Seniors at a Colorado high school took their senior prank to the next level using welding. On Thursday ,April 30, students arrived to find a car had been wrapped around the school flagpole. How ingenious! This makes the senior prank at my former high school look like a bunch 5 year olds did it.
Selecting the proper equipment for your welding application can be an intimidating task for a first-time buyer. Thankfully, an expert is here to help with the process. Charlie Minnick, a welding instructor for Miller Electric Mfg. Co. shares some important considerations including available power, material type, intensity of machine use, and the thickness of the material you intend to weld. Not to mention, the welding accessory experts here at Arc Zone can also answer all your welding questions.
Miller Electric Gives Advice On Choosing Welding Equipment:
Common sense advice from Miller on equipment picks.
Published in the April 2003 issue.Having the ability to weld greatly expands your ability to repair and to build, but it can be daunting for the first-time buyer to select equipment. With that in mind, here are some words of advice from Charlie Minnick, a welding instructor for Miller Electric Mfg. Co., a manufacturer of welders based in Appleton, Wis.
Where To Start
First, your equipment choice is based on several factors. Listed in random order they are:1. The power you have available.
Most home shops will have 120- or 240-volt single phase power. This is the typical power available for hobbyists who are setting up shop in their garage or an outbuilding. This also holds true for most light-commercial buildings. Higher-voltage machines enable you to weld heavier metals more quickly as well as run other kinds of large shop machinery–such as sandblasters and large saws.2. Material type.
What will you be welding most of the time–sheet steel, stainless steel, aluminum? Minnick advises to think in terms of the long haul. Maybe you’re buying a welder now to restore an old car, but in the future you may want to do other kinds of welding–such as repair the running gear for your snow plow. Sure, you have to buy equipment to meet your present need, but include some forward thinking in your choice.
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Jesse James is an American television personality and CEO of West Coast Choppers, a manufacturer of custom-made motorcycles.This Summer,the daredevil is at it again with his new show Jesse James Is A Dead Man. In this adrenaline-pumped show, viewers are pushed to the edge of their seats while Jesse performs dangerous challenges using everything from cars, motorcycles and trucks to planes, weapons and mega-machines. The showed premiered Sunday, May 31 on Spike TV.
Joseph Hudak,with TV Guide magazine, interviewed the star last week. You can read the interview here.Enjoy!
While many of us like to kick back on Memorial Day Weekend, I was reflecting on the sacrafices made by many to keep this country free. I was also enjoying the weather and excited about the opening of racing season. That’s right, I recorded the F1 Gran Prix from Monaco, the Indy 500 and the Coke 600 NASCAR race. But the best thing I did all weekend was traveling up the road to Glen Helen Raceway for the First outdoor Motocross race of the season, the Lucas Oil AMA Pro Motocross series, which got underway in sunny So Cal.
I raced at Glen Helen some years ago and I have not been there for sometime. I was shocked the first time I saw those riders head up the hill and come down the other side at speed. My jaw dropped open, I couldn’t believe I ever raced on that track with my Yamaha YZ 250 in a champion frame with 4”of shock travel! Excited to attend her first race, my six year old daughter yelled out “Wow that was radical!” when the bikes left the starting gate and headed up to the first turn.
Most of the pros were there except James Stewart and I got up close with the Factory Suzuki of Chad Reed. I’m not the kind of guy to ask for a picture or an autograph, so I you won’t see that here, but I did get some good pictures of the pits, the starting line just before the first Pro Moto and the track.
From: Bobbi Lane Photography
This man’s name is Tom Every, a.k.a. Dr. Evermor. His claim to fame? He has built the largest scrap metal sculpture… in the world.
The Forevertron in North Freedom, Wisconsin stands 50 feet tall, 120 feet wide, 60 feet deep, and weighs over 300 tons altogether.
It’s made from everything from river barges and x-ray machines to theater speakers and fast food signs. Every’s particular pride and joy is the decontamination chamber from the Apollo Space Mission which includes the two autoclaves through which actual moon rocks were passed.
The story behind the Forevertron tells us that the mighty scultpure is meant to be a spacecraft for the fictional Dr. Evermor, a Victorian inventor from Eggington, England and our Mr. Every’s alter ego, who can often be seen strolling around the park, wearing a pith helmet as he interacts with guests.
This park in which the Forevertron resides also contains many other amazing scrap metal sculptures including a 46 member bird band, complete with conductor.
Image: Madolan (Flickr)
Coincidentally, our very own Tim has actually visited the site and here’s what he had to say about it:
I remember taking school field trips there when I was younger. You would get there and see these huge sculptures that when I was that small, looked really huge. The designs really got the imagination going looking like something out of a Guillermo del Toro film. I loved all of the insect designs and was glad they remained stationary. It’s the kind of place that blows your mind with what one person can create.
For more information about Dr. Forevermor and his magical park, we’ve compiled several sites for your viewing pleasure. Enjoy!
The AWS recnetly hosted a D1.5 Bridge Welding Code contest at Ohio’s Zane State College. The participants tested their skills by welding one overhead and one vertical plate weld each, and then, the winners were announced…
Man of steel
Colt Sammons takes first place in American Welding Society contest
STAFF REPORTS • MAY 15, 2009
COSHOCTON – Colt Sammons, a senior from River View High School and a member of the Metal Fabrication program at the Coshocton County Career Center, brought home a first-place finish in the American Welding Society D1.5 Bridge Welding Code contest, sponsored by Mid-East Career and Technology Center’s Welding Advisory Committee.
The competition took place May 7 at Zane State College’s Cambridge Campus. Fourteen contestants, representing seven career-tech schools in east and southeast Ohio, competed in the industry-based credentialing event.
The contest included both a prerequisite written exam and a hands-on challenge, which consisted of two plate welds – one vertical and one overhead.
The plate entries were inspected by a Certified Welding Inspector, according to the AWS D1.5 Bridge Code. Each contestant was then ranked, based on a combined numeric score of each weld plate and the contestant’s safety practices exhibited during the competition.
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