Originally Posted by
Bob Warner
Seems like every thread lately is challenged by someone. Remember, if you are not interested there is nobody going to force you to participate. There is no anchor tied to your *** so if you don't like a thread, you can move on to another.
The suggestion was How To videos by the member HERE. Their Tips and tricks and special skills. It would not make sense to me to suggest a How To thread by the members of ANOTHER forum.
All of the videos I have seen on the Miller site linked above shows people welding a couple inches of weld in perfect conditions. They always use new steel and they are boring. They do not show the things that jman suggested.
I have no interest in seeing some old goat (like me) drawing zig zags on a chalkboard or try to explain something without the verbal training needed to get the point across.
I want to see ZTFab set up everything to do the welds in the other thread. I want to see David R setting up his machine and tackle some odd project he was asked to do. I want to see ZAP set up and do some TIG welding.
I want to see someone totally screw something up and have the others here point out what they did wrong and get them on track to become a better welder.
I want to see one of the guys that fixes large items like broken backhoe buckets in the field.
I would like to see a video build of a project.
Miller site and all the books I have seen don't show this stuff. they just have classroom type training videos that can put me to sleep faster than anything. Those videos do not make you want to get up after watching them and go do something. You just think, "I can already do that."
They are good for the beginners but for those of us that can already weld most anything we want still want to know how so and so does that cool thing he does.
Give jman a break, he made a good suggestion.
For the people here that can offer up videos, please do. jman and I want to see them as I am sure others would also.
I would also be interested in the cameras people use to create their videos, it will help people like me who don't have a video camera know the capabilities of a few when we can go shopping for one.