[Vanhackspace] MIG welder

[John Craver]

Hi all.  I visited VHS one time last June with my friend Matt, but I've 
been a subscriber to the email list since.  I believe we were there one 
night where people brought Arduinos, back at the Victoria drive 
location, and we were talking about our potato cannons.  Now that I'm 
done high school, I actually have some time on my hands.  If the MIG 
intro wasn't last night, I may want to drop by when it happens.  Btw, if 
anyone's interested, I just finished an Oxy-Acetylene 
welding/cutting/brazing intro at BCIT, so I could give a quick blurb 
about it if people are up for it.  (Maybe you haven't used an oxy-fuel 
torch since high school?)  I have a portable Oxy/MAPP torch setup that 
can fit in my backpack, if anyone would like to play with fire.  Not 
trying to steal the spotlight from Dan, but I figure since most of us 
are up for a welding night anyways...

Let me know
-John


On 01/03/2010 8:48 PM, Aaron Oman wrote:
> New subscriber here.
> I was wondering what this whole shebang is like?  I'm thinking of 
> stopping by tomorrow.
> Any software hackers or is it more of a hardware group?
>
> -Aaron
>
> On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 8:19 PM, Luke Closs <lukecloss at gmail.com 
> <mailto:lukecloss at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     +1, i'd love to learn the basics.
>
>
>
>     On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 8:13 PM, Emmanuel Stone
>     <emmanuel.stone at gmail.com <mailto:emmanuel.stone at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         Long time lurker breaking his silence to say "Yes please to
>         Introduction to Welding"...
>
>
>         On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 5:36 PM, svenblack
>         <svenblack22 at yahoo.ca <mailto:svenblack22 at yahoo.ca>> wrote:
>
>             SWEET!!!!!!!
>
>             Please, please. please do an intro....
>
>             I would love to learn how to use your welder, I'm drooling
>             like homer for a doughnut:)
>
>             ---<{[SVENBLACK]}>---
>
>             --- On *Sat, 2/27/10, dan anderson
>             /<dan.j.anderson at gmail.com
>             <mailto:dan.j.anderson at gmail.com>>/* wrote:
>
>
>                 From: dan anderson <dan.j.anderson at gmail.com
>                 <mailto:dan.j.anderson at gmail.com>>
>                 Subject: [Vanhackspace] MIG welder
>                 To: vanhackspace at lists.uselessdegree.net
>                 <mailto:vanhackspace at lists.uselessdegree.net>
>                 Received: Saturday, February 27, 2010, 7:41 PM
>
>
>                 Hi all,
>
>                 Michael Bean mentioned that some hackers were excited
>                 to see my
>                 welding rig. VanHackers are more than welcome to use
>                 it; if there's
>                 interest I could give a short introduction to welding
>                 some evening.
>                 I'm kind of oddly emotionally attached to the
>                 coveralls so maybe don't
>                 use those? And of course you break it you bought it,
>                 you break
>                 yourself you fix yourself, don't blind people with the
>                 arc, etc.
>
>                 There is flux core in the box (which can be used
>                 without co2/argon
>                 gas) but IT EMITS TOXIC FUMES. If you're going to use
>                 the flux core
>                 you must not do so inside where other people's health
>                 would be put at
>                 risk. Unfortunately my tank is at eatART right now, so
>                 welding with
>                 regular wire will have to wait until I can bring that
>                 back, unless
>                 someone else has 72/25 lying around. The wire isn't
>                 amazingly
>                 expensive but the gas can get pricey, so (once the
>                 tank's at 45W
>                 again) if anyone is going to weld up a big project
>                 it'd be nice if
>                 some gas got added to the pot.
>
>                 "some gas got added to the pot"... never thought I'd
>                 use those words
>                 in that order.
>
>                 Cheers!
>                 -D
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