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A farmer's chopper blower band snaps in half during haylage season, and the nearest replacement is two days away — so he tacks it…
A weekend fabricator once clamped a 1/8-inch E7013 rod into a 110-volt machine to tack up some 16-gauge sheet for a garden gate —…
A welder walks into a fabrication shop for what sounds like an easy试 shift: stand a length of pipe upright, strike an arc, and…
You load a fresh 3/32" 6011 rod into your little buzz box, strike an arc on a rusty trailer frame, and the rod either…
For many small fabrication shops, floor space and budgets are stretched to their limits while jobs pile up. A 3 in 1 laser welding…
A fabricator once told me the story of a welder who passed every flat-position test in the shop with picture-perfect beads, then failed his…
A shop foreman once told a young welder, "Run me a 2F and we'll talk about the job." She had months of practice beads…
A welder walks into an accredited test facility on Monday morning with six months of shop practice behind him, runs what he thinks is…
A first-year apprentice stands in front of a T-joint tack-up and hears the foreman say, "Run a 2F on that and bring it over."…
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