Submitted via IRC for Bytram
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: 4, Informative) by Mykl on Wednesday October 23 2019, @10:08PM (4 children)
Grind your Weld [urbandictionary.com]!
(Score: 3, Funny) by PartTimeZombie on Wednesday October 23 2019, @11:52PM (3 children)
Goodness!
I am unsure whether to mod your comment informative or funny.
(Score: 3, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday October 23 2019, @11:57PM (2 children)
Go with Interesting. It can cover either.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Thursday October 24 2019, @02:19AM (1 child)
As long as it doesn't get me on some sort of list.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday October 24 2019, @03:22AM
I wouldn't sweat it. Talking to me probably already has you on those lists cause I'm an anti-authoritarian and a veteran. Those were both added as official terrorist watch list criteria under Obama.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.