{"id":69166,"date":"2013-01-06T18:55:27","date_gmt":"2013-01-06T09:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/?p=69166"},"modified":"2026-09-24T13:44:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:44:21","slug":"big-blunder-small-blunder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/20130106\/uncategorized\/big-blunder-small-blunder","title":{"rendered":"Big Blunder, Small Blunder"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"decob-3811616805\" class=\"decob- decob-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/advertise\" aria-label=\"ad_sample_1456_180_1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/ad_sample_1456_180_1.png\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/ad_sample_1456_180_1.png 1456w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/ad_sample_1456_180_1-300x37.png 300w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/ad_sample_1456_180_1-1024x127.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/ad_sample_1456_180_1-768x95.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1456px) 100vw, 1456px\" width=\"812\" height=\"100\"   \/><\/a><\/div><p>Without being lazy about it,<br \/>\nif you make the tools you need for the job,<br \/>\nyou can respond quickly in the future and keep everything organized.<br \/>\nLately I&#8217;ve been spending more time at the welder.<br \/>\nWelding really is fun!<br \/>\nI get the measurements wrong on what I&#8217;m making, or I forget to account for the plate thickness,<br \/>\nand if you haven&#8217;t done it in a while, you lose the feel for it. <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/1517536_63730433_0.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>With DC you can do tack welds without even feeding the rod,<br \/>\nbut with AC, sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn&#8217;t.<br \/>\nSo I played it safe and always fed the rod.<br \/>\nFinally got the hang of it \u2605<br \/>\nSnap! Just like that.<br \/>\nThey say to make waves without feeding the rod&#8230; hmm.<br \/>\nKeep practicing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Without being lazy about it, if you make the tools you need for the job, you can respond quickly in the future and keep everything organized. Lately I&#8217;ve been spending more time at the welder. Welding really is fun! I get the measurements wrong on what I&#8217;m making, or I forget to account for the plate thickness, and if you haven&#8217;t done it in a while, you lose the feel for it. &nbsp; &nbsp;With DC you can do tack welds without even feeding the rod, but with AC, sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn&#8217;t. So I played it safe and always fed the rod. Finally got the hang of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69165,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pochipp_cv_data":"","swell_btn_cv_data":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[55,1912],"class_list":["post-69166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-old-blog","tag-shop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}