Please tell us about yourself.

Hi,

Just checking out the new site.

Just slid over from CNCZONE.com Certified welder, I mostly do machining but I enjoy a little fab work from time to time.

Certified GTAW 6g Broiler and Pressure Vessle, and SMAW D1.1

Hi all,

Just introducing myself and looking at this new forum. Like mc-motorsports have jumped over from cnczone.com. I have worked for a leading motorsport manufacturer in product development, cnc machine centre programming and Aluminium TIG welding. I am currently setting up a small workshop at the moment and have recently bought a Miller Dynasty pulse tig 200amp, Esseti 320 pulse mig, Leadwell MCP-OP Machine Centre and Colchester Mascot 1600 Lathe.

I am thinking of using the automation in the machine centre to control the mig by using an arm off the table of the machine to hold the torch. If anyone has done this I would be interested in your feedback.

Cheers

Hi all,

Just introducing myself and looking at this new forum. Like mc-motorsports have jumped over from cnczone.com. I have worked for a leading motorsport manufacturer in product development, cnc machine centre programming and Aluminium TIG welding. I am currently setting up a small workshop at the moment and have recently bought a Miller Dynasty pulse tig 200amp, Esseti 320 pulse mig, Leadwell MCP-OP Machine Centre and Colchester Mascot 1600 Lathe.

I am thinking of using the automation in the machine centre to control the mig by using an arm off the table of the machine to hold the torch. If anyone has done this I would be interested in your feedback.

Cheers


I'm here from cnczone also and think the new site is a great idea. Hopefully it will catch on and come to life.

Camber, I haven't tried using my cnc mill table with a mig gun but I have cut small parts via plasma and it worked fine on my limited use. I just bought a used MG gantry with a tracer eye that I'm going to convert to cnc (as time allows) so hopefully my ghetto torchin' will soon come to an end.

Good luck,
HB

Hello every one I'm another crossover from the cnczone. Allready I've spotted some familar names amonst the posts, although I'm a newbee's newbee I tend to read posts more than write (I've a lot to learn). In a past life I was a sheet metal worker / fabricator. using 3ph mig and stick. Now I'm otherwise employed engineering is my hobby, thus I'm going to Go tig. At the monent I'm Trying to fund buying my first ever Tig welder.
again hello
Roger (Super) X3

Hello
My names Dave, I'm also a crossover from CNC Zone. Had welding in HS 45 yrs ago Make my living as a machine shop manager in Derby, Ks. Hobbies are auto restoration and metal forming. Also spend a lot of time at www.metalmeet.com a metal shaping site . I have a lincoln sp135+ and a oxy/acet set up mainly 16 ga and thinner consider my welding as hobby level 101.

Dave

Hello! I, also, am coming over from cnczone. I work as a manual machinist for now. Start training on cnc mill and lathe this week, but do some welding on occasion... Need to re-take my weld test to get certified... Quenched the piece I was testing by mistake making the weld brittle so it had 2 small cracks! :mad: haha oh well. This is a good idea for a site!

Hello I am a High School Teacher at Browning Montana USA on the edge of Glacier National Park. I have been teaching for 20 years all area of Industrial Arts, Auto, Construction, Manufacturing (using CAD/CAM), Woods, and Welding. I have come over from the CNC Zone as well. My father was a welder / Heavy Equipment Mechanic and ran his own business as well. I have grown up around welding and all the associated welding processes. Hope to get some good ideas and hints here. If I can help I certainly will throw in my 2 cents worth as well.:)

Also from CNCzone. I am a retired telephone engineer. I have operated a prototype shop on the side since 1976 to keep myself busy and to be able to buy more toys. I usually deal with electronic equipment but have been known to weld up a gate or railing for a neighbor. Currently working on a robotic cart about the size of a wheelbarrow to be sold in kit form.

Hi all,
Another CNCzone crossover. I worked at a automotive supplier for 30 years. I now work for a job shop that does Electron Beam and Laser Beam welding. My primary job is quality control but I also run our Agie wire edm and tig weld on occasion. I enjoy doing welding/fabrication in my home shop but since I'm four and a half years into a two year home renovation project, :) woodworking is all I've had time for lately.

Also from CNCzone. I am a retired telephone engineer. I have operated a prototype shop on the side since 1976 to keep myself busy and to be able to buy more toys. I usually deal with electronic equipment but have been known to weld up a gate or railing for a neighbor. Currently working on a robotic cart about the size of a wheelbarrow to be sold in kit form.

I would love to hear more about your prototyping shop, sounds interesting!

Are you making the robotic cart kit for your own sale, or do you develop products for other companies?

Hello, I also came from cnc zone. I am a Aircraft machinist/Welder/Sheet Metal with the 916th ARW. I also own a small machine and welding shop in Pikeville NC, which is about 60 miles East of Raleigh NC. My email is machine.welding@yahoo.com You can also look me up on myspace by email. there are a few pics of my old shop equipment. That is about all for now there is more info on Myspace if you would like to check it out.

found you from CNC zone as well

Hello! I, also, am coming over from cnczone. i am mechanical engineer from mazatlan mexico, i work with my family in a company that buy and sell steel
I like to work with cnc, actually i have oxifuel and plasma cnc and i also have tried to work with welding cnc with a esab machine, i would like to share my experiments.

