Welding Helmets for Women
Wednesday, December 8th, 2010Check out these super stylin’ helmets… not sure what makes them specifically for women though:
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An Alabama Rosie
Friday, November 12th, 2010You KNOW I can’t get enough Rosies! I love how June Tinker wears her bandana and dungarees proudly! What a treasure!
Iron Man 2 : The Welder
Friday, April 16th, 2010Excited for the new Iron Man 2 movie coming out this summer? Well, while you’re waiting, why don’t you check out this new IronMan 230 All-in-One MIG Welder from Hobart Welders? It has everything you could want in a MIG machine — we only wish it had a bit more in common with its namesake (flying while welding anyone??)
Hobart Introduces IronMan 230 All-in-One MIG Welder with Superior Arc Quality and Greater Precision
Jon Crowley | Jan 14, 2010Hobart Ironman 230
The IronMan™ 230 is a total redesign of the full-size MIG platform, outperforming the competition on arc quality, voltage control, duty cycle and value. It delivers 30-250 amps of pure power in a heavy duty cabinet. The arc of the new IronMan™ 230 is optimized to deliver a flawless weld, making spatter and post-weld cleanup almost non-existent. The IronMan™ 230 easily runs aluminum – just add the optional Hobart DP-3545-20 spool gun and you’re ready to weld aluminum from 18 gauge to 1/2″.
For improved feedability with aluminum wires or for extended reach with other wires add the Hobart 3545-20 spool gun with its 20 ft. cable length.
There Are No “Welding Socks”
Wednesday, April 14th, 2010I don’t think I’ve ever laughed so hard at work before! This guy has a gift – if not for welding, then definitely for writing!
Attempting to weld in the age of duct tape
Al Batt, Tales from Exit 22
Published Wednesday, March 10, 2010I don’t like to wear socks.
I wear them but I don’t like it.
I consider socks to be a fire hazard.
I took a welding class at a college that once thrived in Waseca.
It wasn’t my idea. It was my employer’s idea. He felt that the duct tape I used wasn’t as strong as a weld. He was annoyingly conscientious. Welding started during the Bronze Age, and it survives into the Duct Tape Age. I went to college during the day and worked nights. The welding class gave me something to fill those hours that I had been wasting on sleep.
My father had taught me how to weld with a derelict welder he had rescued from a junkyard. It was a serious stapler that performed basic farm welding with little attention paid to aesthetics.
On the farm, I welded broken wagon tongues and tractor hitches. I gave up welding once I quit breaking wagon tongues and tractor hitches.
I would have been happy not knowing anything more about welding. Welding isn’t even an Olympic event. It could be in the Winter Olympics. Replacing the brooms with welders would make curling a little more exciting.
Elektrogrill für Männer
Monday, April 12th, 2010Crazy Germans and their sausage. And I fully mean that as a compliment, because we here at Arc-Zone.com were all amazed and highly entertained by what happened next.
German welders + sausage + welding machine = Electric grill for men??
Adventurous Germans Grill Sausages with an Industrial Welder
“Eventually, the tube was so hot that the arc had to be shut down because the fat was on the verge of spontaneous combustion.”
By Vin Marshall Posted 03.22.2010
Barbecue grills don’t typically require eye protection, but then, they’re typically not made from a giant TIG welder and an industrial sausage positioner either.
That’s something these Germans set out to change with the “Electric Grill For Men.”
What would you do if you needed to endurance-test a large industrial welding power supply?
You’d probably rig up something like the apparatus pictured here, in which a TIG welding torch draws a continuous arc along a slowly rotating piece of aluminum tubing mounted in a work positioner normally used for pipe welding.
As the long weld bead is laid down, the power supply is tested to verify that it can maintain its rated output and duty cycle without melting down. In the process, a great deal of heat is generated.
Welding “Under the Sea”
Friday, March 26th, 2010The Logan International Airport will soon come alive with an underwater scene straight out of the likes of “Finding Nemo”, and here’s the kicker: it’s all welded!
An ‘ocean’ for Logan
Essex metal artist crafts major piece for Boston airportBy Jonathan Phelps
Staff WriterESSEX — Artist Chris Williams’ studio has been transformed into a coral reef complete with fish, seaweed and octopuses.
Williams, 41, who does metal artwork and operates Chris Williams Sculpture out of his garage on Rocky Hill Road, is currently creating the ocean scene using bronze, steel, and rocks for a project that will soon be on display at Logan International Airport.
The piece is scheduled to be installed in early March and should be there for at least six months, Williams said.
The project was initiated by Williams as a way to advertise his work and to interact with people from all over the world who may pass by the sculpture while in the terminal.
“People see a piece and they call,” said Williams, who has done other projects like this in the past. “To make a living doing this, you have to get your work out there.”
“Mad Rantings of a Woman Welder”
Monday, March 22nd, 2010I want to steal the name of her blog. Seriously.
