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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: 3, Interesting) by shortscreen on Wednesday October 23 2019, @08:30PM (2 children)
I used flux core to make my engine and trans mounting brackets, build exhaust systems, patch various holes in the floor, and so on and so forth. Rarely did I have to weld anything on the outside of car where someone could see it. In that case I would grind. Or otherwise if there was a hideous blob that I just couldn't abide. But grinding is loud and messy so I'd just as soon avoid it, rather than have to wash the black stuff off my fingers to put ear plugs in.
(Score: 2) by acid andy on Thursday October 24 2019, @12:17PM (1 child)
A custom engine swap or restoration to standard specification?
If a cat has kittens, does a rat have rittens, a bat bittens and a mat mittens?
(Score: 2) by shortscreen on Thursday October 24 2019, @07:50PM
Mostly repair/maintenance type stuff but in one case I swapped a 24v BMW I6 into an older body.