The CWB Association Welding Podcast
The CWB Association Welding Podcast
Episode 235: The Tig Devil with Diesel D'Souza
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Today, we sit down with Diesel D’Souza to map the unexpected path as a self-taught welder, multi-machine operator, and stainless TIG artist pushing colour and control to the edge. We dig into experiments with maxing settings to learn cause and effect, walking them back to find the sweet spot, and translating arc sound into repeatable parameters. Diesel discusses AC/DC pulse on aluminum, torch heat management, when features matter more than brand names, and why skill outpaces hype. Don't miss this episode!
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Welcome to the CWB Association Welding Podcast. I'm your host, Kevin Wat. Let's flip up the lid and spark some conversation. Attention welders in Canada. Looking for top-quality welding supplies? Look no further than Canada Welding Supply. With a vast selection of premium equipment, safety gear, and consumables, CWS has got you covered. They offer fast and reliable shipping across the country. And here's the best part. Podcast listeners get 10% off any pair of welding gloves. Use code CWV10 at checkout when placing your next order. Visit Canada Weldingsupply.ca now. Canada Welding Supply, your trusted welding supplier. Happy welding. Welcome to another episode of the Canadian Welding Bureau Association Welding Podcast. As always, I'm your host, Kevin, and I have with me Diesel D'Souza. What's up, Diesel? Yeah, how you doing? Good, man. How are you? I'm alright. It's good to see you again. Yeah, you too. So, Diesel, uh, tell us a little bit about yourself.
SPEAKER_00:Well, uh I'm a self-taught welder. Uh got into the welding. I used to be uh in the restaurant business prior, and after that, uh restaurant club, uh doing security, and then got into a machine shop and tried to work my way up, learned things, and watched a lot of YouTube. And then uh this last place I've been there for probably 11 years now, and that's where I had the opportunity to um take on the welding because they didn't have a a welder there, it was like everybody was kind of doing uh the between three people, one person would you know weld whatever they needed, like nobody was certified or anything. So I saw that and I was like, oh, this is a good opportunity for me to to try it out. So I just picked up one day and just went at it and been going ever since.
SPEAKER_02:That's pretty cool. So let's let's go back though. Um, the restaurant business. What uh what got you started in that?
SPEAKER_00:Well, uh as a kid I grew like I started off at the restaurant when I got out of high school and stuff, uh even through high school, uh my first job was in a restaurant. So I started off as a dishwasher and then worked my way up to uh line cook and then as the years went by, sous chef, chef.
SPEAKER_02:So you is that what you wanted to be when you grew up as a chef, or did you just kind of fell into it?
SPEAKER_00:No, I wanted to be a firefighter. Oh, really? Cool. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:So yeah, so welding just kind of dropped into your lap then. Yeah, basically. So being self-taught, how is that getting in? You probably had to to work your your butt off, eh?
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, so uh like we have this um Miller at work, and I just remember turning it on. I didn't know anything about settings or I didn't know anything, nothing whatsoever, right? I picked up the the MIG gun at first and you know did a laid a bead down and I was like, okay, yeah, you know, it doesn't look too good, but it I had to do a lot of grinding. So all my jobs that I was doing at first was like a lot of grinding to make it look nice, right?
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, but the part didn't fall, it didn't fall apart.
SPEAKER_00:No, no, they were good. Uh and then eventually it was just trial and error, like turning the knob, seeing what this does, checking your amps, you know, um, and then um checking your your wire feed speed, stuff like that, you know, to to not get that spatter and get that nice crisp uh buzz, you know, as you're going. So all these things kind of came in in time. Like it took a long time to to learn by myself.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, so you started out with the MIG process or a bit of a stick welder?
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, it was more uh I started off with MIG, it was more flux core, like that's what we use at work. So um, that's what I started out with, and then after that, I was like, oh well, there's a stick here too. Let's see what this does. And then so I yeah, I got hooked on to the stick. Once I tried stick, I was like, oh man, I really love this because it was uh way different, and it it took a a lot more effort to try to to get the bead looking nice too, right? To get that nice smooth uh bead going. So I really fell in love with the stick. Awesome.
SPEAKER_02:So how did you like except for playing with all those knobs, how did you even begin to learn about this stuff?
SPEAKER_00:Literally just uh it was if I if I I laid a bead, I didn't like it, or it didn't look right, I would go turn the dial a little bit this way and hit another bead, and it turned like so I would go one way max to see what it did, and one way the opposite max to see what it did, and then try to go to the center to the center till I got what I was looking for. That's how I figured it out.
SPEAKER_02:That's actually a really clever thing to do. Figure out what the knob does and how it responds to the other knobs, right?
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, so I'll tell you, even uh uh Tig welding, that's how I learned. Like, I did not know what any of this stuff was. You got your your pulse, your this, your that, and um, I was sitting there looking at this machine, like, oh my god, like and that my first uh machine was an Everlast 255 EXT that I bought myself, right?
SPEAKER_02:Wow, that's yeah, just like straight up investment right away, right? Go big or go home.
SPEAKER_00:That's it. I the way I looked at it was I could grow into the machine, I never want to outgrow the the machine and then try to sell it and look for something that I need, you know. I figured jump in all in, get what I need because I could grow into it.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, that's a great piece of advice. You always want to go for a little more than what you think you're gonna need because yeah, you never want to max out. I've definitely maxed out with what I have at home, so I'm looking for something bigger. Yeah, what do you have right now? I've got the uh Everlast Power Tank 200. I've got a little Arc Captain 160, and um, so I'm I'm looking for something around 300 amps. I want to weld thicker aluminum, dude.
SPEAKER_00:Get the Typhoon 330.
SPEAKER_02:Oof, that's what I got. Nice. So you moved on from that that 255 then.
SPEAKER_00:Oh, yeah, I kind of outgrew that actually. Um I well, I wouldn't say outgrew, I just kind of figured it was time for something newer with more uh more options, and you know, especially doing the TIG art and stuff like that. Uh trying to do all this thinner aluminum, thinner uh uh stainless and stuff like that. I was like, you know what, I think I need to upgrade a little bit. I mean, it was it was a little bit more than I should have, honestly, to tell you the truth, but it was worth it.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, plus now you're ready for any big projects that come your way.