I was an electrician/repairman in the coal mines for 21 years. A welder/shop foreman for 4 years. An auto mechanic for 4 years.
Owned a body shop for 5 years. Pilot,scuba diver,blah,blah, blah.
Love to be doing,exploing,reading,listening, maybe learning, BUT
----I didn't stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night!

Well I'm not a crossover from the cnc site. I was an HT for many years in the navy with the super welder "c" school and all that but have now become a diver with the navy and so welding has become a hobby and diving the job. I do still hold all my qualls though. My expertise is in GTAW aka tig, but I have much experiance in many forms of welding including now underwater. I am starting to take up machining now and will probably check out the cnc site as well. I'll trade you some of my welding skills for some of yall's machining skills:). See ya'll around.

One more from CNCzone. I'm an undergrad electrical engineering student. I hopefully will be getting into robotic control systems and machine learning. I like building stuff, and it seemed natural to graduate from wood to metals and composites.

Hello. I'm new and a throwback from off road truck building. We built those big monster trucks that you see on monster machines. Been in welding since I could put a rod in the holder without getting shocked. My Dad had a Forney in the shed. Tried mechanic for about ten years and couldn't put up with the people. Letourneau Westinghouse trained me to weld in all positions with nearly everything. From there the name changed to WABCO then to Dresser then to Komatsu Dresser then to Komatsu. Rice anyone? Komatsu brought robots and orginization to the table along with Money. I became an IE / tech then when my boss passed away at a rare disease, I became the (WELDING ENGINEER) with a degree from Hard Knox. Retired now and enjoying it. I get calls from different mfgs. in the area and help when I can. I love welding but wound up with a Pacemaker that stopped that.

Hi
Am a plumber who is looking to start welding /machining bits for my motorbikes
Found here frae cnc zone (where I lurk in background too):D
steve

i'm a welder and machinist in the USAF active duty. as far as welding i mostly do TIG and work with some pretty fancy metals like titanium, cobalt, and heat resistant nickel alloys as well as stainless and carbon steals aluminum and magnisium. i've only been doing this for about 4 years and have found that no matter how good your welds look when you certify and in training, welding stuff that comes out of the after burner of an f-16 can be a humbleing experience. i have some good work experience and i know there are others here that have much more so i look forward to asking and answering questions and discussing what i love to do, welding

Greetings from Alaska!
My name is Bob. I started my welding career in 1975 working mostly in fabrication shops in southern California. Spent some time welding pipe in the oilfield. I’ve always had a connection with Alaska and in 1992 got the itch to head north. Lots of welding up here. Ended up joining the sheet metal workers union and becoming the welding instructor. Now I work for the department of labor state of Alaska as the structural welding instructor for AVTEC. This is the state vocational school. I teach Oxy-fuel, SMAW, GMAW, FCAW, GTAW, Carbon arc gouging and plasma cutting. I have a small plasma table that I built from a kit from Torchmate and I use it to teach basic CNC. Most all my students pass their AWS D 1.1 certification test and usually are spoken for before they graduate. Anyway this keeps me busy and off the streets where I’d probably get chased by the bears and I’m too old and fat to have to run that fast.

Hey guys once again, another from CNC-zone. I am a complete newbie in welding so looking forward to learn heaps from this forum...

Thanks:)

Howdy folks,
Art from Greensboro,NC here. Born and breed in upstate NY been down in North Carolina since '89.
What I do can't really be called welding... I call it making two parts stick together.
I'm the last person anyone ever calls to do any welding. Usually its a its got to be done, don't worry about pretty just get it done type of job...

Anyhow saw a post about the group over on CnCzone so I thought I might learn a thing or two over here.

I've work in trucking and contruction most of my life and played with robots and dirtbikes in the off time. Hockey a big part of my life too... GO CANES.
Hope to hear from some others from Greensboro and NC. Gimme a hit on Facebook sometime :D

-p :cool:

Hello, my name is Shawn and I am new to this group. just want to say Hi and give some information about myself. by trade right now I am a nurse but my background is industrial maintenance with an education in physics, chemistry and electronics(though this was still in vacuum tubes..lol) I have had much TIG experience mostly stainless, but recently purchased a blue-point MIG 110 and love it. I had a question however as the book which came with the welder is very vague and it is my understanding it uses either gas or flux core. it came with gas and i use it often, but was wondering about flux core as it is my understanding that polarity must be reversed and i dont see how on this model and can find no information about it anywhere. perhaps someone could help me here as the snap on site gives no information either. while i prefer gas there are times where flux is better choice and would like to use it. any help would be appreciated. thank you all and look forward to being involved here.

