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Posted: 10/5/2005 5:14:20 PM EDT
[#1]
Yup. I used to weld high pressure pipe (20,000 psi) when I worked in the oil industry. Now I make rockets for a major aerospace company. Been welding for about 26 years now. I'm picking it up pretty good too.
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Posted: 10/5/2005 5:15:17 PM EDT
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I think there are a few. Just a "weekend welder", here! I'll listen to any advise you want to pass along, though...
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Posted: 10/5/2005 5:15:50 PM EDT
[#3]
So what kind of rocket degree did you get? |
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Posted: 10/5/2005 5:16:44 PM EDT
[#4]
No degree here, just a wheelbarrow full of certs.
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Posted: 10/5/2005 5:17:51 PM EDT
[#5]
Well if you have any questions shoot'em this way. |
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Posted: 10/5/2005 5:18:39 PM EDT
[#6]
so do you weld on the rockets or design them ?
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Posted: 10/5/2005 5:22:08 PM EDT
[#7]
I weld on the rocket and its sub assemblys. Friction stir (FSW), TIG, VPPA (Variable Pulse Plasma Arc) and some MIG on one of the older types. 2219 aluminum mostly. Some SS and we are getting some titanium parts to weld soon. |
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Posted: 10/5/2005 5:23:10 PM EDT
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I weld at work but I don't weld for a living. We make a few parts that need to be welded, and out of the three people that I started doing this work with, I was the only person who learned to do it.
I can only TIG weld.... ....kinda funny as most people can stick and mig. You should see my stick welding.... ....it is really bad!!! |
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Posted: 10/5/2005 5:25:30 PM EDT
[#9]
Did anyone see the video of the crab getting sucked through a pinhole in a 3,000 PSI pipe?
-Foxxz |
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Posted: 10/5/2005 5:26:08 PM EDT
[#10]
Can i have your job? Friction stir? never heard of it, please elaborate. |
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Posted: 10/5/2005 5:28:24 PM EDT
[#11]
nah i missed the crab sucking episode. got a clip?
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Posted: 10/5/2005 5:31:13 PM EDT
[#12]
FSW=solid state welding. The metals never melt but plastisize and are stirred together under tremendous pressure by a "pin" that looks similar to a bolt. The pin spins and is forced into the joint, then forced along the joint for the full length. This is a relatively new process and is propriatory in its main detail. |
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Posted: 10/5/2005 5:31:43 PM EDT
[#13]
Weekend welder for the most part, but I do a lot of auto body restorations.
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Posted: 10/5/2005 5:32:37 PM EDT
[#14]
www.albinoblacksheep.com/video/crab.php This is a very cool vid! It was passed around several years ago. |
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Posted: 10/5/2005 5:32:47 PM EDT
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Stick, Mig, Oxy/Acetylene, and Tig. I play a welder on TV. I burn a 15lb spool of wire in a week sometimes, when I am not on the other show playing a BioMed Engineer.
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Posted: 10/5/2005 5:35:32 PM EDT
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I got a couple of lil cards that have 3g, 4g, AWS, and gmaw/fcaw and SMAW, and ASTM A-36 on em. But I'm not sure what they mean.
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Posted: 10/5/2005 5:41:45 PM EDT
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You call yourself a "WELDER"?
The machine is a welder, you are the "WELDOR". Jeez. You ought to think someone who works in the field should know.
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Posted: 10/5/2005 5:43:45 PM EDT
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im excited about my new job. Its 15 min from my house. which is amazing because i live out in the country. Its piece work , all tig. I welded out 2 20inch 347 stainless schedule 40 pieces of pipe in 6 hours and made 200$. i was home by 3pm. The best part is since its piece work they dont care when I come in or leave since there not paying me by the hour and they cant make me do anything but weld.
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Posted: 10/5/2005 5:49:42 PM EDT
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You working in a yard or a trench or on a rack? Man, you can have my share of that! I work in an airconditioned building that stays between 69 and 72 degrees with no more than 60 percent humidity allowed. Best job I ever had. You couldn't run me outa there with a shitty mop!
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Posted: 10/5/2005 5:52:56 PM EDT
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sometimes out in the yard. I've only had the job two weeks. ive been in a little shop building the whole time. Not Ac or anything! Its got a home made wood stove in the corner, does that count. |
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Posted: 10/5/2005 7:07:39 PM EDT
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Yep, I have been known to light up.
Jim |
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