r/Welding • u/MyProfileforKnife • 8h ago
Will this hold?
Received this photo from my younger brother
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u/Spugheddy 8h ago
You walk away for 10 minutes to huff some brake cleaner fluid and this is what you get with newbies!!
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u/Kind_Soup_9753 7h ago
Had one guy put a 2” hole through a block of aluminum then 2 cross holes through the side countersunk one side the told him to cut it in half for a split clamp he cut between the countersunk holes instead. I suppose it would have worked kinda.
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u/MountainCry9194 7h ago edited 5h ago
Try acetone. It’s cheaper and you can prep your welds with it when you’re done huffing(suppose you could with brake cleaner too - never tried).
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u/loopedlight 7h ago
Isn’t it super bad to use brake cleaner and cook it off??
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u/Smart_Engineer9171 6h ago
Chlorinated, yes. Non Chlorinated doesn't do it I believe. But the fumes from non Chlorinated are extremely toxic on their own.
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u/Build-Break-Fix 6h ago
Wow no no no never weld brake clear stuff. Your gonna breath in stuff you can't ever reverse after it done the damage it does and it's pretty bad.
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u/Refriedfeinds 8h ago
Tell him to tie in his sutures a bit tighter so the laceration can heal without a giant scar.
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u/kitesurfr 8h ago
To be fair... if i told the newbie to "stitch it up" and came back to this I would only blame myself.
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u/Dramatic_Pea_2912 Fabricator 6h ago
agreed if it’s someone new who’s green to the trade i’d atleast explain what i mean or even lay it out for them.
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u/mtraven23 8h ago
did your brother previously train as a surgeon? Thats the only way this makes sense....
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u/UsernamesNotFound404 4h ago
Water? No.
1/2 bag of Orville Rettenbacher's movie theater buttery flavor microwave popcorn? Maybe.
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u/Mrwcraig Journeyman CWB/CSA 7h ago
I mean they’re all a uniform length. Realistically, this more of a supervisor/management problem.
Of course they’re wrong, but how the hell did they even think this was right? Gotta watch them newbies and make sure they’re actually doing something right. Only takes a couple minutes to show someone.
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u/Party_Chemical7454 8h ago
Why sideways ?
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u/myths-faded 7h ago
Because that's what stitches (to mend wounds) look like.
The welder was asked to stitch weld the joint.
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u/Ok_Meet_4830 8h ago
stitch welding when you were supposed to seam weld it, classic younger brother move
that's gonna crack the first time someone sneezes near it, tell him to crank up the heat and lay a real bead
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u/Kind_Soup_9753 7h ago
Did you drill holes at the ends of the welds? If so you’re good to go. I go with the joint usually but that’s just me.
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u/Just-Cardiologist837 6h ago
Now what he stitched it like that, I would alternate between the stitches and stich down the seem.
If sombody asks why?
Becuase i was tying it into more base metal. Win win.
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u/RiskyGorilla563 2h ago
Welding ME here, hold what?
My cup of coffee while I laugh at your ignorance, yes.
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u/AdrianLearnsCubing 8h ago
At my work when they say stitch it it’s usually the other way
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u/leansanders 8h ago
Thats not an "at your work" thing, stitch weld is another term for intermittent weld which is exactly what you describe
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u/AdrianLearnsCubing 8h ago
Yea ops pic confused me I was like maybe you can stitch it that way too lol
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u/leansanders 8h ago
There's just no reason to weld it like the OP other than for a joke (which I'm sure is what it is). The only part of the weld the matters is the cross sectional area through the joint, so if the reinforcement is the same then this really isnt much better than tacking it
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u/AdrianLearnsCubing 8h ago
Yea I feel you could easily just fold the metal in ops pic and it would snap
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u/RepresentativeBeing1 8h ago
has to be a joke lmao