*******Motors Chat - Round 7*******

pred racer wrote: »

Not even close :cool:

You must be retiring next year Pred are you

22 myself

Interslice wrote: »

I put my name on the list but went to college not long after. I want to get a mig welder for working on cars. Don't see the funds coming though. My mate has a little inverter you can weld panels with but it's not great. You can only do an inch at a time and it still leaves a few holes. Thinking of moving down to cork in the new year myself. Living with the folks the last 2 months. The first time in 10 years at home got old fast.

MIG is handy as long as you know how to set it up, for neat work on thin meterial TIG is your only man though, takes longer to master but it gives much nicer work.

As far as burning holes with the stick welder, but smaller rods and weld lower.
Thin metal can drive ta mad though, we're working with 2mm Aluminium at the minute, bloody hell...

pred racer wrote: »

If I was allowed take photos in work, I could show you welding that would bring a tear to a glass eye

High vacuum chambers with flanges welded on for huuuuge turbo pumps, rga's, pressure sensors, endpoint detectors etc etc. all stainless.

The old machines I worked on were aluminium and the welding was only fabulous.

Ah jaysus, I'm happy if I can make a box hold water, never mind high pressure vessels.
Our tutor has a background in the same stuff and specialises in copper work.
I feel so inadequate when he does a demo. That's 30+ years of work though, welding before I was born!

Try a sneaky one and send me a PM, I'll tell no one.

Interslice wrote: »

A totally different situation than single and in your 20's. Think he said he's on 1000 euro a week. That sound right? Dam pints cloud the memory.

I'd love a dash cam. Seen a lad try to get a 406 with what must have been a blown out head gasket or something the length of the south link this evening. Got about 2 miles before he had to roll it into the barrier out of the way. Then up around fermoy an artic almost sandwiched a focus into the concrete divider. Must have dosed off a bit. The fovus had to swerve right over to thr bsrrier out of the way. Only a couple of feet either side of him when the truck turned back towards the left lane. Scary dtuff for the focus driver.

Depends where you're working but I know a lad pulling $5000 a week, 3 weeks on 1 week off doing pipe down there.
Fully coded 6G, in the middle of nowhere with nothing to spend money on.
Madness.

I've considered Aus but I won't be working mines, there's plenty of money in the cities too.

CianRyan wrote: »

MIG is handy as long as you know how to set it up, for neat work on thin meterial TIG is your only man though, takes longer to master but it gives much nicer work.

As far as burning holes with the stick welder, but smaller rods and weld lower.
Thin metal can drive ta mad though, we're working with 2mm Aluminium at the minute, bloody hell...

Only done a bit of tig on 5mm stainless. Found it handy enough. Would tig be as versatile though. Could you weld a steel exhaust with it?

CianRyan wrote: »

Ah jaysus, I'm happy if I can make a box hold water, never mind high pressure vessels.
Our tutor has a background in the same stuff and specialises in copper work.
I feel so inadequate when he does a demo. That's 30+ years of work though, welding before I was born!

Try a sneaky one and send me a PM, I'll tell no one.

Here's one of the old ones (after I took the turbos off it)

You can't see any welding though.



That's a high density plasma deposition chamber in case anyone gives a crap:p

Ya'll need Software Development!

Cheensbo wrote: »

I have one of those, found it down the back seats of an aul Carina I picked up.

Looks seriously high tech, what does it do? I take it: collects high density plasma deposits, but for/from what?

It deposits thin dense films on silicon wafers, typically 60 to 6000 angstroms.
Used to make computer chips. Oxides for insulation, nitrides for conductive films.
The plasma provides the energy for the reaction (about 4KW)

Supergurrier wrote: »

*Shrugs*

Ah I understand! Was she well minded in your absence? Put up much mileage?

Supergurrier wrote: »

*Shrugs*

Speaking from a diesel point of view its hard to go to 4 pots when you had five. I'd buy my van back in the morning if I had the cash for it.

Interslice wrote: »

Only done a bit of tig on 5mm stainless. Found it handy enough. Would tig be as versatile though. Could you weld a steel exhaust with it?

Very!
It'd be my choice for exhaust stuff, my choice for anything small really.
Once you have a steady set of hands and a comfortable place to work, you fly along with TIG.
It also looks deadly.

TIG for small, MIG for big.
Interchangeable in some cases but you get the idea.

Interslice wrote: »

Cool. I'll look into that. I do remember it looking pretty sweet. My uncle showed me a bit of the four main types when I was about 16. Must get on to him again when I get some sort of setup. He was a world champion apprentice and works on planes so handy enough! Would be deadly to be able to make up full stainless exhausts.

That's very cool!
Can't imagine trusting myself enough to work on planes, jaysus!

Do plan on building an exhaust for myself at least ASAP!
Could be a while though.

No manifold though, that's black magic.

PM sent Goodman:-)

quote="Snotaul Goodman;93271901"]Ah stop sure I've one in the Volvo. I never use it due to my sheer hatred towards it. Actually you can have it if you want it. Drop me a PM. You might make better use of it. Making CD's is just an effort and has to be done a certain way for my stupid stereo. There is an adapter available for my head unit though and its meant to be really good. There could be something similar for yours on the market. I never bought the adapter because I've plans to either upgrade the stereo or the car itself in the new year.[/quote]

wotzgoingon wrote: »

YbFocus is your forcefeedback strong? Obviously I know it ain't gonna rip out of your hands from brute torque, but I find the one I have isn't too great.

Like i explained a few days ago the feedback is massively strong, if you bend a steering am etc the wheel can be hard to hold onto and will almost pull it from your hands, running up on apexes you can feel which side it is your on, bumps in the road etc.
I've also noticed that if you leave the ground the steering goes completely light.
This only works like that because there's big motors in there to fight your inputs and replicate the feeling back not just vibrate the **** out of you.
It also replicates the feeling of non power steering cars

That's only in the proper pc sims though that have all that detail in them.
If you play f1 2014 you get a bit of vibration.

The xbox wheel is a good wheel, had one myself for a few years, but if you get the feeling of a proper Logitech or equivalent you won't go back

Oh and I'm 25, 26 in Feb 11th lads, there's a lot of us the same age within about a month I see!