Hi!
Well, I wanted to tell you about "My Aha Moment" I had the other day. In welding lab for the past several years, I have explained to students about how to tell if their travel speed in SMAW is too fast or too slow.
Too slow and the weld will be humped up, (I call them "Humpy Welds"), convex welds. To fast and the weld would be flatten, concave and the ripples will have a bullet-nose-shaped appearance. Then I tell them, "that means that the ripples of the weld are "pointy". Then I tell them, "I not really sure why they call them bullet-nose-shape".
Then, the other day was going through the same scenario and right after I said "I'm not sure why they call them that", I told him "hum... maybe it's because the end is shaped like a bullet!" And that's when it hit me... My Aha Moment....
Now mind you, I've been welding about 23 years and It just now hit me why its called that!!!! that sure was a LOL moment. Of course I laughed, and laughed...the student of course thought I was nuts, which sometimes I am.
So, What kind of "Aha Moment" have you had, pertaining to welding?
Until next time...
Happy Welding, Von Miller
3 comments:
I only realized what AC/DC stood for when I studied welding theory.....
my school before that was mostly about english and art.... sigh
That is an "Aha Moment"
I've often wondered if the band AC/DC got its name from welding?
Maybe because AC/DC is so high energy. HA!
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