Sort of Stag related.

[Jeff]

How's this for a bit of welding porn?

[jagorstag]

Looks brilliant, reminds me a little of a rasta hat!!

[dasadrew]

Fantastic!

Drew

Note to self: must enrol on welding course when I retire.

[flying farmer]

Wish I could weld like that!

Neil

[Carboy0]

Quite literally a work of art.

[edd]

It's so uniform it could be automated and probably is.
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[Andrew S]

That has been done by machine, cant be by hand. Doing it by machine makes the weld of difference

[mole42]

Ouch!!

[edd]

It's a sad fact so many blue collar jobs are lost but when you see the results in car manufacture it's not surprising. White collar jobs are the next to go through this new era of technology. Even hospitals are doing away with reception so we all have to use a touch screen. Clever idea that getting everyone to touch the same screen then bang on about cleanliness

[mike@thenook]

Clever idea that getting everyone to touch the same screen then bang on about cleanliness ..

Isn't it just!

Same in the doctors and dentists now too - share and share alike!

[milothedog]

That has been done by machine, cant be by hand. Doing it by machine makes the weld of difference

Not necessarily. Many years back when I had a part time job driving a car transporter and breakdown lorries. The company who built their own trucks had a welder that could procedure work like that. I can still remember him stick welding 5 bar steel plate on flat bed parts of the lorry, he would weld an eight foot seem changing the rod 3 or 4 times and when he chipped the slag off you couldn't see where he had stopped and restarted. A good welder is an extremely skilled person.

I put one of our Coachmaker apprentices through various coded welding courses at work to meet our ISO9001 accreditation and after a couple years practice his welding was first class and it was certified.

[milothedog]

Clever idea that getting everyone to touch the same screen then bang on about cleanliness ..

Isn't it just!

Same in the doctors and dentists now too - share and share alike!

That's what the bottle of hand sanitizer is for on the wall next to it

[Jeff]

Went for my flu jab at the doctors today and the sanitiser bottle was empty, why isn't this one of the main things checked by the staff? and yes I did tell them.

[jbuckl]

Those pipe welds do look nice.

I got given a practical welding test some years ago.
It was a structural lifting job outside, to be done with a genset & MMA.
There was a hard frost so I used a electrode heater.
The slag peeled off all on its own, no chipping.
The welds were the best looking I'd ever produced up until then, or since.
I could tell the foreman was looking forward to the criticizing & banter, or worse......there wasn't any.

The way it went must have been down to the rods or the weather or electrode heater box!!!

The previous job interview consisted of a practical test, nothing else.....they even said they weren't bothered if I'd 'done time', only if I could T.I.G. weld 0.8mm steel sheet.

They just plonked a welding hat on me and set me off.

I was shaking with nerves and blew a small hole....carried on, then went back and filled it in....they weren't used to welders who could fill a hole in....so I was offered the job.
But they also weren't used to paying properly either!!!

This year I refreshed the gas welding gear and took on an 1864 iron restoration project.
The process is fairly unusual, its called Iron fusion gas welding, and requires a flux & cast iron rods.
It's the most tricky welding I've tried to do so far & what appears to look good isn't always strong.
Its almost like in-situ casting.
The material costs are about £50 per inch. Casting was 1/4"-1/2" thick.
Hardly anyone does it anymore, the supplies were 25+ years old!

Not necessarily. Many years back when I had a part time job driving a car transporter and breakdown lorries. The company who built their own trucks had a welder that could procedure work like that. I can still remember him stick welding 5 bar steel plate on flat bed parts of the lorry, he would weld an eight foot seem changing the rod 3 or 4 times and when he chipped the slag off you couldn't see where he had stopped and restarted. A good welder is an extremely skilled person.

I put one of our Coachmaker apprentices through various coded welding courses at work to meet our ISO9001 accreditation and after a couple years practice his welding was first class and it was certified.

[milothedog]

Those pipe welds do look nice.

I got given a practical welding test some years ago.
It was a structural lifting job outside, to be done with a genset & MMA.
There was a hard frost so I used a electrode heater.
The slag peeled off all on its own, no chipping.
The welds were the best looking I'd ever produced up until then, or since.
I could tell the foreman was looking forward to the criticizing & banter, or worse......there wasn't any.

The way it went must have been down to the rods or the weather or electrode heater box!!!

The previous job interview consisted of a practical test, nothing else.....they even said they weren't bothered if I'd 'done time', only if I could T.I.G. weld 0.8mm steel sheet.

They just plonked a welding hat on me and set me off.

I was shaking with nerves and blew a small hole....carried on, then went back and filled it in....they weren't used to welders who could fill a hole in....so I was offered the job.
But they also weren't used to paying properly either!!!

This year I refreshed the gas welding gear and took on an 1864 iron restoration project.
The process is fairly unusual, its called Iron fusion gas welding, and requires a flux & cast iron rods.
It's the most tricky welding I've tried to do so far & what appears to look good isn't always strong.
Its almost like in-situ casting.
The material costs are about £50 per inch. Casting was 1/4"-1/2" thick.
Hardly anyone does it anymore, the supplies were 25+ years old!

The only welding test I have ever done was back in the late 70's. I was at South Thames College (Wandsworth) doing my C&G's The test involved me gas welding bits of mild steel together and the tutor trying to pull them apart with 2 pairs of pliers

I did do a Tig & Mig refresher course about 15 years ago and started to produce some reasonable pieces towards the end but have forgotten most of it now. I can get by with my little 140 amp Mig but when asked if I can weld I reply "I can join bits of metal together that won't come apart"

Like I said in the other post it's a real skill that only comes with practice and experience

I take my hat off to those who are good and chuckle at some of the pictures you see on here of the Bird Poo splattered metal some post


I would also add, back in the day's when I was a nominated MOT tester I would pay a lot attention to a snotty welded repair on some old banger than I would to a nice neat seam welded repair just to cover my own A**E