This is a fantastic look into the workings of a women welder’s mind written by Wendy Welder. Perhaps she is related to our good friend, Joe Welder??
How it all started.
Even as a little girl, I had dirt under my fingernails and grease smeared across my face. I grew up in the garage, at the shop, out in the yards with my Dad. Dad worked in tire retread and his hobby was cars, so I saw a lot of cars, a lot of trucks and a lot of men in my childhood.
Weekends were spent at the race track or at car shows. Dad raced a 1972 Nova before I was born, and I think everytime we went to the track he wished it was him out there. It wasn’t long before I wished it was me.
My first car was a Chevy Nova. I drove it everywhere, and I loved it like it was my child. But, it was my first car, and I was just learning how to take care of it and how everything worked. My parents always reminded me to check the oil and I always forgot. When the engine blew, Dad made ME replace it. (Of course he helped) And while I had always been around when he worked on cars, seeing the daylight through the hole in the block where the rod had flown through, and the whole process of the replacement, the sense of accomplishment when the car was up and running again, made me love that car even more and made me want to spend the rest of my life around cars.
One Woman’s Trash…
Monday, March 15th, 2010It’s never too late to start welding — that’s the lesson we can learn from Cynthia Daniel, who has a yard full of metal art to prove it!
Dallas welder transforms trash into garden sculptures
Monday, February 15, 2010
By DIANE REISCHEL / Special Contributor to The Dallas Morning NewsCynthia Daniel keeps a gangly old muffler in her carport, a silent lump she communes with, waiting for it to talk.
With age comes patience, says Daniel, a graphic artist for a Dallas publishing firm and a constant dreamer of trash. She’s more than a dreamer.
In recent years, this late-blooming welder has twisted, fired and honed a colony of eye-popping yard mates, some migrating to local sculpture shows, others charming their way into admirers’ back yards.
Her lively characters morph from the lowliest of throwaways, “found metal” she lifts from country lanes, junk yards and on quests through East Dallas for “big trash.”
Scraps speak to her, and she listens.
“I look at them every day in my yard, and they become something,” she says of her procedure for turning tractor springs, grilles or saw teeth into fish, flamingo or duck.
“Lately, I’m into fan blades. They become petals on flowers.”
The Kids Are in Charge
Friday, March 12th, 2010In Standwood, Washington, they’ve got it a little backwards — here, the students have become the teachers. The teens are teaching the adults how to weld!!
Stanwood students teach adults welding
By GALE FIEGE
THE DAILY HERALDSTANWOOD, Wash. — When a group of high school welding students decided to offer a class for the community, they never imagined having to turn people away.
“It was amazing to us. We had 25 people on a waiting list right off the bat,” said teacher Darryl Main, adviser for Stanwood High School’s Agricultural Mechanics Club. “The community welding course has been so well-received, we might have to run another one this spring.”
For $60, adult students get 12 hours of instruction focusing on shielded metal and gas metal arc welding. Proceeds from the class help fund the club’s field trips and contest travel expenses.
On a recent Thursday, the garage doors to Stanwood’s ag shop were flung wide open. Twenty adults in protective helmets, coveralls and heavy gloves huddled over metal pieces, torches in hand and sparks flying, while teenagers coached them one-on-one through the welding process.
“It’s great to watch the kids teaching, and the adults enjoying learning from them,” Main said. “There’s no better way to learn than to teach. You can just see the self-esteem of the kids go up. They feel empowered and that’s pretty dang cool.”
Nearly half of the adult students in the class are women.
Mascots R Us
Monday, March 8th, 2010Welding and school spirit come together for the students of
Colorado’s Hayden School District. Each of the schools are welding a mascot — and get this — they’re welding it for one of the other schools!
Hayden welding students design steel pieces depicting school mascots
By Jack Weinstein Sunday, January 31, 2010
Hayden — Kevin Kleckler, director of the Babson-Carpenter Career and Technical Education Center, hopes a project some of his welding students are working on will promote goodwill among the area school districts.
Hayden School District students participating in the welding program at the vocational education facility are designing and creating steel pieces, made from scrap metal, that depict the mascots of the Steamboat Springs, South Routt and Moffat County school districts.
Senior Oscar Rodriguez and junior Chris Zirkle completed Moffat County’s bulldog mascot last week. They had planned to donate the mascot to the school’s student leadership.
A student group in the welding class recently completed the Soroco ram. Another group is nearly finished with the Steamboat Springs sailor.
Rodriguez and Zirkle, having finished the bulldog, began a new project last week. On Tuesday morning, they were piecing together steel that eventually would depict the Denver Broncos logo.
When Rodriguez and Zirkle finish the Bronco in the next few weeks, it will be about 5 feet long and 3 feet tall. They’ll eventually present it to the Broncos through a contact Kleckler has with the team.
