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Weld Art
Any good art is to the beholder and or, the one looking.
Art can mean many things, as to one's thinking, it could be anything of one's imagination.
When I was teaching welding theory at the Naval Ship Repair Facility, my apprentices were always wondering if they could do good welding on ships. And when they grasp that welders make steel float, they do their best in their work.
When they were looking at good welds, their thinking took them to, How's and Why's. And that's where trade theory came into play. The understanding of the application and process to get to what you want, and need for the task at hand.
When in the classroom and in decussions, you could see the inquisitive young minds turning.
The "I know" face, and all the deferent, Huh?, and Wahts? looks. Lol
Then out comes my knowlege question, to get things in prospective. The question I ask the class, "Are you confused yet? The common answer, always come back as a loud, "YES".
That's when I laugh out loud and tell them, "You're suppost to be, Welcome to the world of Welding"!
I always stress to my welding students that, If you look at welding as "ART", then you can understand what goes into the welding beads.
Once a journeyman of years, laughed, and asked, what art? I pointed to something that needed welding, and said, see that, then pointing to a good weld, and told him, make it look like that.
So in a sence, welding can or be art, as to the imagination of the beholder, as to the weld art provided.
A little explantion of the welding, the substrate is carbon steel, the weld beads are of a stainless 300 series filler rod, 310 or 316, why all the colors, that's depends on the temputure of the welding bead at the time of application. And, due to the filler rod alloy material, the rods all color, at a defferent temputure. We are talking about 2000, to well over 3000 degrees.
Now, are you confused yet? Lol
Any good art is to the beholder and or, the one looking.
Art can mean many things, as to one's thinking, it could be anything of one's imagination.
When I was teaching welding theory at the Naval Ship Repair Facility, my apprentices were always wondering if they could do good welding on ships. And when they grasp that welders make steel float, they do their best in their work.
When they were looking at good welds, their thinking took them to, How's and Why's. And that's where trade theory came into play. The understanding of the application and process to get to what you want, and need for the task at hand.
When in the classroom and in decussions, you could see the inquisitive young minds turning.
The "I know" face, and all the deferent, Huh?, and Wahts? looks. Lol
Then out comes my knowlege question, to get things in prospective. The question I ask the class, "Are you confused yet? The common answer, always come back as a loud, "YES".
That's when I laugh out loud and tell them, "You're suppost to be, Welcome to the world of Welding"!
I always stress to my welding students that, If you look at welding as "ART", then you can understand what goes into the welding beads.
Once a journeyman of years, laughed, and asked, what art? I pointed to something that needed welding, and said, see that, then pointing to a good weld, and told him, make it look like that.
So in a sence, welding can or be art, as to the imagination of the beholder, as to the weld art provided.
A little explantion of the welding, the substrate is carbon steel, the weld beads are of a stainless 300 series filler rod, 310 or 316, why all the colors, that's depends on the temputure of the welding bead at the time of application. And, due to the filler rod alloy material, the rods all color, at a defferent temputure. We are talking about 2000, to well over 3000 degrees.
Now, are you confused yet? Lol
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I was a welder in a power plant,mostly doing 7/8in tubes,Tig root,9018 cover,so most of our work was never seen,but have to say that’s some damn fine looking welds,talk about rolling dimes,outstanding!
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Thank you brother Phil, at one time I also was a high pressure welder in a power plant.
Boiler tubes were all the time leaking, or in the need of a change out. After I left the Navy Ship Repair Facility, I went to the Guam Power Athority.
And my good aluminum welder counter part Doming Guerrero, also left the ship yard and was at the power plant.
Roots were also TIG, and 9018 stick, as filler and cover. The best part of the job, was Doming on the outside of the boiler, and me on the inside, at the same joint.
One bang on the tubes was, "Ready?", Two bangs was, "Weld your root", three bangs was "Complete", two more bangs was, "Do your filler and cover pass", mltipul bangs was "finish", go to the other joint."
Doming served his time in Nam, in the infantry, and made it back and became a welder at the Naval Ship Repair. A great guy, one day we found out we were related, when we met each other at a family funeral. When we both saw each other, we both laughed.
