Welding Workshop

Want to learn how to weld? Come and join TOG on its second workshop

Each class will begin with a class with short lecture, Q&A, and handout.

Week 1: Wednesday 13/02/13 6.3pm to 9pm
The physics of welding
Health and safety
Basic welding theory
Welding Demonstration
Welding practical exercise (lay down some weld on flat plate steel)

Week 2: Saturday 16/02/13 1pm to 3pm break 5pm to 7pm
Re-iterate Safety
Lecture “Lap Joints”
Demonstration weld
Students Weld lap joints
Lecture “Butt Joints”
Demonstration weld
Students Weld butt joints

Week 3: Wednesday 20/02/13 6.30pm to 9pm
Re-iterate Safety
Lecture “Fillet Joint”
Demonstration weld
Students Weld lap joints

Cost:

Non Members  €100
Members €80

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29c3 Lightning Talks & Recap

Over the Christmas break 8 TOG members took Road trip to 29c3 where we meet several other Hackerspaces. We had the pleasure of doing two Lightning talks one on Hotel Door locks and Fire Projects.

Our members also ran two workshops on Wearables and Hotel locks. We where able to attend lots of workshops across the 3 days and bring back lots more ideas for future projects in TOG.

We also got to visiting local hacker space Attraktor http://blog.attraktor.org/ we got the grand tour of space and got look at all the toys (8 CNC machines, leaths and milling machines well worth the visit very nice people and inviting to the space.

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Stop motion Build Blacksmith forge

Today we made a blacksmith forge that worked quite well after looking at a few other designs and working with what we found around the space we where able to build a blacksmith forge.

Fan is from an old oil burner
Running fuel is just normal coal but there are better options.

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Plasma cutter

New toy in Tog arrived yesterday (Sip P184 HF TIG/ARC/Plasma) we have cracked it open and started to use it check out the video and drop and and take a look.