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Talking Points Memo did a mash-up of Republicans in 2004 vs. Republicans in 2012.
TPM took a trip down memory lane to the last time Republicans were tasked with the job of defending and promoting an incumbent president.
Eager to present themselves as staunch and strong defenders of the homeland, unafraid of tracking down terrorists wherever they were, Republicans of eight years ago were keen to let everyone know who was really keeping them safe.
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QUAKER CITY SEEKS TRANSIST SOLUTION; Mayor Mackey Wants a Special Election on Purchase of Forty Trolley Lines. $139,000,000 IS INVOLVED Certain Groups Would Buy the Franchises Piecemeal, but Operating Company Objects.
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Best LomoKino Videos of the Week: Travelling without Moving2012-06-30 1 4 Share Tweet
On your way to work? And as you rush down to your destination, you suddenly realise you're already that late. Stop stressing yourself for once, and take things a bit slower this time with our selections of movies!
It is just fascinating how we can have such an ability to explore some exotic place with a tap of our fingertips or even just a click of a mouse, you're immediately transported to a world that is yet unknown until now. Thanks to these modern technologies, we could go to any places so easily – virtually. But do you remember how it is to move from point A to B in the old days? Where time is feels like running so slow and you enjoy every scene that passed by the window?
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I don't think we've hit critical mass as yet.. by last count we had 200 yards .. where 300 is to be ordered minimum according to Cruzer
I don't think we've hit critical mass as yet.. by last count we had 200 yards .. where 300 is to be ordered minimum according to Cruzer
Katua Fett -got ya.
Hey guys,
Didn't drop the ball on this bolo thing. Just have been patient and given the poor lady over in India a little time to reply to emails from a raving-mad obsessive Jango Fett costuming lunatic (ME! and probably some of you guys too ). I think there may a slight language barrier going on between us, but I've gathered she can't send me any better photos depicting the variations in brown hue colors...
So, I think we should go with SWFreak's suggestion and go with the brown show on the close-up pic on the website(which she informed me it was 6MM or 1/4" bolo) and leave it up to everyone to stain their own to their tastes. She said the price would be the same if we choose to go with the brown show on the website.
I'll post an interest thread in the Jango forum.
Here's the updated list so far:
Here's the interest list so far. Let me know if you're wanting more material than shown. We need to reach 300 yards to place this order. Once it's placed, it will take 2 weeks to receive it.
****Just a note- I used approximately 23 yards for my 21 strand belt and I measure 38"-39" in my waist around my flightsuit and vest. I cut the strands into 41" long pieces to give me excess to trim the uneven ends. And after that I ended up having to cut another 2 inches off to make the belt snug when sinched up.
***I've got 21 strands on my belt that gave me 5 1/4" so plan for more strands if you want wider.
1. Cruzer (50 yrds)
2. goldenrod (25 yrds)
3. Jango Newbie (25 yrds)
4. Kivas (25 yrds)
5. Predatormv (25 yrds)
6. Dark-Side (25 yrds)
7. SWFreak (25 yrds)
8. Katua Fett (25 yrds)
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After reading about your buying the braided leather/bolo from someone in India, that's left me extremely puzzled. Don't they worship cows there? You'd think that if it's an Indian lady, she's gonna go straight to cow hell or whatever if she's dealing in leather from cattle...
Sign me up for 25 yards as well!
This order was made a long time ago.
Last edited by Cruzer; Jan 9, 2007 at 6:10 PM.
I highly recommend leather Guy's braid and service, one of the fastest orders I have ever received from across the pond. Excellent service, product and price.
I'd hold off on buying any leather cord from Leather Man until he can work out the quality discrepancies I found in the cord I ordered from him.
Aaaawww....you are so talented (with a lot of time on your hands)! hehe, j/k
fantastic tutorial cruzer! i sent a pm with some questions.


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STOCKTON (CBS13) – Police arrested a gang member accused of storing a loaded gun in the closet of the room where his infant sleeps.
Officers served a warrant Monday on a home in the 3700 block of Novara Way in connection with an investigation into gang activity and a shooting. There they found a loaded handgun, three 30-round magazines, ¼ ounce of powder cocaine, digital scales, $12,600 in cash and gang insignia.
Police arrested Raymond Blair, 18, of Stockton on weapons, drug, gang, and child endangerment charges.
