Welding Web Down?

[California]

...you don't know what you're talking about

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[yomax4]

Guess I asked for it. :laughing:

 

[dstig1]

...you don't know what you're talking about

Awww, ya beat me to it! :laughing: Yes, you had that coming... :laughing:

I agree with Big Barn - Most of the time you get good answers from knowledgeable people on WW, IME. Several years back it was much rougher and there were some very grouchy individuals who would berate newbies for their normal questions. I don't see that much anymore, but there are certainly ones that do not suffer fools gladly (if you won't listen, then they will tell you where to go), and there are a couple jerks still around, but that is life. I suspect many people's perceptions of WW were formed further in the past and may not have evolved with time the same as WW seems to have. Plus - If you are very thin-skinned, the internet is not the place for you...WW or anywhere

 

[California]

...I suspect many people's perceptions of WW were formed further in the past ...

I thought the scorn I saw was just because my first inquiries were "How do I make this $72 HF 'Mig100' (AC flux) welder work at least as well as the 40 yo AC stick welder I can use reasonably well? I thought this was modern technology and easy to weld with???"

Nothing but scorn. And lots of other beginner 'weldors' asking the same question with the same replies. I gave up and returned the welder for refund after I noticed a large number of them as 'open box special' on Ebay.

Actually the scorners were right. A year later someone posted that those cheap welders now worked properly. A really bad batch of flux wire had doomed months of them, caused them to be returned for refund. I went back and bought the same model, it worked as expected (crude but worth the $72), so no longer a need to ask dumb questions on WW. But those more experienced guys were right, that generation of HF 'Mig' cheap welders were simply unusable with the trial spool of flux wire.

Sorry about long-winded. This shelter-in-place order already is a PIA. I'm stuck in town with nothing to do here.

 

[dragoneggs]

I suspect many people's perceptions of WW were formed further in the past

I used to poke around there when I first got my MIG but found TBN welding forum more to my liking. No question lots of experience and knowledge on WW but I didn't like the tone. Maybe it is much improved now. Hope so.

 

[hddnis]

I thought the scorn I saw was just because my first inquiries were "How do I make this $72 HF 'Mig100' (AC flux) welder work at least as well as the 40 yo AC stick welder I can use reasonably well? I thought this was modern technology and easy to weld with???"

Nothing but scorn. And lots of other beginner 'weldors' asking the same question with the same replies. I gave up and returned the welder for refund after I noticed a large number of them as 'open box special' on Ebay.

Actually the scorners were right. A year later someone posted that those cheap welders now worked properly. A really bad batch of flux wire had doomed months of them, caused them to be returned for refund. I went back and bought the same model, it worked as expected (crude but worth the $72), so no longer a need to ask dumb questions on WW. But those more experienced guys were right, that generation of HF 'Mig' cheap welders were simply unusable with the trial spool of flux wire.

Sorry about long-winded. This shelter-in-place order already is a PIA. I'm stuck in town with nothing to do here.

Which town you stuck in?

My wife's family is all down in Sonoma county, what with the fires the last few years and now this whole mess, I'm not sure why they still live there.

 

[dstig1]

Eh, there still are jerks there, and you can certainly run into them, but I joined there over 10 yrs ago, after lurking for a year or two, and I can assure you that it was FAR worse back then. Heck, there are jerks on TBN too, but fortunately few and they tend to stay in "friendly" politics for the most part...except when they emerge to destroy the Corona virus threads...

 

[the old grind]

There are jerks everywhere. You notice them more wherever you spend the most time online.

That TBN is where so many people go to avoid them is why most of us are here, or I'm in the wrong room. (let me down easy if so)

I'm saying that we can prove to each other that "We don't need no steenkeeng WW," and that they're lucky that so many of our guys will share with 'em.

Admitting I'll still try to finish registering there.

 

[California]

Which town you stuck in?

My wife's family is all down in Sonoma county, what with the fires the last few years and now this whole mess, I'm not sure why they still live there.

"Not putting in, required or not"

 

[Big Barn]

. Heck, there are jerks on TBN too, but fortunately few and they tend to stay in "friendly" politics for the most part...except when they emerge to destroy the Corona virus threads...

I must be the exception. I rarely stray from Projects and Tasks although I may have got one of the Corona Virus threads shut down .....