Re: What did you learn about welding from your dad?

Posted by Andy Martin on January 13, 2016 at 13:59:11 from (209.213.149.120):

In Reply to: What did you learn about welding from your dad? posted by Alan K on January 13, 2016 at 08:58:18:

My dad was a great mechanic and farmer, then went into aircraft manufacturing. I don't think he ever welded anything other than wire pliers cutting hot wires.

I learned to weld in college from a fellow student. He also taught me how to run a lathe and mill. He taught me more than I learned in engineering classes. For instance, when we were seniors, we had an energy absorbing car bumper project (1970). I borrowed two cylinders from the Allis dealer and tow cars from the junk yard for us and another team. We built full size tests, swinging a 10,000 lb concrete weight in a ten ft radius to smash the bumpers. The other team didn't do so good, out bumper worked good. After school was out my friend and I were the only ones cleaning up and taking things back. When we took the cylinders out of our car they were both bent a little. I was devastated, I had no money and could not afford to pay for the cylinders.

My buddy Tom Steeper said "no problem". We snuck vee blocks and a dial indicator out of the Mechanical engineering lab, checked out the ASAE standards, and went into the soils lab and unlocked a window. Later that night we opened the window, opened the overhead doors and turned on all the lights so nobody would suspect we didn't have permission. The soils lab has a great press that shows you both load and displacement so you can tell exactly when the load is yielding. We took the cylinders apart and had the shafts back to within ASAE tolerances and returned everything the next day. I learned a lot from that experience about doing things right and not giving up just because you don't know. I told the Allis dealer what we had done and to my surprise he said if they were straight no harm done. Nice guy.

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