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Also in that game, Brandon McCarthy pitched the latest in a string of rebound performances after a rocky first month or so as a Ranger. He held the Yankees to one run on just five hits and has now held opponents to only two runs in his last 11 1/3 innings of work.
In Friday's loss to the Angels, Sammy Sosa connected for his 596th homerun off starter John Lackey. The blast closed the deficit to 6-3 and pretty much ruined any hope Lackey had at going the distance in the game for the Angels.
Mark Teixeira hit an even .400 (10-25) against the Yankees and Angels with 1 homer and 6 RBI.
Sunday, May 13th: Rangers 7, Angels 6
Because of the offensive outburst and cavalcade of uplifting moments last Thursday provided, I briefly considered giving this title to the 14-2 win against the Yankees. But if you're a fan, then how could you not pick Sunday afternoon's affair against the Angels as the Game of the Week? True, the Mother's Day game-winner off Scot Shields into the seats just above the Rangers bullpen has yet to be viewed as the blast that turned Nelson Cruz's season around. But if that blast, along with the stare-down initiating breaking ball that left the hand of Joaquin Benoit and hit Gary Matthews Jr. in the behind, both can be looked back on as turning points of the 2007 season - I think we'll all be just fine with that.


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Cost of blocking research
A powerful new genetic technology has been unleashed on an unsuspecting public. Politicians warn of the creation of animal-human hybrids, of the dire consequences of losing control, and there is a moral outcry against tampering with life. The Government is deliberating on a bill to clamp down on the research. Sound familiar?
It's not Australia 2006 but the United States 1977. And the confronting technology is not therapeutic cloning but recombinant DNA.
Recombinant DNA technology made it possible to shuffle genes between species like so many cards in a pack. For instance, the gene from a virus or a human could be spliced into a set of genes that belonged to a bacterium. Of course there was a theoretical risk here: scientists might end up creating a monster bug - a modern-day microscopic Frankenstein monster.
In 1977, the opposition to recombinant DNA was building momentum. Already research laboratories at Harvard and Princeton had been shut down, sending scientists scuttling elsewhere for refuge. And a move to clamp down on the research nationally was afoot in the US Congress. At the 11th hour, scientists learned to get political. They persuaded the legislators not to enact obstructive laws but to implement a system of regulation. Research went ahead but only in hermetically sealed laboratories. And robust guidelines for safety and compliance monitoring became routine worldwide.
Today millions of people owe their lives to the decision to regulate rather than block research. Had the scientists been unsuccessful, we would not now have a source of safe and reliable human insulin for diabetics or growth hormone for growth-retarded children. We would not have smart new cancer drugs such as Glivec, Iressa and Herceptin, that can tell the difference between cancer cells and healthy tissue. We would not have the blood cell growth factors such as Neupogen that have allowed 10 million patients to survive their chemo and radiotherapy. We would not have Ian Frazer's cervical cancer vaccine. We would not have the anti-retroviral drugs that keep millions of AIDS sufferers alive.
And perhaps most chillingly, we would have nothing in our armoury to protect us for when the next killer flu strikes. The coming generation of anti-flu drugs would be impossible without genetic engineering.
As Australia's senators debate Kay Patterson's bill on therapeutic cloning, they would do well to keep the recombinant DNA example in mind.
Like the US legislators of 1977, they are grappling with a powerful new technology whose benefits may be profound. Researchers imagine that one day therapeutic cloning will give people a matched supply of embryonic stem cells. So not only might someone suffering diabetes or heart disease be able to regenerate their diseased tissue, they would be able to do it without needing lifelong anti-rejection drugs.
It is also a technology that has its risks. But Patterson's bill carries hefty safeguards. If the embryo created though therapeutic cloning were to be transferred into a woman's womb there is a small chance it would develop, and if it did, it would produce an abnormal baby. That act would be punished by a 15-year jail sentence. The technique also relies on women to donate their eggs, an uncomfortable procedure that carries about a 6 per cent risk of serious side effects. But women are capable of choosing whether the risks of egg donation are worth the benefits.
Millions do so when their eggs are harvested to conceive a baby though IVF. In the case of therapeutic cloning, who would deny a mother the choice of donating eggs to provide a child that has Fanconi's anaemia with a perfectly matched bone marrow graft? Experiments like this in mice have already succeeded. The bill also makes it illegal to offer commercial rewards for egg donation to eliminate the disturbing prospect of poor women repeatedly donating their eggs.
