Thursday, September 23, 2004

Blogging is hard work

but not as hard as writing about tungsten electrodes!
I feel like I'm writing a term paper for school... problem is I didn't take engineering. or metalurgy or chemistry. In fact I pretty much avoided everything technical in favor of fun things like Spanish linguistics, Portuguese literature, French...

ah well. I am learning. I had no idea how important grind angle and tip diameter was to the creation of a TIG welding bead. My head is spinning.


1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I feel ya. We're learning Tig and Mig welding in school. I've welded about 500 coupons (1 x 3") so far in the last 5 days. But I got signed off on my fillet tig weld.

Stay relaxed and comfortable. That seems to be the key in a consistant beed