Hello,
I would like to learn how to stick weld. I’ve done oxy-acetylene before but I hear arc welding will be a whole new ball game 
Would anyone be able to teach me how to stick weld this weekend? My schedule is flexible so whatever works best for you.
Thanks!
-Reid
So here’s the question: do you need to learn stick, or are you doing it for fun? Most mild steel projects can be done with MIG, and if it’s weldable TIG can do it for sure.
Stick has it’s advantages here and there, but the other processes are not only easier to learn but better suited for the typical use case.
As for teaching you I won’t be available this weekend, but mayhaps @dryad2b, @rlisbona, or @malcolmputer but I’m unsure off the top of my head from that group who is able to teach stick.
I’m tied up till first weekend in June due to one of my favorite daughters wedding over memorial day. Learn Mig first, stick welding is really smoky with lots of spatter and is harder to learn than Mig. And I like Tig cause its quiet and you can make pretty welds but it takes more eye/hand/foot coordination than mig or stick.
Ah okay, I’d be down to learn mig too.
Actually, I think it was @ioport51 who taught the one stick class we’ve had. While that’s what I learned originally, I need some practice to be able to hit a good spark. Between Scarborough and taxes (Texas gets until 6/15 to file), I don’t have much spare time right now.
We’ll see how things play out, and then maybe think about late June, or July or so…
I’ve taught a couple classes on it. Like Tails said, not much love for Stick these days, it’s less safe, it’s less clean, it produces dangerous fumes and for a typical student it produces less good welds.
If you’ve got to weld underwater or in the rain, or in high winds on a farm it’s the way to go though 
Just a heads up, I don’t know if you’re interested in TIG since it’s not stick welding but I’m teaching a TIG welding class and Safety class next weekend (the 22nd of May). Safety starts at Noon, the TIG Class starts at 2 and ends at 5.
Since they haven’t been approved by the calendar team yet (should take no more than 72 hours from the time of this post) You won’t see them on the calendar, but here are the links to them once their open:
Hot Process Safety Class:
https://calendar.dallasmakerspace.org/events/view/16675
TIG Welding Class - Steel
Looks like registration already closed 
They won’t clear the calendar until 72 hrs after being submitted. Then they’ll accept sign-up.
Have you had the safety class??
There’s nobody named Reid in the database for Welding (Hot Process) Safety… FWIW.
It filled up fast! Are you willing to do these two again soon? 
They’re still in Honorarium Rejection Limbo… 72 hrs after Malcom’s post on here that they were on the calendar will be Monday, May 17, 2021 at 5:53 PM. So probably this afternoon, I’d start checking for them to be live (because I’m assuming he posted to the Calendar some time before posting here).
@aozlowski @Reid_Mulkey @ingejvn
The class is open, can’t wait to see y’all Saturday.
Awesome, registered!
And… the class is full. It never ceases to amaze me how quick the welding classes fill up.
