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1 hour ago, kd2000 said:

OK, what then gives the rights to the 3rd party to rent or actually subrent the room taking into account there is usufructuary.

I know usufructuary has rights to lease the property. So as me being usufructurary could I rent or lease the property for a long term to a 3rd person so he could then be subrenting it further on ? 

your right to the property are according to your contract with the owner. I have no idea about usufructuary laws/regulations but if you rent a house or condo unit the contract might specifically say if you are allowed or not allowed to sublet.

as for short term rentals ie less than 30 days, the number of rooms/units you have for let is irrelevant and you need the hotel/guest house license

11 hours ago, kd2000 said:

Well, let me ask in another way.

 

I actually don't need anybody in the book nor me in a yellow one. (Would be cool option but not a must).

 

What I need is my Thai partner to be legally able to rent the house on airbnb, Facebook or similar services.

 

What options do we have?

 

Being registered in the blue book has nothing to do with the legal right to rent out the property as the blue book serves only as residential address of the people registered in the book and has nothing to do with ownership. If a person owns multiple houses / apartments he/she can only be registered in one (supposed to be the one they actually live in), yet they can still rent out the other properties.

You should take into consideration that renting a property for less than 30 days requires a hotel/guest house license. 

5 hours ago, CGW said:

Ok, sorry - I was trying to be helpful, I thought you wanted to learn to "weld" rather than "fuse" things together ???? 

Good luck.

 

I am grateful for your suggestions and thought - as of all other members replying on this thread. What I meant was that I will have to be able to work with what's readily available here in Thailand, and more than that with what's available in my area which is a remote location up north. 

6 hours ago, VocalNeal said:

Have you actually joined anything together yet?

yes, not great though. I am waiting for my helmet to really start practicing on that...

3 hours ago, CGW said:

For arc welding you really should be learning on thicker steel, ideally joining V butts with multiple passes, it teaches you how to control the burn rate. What you are practising now is "Thai" style welding, its acceptable for the local market - depending on standards set, sure you will be able to join some cheap thin steel together, but near impossible to get good quality welds on paper thin poor quality steel, depends what your expectations are?

Well, I am not going to be a professional welder overseas. I will do small projects and fixes on my farm / house here in Thailand with whatever steel is available here. The scraps I am using are leftover cuts from the roof beams of my house... My first project (once I get the auto light helmet) will be a frame for some passion fruit trees.

Been to Bali September last year. Rented a bike both in Kuta and in Amed and was never even asked if I had a license let alone ask to see an IDP or local one...

Hotels are over-priced for what you get, most of them look nothing like the pix and description on the web booking sites.

Local dishes are very much similar to Thai food but not comparable taste wise. In this regard Ubud was a pleasant surprise (not so much for local dishes, but food in general)

And - they run the same scams and tricks on foreigners Thais topped using about 20 years ago. Exchanging money can be tricky. I was at an exchange when another person walked in - he was Asian but not local - and he was really pi***d off and argued with the guy behind the counter, counting money on the counter. That lead to an exchange of words between the counter guy and another employee behind a glass wall. After which they gave the Asian more money and demanded he counted the money in front of them before he leaves the shop as there will not be another fixing... Before he left (by now he was more relaxed) I asked him what happened and he said he was shorted by about $100...

Oh, yes, one more thing - The only place I tried to get money out of and ATM, got nothing yet my bank account was charged was in Bali....

19 hours ago, sometimewoodworker said:

and the thickness of the base metal?

2mm

3 hours ago, sometimewoodworker said:

That is certainly an phenomenal improvement on the first pictures what do they look like once you have knocked the slag off?

Are you using 2.6mm and how thick is the substrate? 

Slag off.

2.6mm rodes. 

3 hours ago, sometimewoodworker said:

Well not without seeing a picture of a bead you have made at that setting 

The 3 on the left 250amp, the 2 on the right 200amp

2 hours ago, Fruit Trader said:

Assuming a healthy 220V supply, the big question is what current is the $50 450A welder delivering when set at 300A.

 

High frequency DC inverter welders normally make striking and holding arc easy even at low current. A fault in the inverter could quite easily cause unstable half current.
 

any way of checking it?

So... Today the guy came in and had a go at the machine. He cranked it up to 300amp and it worked great. I asked him shouldn't we follow the instructions as per the rode size? as according to that it should be 45-95... He said nope. If you use such a low amp it will keep sticking to the metal, but if you go up to around 300++ it will work well. I tried with 300 and was working great.

Any thoughts? 

18 hours ago, RotBenz8888 said:

 

...while Guava fruit is.

foreigners referred to as farangs has nothing to do with the guava fruit. Legend has it that the first (or one of the firsts) round eyes foreign visitors to the kingdom of Siam was named Frank...

35 minutes ago, sometimewoodworker said:

 

I remember that my first attempts looked rather similar, as I too was holding the electrode too far from the surface. I also managed to completely miss the area I was supposed to be welding. My first attempts were truly horrible.

 

Those could be OK as tack welds but you are not welding a bead yet.

 

my advice is

Use an auto darkening helmet and then you will have a much better chance of putting the weld where it needs to be.

 

Get a lot of scrap the thicker the better and use at least 2kg of rods practicing laying down weld, keeping the arc going and not burning through, before you try a real project.

 

You will burn through when you start getting a bead going unless you find some 10mm plate.

 

Make sure you have an angle grinder with a range of flap wheels as well a grinding disks.

I ordered an auto darkening helmet a few days ago. Hope to get it soon. I'm sure it will make things easier having both hands free and as you mention - having a better chance to weld where I want to as I too find many times it goes in the wrong place...

