The youth of today!!!

Ignoramus14233 · 2010-05-15T22:52:21+00:00

Remember that Miller welder with a TIG attachment that I bought for$0.99?I sold it on Craigslist. The buyer paid $150 for it, which was a greatdeal for a working welder on a running gear, with a working TIGattachment.The interesting thing is that the buyer is a teenager. (!!!)I delivered and helped him unload. What he told me, then, was that hewas going to convert it to single phase by installing capacitors onthe primary side of the transformer. I immediately gifted him the oil filled run caps that I had. After a couple of weeks, he told me that it works great. What I think, seriously, is that this guy may be the next Tesla. It isnot really a huge accomplishment (just a great one) for a grownup, butfor a teenager, it is pretty tremendous. My stereotype of today's teenagers is that the ony thing they are goodat is using cell phones and twitter. Turns out, that not all peopleare like that.i

May 15, 2010 62 Replies

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Winston 16 years ago

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8 hours of bead is a *lot* of bead. Does our weldor spend any time jigging or are we running an entire welding shop off of alternative energy?

The professional shop I visit has four guys working. Occasionally you will hear actual welding but mostly its moving material around, laying out, jigging, cutting and some grinding.

I agree a welding shop would pose a bigger load to alternative energy than would just residential 'hobby' use.

Relying on just one energy source is foolish. We don't even do that now. Even current homes use multiple sources: passive solar, electricity, natural gas. Some use heating oil, some use wood in various forms.

We need to be smarter about energy because we can use petrodollars for much better things here at home and we can use oil for much better things than just electricity generation.

--Winston

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Stuart Wheaton 16 years ago

Hey Pete, I'm hearing Crickets here....

Surely you have a few non-racist examples...

C'mon, I'm just dying to hear about this.

Remember, THIS is what we are talking about:

You wrote.... What we need to *do* about it, is to get over the idea, entirely unsupported by science and the evolution of every other mammal on the planet, that humans are all alike and all have the same capacity for civilization, rational thought and non violence.

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