I think we need to spend another year arguing over the nuance of ethnic cleansing vs. genocide before I can make a clear decision on what side I support.

I rolled fire. It’s always fire here.

Concerning. Looking into it.

I feel like you’ve been around long enough for your egg to crack already if you were… but hey, some shells are thicker than others…

She the type of person who would write a 10 page essay when the teacher explicitly asked for 2-3 pages

Kinda like a goofy breaking bad

It was intentionally enshittified so you’d spend more time on it, and they could shove more ads in your face

With a mig torch, a metal wire is constantly fed through a tube instead of you constantly having to swap electrodes. It may be difficult to access some spots initially but once you get to it, you’ll have to move less.

Oh hai there

Also, if you’re welding material with a larger gap between them, you can do a series of tack welds to give yourself more material to work with without burning through the metal. This works better with MIG welding though.

With stick, it’s bad practice but you can take an electrode, knock off the flux, and use the electrode itself as a filler metal.

If you’re using flat pieces of metal together and are afraid of it burning though, you can use a backing bar to both draw excess heat away and reduce the chance of blowing through the weld by providing structure for the weld pool to sit on. You need to use metal with different properties than what you’re welding though, otherwise you’ll just end up with a 3rd piece of metal attached to your weld piece. I think I remember using either bronze or brass.

Exactly :3

Pro hitler or pro pedophilia?

Silly question, they’re a libertarian.

(I’m gonna try and reel in my excitement on having someone to rant to about welding now.)

Ah, okay. If you take a grinder to the edge of the material to create a little bevel, it can help get a better penetration on the weld and get a bit of a flatter weld. You’d have to lower your heat a bit and change the angle to redirect the heat towards where the metal is thickest though.

You’re probably fine as is, it doesn’t look like the material is that thick, but with thicker material a small bevel of 1/3-1/2 of the thickness can help a lot.

It’s been a while since I’ve got the chance to talk welding with someone so my neurons are lighting up. I miss it so much. I need to get my own setup arranged because I refuse to do it as a full time job.

A small thing that will help a lot is getting a steel wire brush and scrubbing the site of the weld before you try to strike the arc. It clears the area of the oxide layer and makes it easier to start and get a cleaner weld.

Have you been beveling the weld locations?

Honestly couldn’t help you with the shopping aspect of it, I’ve only really used the welders in my class or workplaces.

That’s really neat! It’s been a while since I’ve welded, but I did go to school for it. If you have any welds you’re not fully satisfied with and want some constructive criticism, feel free to post some close up shots and I’ll do my best to help you out. (I also just like looking at welds)

I’m more familiar with MIG welding than stick, I ditched that shit as soon as I could. Props to ya for pulling this off with stick!

Let the fires of revolution burn bright