Today I have practiced a couple of hours and managed to get some beads done (not very long yet). At the moment I get beads only around half way through the rode. probably because my left hand is not free to support my right hand while welding

On 5/4/2019 at 1:05 PM, possum1931 said:

I have got the slip, but it is Saturday and the banks are closed, thanks for the good wishes.

you don't have to go to the bank. You can call the number printed on the back of your ATM card. Same happened to me in Bali using a Thai atm. It took me a couple of days till I could check my balance and realize my account was changed (the notice on the atm machine was in Indonesian when no money came out of it, and every attempt after that showed insufficient funds...) another day or 2 till I got back to Thailand and then I called the bank. They said it will take 5 weeks to sort it out but my account was credited for the full amount (including the 100 thb fee) in less than 5 weeks

1 hour ago, Andrew Dwyer said:

I had a little project ongoing in my garden that required welding, as luck would have it my BIL bought a welder off the net and lent me it.
Bought some electrodes and set about having a trial run with some offcuts.
I hadn’t welded since college in ‘77 but you never forget ...? .... right ?...........WRONG !!
Practised for a couple of days and managed a half decent weld on a scrap piece on my workbench.
But, as my welding is going to be for a sala roof I decided to admit defeat and called my builder guy, who came and did a great job.
With my welding it would have probably come crashing down overnight !!

Hope you’re not attempting anything overhead OP ??

No, nothing that big. For this I'll always call the pro's. Just small things on the farm like fixing the gate's rail, structuring a frame for the passion fruits (well, this will be overhead...) etc'

20 minutes ago, sometimewoodworker said:

Surprising, congratulations, how thick is the metal and where are the pictures?

The last 1 is the main gate rail fixed yesterday. I'll probably want to redo it once I get the hang of welding...

1 minute ago, VocalNeal said:

It is just like any other skill such as say handwriting

I really hope my welding will be MUCH better than my handwriting... My 3rd grade teacher tried really hard to improve it alas with no success. At uni lecturers told students in other sessions about my notorious bad handwriting I was asked by some1 which FOOT I am using to write...

16 minutes ago, sometimewoodworker said:

Are you burning through the metal yet?

 

for most of the metal used here it is so thin that if you do get a  continuous weld you will probably me heat the steel too much

nope. didn't get to burn holes in the metal

59 minutes ago, eyecatcher said:

Where I did learn is having someone beside you or watching someone here in the field, and picking up some techniques.

Talked to the constructor who built my house. He'll come over next week to have a look at the welder and I'll get to see him use it and him see me and instruct...

This afternoon session I put it on 85amp and also cleaned the metal with a grinder. managed to get longer arc time for a while and than back to nothing...

1 hour ago, CharlieH said:

You tube is your friend, plenty on there to help and guide you.

 

Arc force......see here

 

https://youtu.be/Fph3SFeMfVA

So higher arc force should make it easier?

1 hour ago, eyecatcher said:

Electrodes here are limited to 6013 Kobe,Bison and maybe one other.

It took me a year on and off to get the hang of it and I am still crap.

A few tips I found out for myself.

Like you i tried all the settings and have realised that for general 1.5-2.3g steel a setting of 105A gets the steel hot enough almost immediately.

If your steel is painted forget it though primer is ok.

I prefer the bison electrodes but they must be dry, in wet season i have put mine in the oven and then kept them inside in a cling film.

Thicker steel is much easier to weld, the 1.2g requires more skill and a setting around 75A so as not to burn a hole in it.

 

Like most jobs its not as easy as it looks, and needs practice.

Like most jobs its not as easy as it looks <<< right on...

As for the different brands of electrodes - which did you use as a beginner? Is there a real difference in ease / difficulty (for beginners)?

Not realizing at the beginning that the amp rate is related to the thickness of the electrode, in my initial attempts I went higher and higher on the amp rate...  Last night I dug into the internet and today I was using mostly 75amp, but also tried a bit lower and u to 80 (the range for the Kobe 2.6mm is 45-95 as it says on the box)

3 hours ago, Vacuum said:

Checking the actual voltage available could give some clue to the "couple of seconds" burst.

do you mean the outlet voltage? I don't have a volt meter, but during construction and for some tasks after construction was done the workers used to connect their Welles to the same supply so I guess it should be ok

3 hours ago, Crossy said:

Task A - Nip down to your local welding supply place and get an "automatic" welding helmet, it makes life sooo much easier.

 

Get some 1/4" scrap and practice starting and holding the arc, about 80A should be good with those rods.

 

No idea what "arc force" does, is the manual any help? Failing that set it mid-way and forget it.

 

already ordered an automatic welding helmet from lazada. I'm sure it will make life easier when I'll have 2 free hands...

as for scraps - I have lots of metal scraps, leftovers from my house construction..... Those kind of U shape metal used for the roofing beams. 

the arc force knob is supposed to compensate for long/short arc but no clear instructions about it

Hi all,

I just bought a new welding machine - Kanto KT-IGBT-451 and trying to get the hang of welding... 

I can get a spark but can't hold an arc for more than a couple of seconds at a time (most time I cant get beyond the spark..).

I am using Kobe Steel electrodes, RB-26/2.6mm. The welder has a 2nd knob for arc force and I tried various settings from min to max and many steps in between.

I have read on some welding forums that some rodes are easier to work with and I guess that as a beginner I might be better off trying those. The question is - which is the best for beginners that is available in Thailand? 

I would appreciate any information about electrodes available here and also if anyone can explain how to use the arc force.

Thanks ????

33 minutes ago, mngmn said:

Sentencing a lady boy to 500 baths may or may not be a harsh punishment depending on your point of view.

I think they should fine ladyboys 5000 thb for exposing their fake boobs and award the same amount to real ladies for exposing the real thing....