Can I Weld This Motor Base With MIG? - Page 2

Chips O'Toole · Mon Dec 12, 2016 2:25 pm

I wasn't kidding!

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MosquitoMoto · Mon Dec 12, 2016 10:12 pm

Well, I'm glad that worked out well for you.

I only forget the gas...when I'm welding something absolutely critical. If I'm practising or just zapping something of no real consequence, I turn the gas on.

But any time a mate shows up and says something like "I have this hand-formed 1mm thick aluminium aircraft blister cowling that's 75 years old and utterly irreplaceable, do you think you could repair it?" ... THAT is when I will forget to turn the gas on.

Kym

Chips O'Toole · Tue Dec 13, 2016 12:10 pm

That makes complete sense to me.

I prefer not to discuss the time I left the gas ON.

Poland308 · Tue Dec 13, 2016 6:54 pm

That is always a sad day. Out to the shop to weld something up quick. Go to turn on the gas and your first thought is who cranked this valve down because I can't open it? Then you realize

it's already on! SOB I'm an idiot!

ldbtx · Tue Dec 13, 2016 9:22 pm

Poland308 wrote:That is always a sad day. Out to the shop to weld something up quick. Go to turn on the gas and your first thought is who cranked this valve down because I can't open it? Then you realize it's already on! SOB I'm an idiot!

Sure glad I'm not the only one that's done that