SPEAKER_00:That's that's also what I was looking at was it if I go with the 330, I could take on a lot more than that I could prior, especially with a water cooler too, right?
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, that's huge. If you're gonna weld AC or like tag aluminum, you definitely need something water cooled. Because like that torch will blow up in a second, like anything over 150 amps, 180 amps, like it just heats up right away, right?
SPEAKER_00:Oh yeah. So I have uh Blue Demon, I can't remember what it's called, but anyways, oh blue arc genesis. Oh yeah, the Genesis just the ace ACDC. So what's wicked about that is uh you can weld aluminum in ACDC pulse.
unknown:Uh okay.
SPEAKER_02:Uh yeah, so you can mix your so you're mixing your waveforms or are you mixing just polarity for polarity at this point to get deeper penetration.
SPEAKER_00:So uh that kind of uh like that's my machine that I take to go out sometimes because the Everlast 330, it's not a machine you can just kind of carry and go. It's pretty big, right? Yeah, unless unless you had a like my vehicles are really small.
SPEAKER_02:I got the GTIs, so another Volkswagen guy in the room, yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Don't want to be fit my 330 uh with a sub in there, you know, you're not gonna fit. So uh I have the Blue Arc Genesis 200 uh mix AC DC, and that works wonders for me on the road.
SPEAKER_02:That's awesome. So, do you have a fairly decent sized shop at your house?
SPEAKER_00:Honestly, no, it's uh one garage, like a one-bay garage, and it's filled with mechanical stuff because I repair my own cars. Um, I have a motorcycle, so that takes up some room. I literally have probably you know the tables we got from uh from um BTH sales, yes, sir. Yeah, so that's the space I have is basically a little bit more than that table.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, I'm not doing much better at my house either. I've got I've got a double, but I've I've thrown a corrado on the one side, so I can't I can't do much.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, well, yours is still bigger than mine.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, well that's cool, man. So here that's another talking point. BTH sales. So you and I are on the team. We're we're sponsored welders. I guess you you could say we've officially made it.
SPEAKER_00:I'm still making it.
SPEAKER_02:So what do you what do you think about having a fab table? Because myself, I had I hadn't really used one of these things before. So like are you pretty experienced with it?
SPEAKER_00:Honestly, the the the table was a game changer for me, especially with my I used so with my art, I used to have to I have to make frames for my art, right? And that was I used to hate it, hate it with the fashion, just it was the worst thing out of everything to do, and I used to always be like, oh man, like I just don't even want to do it. It's just a pain. Ever since I got this table, it's literally the easiest thing to do now. Everything's just you know, I set my stops and everything, and just bang, bang, bang, and done.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, man. I I think the same thing. Like, you can you can struggle by yourself, you can do a ton of stuff by yourself, but absolutely despise it, right? Like, I hate grinding myself, right? Yeah, but once you have one of these tables and those clamps, it's so easy to work by yourself and to repeat things just over and over again.
SPEAKER_00:Oh, yeah, especially when you have like I love the the the technology they have, and I know most of these other tables kind of copy each other and stuff like that, but um just like the those little screw things that you can put into the vise to hold things in to hold in your your um clamps and stuff like that. Like there's just so much you could do with it.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, man. When I got my table, it was kind of funny because like I got the vise with the table, right? Yeah, and I'm looking around, I'm looking around in the bag and the boxes, like man, these guys, yeah, they didn't send me no bolts. Like, holy, I am not the smartest guy right now. I grabbed these little tabs, these little knockdown pins, I guess you could call them. Yeah, throw them in there. Oh, that's cool. So I can literally put this vise wherever the heck I want.
SPEAKER_00:So I'll tell you, when I got it, I thought the exact same thing. I'm like, why would they send me a vice with nothing to mount this on? Like, so I'm in my head now thinking, okay, I took measurements of the holes, and I'm like, I'm gonna call, go to Home Depot, whatever, and and get some bolts and nuts, right? It took me, I actually drove up to BTH sales just to kind of go and learn some things about the table. So I took a drive an hour and uh I think it was an almost two-hour drive uh up there and went met up with the boys and stuff like that. Had some fun, you know, and um they kind of showed me some stuff. So I was like, you know what? I really love this.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, really cool. That's a that's a luxury I don't have. I can't drive down to the shop, but hopefully next time I'm in your neck of the woods, I'll go stop by and see them.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, man, really cool guys.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, that's I I got to interview uh Travis actually on one of the first episodes that I did, and I like we got we got along great. It's awesome. Yeah, he's cool, dude. Well, I've been enjoying seeing what you you've been doing with your table. I get uh a little busy, I feel guilty. I'm not pumping out the uh the creation, the content creation you are you know, honestly to tell you the truth, like uh with my cars and stuff like that.
SPEAKER_00:Now the winter comes on, and um most people change tires, right? For me, I don't change tires, I actually have to switch a whole car. I have a winter car, yeah. Yeah, so you gotta so I had to get all this stuff ready because the brakes were shot and uh the alignment was off because I had changed done um the front wheel uh spindles and stuff like that. The bearings were all toasted, so I was like, you know what, let me do the whole front end and stuff like that. And I kind of left it through the summer, which I should have done all this work when it was nicer out, and you get busy doing stuff, eight jobs, you know, this and that. And it's like, okay, I'll get to it when I gotta put the car on the road. And then next thing you know, it's time to put the car on the road, and now you're you still got the jobs to do, and you gotta get that ready, you know, just a pain.
SPEAKER_02:Man, procrastination. I'm super bad for that. It's like, oh, I could wait, it can wait, it can wait, and some of the stuff like, oh well, I can't afford to do this right now, so I gotta go work, and then like you're working, you know, 16-hour days trying to save up some money so you can get these other things done. All of a sudden the snow hits, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, so procrastination, it's it's one of my traits, not so good traits. So, what do you uh what kind of what kind of cars are you driving then? Like you're a Volkswagen guy, obviously, you got your GTI. Is that your winter beater?
