Today was the first day of class and I definately got schooled!!! Welding is really really difficult and I feel like a first grader. We had about 5 hours of classroom session followed by about 3 1/2 hours of hands on figure out this welding thing. Below I have posted a few pictures of my first welding attempt. We had the scrap tubing cut for us and all we had to do was debur and file the pieces and then weld them together. Sounds simple I know... well you can see for yourself. The piece that I have pictured is similar to the joint between the headtube and the downtube. It has one very large hole that I tried to fix without success and then a whole bunch of other stuff kinda welded and kinda superglued and kinda falling apart. I had some hope breathed into me be the end of class period when i began my second of the same project that looks pretty dang good though. I will post a picture of that one tomorrow when it is finished. We are going to do a few more practice projects with one of them being a bottom bracket joint and then we are going to stress test the joint with a large breaker bar until we actually break it. This can tell us a little about the welds that we are doing and what we are doing wrong.
I also went on a short bike ride today after class. I got lost twice and never actually made it to a trail so that was pretty great. I did get in 12 miles though. Tomorrow I am going to take the shuttle after class and do a little dh. I will post some video so you can see how amazing it is here.
And in case you were wondering... YES THAT IS MY MUSTACHE... and you don't have to tell me, I already know how classy it looks.
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