so, for some reason my TV ended up on American Chopper and I'm watching an episode where they're interviewing and testing possible new employees. And they had to do some butt-welds.
I gotta believe it's the equipment! they must have top of the line welding machines.
It shows them (I guess with special lens on camera?) pulling these beads that basically look like they're squirting melted butter out the end of the MIG welder. Like it works so strongly and perfectly. And it's different people going different speeds and not particularly concentrating very hard - and yet here they are, quickly squirting out perfect welds.
I now think if I had a better machine, I could do that too. It's GOT to be the welder! These welds these people were basically just blowing sideways out their butts looked better than my very best welds.
Worst case scenario: even tho I've spent hour upon hour trying this sh_t, even tho at welding class with stick welder I was able to make really nice flat beads, I am a crappy welder: point blank.
Scenario number 2: my welder is pretty bad and my varied materials are over-challenging. I wonder how I could check if my welder is messed up? I guess take it to a repair place.....
I guess in those scenes they shot at OCC of the people trying out, they had PRE-DETERMINED the perfect settings, wire feed speed, etc for that particular task. So I guess that's a huge part of it.
I'd like to see what they could have done on tubing, in a carport, on mixed materials, etc using an el cheapo little Lincoln WeldPak where THEY had to figure out the settings and get the NEG clamp attached just right, etc.
Anyway I couldn't believe how these people were squirting out perfect welds.
Very discouraging.
So how big of an advantage is it, to have a. probably the best equipment in the world PLUS b. perfectly pre-determined settings?
I gotta believe it's the equipment! they must have top of the line welding machines.
It shows them (I guess with special lens on camera?) pulling these beads that basically look like they're squirting melted butter out the end of the MIG welder. Like it works so strongly and perfectly. And it's different people going different speeds and not particularly concentrating very hard - and yet here they are, quickly squirting out perfect welds.
I now think if I had a better machine, I could do that too. It's GOT to be the welder! These welds these people were basically just blowing sideways out their butts looked better than my very best welds.
Worst case scenario: even tho I've spent hour upon hour trying this sh_t, even tho at welding class with stick welder I was able to make really nice flat beads, I am a crappy welder: point blank.
Scenario number 2: my welder is pretty bad and my varied materials are over-challenging. I wonder how I could check if my welder is messed up? I guess take it to a repair place.....
I guess in those scenes they shot at OCC of the people trying out, they had PRE-DETERMINED the perfect settings, wire feed speed, etc for that particular task. So I guess that's a huge part of it.
I'd like to see what they could have done on tubing, in a carport, on mixed materials, etc using an el cheapo little Lincoln WeldPak where THEY had to figure out the settings and get the NEG clamp attached just right, etc.
Anyway I couldn't believe how these people were squirting out perfect welds.
Very discouraging.
So how big of an advantage is it, to have a. probably the best equipment in the world PLUS b. perfectly pre-determined settings?