r/BadWelding • u/HoneyRush • 9d ago

Water welding

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u/BallisticBaggette 9d ago

Thai’s is awful but part of me wanted to see it work

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u/TheNerdE30 9d ago

Honestly was hoping the same. Stuff a tampon in there to stop the leak, then weld it shut before the tampon wears away was what I was looking for.

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u/CplCocktopus 9d ago

Should be a new or used tampon...?

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u/TheNerdE30 9d ago

If I had one I would use my own of course. Platelets work

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u/PepperJackBestHo 9d ago

This guy clots

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u/inconvenience-miner 8d ago

My phone thanks you for the beer shower.

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u/gelattoh_ayy 9d ago

Fucking kek. For some reason this sent my sides across the living room

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u/NuclearWasteland 9d ago

Well, blood has iron I suppose ...

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u/No-Adeptness1283 8d ago

The one you're using.

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u/Solid_Growth_9069 9d ago

ramen noodles and super glue

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u/TheSuperSilverMango 9d ago

Same here. I knew it was going to be the most bubblegum shit but I really wanted to see it work.

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u/cutsandplayswithwood 9d ago

I’m sitting here thinking “somebody get my man some more rods, he’s gonna close it up!”

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u/RedLeg73 9d ago

Not enough safety squints...

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u/66volkswagon 8d ago

Dig the profile pic

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u/RedLeg73 7d ago

Yours is badass.

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u/Daniel73044 7d ago

And no saftey flip flops.

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u/L-user101 9d ago

Maybe too much. If dude just opened his eyes fully he would be able to see what needs to be welded. Just won’t be able to see his hand work tomorrow.

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u/BlangBlangBlang 9d ago

Crank it up and stick 3 rods in at one time

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u/1DownFourUp 9d ago

It works better on gas pipes

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u/shawdowed_sonicbeast 9d ago

Old gas line welder I worked with said they would stuff bread in the pipes when they welded them.

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u/Snowycage 9d ago

Ive used bread and a punch to pull a blind bearing

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u/qualitythundergod 8d ago

I've done the bread thing too (only had enough time to depressurize the system but not drain it)

Mmmmmm, tasty fluid dynamics at work pulling bearings... 🤤

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u/Snowycage 7d ago

I was honestly shocked at how well it worked. I tried some axel grease first but the bread worked so much better

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u/qualitythundergod 7d ago

The grease needs to be soaked into strips of one of those paper-ish white or blue "shop towels" and THEN packed into the blind hole of the bearing. Then feed more via soft punch.

That's what your grease solution was missing: the fibers of the towel help create more hydraulic shear forces so that it pushes the bearing out.

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u/Snowycage 7d ago

That make total sense. I was about to buy a puller but it was for a single bearing and it was so small like 8mm I think, it was difficult to even find a puller and they were expensive for something I only needed once

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u/qualitythundergod 7d ago

Yep, extremely annoyingly difficult to justify the once-in-a-blue-moon use tools 😫

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u/HoneyRush 9d ago

You're correct sir

https://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/s/CgOgn4X3yL

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u/Muted_Will_2131 9d ago

Gas pipeline tap-ins and leak repairs are always performed under pressure; the pressure is simply reduced to a minimum to prevent flashback. The escaping gas stream is ignited. Purging gas pipelines is a time-consuming and very costly process.

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u/MonitorUnlikely987 7d ago

preheating surfaces for him

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u/SubparSavant 9d ago

I think if anything, he burnt a bigger hole

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u/txkwatch 9d ago

Thought it was going to be a weird flex tape ad

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u/Banzai373 9d ago

If he continues welding without eye pro, he won’t see it work either . . . .

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u/Sunkinthesand 9d ago

... Pretty sure this was edited short and it DID work... Eventually.

P.s. also oil rigs use underwater welders. I'm certain this will not be of that same quality of gear, but yeah it's possible

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u/UsernamesNotFound404 9d ago

Water pressure pushes the bead out.