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, so I have three. I have uh two GTIs that are VR6, which are hard to come by these days. I have a 12 valve, which I rebuilt the motor myself. Nice, um, not knowing anything, like I just decided one day I'm gonna rip this thing apart and rebuild it. Cool. So I did that, and hopefully next year I'm gonna turbo it. We'll see. Yeah, um, then I have a 24 valve GTI VR6. Uh that's for like spring time, and then the 1.8 T GTI is for the winter.
SPEAKER_02:Oh, nice.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:Cool, man. And like I so are you married? You're married, right? Yeah, yeah, I am. Yeah, does the wife have a Volkswagen? She does, yeah. Yeah, my wife drives Volkswagen too. There's something weird about us, hey.
SPEAKER_00:You know what? Honestly, to tell you the truth, the reason why I got those cars and they're all MK4s is because they're easy to repair. I wouldn't say easy, they're eat like they're not at the technology where everything's electronic, and you know, you gotta start getting all these scan tools to to figure something out. These are a little bit more straightforward, you know, like anybody that has mechanical aptitude can hit uh take on one of these, you know, and fix it themselves. So it's the only reason I stick with those.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, sweet. I'll be reaching out to you if anything ever goes wrong with the Corado. Yeah, which I'm sure there, which I'm sure there will be.
SPEAKER_00:That that's why I told you that that whole uh thing of parts you get you said you got. I said you're gonna need that and more, trust me.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, yeah. I got a whole extra car with it, basically.
SPEAKER_00:That's a good thing. You don't honestly tell you the truth, like my wife gives me sometimes because she's like, Oh, you got all these parts here, you're never gonna use them. I'm like, you know what? It's hard to find the parts for these cars right now because you can't find them on the road, first off, right? And I said, the parts I have are very important, and just my luck, because listening to her, if I go to throw it out to clean up, you know what? I guarantee you I'm gonna need that part in a couple of days or something. So I said, I'm holding on to it, so I don't have to worry about that.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, you're absolutely right. It's like I ran out of room in the garage, so I had to go up in the attic and I was shoving interior parts up into the attic. Anything I could carry up the ladder.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, I had to so that's what I did was I built uh like a mezzanine or whatever to put all my par parts and stuff that was all over the the floor. So I don't know if you know this that the shop that I was working at prior, they they had let me do all my art stuff there. And uh well while I was learning, I had I bought my welder and brought it to to the shop there to use for work and to learn myself, right? And that's how I got into the art too. Um, but then they saw I was kind of getting good and getting busier, so the guy's like, Oh, you know, you're gonna have to start paying for the space. I'm like, Well, you don't pay me well, anyways, in the first place. Our whole deal was because you're not paying me what I'm worth, is you're gonna let me make my side money through the shop. Yeah, and that that was kind of our agreement. And then once they saw I was starting to get busy and I was getting more work, so they were trying to hit me up for money. I was like, you know what? See you later. That's when I I uh cleaned out my garage a bit and um made my own space basically, so now I work right out of home.
SPEAKER_02:Cool, yeah, that's that will happen. I think that's kind of the way it goes out there because I felt it too, you know. Like when I was starting to make roses, I made them out of the shop as well, and then yeah, like I'll make you know 12 or 24 at a time, and then they fly off the shelf. And it's like, Oh, what are you selling these for? It's like, well, they're a hundred apiece. What? Well, you're not gonna run a rose shop out of this place, blah blah blah. Yeah, so so yeah, I I did this. Same thing, it was time to get a machine and move everything at home. Which I mean, whatever it's business is business, right? So talking about you know, they weren't paying you a whole bunch. Can I ask you what the wages are like? In in you're in the Hamilton region, right?
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, so depending where you are, I'm I'm sure there's places I could go that and get paid what I'm worth, uh, but they range usually from 20 to 30, and no more than that. And for someone at my skill level doing machine machining, like I work on a boring mill, a vertical lathe, uh, your normal uh lathe, you know, um, and then plus the welding. I have quite a bit of knowledge for the shop, which in my mind I should get paid if I'm doing all these jobs. Most of the guys in my work, they all they do is machining. So they're stuck at one machine, and that's all they do is run parts from that one machine, maybe move to uh a milling machine or whatever. I know all the machines in the shop, except for the CNC stuff, right? So for me being able to do all different jobs, I should get paid a little bit more than everybody else, in my in my mind.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, you're doing the work of three people, or you have the experience of three people, so there should be a bit of an incentive for you to to hang around to to want to do good.
SPEAKER_00:And and that was my whole thing was I wanted to learn more so I could get paid more. The more you know, the more you could do in a shop should add value to you to the person, you know. And and that's how I climbed was uh getting all that knowledge, but then it got to a point where it's just plateaued off now. So it's like, man, why am I here? You know, so that's what I'm trying to see if I could get my own business going, and I'd rather work for myself personally, but right now it's just some months it could be great, and then other months for two or three months, it's like don't see a single job, so it's I can't afford to take that leap, you know, especially having a mortgage in this country.
SPEAKER_02:Oh man, yeah, you're you're speaking like a lot of of I guess welders or tradespeople in general, you're speaking that exact moment where you're doing a bunch of side work, you're doing a bunch of work at work, things get a little out of control, but you don't know when to make that leap. And if you do make that leap, are you ready to have no work for two, three months?
SPEAKER_00:That's the thing, right? So I'm not at the at the moment, I'm comfortable the way I am now because I have a full-time job, and this on my on the side, I'm making this extra, which is great. So I'm at a very nice level, which I don't want to lose, you know what I mean?
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, yeah, I know it's cheaper.
SPEAKER_00:It's hard when you just decide, and I know some people are like, oh, you know what, you just gotta do it and it it will happen, but sometimes it also could not happen, then there goes everything. You don't want to be starting from the bottom either, right? Especially in this economy right now, what we're going through, not a good time to try to take a leap like that.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, unless you've got something lined up and you're ready to work, you gotta work, right?
