Was cutting up an old aluminum walker to make a kayak dolly. So get all set
up and see the argon gauge is stuck at zero. The plastic face had come off
awhile back and in that time the needle got on the wrong side of the pin.
No big deal, turned off the tank, removed the face cover and flipped the
needle to the correct side. Now the problem. Start welding and can not get
a good weld. What the heck, burn a hole in the tubing, etc. finally
figured out I had not turned on the argon tank again. Figured out I was
really out of it today, if I did not realize it was not the machine setting
and no argon. Should get out the spool gun welder more often

"Bill McKee" wrote in message
m...
Was cutting up an old aluminum walker to make a kayak dolly. So get all
set up and see the argon gauge is stuck at zero. The plastic face had
come off awhile back and in that time the needle got on the wrong side of
the pin. No big deal, turned off the tank, removed the face cover and
flipped the needle to the correct side. Now the problem. Start welding
and can not get a good weld. What the heck, burn a hole in the tubing,
etc. finally figured out I had not turned on the argon tank again.
Figured out I was really out of it today, if I did not realize it was not
the machine setting and no argon. Should get out the spool gun welder
more often


this reminds me of a story an old timer here told me. it's hysterical.
hope you won't mind me interjecting a non-metalworking story here, it's from
an old timer republican so hopefully i can get a pass. i've been wanting to
re-tell this story to someone ever since he told me. your story about one
thing after another reminded me of this.
he told me, he and another old timer went to his cabin to do some fix-up
repairs, he said his friend is gone now and he misses him, was a great guy.
he told this story so well, i doubt i can retell it as well. they traded
off with the cooking duties. the agreement from the outset was, as is a
general rule, "he who complains about the cooking gets the cooking duties"
(or something to that effect). al, that's his name, al said he started out
on the wrong foot one morning, everything was going wrong. he said he set
the dozen styrofoam egg carton on the (glass top) stove and didn't realize
one of the burners was on and melted the carton to the surface of the stove.
etc. etc. one thing after another was going wrong that morning for him
while he was trying to fix breakfast for them both. i think he said
something went wrong with the coffee maker too. etc. etc. he said he
wanted to make the eggs special and jazz them up a little with a sprinkle of
paprika on top. al told me when he went to sprinkle the paprika the top
fell off and a huge amount dumped onto the eggs. oops! one thing after
another huh? he carefully scraped the mound of paprika off and served the
eggs that way anyhow. turned out, as his friend started to eat the eggs, (i
think al said his friend made some contorted facial expressions) turned out
it wasn't paprika after all but cinnamon. he said his friend's only comment
was "SURE AM DIFFERENT!". what struck me as funny was, this agreement that
whosoever was to be the first to complain was to receive the cooking duties,
and his friend was resisting his intense desire to complain, and it would
seem that al DELIBERATELY fixed something that tasted AWFUL just to evade
the cooking duties. too damn funny.

b.w.

Sounds like its the Gizmo to me.
Al Kimmel
"Bill McKee" wrote in message
m...
Was cutting up an old aluminum walker to make a kayak dolly. So get all
set up and see the argon gauge is stuck at zero. The plastic face had
come off awhile back and in that time the needle got on the wrong side of
the pin. No big deal, turned off the tank, removed the face cover and
flipped the needle to the correct side. Now the problem. Start welding
and can not get a good weld. What the heck, burn a hole in the tubing,
etc. finally figured out I had not turned on the argon tank again.
Figured out I was really out of it today, if I did not realize it was not
the machine setting and no argon. Should get out the spool gun welder
more often

William Wixon wrote:
"Bill McKee" wrote in message
m...
Was cutting up an old aluminum walker to make a kayak dolly. So get all
set up and see the argon gauge is stuck at zero. The plastic face had
come off awhile back and in that time the needle got on the wrong side of
the pin. No big deal, turned off the tank, removed the face cover and
flipped the needle to the correct side. Now the problem. Start welding
and can not get a good weld. What the heck, burn a hole in the tubing,
etc. finally figured out I had not turned on the argon tank again.
Figured out I was really out of it today, if I did not realize it was not
the machine setting and no argon. Should get out the spool gun welder
more often


this reminds me of a story an old timer here told me.

And that reminds me of Utah Phillips' "Moose Turd Pie"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSlPJOfnJZk

"It's good, though!"

--Winston

On Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:26:39 -0800, Winston
wrote:

William Wixon wrote:
"Bill McKee" wrote in message
m...
Was cutting up an old aluminum walker to make a kayak dolly. So get all
set up and see the argon gauge is stuck at zero. The plastic face had
come off awhile back and in that time the needle got on the wrong side of
the pin. No big deal, turned off the tank, removed the face cover and
flipped the needle to the correct side. Now the problem. Start welding
and can not get a good weld. What the heck, burn a hole in the tubing,
etc. finally figured out I had not turned on the argon tank again.
Figured out I was really out of it today, if I did not realize it was not
the machine setting and no argon. Should get out the spool gun welder
more often


this reminds me of a story an old timer here told me.

And that reminds me of Utah Phillips' "Moose Turd Pie"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSlPJOfnJZk

"It's good, though!"

--Winston
A little too much salt in the coffee pot one morning - "J****
C***** that coffee is salty ....... just the way I like it!"
Gerry :-)}
London, Canada