[Vanhackspace] MIG welder

[John Craver]

Tuesday the 23rd works great for me.

On 03/03/2010 6:17 PM, dan anderson wrote:
> Sounds like there's enough interest - and John, my oxy-acety skills 
> boil down to "is it melted? no? keep going keep going keep going oh 
> crud I blew through" so I for one would love it if you would be up for 
> sharing. Is this enough to make it a Tuesday thing? If so, would the 
> 23rd work for everyone who's expressed interest so far? (vancal.org 
> <http://vancal.org> has nothing since last month.)
>
> Added the welder to the 'loan' list.
>
> -D
>
>
>
> On 3 March 2010 17:12, John Craver <jcraver at shaw.ca 
> <mailto:jcraver at shaw.ca>> wrote:
>
>     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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