So some years back I got a welder. Hadn't welded since a a 'tech skills' class in college that included a two week stick welding class. A friend wanted to do a MIG class at Eastwood. We did that and according to the instructor I did well.
After that I decided to try to fix a 'sun dial' thing that I got my wife years back and a limb fell down on. It was cast iron which I'd been told was challenging to weld. It wasn't pretty but good enough for my second time welding in 25 years and it worked, so I shared my results in a group that I was in on fecesbook.
Most were like 'good for you figuring it out / making it work', one guy said something along the lines of 'I love it when people break out their 'hobbyist welder' and blablabla... and ended with 'when it breaks again in six months do this or that (not really sure why I didn't pay better attention to what he said).
Anyway, I haven't been on fecesbook for at least 5 or 6 years now, but originally intended to share a photo there to say 'fuck you' to the guy who shit on my 'day of small beginnings', but instead I decided to address everyone else.
Sometimes when you try to figure shit out, or make shit work, it works and it lasts, so do what you can do, try to do what you can't and figure out what you can figure out, and don't worry about what anyone says about how well you do it.
#GrowNostr #GrowYOU
The thing 5 years later:
The test piece from my Eastwood MiG class:
