Friday, 24 August 2012

Welders: more useful than you'd think

I like having a welder in the garage. When stupid stuff like this happens:



I can just zap my caulking gun back together!




A little bit of paint removal with a wire wheel…



…and a few tack welds…



…and it’s fixed.

These welds suck, no doubt. I had some 0.035 welding wire in my machine from my last welding project, which involved joining some relatively thick metals. Being too lazy to switch to a more appropriate, thinner 0.025 wire, these welds came out like garbage. They’re all goobery and stuck way out from the metal, so I ground them down a bit.

I still have a lot of welding experience to attain.

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