where to start in welding

agree .... learn stick, mig has its benefits, but a good grounding in stick welding is the way to go.

A lot of juniors would say 'do you know any celebs that weld? Forget it then. I'm not lowering myself to that.'

NT

You could reply Billy Connolly who was a boilermaker though he may be too old to be a Celeb to a 16 year old. Possibly Nicholas Parsons as well , despite his somewhat cultured presentation his parents insisted he took an apprenticeship in engineering so he spent the war years in Glasgow at a pump factory doing so.

G.Harman

And of course Mr. Dibnah. And that annoying twonk Guy Martin. I'm glad I haven't watched tv in years.

NT

Annoying he might be, but he has a certain amount of technical knowledge and plenty of enthusiasm. Not to mention balls.

Fred Dibnah was rather like Marmite to IMechE members. Personally, I am pretty sure George Stephenson would have approved.

To my mind, anyone who can raise the profile of engineering to the younger generation has to be a good thing. Those of us who were raised in the 1950's won't forget the influence of rocketry, V Bombers, Calder Hall, and all the other new technology.

NT

You might be interested to know there is rather a large choice of channels now, so you're not forced to watch either Dibna or Martin. Not that you ever were anyway.

There have been for years. Almost all of it a bad way to spend a big chunk of one's life.

NT

The amount of time anyone spends watching TV isn't compulsory.

That's really informative.

But a pleasant way to spend a small part of it.

As was your comment of not having watched TV in years. Which I very much doubt is true.

So this thread has degenerated to stupid too. At least I've had a productive day.

NT

Pleasant for some, perhaps, but generally mind-rotting. Doesn't do much for one's physique, either.

Which is something Plowman could never honestly say.

If one watched 2 hours of tv an evening, 2hrs x 80 years = 58,400 hrs. That's 1,460 x 40 hour working weeks, or 28 years of full time employment wasted on mindless junk.

Yet at the same time, so many people wish they had the time to do various things in their lives! It's nuts. No... I do not watch tv.

NT

It's entirely possible to watch a lot less than 14 hours of TV in a week yet still enjoy what there is.

You've been watching tv, and you think stating the totally obvious is in some way useful. Might there be a connection?

Well, observation of your posts over the past few years shows you do seem to have a lot of trouble missing the totally obvious - and you're also not exactly immune from stating it at other times.