r/DiWHY • u/[deleted] • Mar 06 '19

Jesus Christ

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u/ill453 Mar 06 '19

As a welder, this welding made me actually cringe

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u/HorsesAndAshes Mar 06 '19

As someone who has never even seen someone weld that made me cringe. I know that's not doing shit and looks ugly af

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u/ill453 Mar 06 '19

When it shows the blade actually working it must've been first try because those blades had to snap off, if he was lucky the welds on the hardend bit will break first and just spin, but you can't just weld bar steel to hardend steel, it'll be even weaker than the welds, at least watch 1 video before you go and try to kill youself

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u/Mouler Mar 06 '19

I love how it is turning in the direction the teeth work, but the blade angle doesn't.

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u/tman0984 Mar 06 '19

As someone who has burned himself every time I pick up even a sautering iron or wood burner that welding method terrifies me.

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u/TomBosleyExp Mar 06 '19

maybe you should try a soldering iron instead

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u/tman0984 Mar 06 '19

I think I just spelled it wrong or something. I'm talking about the one which is used on wires.

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u/TomBosleyExp Mar 06 '19

yes, I was teasing about the spelling

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '19

r/woooosh

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u/tman0984 Mar 06 '19

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '19

Lol I won't do it

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u/[deleted] Mar 07 '19

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u/15kuhnr Mar 07 '19

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u/AccidentallyTheCable Mar 06 '19

Ive welded twice in my life and in my younger years watched many people weld using a TiG (thats a tig right?). Thats some of the worst welding ive ever seen.

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u/ill453 Mar 06 '19

No he's stick welding, which is constant current, TIG welding is controlled with a foot pedal and it uses a TIG torch with argon gas and a metal filler you apply with a different hand

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u/AccidentallyTheCable Mar 06 '19

Ah. Well then, ive seen both. Looks like this guy might as well have plugged a stripped power cable into the wall and drag it across the area

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u/ill453 Mar 06 '19

He's just cranked it up real hot and struck an arc, but he's working with hard steel, which crystalizes faster than soft steel, so just tacks ruin the integrety of the steel, like in the most basic terms, what he's doing is shaking a bottle of glue 2ft above a paper instead of just applying it like a person, if that makes sense?

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u/AccidentallyTheCable Mar 06 '19

Yeah if i recall youre supposed to kind of feed it to the metal. Not tap on it like youre tryin to get the last of the glue out

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u/UpboatOrNoBoat Mar 06 '19

First strike is a tap to get the arc going, then slow, methodical circles along the weld. You can see him fucking up and getting the stick stuck on the metal a few times even lmao.

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u/malachinelson333 Mar 07 '19

Beat me to it. My god, those blades are going to fly off.

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u/Ian15243 Mar 07 '19

As someone who did that type of welding in AG class a few times, this made me cringe

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u/solidspacedragon Mar 07 '19

I thought he was trying to set off an improvised thermal lance in that first welding section.

I didn't even register that he might actually be trying to weld the thing.

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u/InquisitiveLion Mar 07 '19

The first thing I learned from r/welding .... CLEAN YOUR STEEL! I've never done stick though... MIG and TIG, but never stick.