SPEAKER_00:Oh, 100%. I've always been a hustler, like I've always been out there, you know, doing what I can uh to make that buck. So for me, work is not an issue. I love to to grind.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah. Well, you got a lot of experience in it from teaching yourself how to weld, so yeah, yeah. So do you think if you if you had gone to welding school, if you had a certification or whatever, would that have made you better? Would that have maybe made them think like, oh, I'm gonna pay this guy more because he's got this piece of paper? What do you think?
SPEAKER_00:No, not necessarily, not at the shop I'm at, at least because uh it's a mom and pop shop, which is great. Uh they used to be uh really awesome. The dynamic has changed in there. Um when they hired a couple of guys that just changed everything, so it's not the same. Uh, and they're just too small. I wouldn't even say they're small, they're just too stingy to to give debt extra, you know. They do make a lot of money, and and I see it. Our biggest client is DeFasco. I don't know if you know who that is.
SPEAKER_02:I've heard the name usually when I'm in your neck of the woods.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, Arsler Mattel. So they're that that's like our um metal company here that that makes all the metal and stuff, right? So all the the big jobs and stuff, like I had I I get to do those. Nobody else in the shop touches the big jobs, it's all me.
SPEAKER_02:Wow. Well, that's kind of cool though. That's a little bit on your shoulders.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, it's cool.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah. So this is not the company you're working for now. You've moved on, or is this the company?
SPEAKER_00:No, I'm still there, still there. Yeah, this is the same company.
SPEAKER_02:Cool, man. So let's talk about a little bit of your sponsorships here because we got BTH together. Do you have any other sponsors?
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, I have uh Blue Demon Walling products, uh Joseph Gas, uh Yes Welder.
SPEAKER_04:Um I think that's it.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, that I can remember.
SPEAKER_02:That's quite a few.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:So so what do you think about being uh an online sponsored welder? Is there some hoops you have to jump through, or have there been things where you're just like, I'm not doing that?
SPEAKER_00:Uh I've I've busted my ass to get to where I I am today. I mean, I only started my Instagram account two years ago, like during the pandemic, right? So yeah, um two years is not a long time to to be doing this, where most of the guys we know have been doing it for years, 10 15 years, right? So uh for where I am in this time of life in my life, I really I'm okay with it. Like I've I've I busted my ass to get here.
SPEAKER_02:So take it while you can get it, right? Oh yeah, yeah. Yeah. So can I put you in a spot here? What's what's your favorite welder that you own then?
SPEAKER_00:Well, my favorite welder that I don't own is gonna be the Fronius. I've tr I tried tried to get uh sponsorship with them. I actually did, I was supposed to have a sponsorship with them, and things kind of went south. Um, with one of the guys here, he just wasn't on the ball with things, then he left them, and it was a whole thing. But uh, I'm gonna have to say my Everlast is uh my go-to for sure in the shop.
SPEAKER_02:That's cool, man. Yeah, Fronius. I'd also would want a Fronius. I just got off doing some demos with them, and it just blows my mind every time I get to to hold one of those things in my hand and weld with it. But on the other hand of things, you mentioned we're back to to Everlast, right? So you don't really nowadays you don't really need to go out and spend the big bucks to weld, right? The the smaller companies are doing okay.
SPEAKER_00:And this is the thing. So at one point before, so like my Everlast, I I don't even know if I want to say a sponsorship or not. Um I got it for a good deal. Uh well, I I guess it it was a little bit of a sponsorship because I have to make videos about the welder and and what it does, so maybe I would say uh Everlast is uh is a little bit of a sponsorship as well. Um before I got into that, I had the blue demon uh welder and I was trying to keep up with Fronius basically. What people that had Fronius, what they were doing with it, I was trying to see, okay, well, I had a yes welder, let's see if this could do what they're doing. I had a blue blue arc genesis, let's see if this could do. Then when I got the typhoon, uh not settings, but the options were all pretty much the same from uh Fronius to to uh the Everlast Typhoon, right? So when somebody would do something, I'm like, let me see if this machine can do it, and it that's what basically what I started doing was can this machine uh keep up with some of the big boys, right? And yes, it also depends on your skill level as well to be able to do it. It's not always just a machine. I find it's hard it's harder to do it with a machine that doesn't have the settings like the Fronius does, and it makes it easy for you to do stuff. So that kind of tells you what's better. It it's making you a better welder to be able to do it without those settings that they have. If you can replicate what they're doing, what's that tell you, right?
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, the machine doesn't make the welder, right? It doesn't, it does not.
SPEAKER_00:So and that's and that's what I started doing. I was putting out a couple of videos on oh, well, you know, Everlast can do this, Everlast could do that, and they were liking it, and it was fun.
SPEAKER_02:Sweet, yeah, it always is fun to get into the like little features of your machine. It's cool to weld on the same thing all day, every day, you know. Some some people are okay with that, but it's cool to get to the nitty-gritty, yeah, sure. So, yeah, let's talk about your weld art a little bit. Do you have like you're you're you're called the Tig Devil, right? On IG, so primarily stainless steel TIG art, right? Yeah, yeah. Have you gone outside of that realm, just outside of the flat piece? Do you do creative like structures or sculptures?
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, I've made uh a pumpkin out of uh aluminum, uh pumpkin out of steel. I'm actually so uh before Halloween, I'd started so the pumpkins I made were maybe about I'd say six inches diameter. And um I saw, you know who Rob Jung is?
SPEAKER_02:Oh, yeah, I know Rob.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. So he I he had posted a pumpkin that he had made a little bit bigger, and I was like, oh man, you know what? I need to make a bigger one. So I got started on it, I just didn't finish it before Halloween because then the whole car thing and you know, all kinds of things come in, and those are more pressing, so it's like I actually still have I should get it for you and show it to you where I'm at with this pumpkin, but it looks pretty sick. I got lots of ideas for it, so yeah, I've done even my my flat pieces, I've made them pop out, so they're like a kind of 3D. I don't kind of stick with the your normal stuff, like and that's my signature actually, is doing that whole pop out sort of uh contrast, right?
SPEAKER_02:A little bit of 3D action, yeah. Which is good because I was gonna ask you what separates you from all the other flat TIG arters out there. I remember there was maybe like one or two people out there doing it, and then all of a sudden it was almost overnight, just like exploded. Everyone's doing TIG art.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, you know what separates me from everybody else is my stuff is really thin, so everybody probab usually uses about 11 gauge stainless to to weld on. I don't, I use uh anywhere from 14 I've welded on 20 gauge steel, stainless steel, making art.