R8 tooling will not work in your drill press,it is probably morse taper spindle. R8 tooling is the type used in Bridgeport type milling machines

Dave C

End mills in drill chucks are no no's. There is a company called ENCO (use-enco.com) in their 2007 master catalog on page 341 they list morse taper end mill holders #3 morse to 1/2 em and #3 morse to 3/8 em $23.21 ea their phone # 1-800-873-3626 fax 1-800-965-5857 you can probably get them to send you a current catalog.

Dave C

Hello, Fellow Trades Men,

I`M From Montreal Canada, Found This Forum And Like To Hear About Similar Problems.. Im Currently Building My Own Work Garage. And I Was Looking For A Cnc Plasma. Such As A Torchmate Or Dynatorch. Or Other I Would Like Some Feed Back On These Two Machines To Find Out What I Should By. New/ Used. What Do You Think.


I`m Mobile Now. Weld All Metals, And Started Plastic Lately, Like it, Nice And Clean. But I Need An Edge Where I Live And That Would Be to haveA Plazma Cnc Table So I Can Keep My Excavation Guy Happy.....;)... and make alot of quick conects

look very hard at the dynatorch machine

very friendly and professional company small enough to still care about the customer..
if you have any other questions fire away.. I can give you what i found out and save you hours of research..


THANKS FOR THE OFFER I TAKE YOU UP ON THAT.

i wanted to know there smallest table and biggest to see priceing diffrence, also if
they had like torchmate a DIY model where i make my own table for my needs and pricing there also i can call for the shipping prices to canada , i think its about 350us more.
thxs again jake
:rolleyes:

Hello all,

My name is Marc and I live in the Louisville, Ky area. Wanted to post a note, because I am considering some off-shore inverters and didn't want anyone to think I was schilling for them. :-)

Anyway, if anyone has had a good experience with an offshore (chinese, italian, or japanese) inverter-type multi-purpose rig, please let me know. I am a hobbiest and don't have $5K to spend on a red or blue box. That said, I don't have $1.5K to throw away on a 60Lb paperweight, either. Make sense?

Thanks everyone,

Marc

Hello all,

My name is Marc and I live in the Louisville, Ky area. Wanted to post a note, because I am considering some off-shore inverters and didn't want anyone to think I was schilling for them. :-)

Anyway, if anyone has had a good experience with an offshore (chinese, italian, or japanese) inverter-type multi-purpose rig, please let me know. I am a hobbiest and don't have $5K to spend on a red or blue box. That said, I don't have $1.5K to throw away on a 60Lb paperweight, either. Make sense?

Thanks everyone,

Marc

Hi Marc! Welcome to WelderZone!
What kind of welding are you looking to do? TIG or MIG? I'm guessing TIG? Or did you mean by multi-purpose, one of those 4 in one MIG/TIG/ARC/Plasma machines? I'm sure someone here will be more than happy to comment, maybe start your own thread, might get more response. I'm a blue kinda guy. But I started off with an Italian inverter DC only TIG years ago, did the job until I was able to upgrade. Can't even remember who made it, not that I would reccomend them anyway, I managed to fry it after a couple of years.
MC

My name is Coyote,I a 35 year old male , I work in the medical industry I am a Welder,machinest and fabricator in my time doing so I have worked with every exotic form of Stainless Steel that you can possibly think of and even some that very few have heard of outside of the medical industry, I work with some aluminum and even titanum
I"m honored to be part of this welding community I am here to learn,share and maybe even teach if any anybody will take the time to read............

Thank you,
WalkingCoyote :)

Hello all from a new member, retired I.W. welder 45yrs , hobbies are diy fab jobs
auto rebuilding , and lurking about on interesting forums , hello again and glad to
be here. James

Hello. I'm new and a throwback from off road truck building. We built those big monster trucks that you see on monster machines. Been in welding since I could put a rod in the holder without getting shocked. My Dad had a Forney in the shed. Tried mechanic for about ten years and couldn't put up with the people. Letourneau Westinghouse trained me to weld in all positions with nearly everything. From there the name changed to WABCO then to Dresser then to Komatsu Dresser then to Komatsu. Rice anyone? Komatsu brought robots and orginization to the table along with Money. I became an IE / tech then when my boss passed away at a rare disease, I became the (WELDING ENGINEER) with a degree from Hard Knox. Retired now and enjoying it. I get calls from different mfgs. in the area and help when I can. I love welding but wound up with a Pacemaker that stopped that.

I have something that might interest you. E-mail me at "jrpier@cogeco.ca" and I'll go into details by E-mail or phone if you prefer.
jrpier

Hi Marc,
I just saw your message and maybe I am far too late with an answer but anyway. I am an amateur in welding but got a nice invertor (DC) from the french company IMS who make and deliver (large production) quality equipment at an affordable price. I bought the device at a top professional welding equipment distributor here in Belgium and they have taken it in their catalog for people who are not welding constantly but like to have a quality device. IMS quote they distribute internationally so maybe they are in your country also available. Anyway it is just so information I wanted to share.
Have a nice day, Ludo