Colorado B.S. Thread

Pristine powder coating.

 

@Gramps knows a shop

 

Yah 130$ an hour was our base line for the master welders when i worked at the air craft shop.

 

No your fine there is just a lot that could be said about welding so i was just trying to narrow it down.

 

Spotted at the Home Depot in Lakewood. Any ideas who this is?

 

Pristine Powder Coat is where I would have sent him like Jake said.

Brian keep in mind they need to media blast your wheels off first to get down to the metal. It drives the cost up.

 

You have no idea. You want to make bank, be a pipe welder working on pipelines. You really want to make bank, be a pipe welder working on pipelines in the Gulf. As in, under water. Or heck, any under water welder for that matter.

 

300k + per year

 

Shortened life span though...

 

I'm actually a stick welder. I've never done tig or mig. I mainly weld 1/4"- 1 1/2" steel. Mig and tig is all new to me. Plus I only do it when I have to. I try not to weld as much as I use to. It's just not my cup of tea. But I do like learning new things.

 

Welcome buddy I'm also from SoCal. Only lived here 5yrs. For meets and greets try and follow Colorado events page. Hopefully one of these nice gents can throw up a link for you because I'm on my phone and I need to get back to work. Peace!

 

I like stick welding too. When I learned how to do the different types of welding back in school I enjoyed it the most.

 

There are a few of us in Fort Collins and several trails in the area when the snow melts.
The events thread https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/upcoming-colorado-events.187907/

And Welcome! Must be quite a change from SoCal.

 

How hard is it to learn stick welding? Maybe interested in learning/trying it.

 

I picked it up fairly easily but others in my class struggled with it. The hardest part is striking the initial arc without getting the stick stuck to the work piece. If you know how to do other types of welding then I'm sure you could do it no problem.

 

Maybe ill have to do a day where you guys can come and play with the welders and plasma cutter!??!

 

Good idea, have them build a work bench or something for your shop so it's productive. Then it will be there for everybody to talk shit about.

 

Thats a better idea then what i had. I just figured i would be training free monkey labor so i needed it down the road. But building a bench seams like there is less to go wrong with. And it would be a great peice to give people shit with!!

I like your thinking brett