ESAB heading for the bin !

[Tigman]

Well done Paul G , I bet Noods is delighted with the outcome , I showed a fella how to arc weld once he was over the moon , and its very satisfying helping someone ! nice one

 

[Noods]

I'm.... Here ... With a likkle yellow esab by my side...

I don't know who to offer my hand in marriage to. ... Paul, " the Master " or my little esab friend..

I pay tribute, not only to my new friend Paul (he doesn't quite seem to realise what he's let himself in for just yet) who talent/s is/are truly amazing.. But, also to his luvly wife, amazing too.. For she allows him to work in his beloved workshop, while she! Cuts the grass with a mower ... I'd like one of those too... No, not the mower! ...

I'd just come off a 12 hr night shift, with approx 2 hrs sleeps and an hours drive to see " The Master" the results were amazing, I was so determined to achieve, especially as the great one had a strange desire to want to hold my hand ? Luckily it was not required much as we made rapid progress..

Literally 10 mins spare tonight to get set up at home and give it a solo..

Wobbly Pic below..

I need to now do a lot of practicing especially in finding a way of keeping straight.. But, I now know it will come..

We fitted the glass ball valve too which made things a lot easier..

Thank you all so much for your support and encouragement I couldn't have done it without all of you... Special thanks, obv, to my new mate Paul..

I've kept quite about it, as I won't let it hold me back, but, since my teenage years I'm classed as Bi polar.. Either very high, North Pole, or very low, South Pole.. I have no equator.. So, while I have tremendous determination to achieve, things sometimes can become too much.. However, I do a little charity work to help kids with similar conditions and try to tell them... "Believe and you can achieve you all.."

Not related to welding, but I will leave you one of my surreal paintings ( measures a metre by a metre and took 300 hrs to complete ) which, along with a few others, I am very lucky to be able sell around the world...

I always wanted to be a commercial pilot you know! But, I was advised against it, being told it wouldn't be an ideal career for someone with my condition...

Something to do with passengers not being very comfortable with a pilot being high one minute, and low the next... That kind of turbulence not a recipe for a happy trip..

Thanks Muchly to all again..

X N@@DS

 

[Tigman]

Nice one Noods ! Happy practising , can only get better and easier

 

[mike os]

^^^ It's a return lead. Nothing to do with earth.

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ok mr pedantic

 

[Wallace]

Great painting, so much to look at!