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Grind Your Welds With Pride, If That's The Way You Do It
To grind or not to grind? What a question! It all depends on what you’re really trying to show, and in the case of welded joints, I often want to prove the integrity of the weld.
Recently, I wrote a piece in which I talked about my cheap inverter welder and others like it. As part of it I did a lower-current weld on a piece of thin tube and before snapping a picture of the weld I ground it back flat. It turns out that some people prefer to see a picture of the weld bead instead — the neatness of the external appearance of the weld — to allow judgment on its quality. Oddly I believe the exact opposite, that the quality of my weld can only be judged by a closer look inside it, and it’s this point I’d like to explore.
So dear soylentils, do you even weld and if you do, do you grind your welds?
(Score: 2) by KilroySmith on Wednesday October 23 2019, @06:53PM (1 child)
Oh, god yes. Pulling out the burning pellet to break it at the burn line to save the stub for later, using it as a cutting torch, but I was most successful with using it for brazing. All back before I could drive.
Hadn't thought about that in a long, long time.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 23 2019, @10:00PM
I used to light the SolidOx pellets just for the smell they gave off.