Today I entertained myself for another full day with my RV8 rollbar project. I'm happy to say that the structure of the rollbar and all of its braces are completely welded. It isn't perfect, but there is also nothing to hide.
So, lets take count:
- ~250 - Number of times I forgot to put on my readers before putting the helmet down and engaging warp speed.
- 2 - Number of times, after I knew better, that I didn't realize that I had forgotten to put on the readers until After finishing a short weld and inspecting its surprising crappy quality.
- 4 - Number of times I forgot to open the Argon bottle before starting a weld. Yikes, that becomes obvious real quick. Stop, shutdown, new tungsten, clean part, reset...
- ~8 - Number of times I stuffed the electrode in the puddle! Same results as above.
- ~15 - Number of times I stuffed the filler rod into the tungsten. Same as above.
- ~60 - Number of days welding until I figured out that I could just close the A/C vent above the welding table instead of turning off the A/C in the whole shop for each weld (to keep from blowing away the Argon shield).
- 1 - Number of times I forgot to drill a small pressure relief hole in a sealed piece of tubing that I was welding on. This one was very dramatic.