Today's researchers can't really predict what the ultimate benefits of therapeutic cloning will be. New technology is a springboard that enables leaps into new frontiers.
The researchers who developed recombinant DNA techniques in the 1970s did not imagine they would provide the tools for a later generation to tackle emerging viruses such as AIDS and the killer flu.
Blocking research can have profound costs: the lesson of history shows that the best approach to dealing with groundbreaking, controversial science is to regulate it, not outlaw it.
Elizabeth Finkel is the author of Stem Cells: controversy at the frontiers of science (ABC Books) and a contributing editor of Cosmos magazine.
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More than 10,500 athletes from 204 nations took part in the London Olympics 2012 for an unprecedented third time.
US and China predictably emerged as the powerhouses by taking the first and second spots in the medals tally while hosts Britain produced their best-ever show to take the third position. India too had their moments of glory at the Olympic Games as it notched up its best ever medal tally of six.
The Summer Games had it all. From moments of individual glory to tales that questioned our faith in sport and the Olympic movement. In the end, however, there was enough magic in the London air to fuel our dreams.
Click here for a recap of the Olympics, day by day.
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Moments before showing his sophomore women's collection at Paris Fashion Week, Kanye West admitted he was taking his fashion career slowly. Or, at least as slowly as someone who goes from designer collaborations to designing a full collection can. Massacred for ill-fitting clothing, unseasonable designs, and, mostly, a lack of editing in his Spring 2012 production, Kanye West could have used some of that patience last time out. Kanye took a leap of faith when he returned to the runway on Tuesday and showed his fall collection in Paris. Distinguished by high level concepts, hand-labored details, and top tier ateliers, Paris Fashion Week is a risky place to test out a new hobby.
"The biggest surprise of Kanye West's fall 2012 collection wasn't that he did his homework; Mr. West maybe overdid his homework."
The risk is real for West, who-- as he tweeted during a late-night rant in early January-- is the sole financial backer of his DW line. On the defensive about the poor reception of his spring show, West also tweeted his résumé, which includes a consulting gig with Fendi, bumping elbows in his studio with the great Azzedine Alaïa, turning down a job offer at Versace, and designing for Louis Vuitton, Nike, and the 1%'s most avant prêt-à-porter shoe producer Giusseppe Zanotti. Combine these gigs with West's rotating personal wardrobe of Balmain, Lanvin, and Givenchy (whose head Riccardo Tisci created the artwork for Watch the Throne and West's outfits for its tour), his eye for high fashion in his short film Runaway, and savvy designer drops within his verses, and you might actually be scratching your head, wondering how his spring show flopped.
Yet high hopes for that debut collection were squashed when Yeezy sent his models down the runway wearing hastily-sewn trousers and jackets, barely-there hemlines and dangerously plunging necklines, and Christmas-tree weight ornamentation. There were also the problems of clashing textures, misplaced metallics, half-baked cutouts, warm-weather furs, and too many colors. The collection lacked cohesion and conceptual development. If Kanye had a future left in fashion, he'd first have to nail the basics of fit, cut, fabric, and color; step up his editing skills; and work towards an elevated concept.
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For fall, Kanye showed a tight collection of 20 looks with an edited range of accessories too. His primary talent is with footwear, which can be explained by his decadent collaboration with Giusseppe Zanotti (which Kim Kardashian flaunted at West's show) and, most recently, a more commercially viable collaboration with fast-rising Australian designer Dion Lee. DW's spring collection of shoes came in five distinct styles with varying colors and fabrics. The standout, though, was a car-to-door pair of thigh-high boots with stacked ribbed straps-- a more successful play at draping than the mummy-wrap dresses and skirts he showed for spring.
Handbags were another area in which West improved. Last October's camper backpack with a breast-placed buckle that model Bambi Northwood-Blyth bore was thankfully replaced this season with a textile blocked handbag that could have been lifted from the showroom of the Olsen Twins' runway line The Row. The Olsens' upscale label also works as a point of reference because it's the rare celebrity-run fashion line that's gained the respect of critics and has wide-spread appeal; another is Victoria Beckham's DVB.