SPEAKER_02:Whoa, I and that's very hard to do. Oh, I know. My my stainless flowers are made out of 24 gauge stainless, and like it took me a while to learn how to even just fuse that stuff together, let alone let's add some filler and try to make a picture.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, yeah. So I'm I'm always trying different things just because I don't want to be in that one where everybody's doing the same thing. It's all uh it in the end, yeah, you may have a different style, but it's all the same, it's all flat, it's all pictures, whatever. Um, that's why I decided to do the whole pop-out sort of thing, um, to change it up a little bit and and give it a little bit of something that's me, you know.
SPEAKER_02:No, definitely. If you're not putting a touch of yourself in your art, then it's not your art. Like art, art comes from inside, right? It's not just I'm gonna throw this together.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, a lot of these guys are good welders and they do the TIG welding all day long, right? So it's not hard for them to get a stainless flat piece and draw on it. It really isn't that hard if you weld every day. I did not weld every day, I never even Tig welded before, right? So for me to even get into the TIG art, it took me over a year and a half because all I had was every Saturday, four hours on Saturday, to go and mess around with with the TIG welder. And at one point, I remember looking at my stuff and I was like, oh man, you know what? Screw this, I'm done. I I didn't, I was so angry that it nothing was working out. It's like forget this kind of thing. And I I dropped it one day, and I was like, the next time I came back the next Saturday, I'm like, okay, let's try this again, you know. And it took me a while, but I'm glad I stuck with it.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, sometimes you hit a wall, and that is the deciding factor. But most most of the time, if you get back on that horse, then you will succeed, or at least you're gonna see enough progression that you're gonna want to keep going.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, it's it it would be a lot easier if I was doing it every day as a job, you know. Yeah, I would have learned way quicker, but I only had four hours, if that, on a Saturday to try and get what I want to get done or even learn. And when you got all these knobs on a welder and you're like, you know, max this way, max that way, you got four knobs, five knobs, all these settings. Yeah, it's a long time.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah. So, did you use anything like YouTube when you're learning?
SPEAKER_00:I did to get the basics down again. YouTube doesn't really teach you everything, they'll show you certain things, but you gotta pick up the rest by looking at what they're doing, and and they might not tell you in the video. The one guy that's really good is Pacific, Pacific Arc Welding, he's Canadian too.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, Pacific Arc Tig, yeah, Dusty.
SPEAKER_00:Arc Tig, that's it. Yeah, Dusty, yeah. Yeah, he's very good. I had hit him up a few times, you know, like, hey, you know, what how do I do this? And he helped me out a bit. Uh obviously he had some paid stuff that he wanted to uh endorse because he doesn't want to do it for free either, right?
SPEAKER_02:So I think he's yeah, he's trying to make a living off of it.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, and I get that. And at that time, I didn't really have the money to spend to go that route to learn. And that's kind of why I did it myself. And I'll tell you to tell you the truth, do learning it myself, I know a little bit more than somebody actually that's gone to school and has learnt at a school because I've been through a lot of things that a school's not gonna teach you.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, and that's actually it's come up a lot in the last few episodes that I've done is um maybe the schools aren't setting people up enough for the real world. Yeah, you come out and you're a great welder for that six inches, right? But when you're out in the real world, it's a little bit different, right? And if everything is set up perfect and everything is easy for you every time, well, the moment that it's not, you're gonna struggle.
SPEAKER_00:Oh, yeah, and even just to try to figure out why I am getting porosity or why is this doing what it's doing? So for me now, it's like I see somebody that's doing something. At least I would say 90% of the time, I can bang on and tell you exactly what they're doing wrong. You know what I mean? Because I've done it, and it took me forever to figure out, but that's how I figured it out was trying different things, different settings, right?
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SPEAKER_00:It's just nothing's this is just this is just the start of it.
SPEAKER_02:But man, that thing is awesome. Is that steel or is that stainless? Stainless. Stainless, nice.
SPEAKER_00:So I got some ideas for this one. That's why I went stainless.
SPEAKER_02:Can you share a bit of those ideas?
SPEAKER_00:Uh yeah. So what I'm in my head I was thinking is I'm gonna make this all um nice first, and then you know how you see the colors when people are hitting those beads? That's one idea is try to hit those beads with all the colors, but first I'm gonna flame color it. Nice. And then try to get those colors after, hopefully.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, there's that's a full art, uh a full art skill there. Like it took me a while to figure out how to color my flowers with the torch and learning how how I can make little little welds, and those welds at act like heat blocks to keep the color away from some areas. But that sounds really cool because you're gonna bring texture and color in. Yeah, that's awesome, man.
SPEAKER_00:We'll see how that works out.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, maybe it'll be done by next Halloween, right?
SPEAKER_00:Uh, for sure it should be.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, it's hard to stay on trend. I've been a bit jealous of you, you know, back in the day because I see you at every fab tech, basically, right?
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:So, how is it going to fab tech? Uh, what do you mean by that? Like, how is the experience? How is that whole Like, because I've never been. I've I've been to some uh educators' conferences, I've been to a few places with the CWB, but how is like the big show?
SPEAKER_00:Do you mean meeting the people or the actual show itself?
SPEAKER_02:Well, actually, that's a good thing you mentioned it. So, how is meeting everyone?
SPEAKER_00:It's a it was a lot of fun. Uh, you get to meet all these people that you you talk to on on Instagram and so forth, right? Uh, and when you see them in person, it's a whole different like oh man, I know this guy, you know, kind of thing, and it's fun, right? Uh, the show itself is amazing, there's so much to to see. Uh, sometimes even get sponsorships at the show, right?
SPEAKER_02:Right. That's a whole different avenue. I didn't even think about.
