What's happened to Shield Arc

[sixdogs]

His encouragement taught me to weld.

 

[rgr33]

I hope he knew how many caring friends he had on this board.

 

[Steppenwolfe]

I hope he knew how many caring friends he had on this board.

He does now...

 

[showcattle]

His threads were always full of something useful. I always read what he posted whether it be weld bends, his old Lincoln engine drives, to testing other welding machines. He's probably the best "hobby" weldor out there. May he RIP.

 

[dstig1]

I saw this posted over on welding web and thought people here would like to see it as well

Carl Eugene Pennington Obituary May 30, 2021 - Rill Chapel Life Tribute Center Funeral Home & Crematory

View Carl Eugene Pennington's obituary, find service dates, and sign the guestbook.

www.rill.com

 

[k0ua]

Thanks for posting that, While I did not know him well, I did talk to him on the phone a couple of times several years ago. I sure enjoyed his postings and advice. RIP Carl

I saw this posted over on welding web and thought people here would like to see it as well

Carl Eugene Pennington Obituary May 30, 2021 - Rill Chapel Life Tribute Center Funeral Home & Crematory

View Carl Eugene Pennington's obituary, find service dates, and sign the guestbook.

www.rill.com

 

[two_bit_score]

I miss reading his excellent posts.

 

[jaxs]

Thanks for posting the obit,I didn't know about his injury and thought his condition was due to age . To echo others,he was so generous and patient in sharing knowledge with any that asked.

 

[newbury]

Carl was one of a kind, a great kind. He is sorely missed

 

[dstig1]

I don't recall which site I read it on, but many years ago they were lifting some gigantic thing on his job site and something broke like a lifting eye. The cable and hook smashed into him and threw him in the bay. Somehow they managed to get him to dry ground in time to save him but he was very badly hurt from that. Afterwards I believe he had supervisor roles and no more line work due to his disability from the accident. Someone can correct me if they know the history better, but that was the gist of it. I find it amazing he was ever back to work at all after something like that, but it seems he was that kind of man.

 

[Sberry]

I met Carl a couple times and if I could have pulled away for a while would have taken him up on a job setup offer intro. I never went to his place, I met him a couple of events and had dinner. We ran a couple beads at a field test. He said it would be fairly easy to float to the top as they had a couple bigger bridge things maybe not tooo far off his back yard. I didnt want to commit, wouldnt have been any real skin off him and could have been shorter in hindsite but they were in a push for bridge quality wire welding and having problems getting a lot of the chimps to learn to set the wire speed right.

 

[Sberry]

I got the feeling he might have been trying to recruit a bit hoping to leave some shirt tails around for grandsons etc. That would have been 15 yrs ago, the time zoomed but I would have been thinking about retirement from that a couple years or so ago. Right about the time he was coaching a couple young welders.

 

[Sberry]

On this forum it is easy to see what we see and Carl focused on welding coupons vs building and it was a hobby/vocation at this point but what is missed from here is he was a really smart guy.
I asked him when I figured out he was so much smarter than the rest of us including an engineer or 2,,, I had to wonder, how come someone so smart spend so long at pile drivers? He said "it was so easy to float to the top when the rest of them were so stupid". He managed work that was huge, budget on a footer on some of the bridges in the millions, big millions too. Lot of money pouring in one spot.

 

[dragoneggs]

I got the feeling he might have been trying to recruit a bit hoping to leave some shirt tails around for grandsons etc. That would have been 15 yrs ago, the time zoomed but I would have been thinking about retirement from that a couple years or so ago. Right about the time he was coaching a couple young welders.

And at least one 'old' welder as well.

 

[Silvic]

And at least one 'old' welder as well.

I would say more than one as I am a bit older than you and I was a bit older than Carl as well.
He is truly missed and he really improved my welding skills.
I just wished I had gotten over to have him help me on my Aluminum Tig welding that he offered.
He got me started on scratch start Tig and then I bought a dedicated Tig machine for aluminum.
He certainty help my overhead and vertical up welds.

I remember when he helped you get dialed in on your machine.
An amazing individual Carl was.

 

[Sodo]

Carl and I had some online disagreements that I'm positive would not exist in 'real life', in the shop.
They exist because of the internet.
If I walked into his shop with my Miller in-hand we'da been best buds in a few minutes.
That was back when 120v was illegal...
This is like a metaphor for the dangers of social media that we all know so well today.

My biggest welding improvement came from Carl's "a series of little Js" and I'm happy for that.
Of course there's a helluva lot more to welding than that..... but that will carry on.
I've repeated that one tip to several 'learning' welders and it has upped their weld quality.
And success provides the inspiration to learn more.

 

[Tractor Seabee]

He passed away about a year ago

 

[Sodo]

I gathered that. But that tip he gave... lives on

 

[two_bit_score]

He passed away about a year ago

The best always go too soon!

 

[Midniteoyl]

There are welding products out there for the novice. Stick welding if you just have a 200 amp buzz box. You'd be surprised. Many of these products almost weld themselves, and get rid of porosity in the bead. I'm here to help!!!

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