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It might be a challenge for some to assess the success of West's fall collection though, without filtering it through his celebrity status. To his credit, Kanye has admitted this is a handicap. The guest list at his show was marked by the rich and famous, in music and fashion: Jay-Z, Diddy, Azzedine Alaïa, Riccardo Tisci, American Vogue editoir-in-chief Anna Wintour, YSL's former head Stefano Pilati, Japan Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Dello Russo, former American Vogue editor-at-large André Leon Talley, London fashion designer Christopher Kane, Alicia Keys, Waka Flocka Flame, Kim Kardashian and fashion blogger Bryanboy posted up early and waited for the show, which was late to start. Tisci's appearance at the show was no surprise; you'd be hard-pressed not to find Givenchy's influence within this collection.
Taking dark romantic cues from Givenchy, DW's tough-looking sportswear is a conceptual improvement and a complete break from his spring collection. West's toolbox now includes unexpected, forward cuts like a backless biker jacket and classic peplum detail that West modernized with an unfinished leather hem. He also explored the duality between relaxed and severely structured silhouettes via wind-swept, sheer hems and high neck, crocodile chokers (which looked misplaced with West's voluminous outerwear). West swung in the other direction with color, here limiting himself to a few shades -- a missed opportunity to put his stamp on the fall market. Sadly then, from such a showman, the collection had few moments of drama.
The biggest surprise of Kanye West's fall 2012 collection wasn't that he did his homework; Mr. West maybe overdid his homework, and over-corrected his rookie mistakes. The aesthete who once rapped "When you try to hard is when you die hard" showed a thoroughly-researched and on-trend collection at Paris Fashion Week, but West's vibrant personality was nowhere to be found within it.
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International Journal of Population Research
Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 546201, 17 pages
Research Article
Identifying Rates of Emigration in the United States Using Administrative Earnings Records
Congressional Budget Office, Long-Term Modeling Group, 2nd and D Streets, SW, Washington, DC 20515, USA
Received 16 September 2010; Accepted 6 May 2011
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By age 14 Natalie had won several trophies competing in Classical piano with the Illinois Music Association.
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During her college years, Natalie created and owned a local music publication called, "The Local Buzz". At this moment she had discovered her desire to teach. "I just wanted everyone I knew in music to know and use what I was learning, or had learned from the music classes, professionals I had been meeting and working with, and my overall music life experiences". By 1997, Natalie was signed to an independent label and embarked on a new adventure.
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In 2012, she created a piano curriculum that uses animals to teach note reading and piano. Creating this curriculum makes learning music FUN!
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I was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil and emigrated with my family to the United States, moving to Brooklyn in 1962 at the age of 9. I began my piano training in Brazil at the age of 7 and continued my studies in New York. I speak three languages fluently - English, Portuguese and Spanish.
After graduating high school, at the age of 17, I attended Hunter College briefly while continuing with piano lessons and had operatic training with a voice coach associated with the New York Metropolitan Opera. At this time, I also became a member of the Harry Belafonte Group,
While continuing piano lessons at the Long Island Conservatory of Music, I found my passion for teaching while still a student. During my early teaching career, I apprenticed with the conservatory's director, master teacher, composer and author of educational books, Sidney J. Lawrence. While shaping my philosophy of teaching, Mr. Lawrence became my mentor and friend. I taught 3-4 year olds in preschool music pedagogy classes while also teaching piano in a career that spans more than 30 years of working with children and adults at all levels.
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I now live in Clermont, FL after relocating from Georgia where I taught piano while also working as a substitute teacher for the Gwinnett County Public Schools and an academics tutor for K-12 levels.
I feel that my high expectations for students encourages them to reach for the best of themselves, achieve the highest standards and carry their musical training into their future lives.
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Our friends thought we were crazy when they knew the fact that we need to drive 60 minutes single trip to take the weekly lesson, but after they see Amanda playing piano and violin, they think it well deserves it.
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Metal body filler.
I have a fender with a slight nick at the front of it so it needs to be built up
prior to priming.
Have any of you used a Metal/Filer product by parasol inc.
Here is a link..
Comments, advice are welcome. I enclose a pic so you can see the area.
The current filler is just plain old bondo, and it chipped away.
Thanks .. X
Last edited by x711; 02-12-2006 at 08:58 PM.
Honestly, I think it needs to be welded.
Hey brian, I taught about that.. but the metal is pretty thin.. Did not want to blow through..
Could it be brazed instead ?
