Tech, help.

[90vanman]

Hi, I don't know whether any of you went to a Skillcentre when they were going, but amongst the equipment issued were a set of Govt. Issue welders notes. A couple of days ago I came across mine and decided to have a read of them, and considering that they were written before the advent of electricity, made a very good read. Tig welding sets seemed to be multiple units. I used one many years ago at a body-building firm in Essex, which was based on an Oxford welder with a HF unit, a huge device for creating AC and DC output as required, a huge contactor unit and a water-cooling kit, which leaked like a sieve meaning that the operator stood in a pool of water getting a burst of HF every time the switch was operated. At the S/centre, most training was done with a "pot", connected to a transformer big enough to power a shipyard. I thoroughly enjoyed my time there, and learned a lot, including, most importantly, how to adapt to different equipment and techniques, thank you Mr Caesar. Sorry if this has wandered, but I thought some of you might like to hear how some others got started.

 

[ouchmyfinger]

Il stick a pass word on them another night just in case, iv got some great tool room books as well, with pictures of large machines from the 50s, theres also a usa training book with a dude welding in dungaries flat cap and round googles, when men where men and all. As for the clicky il give it a go some other time been trying to learn the Em part to blackberry blossom for 4 hours, so my brain has now fused and ready for sleep......zzzz.

Its like MI5 on here i cant find em for the life of me, il pm tigler he can find anything.
snowcat remember this a non sleeping forum.....

 

[Wozzaaah]

This thread's 5 years old chaps.

 

[ouchmyfinger]

This thread's 5 years old chaps.

ive been putting my specsavers visit off, till now.

 

[Drains]

Mental.

 

[aidank]

Did'nt really know where to post these up but have been threatening to do so for a while, I dug some usefull charts out of some old training books of mine, Iv got loads of simlar sorts of gubbins, including properties of metal, design charts, stuff on HD etc, If you want it posted up il be more than willing to do so, but heres just a few sheets of simple stuff to start with.

BTW I had to compress the files to upload so some of the print is smaller than I would have liked.

This one is joint types:



This one shows rooting and caping procedures:



Movement techniques and direction:



And welding symbols explanations:

This thread's 5 years old chaps.

wouldn't mind a read of the stuff snowcat is on about if its still accessible

no way of retrieving it is there?

 

[Wozzaaah]

None whatsoever, sorry.