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Least favorite thing to weld?
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I will go first, any thing painted, it doesn't matter if I clean it back 2 feet from the joint I always burn some! Nasty crap, alright let me have them. :)
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My least favorite......at one time I did work in a local stamping factory. We would go down into the pits where the conveyors ran and make repairs and installs. You always got metal splinters and ha to throw away whatever you were wearing, gloves, welding jackets, everything. Once you start a repair you don't stop until its done.
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That would stink, I hate metal splinters worse than wooden ones.
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Pot metal, galvanized , and sewer tractors after they have been in service a while. Nasty
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Galvanized ranks high on my list also lately I've had to deal with a bunch of parts at work that should have been welded but they were silver soildered....trying to get all of that crap out so I can tig frustrates me to say the least.
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ceramic coated headers that are in use repairs, galvanized
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My worst was repairing a SS airplane muffler...
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admin wrote:Pot metal, galvanized , and sewer tractors after they have been in service a while. Nasty
Like I told Jonathan, that would stink :lol:
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rusty metal, and galvinized.
Just a couple welders and a couple of big hammers and torches.

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I don't mind rusty unless it is mig, galvanized is as bad as painted in my opinion. :)
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Pontoon boats. It's been known for years not to use carpeted trailer bunks for aluminum boats destined for salt water but you can't convince their owners. Nothing like welding dozens of salted pits in aluminum overhead and watching them grow to 3 times their size in an instant.
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I have never done it but I have heard horror stories of pontoon welding.
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Quarter panels. I'll do one for myself but never for someone else.
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galvanized or cast iron....well im not to fond of stick welding aluminum either
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Aluminum that has been in cryogenic service for 40 years. Steel that has been in CO service for any amount of time.

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Old sewer pumping trucks...
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MinnesotaDave wrote:Old sewer pumping trucks...
That'd be the place for that 6013 s#$t rod...

:lol:
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Otto Nobedder wrote:
MinnesotaDave wrote:Old sewer pumping trucks...
That'd be the place for that 6013 s#$t rod...

:lol:
:D That joke smells as bad as that crappy job with sh1tty pay :D
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MinnesotaDave wrote:
Otto Nobedder wrote:
MinnesotaDave wrote:Old sewer pumping trucks...
That'd be the place for that 6013 s#$t rod...

:lol:
:D That joke smells as bad as that crappy job with sh1tty pay :D
Don't let John see this, he will finally be able to say what 6013 is used for. ;) :lol:
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Other people's mistakes.
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I hear you on that one. I had to repair a disk harrow that someone had put together with bubble gum about 40 years ago. I swear it took a whole grinding wheel to get that crap off. I never would have thought that those welds would have held that long :lol:
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Superiorwelding wrote:
MinnesotaDave wrote:
Otto Nobedder wrote:
That'd be the place for that 6013 s#$t rod...

:lol:
:D That joke smells as bad as that crappy job with sh1tty pay :D
Don't let John see this, he will finally be able to say what 6013 is used for. ;) :lol:
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I totally missed all of this :lol:
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Fencing. Oh dear god, the fencing.

And anything an uninformed friend, family member, etc. thinks "ought to be alright" even after I've politely explained the limitations of 110 volt MIG.

But still, the fencing. How I hate it.
Sent from an earthen ditch outside Needles, CA using an awful lot of low voltage single strand wire.

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