Thanks X
I weld that metal everyday, it really isn't that big of a deal. Get a piece of scrap and practice.
Do you have a MIG?
Yes I do, any pointers ?
Thanks X
Looks like you would have access to the back side. If so, shape a small piece of 18 gauge sheet metal (or heavier) to fit behind the weld and act as a heat sink during the process. This should prevent blow through. The pros can do this sort of weld with no problem...but us amateurs need a crutch now and then.
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With the heat down low you should be able to tap the trigger and let the wire just start to melt. Do this over and over and you could literally weld a one inch wide hole up with no backing. Just be sure the metal is CLEAN, on both sides if you can. If there is anything like underseal on the back, it MUST be cleaned. You want the metal as clean as possible.
Basics of Basics MIG Welding
By Brian Martin
Let me start with safety, DO NOT SKIP, YOU NEED TO READ THIS. The UV rays that are produced at the weld can and will cause damage to your eyes you know that. But did you know that it WILL damage to your skin as well? I have gotten sun burn from welding. I have only peeled from regular sunburn a few times in my life (I have a dark Portuguese complexion) I have peeled from MIG welding more! This was a long time ago, I would never let that happen again. Wear a light long sleeve welding jacket. A Tildon jacket is only about $25.00.You want jeans and high top boots on too. Wear welding gloves, go down to the local auto parts or hardware store and get yourself some nice SOFT gloves. Some are made so stiff that it is hard to work in them. I got some at ACE hardware that are dang near sensual . Get a good helmet, I have a Cherokee ( http://www.accustrike.com/ ) that is only about $90.00. It is a hands free helmet that you open the shaded lens with your chin! I have had it for about 15 years without a problem. When open it gives you a full 4x5-inch or so CLEAR lens, unlike the self darkening helmets that are always shaded. You can flip up the lens and grind anytime you want. I want the full control of when to see through a shade or not. I highly recommend this helmet. Also, another thing that I have only begun using a year or so ago (I hate thinking about how long I didnt use it) a welding respirator. A 3M NOISH approved are available at ACE hardware for about $18.00. If you are welding with weld-thru or E coat primer you are making ZINC FUMES! And can get zinc fume fever VERY easily. Even when welding clean metal, you are still making fumes that are hazardous. Be sure the respirator fits under your helmet. The Cherokee helmet for instance doesnt have room for a cartridge mask so a single throwaway is all that will work. HEAR ME NOW BELIEVE ME LATER, PROTECT YOURSELF. Even if you dont care about the protection because you are such a bad-*****, do it because you will produce a better weld. It is hard to lay a nice bead when you have a hot molten ball of steel in your shoe or pants.
I would like to start with this disclaimer. These are tips in welding in the real world by real human beings that are not pro welders. A pro welding under controlled conditions would possibly disagree with some things here. That is fine if you get other input to better your skills, this is for basic understanding of MIG welding in the real world.
MIG welding is actually just a controlled short. It is a short just like if you touch your two battery cables together on your car and it sparks. The MIG does the same thing, you just are in control of it. You are melting the metal with heat created by this short.
Basic principles of MIG welding are this: You have VOLTAGE, the pressure that pushes electrons through a circuit. Then CURRENT, (same as amperage) the amount of electrons being pushed. And RESISTANCE this restricts electrons from flowing. The gas (Argon, CO2, or a mixture of both 75-25% is most common) is blowing away the impurities in the air around and on the surface of the weld. If there is a breeze you may need to up the pressure from the recommended 25-30 cubic feet per minute or 3-4 PSI.
What the heck does this mean?
The arc that is formed when the wire comes out of the gun and hits the metal is your CIRCUIT (or current path), The welder has to have enough voltage to keep the current flowing. You control these variables with the heat switch (VOLTAGE) the wire speed knob (CURRENT) and the stick-out and or arc length (RESISTANCE).
The MIG welder has to be tuned just like a spray gun or your carburetor on you car. That perfect balance between too hot a weld (blowing holes) and too cold a weld (not enough penetration) is where you want to be. Fortunately this balance is pretty wide for at least normal welding on your car.
Hot or Cold weld. I will refer to welds in this way to describe them. Extreme Hot would be heavy melting, puddling, burning holes. Extreme Cold or Cool would be not enough melting thus not enough penetration.