SPEAKER_00:Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah. I usually when I go there, I'll bring stuff with me. Like the last time I went to uh Fat Tech, I made uh my Tig Devil logo into a a uh a chain um and brought those with me and tried to get some business with those as well, right? Always hustling, yeah, always.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah. Were you there? I think you were there with Blue Demon one year, weren't you? I'm always there with Blue Demon. Oh, nice, yeah. Yeah, shout out Blue Demon. Yeah, so yeah, you mentioned meeting all these people and like you know them off of Instagram or wherever, and then you finally meet them face to face. I've uh there's been times where I've met people and and I kind of feel like you know, they're a little bit of a personality when I see them online, and then when I meet them face to face, it's like there's something something's off.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, that's like uh 90% of them.
SPEAKER_02:Well, first time I first time I met you, and I I can say you're a genuine dude, and also I didn't want to get beat up, so so yeah, like some people are you know playing a part online. Um, what do you what do you kind of think about that? Like you gotta stay genuine, right?
SPEAKER_00:Oh, yeah. Uh for the most part, most of the people that I've met have been really cool, uh, down to earth, like uh easy to talk to. There are the odd few, like you said, you know, it's like you meet them and there's nothing to be said, it's so weird, like awkward kind of thing, and you're trying to make talk, and it's like, okay, you know what you later, sort of thing.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, social awkwardness comes out when you're face to face, I guess.
SPEAKER_00:For some people, I guess maybe they're nervous or which makes no sense because when they're in front of a camera, which for me took a long time to get comfortable in front of a camera, but in front of people, I'm okay. No, I could talk to anybody and everybody, I can make friends, have conversations, and make it normal, right? But it it took me a while to get in that camera and be try to uh do your thing, sort of and be yourself, not fake it, you know. Most of the time, when people in the camera, like you said, there are different personality on the camera, and you think you're meeting that person, and in real life, they're boring as right.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, I'm kind I'm kind of like you, like I I moved around a lot, so I learned I learned how to to be a per a people person, I learned how to make friends quick just because I I needed to, right? But same thing when I first started getting on camera, it was super awkward, super awkward, like even talking to yourself in a camera is weird.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, yeah, it especially if you've you you're getting into this whole scene, right? Where you you don't you kind of know what you sound like. You as a person don't see yourself doing things all the time. So when you're getting into it, and then you're looking at yourself in your video, you're like, Oh man, what am I doing there? Like, even though you're you're trying to be as normal as possible, you wanna that's what you want. You don't want to be someone else, you want to be normal, but in your head, you're like, Oh, this just doesn't look right. You're thinking that yourself, right? But maybe it does look right, you're just too hard on yourself, sort of thing.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, true, man. Like, I always try to one take stuff. Like, if I'm doing something, I gotta I think I think we're going about it the wrong way. We need better editing skills.
SPEAKER_00:It's it's not even that. Like, I've seen these guys the whole new thing, video thing was they cut clips, so it's like they'll say something and they might mess up, but so they're doing all these clip cuts, and you see the the clip cuts. I've never really liked that whole editing style for me. Like, oh dude, I could maybe take two to three hundred takes of uh a thing I'm doing, and every single time if I mess one thing up, it's like laugh this, you know, screaming in the video, and then I'll re-record, and then I'll go back and try to see which one was the best out of like 300.
SPEAKER_02:Oh man, that's rough. We gotta get like uh a blooper's reel of every time you screw up, just like chop that up, dude.
SPEAKER_00:You would have a blast, I'm telling you.
SPEAKER_02:Oh man, yeah, there's something to be said about you know, like being um, you know, like either a business owner or a welder and having an online um, you know, outlet, I guess, is that like you always want to be perfect, you want all your stuff to be perfect, right? I don't think a lot of people share all the mistakes and all the you know outtakes, all of the the junk that had to be thrown out.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, so I don't share the outtakes because mine are really, really bad. A lot of swearing. I I I actually should because I think it'd be funny if people would have a blast, but if for me, I get really angry quick, and it's just you know, either throwing or so I sometimes I'm like, yeah, people don't want to see that side of someone, you know, doing something like that, and that's the only reason I don't post that. But anything I've fucked up with my art wise, I've definitely posted it, definitely, but more than once.
SPEAKER_02:That's awesome. That's really cool of you to do that.
SPEAKER_00:Just recently, actually, I'd done a Steeler, uh, not a Steelers a Jets logo, and it didn't work out the way I wanted to because the paint, it's uh this is the issue I always have is paint on metal. Sometimes it just has this weird reaction. So I did a first coat and it looked nice, and I was like, okay, let me hit it one more time. And when I hit it the second time, it almost cracked everywhere, it bubbled up and cracked. I'm like, what is going on here? So then I had to try to redo the whole thing over again, and it was such a disaster. It took me, I didn't even make any money on that piece because it took me way more hours to try to clean it and repaint it. And the same thing happened three times. I was like, I just started over again.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, oh man, paint is tough. Like, I'm definitely a welder, not a painter. Yeah, yeah. I've I've tried to like clear coat some of my art, and I feel like the clear coat kind of dulls the colors, and same thing will yeah, same thing will happen. Either you'll get some bubbles, or if you hit it too heavy the first time, it'll crack out.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, so uh the the dulling, it kind of oxidizes it, takes out the oxidization of so that was my idea first was to make these nice TIG welds and then clear coat it. So in my mind, it was like, Oh, give it that nice shine, those colors will shine, right? And no, it just took out all the oxidization, it went like this weird, rusty looking color. I'm like, oh man, that was a waste of time, right?
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, yeah, we've all got to learn those hard lessons, I guess. Yeah, but then like what's like I've I've gone to the point where I've left one of my lilies in my backyard, it's almost three years now because I want to see what those colors are going to do, right? Because I'm not gonna sell something to somebody and say, like, oh yeah, you can put outside, no problem, it's stainless steel, without knowing what's gonna happen. And like, here we are three years down the road, and like, yeah, you you are missing some colors in some areas, but the birds have been all over it, you know, the dog's been peeing on it. So yeah, you you have to know what what the environment's gonna do to it. It still isn't rusting, but you are losing some of those, some of those things. But you know, my stuff's outdoors.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, the colors the colors might fade over time. Uh, I find in the colder weather, it will fade just because of the the not humidity, the I don't even know the word I'm looking for here.
