Welding Tips and Tricks

AndersK wrote:Taz, is it true in Greece the guest of honor gets to eat the eyes?

I was told that in Greece many years ago

I have no idea. Neither me nor anyone in my family eat any parts of the head. I know some people do though.
It would be very awkward to be the guest of honor and being expected to eat the eyes.
This picture springs to mind

That was mentioned in "my big fat Greek wedding " fighting over eating the eyes and chasing the kids with gross bits. I'm not partial to gross bits of any animal. And Indiana Jones is awesome.

Over here, we have some who eat ANY AND EVERYTHING of an animal. Nothing like going into a store and looking at a giant tongue laying there. EWW...Or some poor animals nutsack

We're all in jest here[WHITE SMILING FACE]. My spelling might be wrong here (it's all Greek to me) but dolmatie is the stuffed vine leaf (yummy)

Ahh, you are talking about dolmadakia

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolma

Fortunately (or unfortunately, take your pick ) most Greeks are not like the guys from My big fat Greek wedding.

PS This thread is in serious danger of catastrophic derailment and should be renamed to "What I cooked/grilled/roasted and ate today (whenever) thread (pics please).

I promise to keep it updated with pics from Sunday. Just got 25kg of coal (@ 30€ ).
Rotisserie: check
Pick for small goat : check
Motor for pick : check
Pick for kokoretsi: to be supplied
Motor for pick : to be supplied
Beer (Paulaner Weiss): check
Tsipouro: check

Feels like a pilot checklist before take off

You forgot Ouzo
Good to hear thr eye thing is a myth then.

I was served sheep brain in Australia once...

Well it happened again...we are WAAAYYY off of TIG welding again...now what thread was this again?

AndersK wrote:You forgot Ouzo
Good to hear thr eye thing is a myth then.

I was served sheep brain in Australia once...

I can't say for sure it was a myth. Like any other country, customs in Greece vary from area to area so there is always a chance the eye thing is true.
The real question though is still waiting for an answer by a certain guy who used to hammer nails for a living.

He's probably using the "Friday Afternoon Hammer" by now

Im hammered alright...what was the question?

taz wrote:...
Beer (Paulaner Weiss): check
Tsipouro: check

Feels like a pilot checklist before take off

Maybe at Delta Airlines?

taz
looks like you grilled "ET"
craig

Well it seems that our thread has got out of hands

Anyway just a little job I did this week. I decided to walk the cup, because sulfur mismatch caused bit problems. Mainly undercut. Normally I would use pulsed current and free hand style with joint's like these.

super clean weld!
craig

Exceptional. Superb control. You'd be happy about those results.

Beautiful work Markus.

Nothing to great today. Needed some place to store a mess of 1-2 lbs of rods. Added on to the cart storage an area for 10 small storage tubes. Still need to build the tubes.

Nice work...nothing prettier than diamond plate...your spoiled

I am very very picky. You would prolly be surprised if I take a pic of the drawers and cabinet on other side how it is organized.

Very professional set up. I wonder zanks is that good, or will he have to copy yours.

this is a follow up from an earlier post where I expanded some storage on cart. I finished the storage tubes and took a pic with them all in place.

Very nice

Do you color code the used rods as on the storage containers?

AndersK wrote:Do you color code the used rods as on the storage containers?

As you noticed the labels are colored by type of rods. Tubes labeled depending on what's in tube the system works as follows
Yellow = steels example ER70-S2, ER80-D2
Blue = Stainless steels 308L, 309L you get idea
silver = titanium
Orange = aluminum
Red = aluminum bronze
Green = silicone bronze and copper (currently out of)
Black = magnesium

Now short used rods work a little differently I have 3 tubes that are 1/2 inch in diameter. These tubes mounted on other tube rack where excess rods go or stuff I don't have room for on cart. Short rods broken into three classifications and labeled accordingly. I can mix a few of these together cause there is a physical appearance difference plus all rod I get is stamped on both ends so one end is always marked.
First one is Steel and stainless steels grouped together.
Second on is aluminum and silicone bronze and aluminum bronze
Third is magnesium and titanium

Size of tube makes difference to
1 1/2 inch tubes hold 10 lbs except aluminum each one holds 5 so aluminum takes 2 tubes reason for the other rack excess rod
3/4 inch tubes used for rods that I only keep 1 to 3 lbs of
1/2 inch tubes are mixed tubes with used wire at most might be 1 section of each rod in tube.

I've noticed your sense of details so I was expecting something like that

I just color mine with a marker that matches what I put on the lids of my containers. But then I dont have that exessive variety as you so it still works.