Hello Hackers!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This month we are joined again by Drakespirit, who will be presenting their talk “Short Circuits, Fire, and Slag: A Recovering Welder\u2019s Guide to Melting Metal”:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nBefore I traded cracked and burnt knuckles for a terminal, I made a living using ungodly amounts of current to liquefy steel. Laying a clean bead is just applied physics, and chemistry (while trying your hardest not to start your pants on fire.) In this talk, we\u2019ll tearing through the god like powers of how the world gets glued together. We\u2019ll talk about why Stick is still the dirty field king, why MIG is just an angry hot glue gun, and what those cryptic rod numbers like 6010 and 7018 actually mean. From there, we’ll talk basic joint geometry and safety straight into the heavy stuff: Dual-Shield, Sub-Arc, pulsing waveforms, and the fun, wild processes like friction-stir and plastic welding. Whether you want to fab a custom rack, build a battlebot, or just understand the violence happening inside an electric arc, pull up a chair and let\u2019s talk shop.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n