[Vanhackspace] MIG welder

Tue Mar 16 21:19:00 PDT 2010

I'll be there whenever it happens.
Looking forward to finally dropping by the space, not sure why it took so
long :)

-Emmanuel

On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 5:41 PM, dan anderson <dan.j.anderson at gmail.com>wrote:

> Will anyone with keys be there on the 23rd? Is it a bad night because of
> cansecwest?
>
> -D
>
>
>
> On 4 March 2010 19:34, svenblack <svenblack22 at yahoo.ca> wrote:
>
>> sounds great
>>
>> ---<{[SVENBLACK]}>---
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>> --- On *Thu, 3/4/10, John Craver <jcraver at shaw.ca>* wrote:
>>
>>
>> From: John Craver <jcraver at shaw.ca>
>> Subject: Re: [Vanhackspace] MIG welder
>>
>> To: vanhackspace at lists.uselessdegree.net
>> Received: Thursday, March 4, 2010, 7:55 PM
>>
>>
>> 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 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<http://mc/compose?to=jcraver@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<http://mc/compose?to=lukecloss@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<http://mc/compose?to=emmanuel.stone@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<http://mc/compose?to=svenblack22@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<http://mc/compose?to=dan.j.anderson@gmail.com>
>>>>>> >* wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> From: dan anderson <dan.j.anderson at gmail.com<http://mc/compose?to=dan.j.anderson@gmail.com>
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> Subject: [Vanhackspace] MIG welder
>>>>>> To: vanhackspace at lists.uselessdegree.net<http://mc/compose?to=vanhackspace@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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