New from Western NY

[Hass]

I guess I registered a while ago (I thought this forum looked familiar!), but never said anything it seems!

Anyway, I've stumbled back on here because I'm trying to gather up information of other materials needed to do some basic fabrication for home use.
Chop saws, Horiz band saws, Presses + Drill presses, etc...

Ordered a Miller Trailblazer 302 (still waiting it's arrival), and it needs some equally nice equipment to match!
So I'm lurking around reading threads on suggestions :]

About myself a little bit...
I'm an expansion joint welder as of early this year... I graduated from a Welding tech school (Welder training and testing in Buffalo NY.. Division of QIS), then landed a job at my current location, and have been there ever since.. ~7 months.
I tried to email some pictures from my iPhone to here, but they're not sending for some reason.. so I'll throw them up later perhaps...

[smawgmaw]

Welcome to the forum! Look foreward to seeing your pics.

[Hass]

Aha, I was sending to an old email! that may be why.
Anyway, here they are.
Cell phone pictures of course, since I don't take my camera to work ;]

I've been making a lot of these lately...
It's 2-ply, .024" stainless being fused together, then Dye checking the seam weld.
Before anyone even says anything, that inside weld was done with a jetliner from the sheet metal guys (who also formed it)



They then get welded on rings/bands (then eventually stuffed in a shell and tested)... kind of like this old old picture I have here.
As you can tell, I was really sloppy with dye back then!


Random picture of a unit that has been stuffed together, but obviously not finished (look at the top right of it, the gap has to be smooshed down yet!... Which I remember doing, and was a PITA.



Some guys pick on me for doing things slowly, or walking slow....
They're poke fun at me, and be like "I'll get there when I get there....."
So I walk in my booth one day.. and what do I find?



a baby eeyore staring at me!
no idea who put it there, and nobody ever owned up to it.
But he still sits on my TIG machine to this day actually.
Except fashioning a new look...

[specter]

Hi Ya Hass and Welcome to the Welding Web Family. Alway nice to see another western NY'r. Nice machines and