.

"How they were when I got it." I came late. (as in still in neutral zone when puck is in crease)

Had he only tried reversing them in the first place if they were barely worn then ..

Brakes are great now, so. (stuff happens everywhere)

 

[Sberry]

It does. Its way more rare out of the factory, when its been worked on and has a mystery problem I start to wonder. I had a couple jobs recent come from a dealer repair they install seals backwards, just had one I spend a day scratching my hole over, finally dawned on me what happened when I study the drawing long enuf. I missed it the first time around and my helper cand and caught it with a duh. I bought a used machine recent and after I bought it the guy hem and haw a little and i tell him to relax,,, he said, it never did work right and was due to the fact the dealer never did the prep right. I saw ATV the other day, same scheme. Dealer never grease and prep it. There are some great mechanics at dealers but there are lots they simply hire anyone breathing and give little or no training and turn loose on your new equipment. Oil change places notorious for this. Some really good and some you never told its the guys first day on the job.

 

[Sberry]

I had one of my own problems I scratch my beak over for a long time till I finally grab up the helper to get to the bottom. First thing I looked at I find I had wired around a no flow for a test, when uyou look its all operating and can see it and I wonder wtf,,, I did it, no one else to blame. Totally different machine now operating safely when it was wired right.

 

[Sberry]

Was cleaning a machine yesterday and found a loose motor mount bolt. It looked funny and didn't make a lot of sense till I fuss with cleaning some more and find the big heavy washer was sposed to go with it.