Bruce
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This is really about aluminium but I suppose the question could cover all metals.
Ok so we've established that I am a Fred in his shed type bodger and on any weekend you can hear we swearing at the heath robinson affairs that a badly hung over mind dreamt up while in a stupor. Now I'd like to blame the DT's causing wobbly hands for my shoddy workmanship but if I am honest it is probably more to do with the fact that I dont know what I am doing. Never more so is this apparent than when welding up some cast off ali scraps that I nicked from the scrappy while he was having a fag break and chatting up the bints on the otherside of the mesh fence. You see I dont know what grade or alloy they are. But that has never stopped me because when I swagger into the BOC compound convinced at my superiority as a Tig welder - and all that - the last thing I am gonna let fault my stride is some pimply faced youth with a mobile glued to his ear and a bored expression. Especially not when asking for some ali filler rods and then have the little scroat run thro an incomprehensible list of variants off the top of his head and look at me with pity as I blankly stare back and feel my world and confidence shrink in proportion to the glow I feel developing on my cheeks. I swear next time the missus moans about her hot flushes I'm gonna send her to BOC to see what a hot flush is all about. Anyway. To save myself any embarrasment I usually pick the ones closest. They are I deduce the ones most commonly used. Turns out they're 5236 or something. Who really cares. Well most times they work and when they dont it's not the filler that's holding me back.
Some ali you can weld...and really I can weld it quite nicely. I'd post a pic but you'd all laugh. And some I cant. The can't ones tend to be the nicked pieces from the scrappy. Now if I could just find out how to determine what grade it is I might have a fighting chance. Better yet, I'd be able to saunter into the BOC shop look the PFY square in the eye and say... XXXX ali filler sonny and be quick about it.
Ok so we've established that I am a Fred in his shed type bodger and on any weekend you can hear we swearing at the heath robinson affairs that a badly hung over mind dreamt up while in a stupor. Now I'd like to blame the DT's causing wobbly hands for my shoddy workmanship but if I am honest it is probably more to do with the fact that I dont know what I am doing. Never more so is this apparent than when welding up some cast off ali scraps that I nicked from the scrappy while he was having a fag break and chatting up the bints on the otherside of the mesh fence. You see I dont know what grade or alloy they are. But that has never stopped me because when I swagger into the BOC compound convinced at my superiority as a Tig welder - and all that - the last thing I am gonna let fault my stride is some pimply faced youth with a mobile glued to his ear and a bored expression. Especially not when asking for some ali filler rods and then have the little scroat run thro an incomprehensible list of variants off the top of his head and look at me with pity as I blankly stare back and feel my world and confidence shrink in proportion to the glow I feel developing on my cheeks. I swear next time the missus moans about her hot flushes I'm gonna send her to BOC to see what a hot flush is all about. Anyway. To save myself any embarrasment I usually pick the ones closest. They are I deduce the ones most commonly used. Turns out they're 5236 or something. Who really cares. Well most times they work and when they dont it's not the filler that's holding me back.
Some ali you can weld...and really I can weld it quite nicely. I'd post a pic but you'd all laugh. And some I cant. The can't ones tend to be the nicked pieces from the scrappy. Now if I could just find out how to determine what grade it is I might have a fighting chance. Better yet, I'd be able to saunter into the BOC shop look the PFY square in the eye and say... XXXX ali filler sonny and be quick about it.
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