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posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday October 23 2019, @05:17PM   Printer-friendly
from the show-off-your-beads dept.

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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?


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  • (Score: 1) by paul_engr on Wednesday October 23 2019, @09:33PM

    by paul_engr (8666) on Wednesday October 23 2019, @09:33PM (#911000)

    Weld beads are beautiful, usually. Well, some people make beautiful tig beads. I am a passable welder most of the time and will have fleeting moments of skilled bead laying