To find this balance, get a piece of scrape metal that is the same thickness as the metal you will be welding (or very close to it). Clamp your ground clamp to it and lay a bead on it. Start the bead with the MIG set at the recommended settings on your welder. You dont have to lay a bead to be proud of here, just weld. If you have someone to help this can be a big help, but if you dont go it alone, youll need to learn to do it someday anyway. While you are laying a bead have your partner turn the wire speed (CURRENT) up and or down till you hear that perfect ZGHZGHZGHZGHZGHZGHZ and you will see in the bead that it is perfect. The weld will be laying out relatively flat with no undercut (at the edge of the weld there isnt a low spot where the weld has burned away the metal and not replaced it with melted wire). If your wire speed it too slow there will be gaps in sound then pops. Watch the weld and see if the weld is crawling up the wire, that is a dead give away speed is too slow. If it is too fast, it have faster pops as the wire is burning away and quickly hitting the metal arcing again. These sounds can be very subtle so it may take a while to learn the sound, have patience.
Now if you have to do this alone, just hold the gun one of your hands and have the other on the wire control, it is very awkward at first but you will be able to do it well in no time.
I have to clear up an old husbands tale about the sound of the weld. I have heard and read many times that your weld should sound like bacon frying. Let me tell you right now, if your welds sound like bacon frying, you are laying some crappy welds! It should sound more like an electric buzzer ZGHZGHZGHZGHZGHZGHZGZHZGH. If it sounds like bacon frying ZGHZZ-POP-ZHZGHZ-POP-CRACKLE-ZHZGZ You are doing something wrong.
So, what does this technical stuff about voltage and current have to do with learning to weld? Well if you understand WHAT is happening, it is easier to MAKE happen what you want.
If you are welding a little too hot and are blowing holes, you could adjust this simply by creating more RESISTANCE by lengthening the stick-out or distance that you are holding the tip of the gun from the surface being welded. So as you weld a bead, if you see the weld puddling too much and fear that it may blow through, you can back the tip off the metal a little and create more resistance. If you are welding thin metal you can start with a longer stick-out and produce a cooler weld also. Now, this has to be done with caution because if you rise up too much, the gas does not shield the weld leaving the weld porous.
The direction of travel and speed WILL also effect the heat of the weld. If you use the drag technique with the gun dragging away from the weld, it will be cooler. If you are using the push technique with the gun pushing into the weld it will produce a hotter weld. So, if you were to start on the left side of a seam and with the gun leaning to the right at 45 degrees welding from left to right, this would be dragging. If you were to start on the right side of the seam with the gun leaning to the right as before and welding left, to the left side of the panel, that would be pushing the weld. I find that when welding sheet metal if there is a burning through problem, changing to the pull technique will do the job most of the time.
Of course speed is obvious, the slower you go the hotter and flatter the weld. The faster you go the taller and cooler the weld. All of these techniques can be used with one and other through out even one seam (though you wouldnt likely change from push to pull or vice-versa) to control the weld. Ideally you would have the weld set up and cleaned so you wouldnt have to do this, but realistically you do have to change gun distance speed as you weld.
The first BIG tip I can give is to have a nice pair of angle wire cutters beside you at all times. You will want to cut the wire off at the proper length EVERY time you start a weld. This does two things, first of all it gives you the stick-out that you want every time. Second, it will give you a sharp tip to pierce the metal or weld-thru primer. Third, that little ball of metal on the end of your wire, it is oxidation! That is right, if you leave it there, you are pushing RUST into your nice new weld! I learned this tip from a certified pro welder (underwater even) and it totally changed the way I weld.
The second BIG tip is to have everything CLEAN and set up TIGHT for the weld. Like with painting, the preparation is KEY. Even the slightest grease, tar, paint, rust, etc. can cause BIG problems. As a rule the smaller lower the voltage your welder, the more critical this is. Clamp the pieces TIGHT, and keep the metal clean at least one inch from the weld with two or three inches preferably.
So lets weld a lap weld where a piece of sheet metal is laying over another and you will be welding the top piece to the one laying under it. I find that a pull technique with the gun at a 45 degree angle and pointing right straight at the seam the most effective. But the thing is, the upper sheet will burn MUCH easier than the bottom. The edge of that sheet has much less of a heat sink effect than bottom sheet. Sort of like starting to burn that log in your fireplace, if you start on the edge where it is thin it will start burning MUCH easier than if you started right in the middle right? Well, when you are welding this lap weld you want to start the weld on the bottom piece and even concentrate the weld on the bottom.
