Production welders

[Sparkey]

The result of banging the shroud on bench to remove spatter.

Hum....errrr yes, ok...i'm guilty....it becomes sort of a tick, a bad habit i guess...

 

[Robotstar5]

Hum....errrr yes, ok...i'm guilty....it becomes sort of a tick, a bad habit i guess...

Bet you haven't snapped the swan neck off completely yet had one of those a couple of weeks ago, shame I didn't have my camera, caused by welding a piece of tube to bench and using it as a "holster"!

Welcome back by the way

 

[Darbo]

used to work as a production welder were you used a 15kg reel per day
timings were so high you had no time to look after anything
if you had a wire feed go down half the time the replacment was just as scrap as the one you removed because the fitters couldnt be arsed
badly fitted rollers --of centre to the guide tube---guide tube to short so it spat the wire out the moment you pressed the trigger
etc etc

you get alot of swan neck damage when the welder on the oppisite shift likes a different bend in the swanneck

oh happy days

 

[Sparkey]

used to work as a production welder were you used a 15kg reel per day
timings were so high you had no time to look after anything
if you had a wire feed go down half the time the replacment was just as scrap as the one you removed because the fitters couldnt be arsed
badly fitted rollers --of centre to the guide tube---guide tube to short so it spat the wire out the moment you pressed the trigger
etc etc

you get alot of swan neck damage when the welder on the oppisite shift likes a different bend in the swanneck

oh happy days

Now there's someone who understands me!
Nice to meet you Darbo!

 

[dannyp]

depending on what i'm makeing i can burn through 15KG of wire in a day. that is the exception rather than the rule tho.

normaly do one in 2-3 days but i'm also moveing /cutting / punching / drilling my metal
tho if it'ss all allready preped and there nice size beams i can bash through 15kg easy.

tho unlike production weldeders i'm lucky as my welder is pritty much my welder and i know where the spares are kept.

my watercooled mig torch packed up the other week and din't have a spare one so had to do a few days with a std torch that got frustrating so new water cooled torch gets extra carefull treatent.

with the tig i'm probaly over fussy but my torch is my torch. and it used to leave work when i did but at least that way it dosent get ****ed up

 

[Sparkey]

Bet you haven't snapped the swan neck off completely yet had one of those a couple of weeks ago, shame I didn't have my camera, caused by welding a piece of tube to bench and using it as a "holster"!

Welcome back by the way

Hehe, not yet!
I like a "holster".... Hey! where else do you want me to put my "gun"???? Billy the WelderKid! I weld faster than my own shadow!

 

[Tino]

I,v changed employers now but this was one of my former colleagues idea of a repair. The two parts were held together with tape along with every thing else. Apparently he thinks insulation tape and a hack saw can fix anything that can't be hit with a hammer. He had broken one of the small pins on the euro fit (a simple five minute fix, pull out snip the wire, pop one back in, re-connect) but he couldn't unscrew the housing so he cut it of with a hacksaw. He then decided to replace the entire housing and euro fit and failed to connect it properly (it is tricky)... tape to the rescue. The end wouldn't screw back on because it had the threaded part of the old housing still in it... tape to the rescue. The wonder is, it worked for a while, but that did more damage. It had got hot enough to melt the outer sheath of the liner and weld it to the inside of the gas tube.





This is how it should be.





This was the other end that he had fixed.


How it should look....http://www.mig-welding.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=12250

 

[Sparkey]

YIKES!! that's a massacre allright! Makes you wonder sometimes, what goes on in people's minds when they do that sort of stuff.... not much i'm afraid!

 

[Robotstar5]

Had an automask in today for repair, wires broken off the shade adjusting pot so soldered them back on. 10 mins later he's back wanting me to change the battery as he was unable to lever it out with a screwdriver. Turns out it was the (silver) back of the pot he was trying to remove, mystery of the broken wires solved!

 

[Robotstar5]

Bet this doesn't help proper gas coverage?



Welder (tacker) bought this in "swan neck keeps turning"





After banging the shroud to remove spatter, a lot of the wear is caused by "parking" the torch with all the weight on the shroud.



I heard one of the welders is to be sacked due to the amount of damage to company property.

 

[Sparkey]

I heard one of the welders is to be sacked due to the amount of damage to company property.

Wow...he really must have made a mess then!
Those pics don't shock me at all Stu...that's how it goes when the only thing they want you to do is PRODUCE...

I do my best to take good care of my kit and jigs, you have to work with it 8 hours a day so that's the least you can do, it's for your own benefit! But unfortunately i don't always have the time to do it properly...
Time, production welders are slaves of time...i can't even say how many times i look at the clock during my day! Just to check if i'm still on schedule... horrible right?

 

[spawacz]

we had a delivery of new machines at work the other day,lincoln electric powertec 505s.one of the first thing i noticed on them is that they come fitted with a bit of tube to stick your gun in on the wire feeder,surely they should know better?

 

[Welderpaul]

Our stuff gets a hard time too. It's not mistreated, just heavily used, with little time to sort stuff out as we go along.
How long does a torch last your lot Stuart?

 

[Robotstar5]

Our stuff gets a hard time too. It's not mistreated, just heavily used, with little time to sort stuff out as we go along.
How long does a torch last your lot Stuart?

It varies, depending on who's using them, some are still OK after 3 years with just consumables changed and the record was less than a week from issue to return with snapped off swan neck!

 

[Darbo]

that gun holders way to small for a fast draw
2 inch round hole would speed things up

 

[gav the welder]

ive worked in that bay

 

[Shox Dr]

Wow...he really must have made a mess then!
Those pics don't shock me at all Stu...that's how it goes when the only thing they want you to do is PRODUCE...

I do my best to take good care of my kit and jigs, you have to work with it 8 hours a day so that's the least you can do, it's for your own benefit! But unfortunately i don't always have the time to do it properly...
Time, production welders are slaves of time...i can't even say how many times i look at the clock during my day! Just to check if i'm still on schedule... horrible right?

Remind me/us why you are working in such sweat shop conditions. (Mmmmmm Sparkey all sweaty)

 

[Sparkey]

lmao!!

Shox... you suprise me with that post! I already knew about Mike's twisted mind, but you?

As for why i work there...well i dunno how it is in the UK but overhere if you have a job, not too far from where you live, it gets you the money to pay your bills...you would better try and keep it! Ofcourse it's not my dream job but i guess i just have to live with that....

 

[Robotstar5]

As we are having problems finding agency welders, the company is interviewing to find 7 employees to send on welding courses followed by in-house training by one of our experienced (proper) welders.

 

[spawacz]

and what firm is that mate?