Winter 2010 Edition
In the Blender
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Head Games Trivia Sweepstakes
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Big Eats: Hearty Beef Stew
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Did You Know?
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Blender Top Ten
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From Last Issue
Head Games Trivia Sweepstakes
Everyone’s made mistakes when welding. Now it’s time to put those experiences to good use! Answer these trivia questions about common welding problems for a chance to win a great Tregaskiss prize! Need help? Try our photo hints!
To enter the contest, just email your answers with your name, phone number, city and state/province PLUS “Head Games Trivia Contest” in the subject line to: info@tregaskiss.com. You must answer all questions correctly and enter by 5:00 pm EST on February 10, 2010 to be eligible to win! The winner will be randomly drawn from all entries that answer all three questions correctly. NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED. See Official Head Games Trivia Sweepstakes Rules for more information,
ELIGIBILITY: The Sweepstakes is open to natural persons eighteen years of age or older who are legal residents of the 50 United States, the District of Columbia and to residents of Canada (except the province of Quebec) who have reached the age of majority in their province of residence at the time of entry and who have internet access. Employees, officers, and directors of Sponsor, its affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising, promotion, and fulfillment agencies ("Tregaskiss Personnel"), and those individuals who are immediate family members of Tregaskiss Personnel, or persons living in their same household as Tregaskiss Personnel, are not eligible to participate in the Sweepstakes. "Immediate family" means parents, siblings, children and spouse. All federal, state/provincial, and local laws and regulations apply.
Question One: This welding defect occurs when a gas pocket becomes trapped in the weldment and is often caused by too low of a gas flow rate or an improper MIG gun angle.
Question Two: A tangle of wire that halts the wire from being fed through the wire feeder and MIG gun is called_______________.
Question Three: This welding problem results when a weld forms in the contact tip. It usually results from too slow of wire feed speeds and/or holding the MIG gun too close to the base metal during welding.
Big Eats: Hearty Beef Stew
Don’t let the cold weather get you down. Warm up with some great stew!
Ingredients
2 lbs. beef chuck, cubed
1/4 c. flour
1/4 c. butter or oil
4 c. water
1 (8 oz.) can tomato sauce
1/4 c. chopped onion
1/2 tsp. garlic salt
1 bay leaf
2 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. pepper
6 med. potatoes, pared and quartered
6 med. carrots, pared and cut in 1 inch pieces
3 med. onions, quartered
1/4 c. cold water
1/4 c. cornstarch
Coat beef cubes with flour. In Dutch oven, brown meat in melted butter or oil. Add the 4 cups water, the tomato sauce, the chopped onion, garlic salt, bay leaf, salt and pepper. Bring to a boil and reduce heat. Cover and simmer 1/2 to 2 hours or until meat is tender. Add potatoes, carrots, and quartered onions; cover and simmer 50 to 60 minutes or until vegetables are tender. Combine cold water and cornstarch, stir into meat mixture. Cook and stir until mixture thickens, about 5 minutes. Remove bay leaf. Makes 8 to 10 servings.
Did You Know?
Welding techniques have been around since the Bronze Age…but a lot has happened since then! Check out these important milestones in welding history.
• In 1800, Sir Humphry Davey first transferred an arc between two carbon electrodes.
• Around 1890, C.L. Coffin of Detroit patented his arc process, the first in the United States to use a metal electrode.
• P.O. Nobel introduced direct current (DC) automatic welding in the 1920s using voltage to regulate the wire feed speed of a solid wire.
• Also in the 1920s, H.M. Hobart and P.K. Devers began experimenting with the process that would later become GMAW.
• Researchers Lyubavskii and Novoshilov combined a large diameter wire with CO2 shielding gas in order to weld carbon steel.
• In the 1950s, Hobart Brothers Company first marketed its Micro-Wire system, which included a thin welding wire, wire feeder, power source and gas tank.
• In 1954, Arthur Bernard created the Dualshield® process (now called FCAW) by creating a flux-cored wire that could be welded using CO2.
• The development of the self-shielded flux-cored wire in 1959 helped improve welding portability by eliminating the need for a shielding gas.
• The first all-position flux-cored wire was introduced in 1972 and the first metal-cored wire in 1973.
Blender Top Ten
Check out these tell-tale signs you’ve made the wrong hire!
Courtesy of Fall Humdinger Headline Caption Contest Winner, Dusty Johnson
Your welding sales person…
1. thinks subarc is the turning radius of a U-Boat
2. thinks demurrage is when you remarry
3. needs a transfusion whenever he uses a plasma cutter
4. thinks A/R has something to do with pirates
5. tries to sell a stick welder to a tree surgeon
6. thinks an automatic helmet is what Darth Vader wears
7. tries to sell CO2 to stop global warming
8. thinks 4043 and 5356 are football scores
9. says he would have graduated from high school sooner with a cheater lens
10. tries to light a MIG gun with a friction lighter!
From Last Issue
We've got a winner for the Humdinger Headline Caption Contest featured in the last issue of FUSION Online, courtesty of Dusty Johnson of Gainesville, FL. His winning entry for the photo featured here: "Llook aat the hand!! it's doing the...MICRO-WAVE!" Congratulations, Dusty!
We also received your votes for last issue's 'Who's the TOUGHest?' poll. Here are the official TOUGH sports standings...they might surprise you!
- Rugby players 50%
- Football players 25%
- Hockey players 14%
- Figure Skaters 7%
- Baseball players 4%
- Soccer players 0%