This may sound funny but if you get a piece of paper and fold it so you have a lap seam you can see what I am going to tell you. Hold this seam flat with a few pieces of tape but leave it exposed so you can weld it with some white glue. Lay a bead of glue on the bottom paper right next to the edge of the upper paper just as I described above. When you get real close to the upper paper edge you will see the glue sort of grab on to the edge. You dont even have to move the bead all they way over to it, if you are very close and you just barely hit it with the glue, it will hang on to it. Continuing the bead down the edge with most of it laying on the bottom sheet, the edge of the bead will grab the edge of the paper, without any effort on your part.
Your weld bead will do the same thing. When you are concentrating on the bottom, harder to melt metal just move the bead over to touch the edge of the top metal and it will grab on to it. You can run the bead with most of the heat being directed on the bottom and just grabbing the top without blowing it away.
This goes for plug welding too. The size of the hole depends of a few factors, usually 5/16 is the norm. But sometimes you could go down to 3/16 or up to 3/8 depending on the thickness of the metal or how important the strength of the weld is. That sounds funny but if you are welding in a backing for a butt weld for instance, it is only being plug welded to hold it there till you lay the bead into it while welding the two adjacent pieces together. As before with lap welding you want to direct the weld into the bottom of the hole to hit the bottom piece of metal first, then melting it into the surrounding metal just like the lap weld. If you have perfectly prepared plug welds, you should easily be able to fill the hole with weld leaving the top almost flat. If you are ending up with a large hump, you need to raise your voltage, or wire speed to weld hotter. Weld a number of tests before going on to your car. Weld as hot as you can without burning through and look under the panel to see your penetration If the weld is coming through the bottom producing a hump under it, the weld is too hot. Either speed up, lengthen the arc or stick-out or lower voltage.
Hope this helps you produce better welds.
Brian I cleaned the surface off, You are right about welding as opposed to
spot filling, Thats a better solution because at that point of the fender
it will only be a matter of time before the bondo goes de-lam due to vibration
Hey thanks for the help and attached info sheet.
I will give it a Go !
Best Regards ><
Just a follow up on my fender repair. Well I backed the repair with
18 gauge steel and welded it up, First attempt was a Blow Through
"Yikes" I am no prow at welding
Second attempt after cranking the juice down went better so I was able
to build metal to fix the defect. I then grinded the welds smooth and
finished it all off with a product called Metal 2 Metal by Evercoat.
That metal 2 metal stuff is the closest thing I have ever seen to
lead, If you ever get a chance to work with it, its noting short of
a joy to use and it sands very well. Very strong adhesion properties !
A couple of pics for you to see !
Thanks for the help guys
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Do you have any more clues regarding the "Metal to Metal" product you used? I tried to Google it and came up with nothing. I also went to the Bondo/Mar-Hyde web site and did a search, but came up with nothing. Is the name on the box/tube actually "Metal to Metal"?
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Try metal-2-metal aluminum filler.
cboy there is a couple different fillers that have aluminum powder in the mix. The one I have experience with is called all-metal which I used when I worked for a yacht builder. I wasn't as impressed with it as x711 said he was. I thought it was a pain to work with, and set up like a rock if allowed to cure to long. It mixed with liquid hardener, and it takes a little experience on the amount to add if doing a large area. Seamed like a fine line between adding the right amount to either not be waiting forever for it to harden up and hardening as you were spreading it. I would rather do stuff that needs a bit of fill or places you would want something more moisture resistant with a fiberglass filler first and finish with bodyfiller. Everyone has there own preferances though, I am sure a few use them a lot. I think they can be used on powdercoated parts where other fillers can't. Not positive. The metal type bodyfillers have been discussed here before, and most auto paint supply places should have one of them on the shelves.
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Hmm, I haven't had anything powdercoated, I don't have a clue. I know the yacht place was looking into powdercoating parts and thought metal type filler could be used but I thought it was something about being able to conduct some electricity when coating, I know nothing. I don't think the place ever did get anything going. Where is powdercoat bill when you need him? I haven't seen him visit here of late?
Cboy...look for a product called "lab metal" works great for powder coating. http://www.caswellplating.com/aids/labmetal.html
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