SPEAKER_02:Well, it could be humidity, density of the air, maybe in the cold well because maybe I'll try to describe it to you.
SPEAKER_00:So in the cold, everything is kind of watery, sort of, right? So it will dull the color a bit, and in the summer I find when it's hot, because there's no humidity, the the colors brighten up a bit. I find that even with my art, so uh some of the stuff I do is for outdoors as well, and I'll do it in full stainless so that way I don't get the rust effect, but I do know that the colors do dull in the winter a little bit, and in the summer, because it's hot, it shines a lot more.
SPEAKER_02:That's cool. So it's maybe it's it's visual, right? It's not it's maybe not what's happening to the steel itself, or maybe it is though.
SPEAKER_00:It is it it it's the weather. It I don't know the word if it's humidity or not, because in the winter, is there humidity outside? There isn't in the winter, right?
SPEAKER_02:I I feel like everything is more dense, the air is colder, it's denser, so there would be still humidity, but I know what you're saying. I have noticed this too is how how the sun or what time of day you know the the light hits a piece will actually change how it looks as well.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure.
SPEAKER_02:Yep. So do you have any any big plans? Like, what are you gonna do next? Are you gonna progress your art? You're how you're kind of happy with where you're working. What's next for the Tig Devil?
SPEAKER_00:I'm always trying to progress. Um, I don't know where I'm going right now. Um, I really want to make a sculpture, like something not too big, but something I could do in my garage. I've always wanted to try something. Um, this pumpkin for the meantime is gonna be uh something I'm gonna work on to make look really cool. Um, and that's actually this is probably the the only thing I've done that's a little bit bigger than anything I've done. So that that's my next step. But I want to deal with something a little bit bigger and more intricate, hopefully.
SPEAKER_02:And is that something you'd be doing for yourself?
SPEAKER_00:Do you have kind of a vision or yeah, it it usually anything I make it's either for the wife or she says she wants something, or I'm like, yeah, you know what? This will look cool. Let me just make it. And if it sells while I'm making it, that's cool too. But if it doesn't, you know what? It's art, and it will look cool at home, anyways.
SPEAKER_02:So absolutely. Usually my wife gets the prototype or the first one that I make. So like she always gets the the the like the crapier one, you know. Like here you go, honey, because uh like she has to like it, yeah. Right, yeah, we'll do better on the next one. Actually, she's got my first lily that I ever made, and like if you hold that thing up to what I'm doing today, it's absolutely like night and day, so I had to I had to get her a new one, right?
SPEAKER_00:Oh, of course. Uh and actually that you just said that now. I did have some things in mind because Christmas is coming up, and I was putting some Christmas decorations while it was warmer out last weekend, and I noticed that we had these deers, um, these reindeers with with uh lights on it. I'm like, you know what, these things always fly all over the place when it's windy. Like, I'm gonna I should make them out of metal. So that's another that's that's an idea that came to my mind last week. Hopefully, I could get it done before Christmas would be great, but we'll see.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, at least at least before the new year's, right? Yeah, that's that's cool, man. Yeah, it's always good. I've I've always made stuff for the season, too. I've made some smaller deer and some like stainless steel trees and stuff that we set up on the dinner table. So, yeah, man, that's really cool. It's good to hear. On uh on the welding side of things, you know, you're always progressing, you're always learning something new. Um, is there something a piece of technology or a process that you're you're trying to get or you're trying to do better at?
SPEAKER_00:I'm always trying to work on my my stick, Meg, and take always. Um I'm even though I I I'm okay, like I don't think I'm the best at it right now, by all means. I'm decent, I'm getting by. I can I and even if I was really good at it, I would say I'm not good at it. Because there's always room to learn, there's always room to improve in anything you do. You always want to be better, you never want to be saying, Oh, you know what? Yeah, I'm I'm good enough, like that's it, and not learn anything. For me, learning is is a good thing.
SPEAKER_02:Absolutely. So I always ask this to to all of the guests that I have is that is there a piece of advice that you would give to the next generation of welders coming up?
SPEAKER_00:Piece of advice, yeah. Um, get out there and do it. Don't make excuses, put in the work, don't expect something to come for nothing, you know. Don't expect, don't be one of those guys that's uh oh well, you know, this guy's where he is, and you don't know what kind of trouble and and stuff he's done to get to where he is, but you're like, oh, I feel I should be there without any of the work. Put in the work, put in the time, and you'll get to where you want to go. Simple as that.
SPEAKER_02:Hard work pays off.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_02:It's you you can't you can't fake it in the trades, you can't fake it in welding, especially. Your weld is your weld, you cannot run away from what you just put down, right?
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, for sure. Yeah, well, you you you can always start to fake it, but you better get good at it by the end. Yeah, your first two in kind of like me, you know. Yeah, I had to fake it at the start until I got into the jobs and I learned at my jobs, basically, right? Yeah, I didn't know anything. Yeah, I literally jumped from the restaurant business into metal, which is crazy.
SPEAKER_02:So let's go to the other side of things. If you weren't a welder, if you weren't in the metal trades doing your machining and everything, what would you have done? What would you what would you have been doing?
SPEAKER_00:I would I would have been still in the restaurant business, like just hating life.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, yeah. So I mean, you must be a pretty good cook.
SPEAKER_00:Oh, I'm a very good cook.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, just weren't very good. Weren't into it for a living.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, so you know the thing was I was always working weekends, always working long weekends, holidays, and I was like, you know what, this is just not for me. And uh it was literally, I woke up one day, I'm like, yeah, all my friends are having fun, and I'm working while they're having fun. I said, That's it, no more. What job is gonna give me that freedom? And I kind of I said to myself, Well, I've always liked doing stuff with my hands. Let me get into metal, and that's where that's how it began. Literally, was I was fed up with one thing because I wasn't having fun, and I was like, you know what? This is gonna get me to where I need to have some fun now.
SPEAKER_02:That's awesome. Yeah, you weren't scared to jump out of something that you know you didn't like. Sometimes people get stuck in their jobs and they're just hating life all day, every day. I know plenty of welders that hate welding.
