r/Welding

These metal posts are supports that help hold the pop-up piece of our truck camper. Is this type of weld able to be repaired, with the additional issue of not being able to remove the posts themselves?

Thanks.

Also I have some questions. I got real good at welding but once I get good at things I usually get tired of them. No I have a hard time doing quality like this. Has anybody else experienced this and figured out how to fix their brain to get good again?

I’ve actually wanted to post this for a while. Burn happened in February of 2022 while I was doing 4G 7018. I was wearing a nice welding jacket with the leather sleeves. The short story was: a welding spark hit my right tear duct, which caused me to long arc TF out of my puddle. Well, the puddle dropped through the only small crack between my jacket and gloves. Burned the bottom of my forearm to my elbow ( not pictured). I took my left arm and flicked my sleeve to get the molten puddle out BUT forgot to take off my glove like an idiot. The puddle shot into my glove and sizzled for a good moment.

The second picture I took 4/1/26. Decent scar. Last year I added a scar from an exploding cut off wheel. That was fun to clean out.

Future note:

If I replied to your injury post with a link to this post. Youll be just fine, keep it clean. man up and carry on.

I am always seeing people ask about respirators, So here what do you think about this.

Trying to get my first machine up and running to start practicing, and i thought i bought the correct regulator….but it would seem i either chose wrong, need and adapter (most likely) or am I’m way overthinking this and i just need to remove that small adapter on the regulator and the line will connect there? Any help for the fucken new guy here is greatly appreciate 🤦. Thanks y’all

Here are my previous posts about this brand and the experience I've had with their Pure Air Helix Quattro:

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Three

So. I had to warranty it AGAIN in December (before the 3rd post.) I received the new hood with the new design like the 15th of January, and have been using it every day since. Lens hasn't failed again (yet.)

Instead, this one's lens doesn't like to darken at all for like half a second when it sees an arc for the first time in a while, yet again blinding the fuck out of me. I guess that's just how it is with this brand.

(yes it's charged, the light is green, and yes charged with the included USB cable plugged into a known good Samsung 15w wall adapter plugged into a known good 110v wall outlet.)

Here's the email they sent me, preceding me getting the new version of the helix. Note the "There has now been a confirmed fault" wording?

Anywho, the reason behind me making this post is that I was told (over the phone) that they're going to have this new fixed version of the Helix available for sale "soon."

Well, it's been 4 months. I still can't buy the updated clear lens design that is just plain better than the old ones. I ran out, and I realized this when I wanted to buy more.

If you want one of these hoods, you're going to have to buy the non improved version, with the known fault.

For the people who don't want to read 5 thousand words of me bitching, the short and sweet of it is that the lens will fail as such: The lens darkens, but not down to the selected shade, not even down to shade 8, it's something like 6.

It starts as intermittent, and then does nothing but that. It doesn't matter if you use the shadetronic/fadetronic, it just happens. I know because I never once switched the lens in the 3rd hood I got to shadetronic, and kept it on manual the entire time I used it, but the defect still showed itself, and I had to request another replacement.

Obviously, that's a problem. Tenfold for people like me who stare at ~300a all day running large wire spray MIG. When that lens doesn't darken down to shade 12.5 or 13, you know about it, and you're left temporarily blind with a big ass spot in your vision.

Now I'm not an optometrist, but I don't think extremely bright light exposure like that is good for your eyes at all. Even with the shade 3 light state of the hood blocking the UV and IR.

Now, you cannot buy the iteration of the hood that I posses, with the additional lens flipper on the right side, and the updated clear lens design. (The new clear lens is thicker, has a better seal around the perimeter of the shell, and has an angled portion that clicks into the "nose" looking part on the front)

They are still selling a welding hood that has a known lens defect that will fail to darken and blind the fuck out of you while using it.

The best part? It costs $1400 dollars! Plus tax! Even the non-PAPR hood is $800 minimum.

Darkening when the lens sees an arc is like THE job of this piece of PPE.

What kind of PPE company continues to sell a known defective product? What kind of operation are they running?

I am 15 years old and I’m the first freshman to Tig weld at my school(at least that I know of). This was my first ever attempt at Tig and let alone a weave. Did I do good? I think I want to be a Tig welder. And side note, why does the weave go beyond the weld? This was 65 amps on 16 gauge stainless steel

I'm currently recommissioning a 70's Volkswagen, and some of the cooling tinware which surrounds the engine needs repairing or replacing.

I would rather repair than replace if possible, however I've never welded (would love to learn) and was thinking about buying a cheap gasless MIG welder and having a go.

However, the metal is very thin (around 0.7mm) and I understand this would be hard to weld.

Is there any method/equipment which would be best for a novice to attempt to weld steel this thin?

I've attached a picture of the type of damage I'd be looking to repair (ringed in red).

I had to replace the side bar and the back panel everything else was still solid. I did it with mig. im a co op student nothing I do is structural work and I work with another guy but on this job I did all the welds I eyeballed the spacing between the welds. Just looking for some feedback anything you might have done differently. its gonna get beat to shit and covered in dirt and rust so I didnt put too much brain power into it.