Learning to Weld with Jerry Ward – Epi-3200
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Jerry discovered his love for metal working back in shop class in the early 80’s. While he has earned his living in IT, what is now called being a maker has always been a part of his life.
Jerry joins us today to discuss how anyone can learn to weld and add it to their sill sets. In line with Anyone Can Farm (Mark Baker) and Anyone Can Cook (Disney’s Ratatouille) Jerry wants to present why welding at the scale of homestead/prepper projects is a skill anyone can learn and the equipment is more affordable than ever.
In short we want to get you to realize that welding is likely not as hard to do as you think it is.
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Some questions came up about welding remote, away from power. A 7500 watt generator will supply 30 Amps @ 240 V and a 12,000 watt generator will provide 50 Amps @ 240V. Therefore the math shows a 12KW generator could max out the machines we were talking about.
You were talking about a free welding rig giveaway for those involved in watching the live show.
I generally listen to your show on your podcast. Are you speaking about people on the chat on which platform?
Youtube? Do you have a set time for your live show, so people know when to join at a certain time?
I don’t stay where I can get a notice, so a set time would make it easier for more people to attend.
Anyone on any of the live feeds would have had a chance, the most popular feed is Youtube, they are all listed on TSPCLive.com
Jerry’s accent/voice is unusual, also very clear & probably marketable for advertising…
Are Jerry’s Parents from Ireland or UK ?
Seems like a mix of US & European accents rolled into one.
Interesting stuff.
Mid-West (Michigan) all my life going back to my Grandparents. My professional life has involved talking to Europe a lot so I don’t know if that rubbed off on me.
Great show guys! One comment on learning. I had never used a MIG but quite a bit of experience with 220V stick welder. I watched several YouTube videos and was doing decent welds in 30 minutes. In fact I never used the stick welder again in 3 years.
I learned stick welding in high school shop class 60 years ago. About 5 years ago I bought a $500 Hobart 110V MIG welder (Handler 140). I have welded up to 1/4″ mild steel with it using multiple passes. I LOVE IT! I had a stick welder for 30 years but anything less than 1/8″ thick steel it just burned it up so I found it less than useful for home use.
Anyway, I sold the stick welder for $50 with $75 worth of sticks just to get it out of the way after using the Hobart for 3 years.
I have not used a flux core MIG welder but I don’t think they are very satisfactory.
I got a cheap Chinese plasma cutter rated for 3/8″ cuts max. It was kind of OK but 1/4″ was more like max cuts. It also needed the points cleaned up every few months when it quit cutting. So I puked it and bought a used Hypertherm 30 off Ebay–it is also rated for 3/8″ max, and it will actually do that. Much better machine for 3X the price.
I have made all kinds of stuff out of scrap steel. A lot of the steel was free. Some I bought at farm auctions by bidding on the miscellaneous piles of scrap for a few bucks. The comment on bed rails is spot on. I have used bed rail on probably 30 projects and it was FREE.
Warren