SPEAKER_00:Oh, 100%. So do I. Yeah, but then you shouldn't be doing it. Like, I've always said, you know, like I don't find my job is a job because I actually love doing it, it's fun, right? So for me, it's like if your work is fun and you don't find that you're working, you're up here now because 90% of your time is at work, you need to enjoy that.
SPEAKER_02:Oh, absolutely, absolutely.
SPEAKER_00:Like that's it makes it it it it even makes your your home life that much better because now you your job's great, you come home, you're happy, you know, things are good.
SPEAKER_02:Man, you're speaking the truth right now. I think people need to I needed to hear that. Like you're absolutely right. You you basically spend more time at work than you do at home, if you think about it, you may be here longer at home, but you know, you've got your two, three hours when you do get home to do whatever, and then you go to sleep, and then you're back to work the next day.
SPEAKER_00:That's it, yeah. And I always think, you know, like even though as much as I'm in the position I am now, with uh not like I'm I'm in a place where I kind of don't want to be there because it's not as fun as it used to be. I still have fun going and doing what I I'm doing, it's just the people are not as fun anymore. But I'm doing something to try to change that, you know. I'm my next step is I'm gonna go on my own, do work for myself. That's my that's the goal that I'm working towards now.
SPEAKER_02:Very nice, man. Yeah, if you're in a place and you don't like it, you got two choices. You try to better the situation, you try to work with the team to try to see what you can do with the place, and if that doesn't work out, then you got to look other way, other ways, right?
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, and the only reason I'm not looking to go anywhere else is because one, my work is seven minutes away from home, so it's it's super close, right? I don't want to be making that whole commute thing to get more money because at the end of the day, time is money. If you're sitting in a car an hour to get to work, that's money. So, right now I'm not losing any money seven minutes, and I could make more money if I just work out of home.
SPEAKER_02:That's true, man. For a person in your general area, I've I've talked to some people, and the commute is ridiculous. Hour and 45 minutes for some people, like your eight your eight-hour day is a 14-hour day.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, and especially with now, like we have so many people in this country, and we don't have the infrastructure to to support it. So the traffic's gone totally insane.
SPEAKER_02:I'll be experiencing that in a few weeks because I'm I'm heading back to your area, so we'll uh we'll see exactly. I'll be coming down. I don't know when this episode gets released, but I'll be coming down uh December twelfth weekend. And I'm trying to hit up BTH too while we're there.
SPEAKER_00:I may not be here. I may be in uh PRI. I got a uh blue demon thing in Indianapolis.
SPEAKER_02:Oh good for you, man.
unknown:Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, I won't be upset. Don't worry.
SPEAKER_00:Like you're coming down the 11th is what, a Friday? Yeah. Friday. Uh if it is that week, I'll probably be back by Sunday if you're still around. Grab a drink or something.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, I think that's when I'll be at BTH.
SPEAKER_00:On Sunday?
SPEAKER_02:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Oh, okay. Well, if you know what? Let's uh talk and and figure stuff out. Because if not, maybe I'll take a drive up with you there.
SPEAKER_02:For sure, man. We'll figure that out. So before I let you go here, is there a story you want to tell? Maybe you screwed something up, maybe you wrecked a piece of equipment, or maybe it could be a good story. But do you have like something that always sticks with you throughout your your 11 years of welding?
SPEAKER_00:Oh man, you caught me off guard with this one.
SPEAKER_02:Um, I mean, I always tell any like new hire that I have wrecked every single piece of equipment in the shop. Like, there I've definitely done some stupid stuff in this shop, but it's taught me how to fix things.
SPEAKER_00:You know what? Honestly, tell you the truth, I've not been that way in the shop because when I got into the shop not knowing anything, I always had a a book that I had, and I would write so any machine that I was getting trained on, I would literally draw the face of that machine, draw the pad. This button does this, that button does this. Uh the this axis on this table moves this way, Y, and X this way, Z this way, so that I know. And even till today, to tell you the truth, certain machines, because my memory is not the best, so I'll flip through my book really quick. Uh okay, this button does this, this, this, this, okay, boom, and I'm on it again. Like, you know, it sometimes it could be two months before you use that machine. Yeah, you don't want to be asking someone, hey man, I don't remember what to do. Now you look like an idiot.
SPEAKER_02:Didn't I show you this two months ago?
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, right. So I've always in that sense, uh I've never really broken any machines down because I worked extra hard to write everything down so I can go back and look at it.
SPEAKER_02:Essentially, you wrote your own instruction manual for every piece of equipment.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, basically, yeah.
SPEAKER_02:That's a great piece of advice, especially for people who don't have you know that that knowledge or that that memory bank to do that. Like that's that's actually pretty, pretty damn good advice.
SPEAKER_00:I you know what tomorrow if I get a chance, I'll take a uh some pictures of my book showing you even like certain parts that I do because uh when you're doing parts, sometimes you don't get those parts for a year or six months. Where most people will go into a shop, okay, so they did the one part and they did it one way, and then then it took them maybe say half an hour just to set up and figure out what they're using. Then the next time, two months down the road, they gotta figure it out again. For me, it's not like that. Everything I used gets used the same way, so anything I used, I put marks on them and show it's for this job. I'll paint it if I need to. Uh and the next time, and I take pictures and I print it and put in my book. So the next time when I want to go do that job, I look at the picture, go look for all the stuff that I used, color-coded and stuff, and bang, in two minutes, three minutes, my setup is done instead of taking half an hour.
SPEAKER_02:Wow. So you're doing four jobs then. You're not just machinist mechanic and welder, you're also logistics, you're also the print guy, you're the instruction guy. No, that's great, man. That's that's really cool to hear about your experience coming up as a self-taught guy and and just putting your nose to the grindstone and just just going full out and figuring out your machines and your systems and figuring out what works for you. So thanks very much for sharing your story, man.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, no problem. I was uh happy to.
SPEAKER_02:Well, thanks very much for being my guest. Uh, this was Diesel D'Souza Tig Devil on Instagram, and make sure you stay tuned. We got episodes dropping weekly. Uh, make sure you share with all your friends, and thanks very much.
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