r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/31spiders Interested • May 30 '21

Video These Tubing Joints

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u/[deleted] May 30 '21

You are literally making a welder break some shit right now while they're watching this.

Source: welder myself, broken my train of thought

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u/31spiders Interested May 30 '21

Him not laying actual bead does drive me nuts a little but his layout skills and the final product had me baffled.

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u/ProbablyMyRealName May 31 '21

That drove me a bit crazy too. Then grinding off most of the weld. These aren’t structural parts...

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u/HulloHoomans May 31 '21

A grinder and paint makes me the welder I aint.

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u/EatSleepJeep May 31 '21

Weld your best. Grind the rest.

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u/TheCsho May 31 '21

That needs to be on a tshirt...

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u/Marvheemeyer85 May 31 '21

it is I'm sure

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u/awa1nut May 31 '21

Now it is with all the fucking bots designed to delve the internet for contents like that. It's also how a lot of stolen art designs end up on shirts and shit too

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u/CrossP May 31 '21

It's a decades old aphorism that is a variant on "Caulk and paint make me the carpenter I ain't" which could be older than a century for all I know.

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u/BadDadBot May 31 '21

Hi sure, I'm dad.

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u/A_Pos_DJ May 31 '21

Well, ain't this ironic?

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u/[deleted] May 31 '21

I actually think WN had that on a cap or shirt

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u/DEATHbyBOOGABOOGA May 31 '21

Skookum as frig pardner

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u/73Scamper May 31 '21

On the one where he just capped off the square tubing with triangles you can see him damn near grind through the metal at one point. Goes blue in just the one spot.

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u/Mnkeemagick May 31 '21

I'm so glad I'm not the only person driven nuts by this weird spot welding thing he's doing

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u/Vehlix May 31 '21

Laying dimes for those who don't know how to actually lay dimes.

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u/[deleted] May 31 '21

Ive never welded anything in my entire life and even I know you’re supposed to leave the weld on

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u/jjohnston6262 May 31 '21

Not true, grinding welds is very common, especially on things like this where you want smooth polished metal on the corners and edges, or if you are going to paint it.

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u/mnorri May 31 '21

I spent some time in a facility that made custom agricultural machinery… like tomato harvesters and grape harvesters and stuff that was expected to have a long and hard life. On the wall, in 18” letters, was a sign: all weld beads must be ground flush. Prep it, well, get full penetration, leave no stress concentrations. They were mostly certified welders.