Doming had passed away for years now, but always in my mind, and I can still hear all the tapping on the other side of the boiler tubes. And now waiting, to give Doming the "Finish" tapping sign, and go to the next joint. "I miss him"
"Welcome Home, Brothers"
Boiler tubes were all the time leaking, or in the need of a change out. After I left the Navy Ship Repair Facility, I went to the Guam Power Athority.
And my good aluminum welder counter part Doming Guerrero, also left the ship yard and was at the power plant.
Roots were also TIG, and 9018 stick, as filler and cover. The best part of the job, was Doming on the outside of the boiler, and me on the inside, at the same joint.
One bang on the tubes was, "Ready?", Two bangs was, "Weld your root", three bangs was "Complete", two more bangs was, "Do your filler and cover pass", mltipul bangs was "finish", go to the other joint."
Doming served his time in Nam, in the infantry, and made it back and became a welder at the Naval Ship Repair. A great guy, one day we found out we were related, when we met each other at a family funeral. When we both saw each other, we both laughed.
Doming had passed away for years now, but always in my mind, and I can still hear all the tapping on the other side of the boiler tubes. And now waiting, to give Doming the "Finish" tapping sign, and go to the next joint. "I miss him"
"Welcome Home, Brothers"
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SGT Philip Roncari
Funny bunch of circumstances led to my welding career,picked the trade up later in life,early forties,started out with the utility company as a cable and conduit installer a.nd when the kids got into college,needed a higher paying job,luckily the company had a welding school at one of their fossil fuel plants so spent the next 23 years welding in our local power plants,be well Brother
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SGT Philip Roncari - Funny, my status of becoming a welder is the same as yours.
In the 70's and early 80's, I always was fixing and painting my own cars, due to I couldn't afford a new car.
I had a mechanic and body and paint friend, that I used to pay to have my car painted, due to he was cheaper because it was his sideline work. A car body and paint that he did was about $600, materals and labor, at a shop, it was about $1200.
One day I went to his house to ask him to paint my 68 SS Camero. And being there, I saw him working on his car front end, he had changed out the round headlights, and put in dubble stacked square lights. He was applying body filler, to get the installed square headlights to blend in to the fendering.
It amazed me, to see that he could do that, so I asked him, "Can you teach me how to body and paint cars?"
He laughed and asked, "Whats in it for me, if I teach you?" But I already had an answer for him that he couldn't turn down.
I told him, "You teach me how to body/fender and paint, and while you teach me, I'll work for free painting cars with you." James was a great fabricater and bodyman, did wonders, in sheet metal, and body filler.
He agreed real fast, and told me, but first you need to learn how to weld, I asked, "Why"? He said, you have to weld repairing the body of cars, covering up holes, and missing body sections. I didn't know what he was talking about, but agreed. Lol
So, my first car that I had to learn on, was my own 68 Camero, helped on the body work, learned how to braze sheet metal, and how to apply and spray paint. And, it still cost me $600. Hahahahahaha!
I painted so many of my old cars, that I became an expert in doing it, and started painting cars for a side line job. My dad always had an air compressure, and one day, he bought me a Binks 18 paint sprayer, I still have it today. I think I painted 6 of his cars with that paint gun.
Stick welding, my 1st cousin taught me, he repaired cars and had a friend that did the paint, I hung around his shop and learned auto mecanics, and how to lay paint on cars. The painter Tommy taught me how to lay paint on my 77 corvette, that I painted School Bus Yellow. Why that color, a friend of mine worked at the Public Works school bus repair shop, and he only had one color to give me for free. Lol
Anyway, my cousin one day was fabricating a roll bar on his hot rod, and he taught me the basics of stick welding. At the time I had an old Suzuki 750, that I was chopping up, and needed welding on the frame, so I bought me a new buzz box and started welding on my chopper. A lot of chicken shit welding, but it held, I also got a 1968 Toyota land cruzer, and welded myself a roll bar, and heavy bumpers.
The 6011 chicken shit welding on the front bumper didn't do good, due to it one day falling off, stopping at a red light.
