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our team just got screwed over by our welder: two days before the chassis was supposed to be welded... they backed out on us :( :mad: so now we're getting it done at berkley about a week late. but it is better than a wooden chassis, i guess........

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You better becareful who you say that to. I know some teams who will argue till they are blue in the face about the wood vs. metal debate.

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Our team has the ability to weld aluminum, but as our advisor is the only one experienced in welding aluminum, he has done all of the welding to date. I and a few others have experience with welding steel, but don't have the time to spare to work on learning it for aluminum, as we have more pressing concerns.

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We have two student welders who do most of our work. They are both seniors now, so they're training freshmen.

I just spent lunchtime buying welding supplies they asked for.

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We have a TIG and MIG welder in our shop, which we used on our robot 2 years ago. However over the summer for some reason our school removed the plugs that power the welder when they rewired the school. Its sort of anoying but I dont believe in welding the robot together most the time anyways, because once its welded its welded.

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i'm not to good at welding but i am trying to learn

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No our mentor/teacher wont let us weld. He says that its hard to weld on aluminum and he needs to teach us or something even though last year I clearly remember him teaching 3 of the people in my class who happened to be in the club how to do so. He probably forgot but still wouldn't trust a student either especially during crunch time where every second counts.

And I personally love welding its real fun, but I wouldn't say I'm that good. I'd have to say mediocre.

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Any aluminum welding we need done is done by one of our Mentors, who is a manager at a local welding company "Steel Fab". He is AMAZING. This year we don't need anything welded, but i have learned how to TIG Aluminum... I LOVE it :)

personally, i own a Millermatic 175...it's an awesome welder...i'd say i'm a pretty good at it.

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We have some students who know how to weld, but we have a mentor who does it for us.

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I am not sure how the welding gets done but I now how to weld

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The thing is alot of people can weld and imho I think theres some people who weld better than our mentor lol but what can you do when the man in charge says something that you dont agree with. :/

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We do all the welding ourselves as students :) no coachs no mentors ever touch the bot, they only make sure we are doing our work and guide us to what we should do.

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Kinda funny Cam .. you neglected to say what our team does.

All our welding, is done by 3 students (2 girls :yikes: .. dead serious. Almost all the welds in the picture linked above were done by a girl) and watched over by a mentor (who was a student on the team last year). All the welding is done on a Lincon MIG with a spool gun set up for aluminum. All our steel welding, is done on a normal MIG.

We've considered having stuff taken to people who have offered to TIG, but it always ends up going into the metal shop and getting done on our MIG. Only TIG welds our bots have ever seen, were done by the 254 machine shop trailer at our regionals.

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Student Welding??????:ahh: You should never weld students together. Threaded fasteners are the way to go. :p

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Team 1322 has a welder and many of our kids have tried it at 1 time or another. For some odd reason the girls won't ( think it has something to do with the sparks!!!) but that soon will change!!!! For welding steel we do it ourselves but for big jobs or aluminum we have a company who donates the welding for us as long as we call them a sponsor which of course we do!!!