Boy, I was so embarrassed picking up that front bumper off the highway intersection, as all the passer by drivers, honked and laughed.
Anyway, I had a job that paid me $7.99 an hour, I was married to #2 then, and we had two kids, wife refused to work, and it was hard paying the bills.
So, one day I made the decition to pack up the family, move to Long Beach and enroll into a good welding school, due to welding at the time was a side line, and I enjoyed it. I spent $17,000 moving the family to Califonia, paying $5,000 for 6 months welding schooling, and rent $5000.
The rest, is a welding trade story, due to I couldn't afford to paint my own cars, and James that day, who welded dubble stacked square headlights on his car.
"Have anice day, my Brother"
In the 70's and early 80's, I always was fixing and painting my own cars, due to I couldn't afford a new car.
I had a mechanic and body and paint friend, that I used to pay to have my car painted, due to he was cheaper because it was his sideline work. A car body and paint that he did was about $600, materals and labor, at a shop, it was about $1200.
One day I went to his house to ask him to paint my 68 SS Camero. And being there, I saw him working on his car front end, he had changed out the round headlights, and put in dubble stacked square lights. He was applying body filler, to get the installed square headlights to blend in to the fendering.
It amazed me, to see that he could do that, so I asked him, "Can you teach me how to body and paint cars?"
He laughed and asked, "Whats in it for me, if I teach you?" But I already had an answer for him that he couldn't turn down.
I told him, "You teach me how to body/fender and paint, and while you teach me, I'll work for free painting cars with you." James was a great fabricater and bodyman, did wonders, in sheet metal, and body filler.
He agreed real fast, and told me, but first you need to learn how to weld, I asked, "Why"? He said, you have to weld repairing the body of cars, covering up holes, and missing body sections. I didn't know what he was talking about, but agreed. Lol
So, my first car that I had to learn on, was my own 68 Camero, helped on the body work, learned how to braze sheet metal, and how to apply and spray paint. And, it still cost me $600. Hahahahahaha!
I painted so many of my old cars, that I became an expert in doing it, and started painting cars for a side line job. My dad always had an air compressure, and one day, he bought me a Binks 18 paint sprayer, I still have it today. I think I painted 6 of his cars with that paint gun.
Stick welding, my 1st cousin taught me, he repaired cars and had a friend that did the paint, I hung around his shop and learned auto mecanics, and how to lay paint on cars. The painter Tommy taught me how to lay paint on my 77 corvette, that I painted School Bus Yellow. Why that color, a friend of mine worked at the Public Works school bus repair shop, and he only had one color to give me for free. Lol
Anyway, my cousin one day was fabricating a roll bar on his hot rod, and he taught me the basics of stick welding. At the time I had an old Suzuki 750, that I was chopping up, and needed welding on the frame, so I bought me a new buzz box and started welding on my chopper. A lot of chicken shit welding, but it held, I also got a 1968 Toyota land cruzer, and welded myself a roll bar, and heavy bumpers.
The 6011 chicken shit welding on the front bumper didn't do good, due to it one day falling off, stopping at a red light.
Boy, I was so embarrassed picking up that front bumper off the highway intersection, as all the passer by drivers, honked and laughed.
Anyway, I had a job that paid me $7.99 an hour, I was married to #2 then, and we had two kids, wife refused to work, and it was hard paying the bills.
So, one day I made the decition to pack up the family, move to Long Beach and enroll into a good welding school, due to welding at the time was a side line, and I enjoyed it. I spent $17,000 moving the family to Califonia, paying $5,000 for 6 months welding schooling, and rent $5000.
The rest, is a welding trade story, due to I couldn't afford to paint my own cars, and James that day, who welded dubble stacked square headlights on his car.
"Have anice day, my Brother"
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SGT Philip Roncari
SGT (Anonymous) Quite the back story on your end,mine was just simply getting enough money to keep two of my children in college,worked out pretty well for them,one’s a physician the other a senior vice president in banking,not bad parenting from a barely graduated High School,screwed up grunt ,who grew up too fast humping the Central Highlands RVN in 1967,well that’s my tale of woe ,hopefully didn’t run on like the old fart some in the family claim,be well Brother
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