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Re: Welding gone wrong... Originally Posted by Willie B You must have stolen that quote from me. I picked it up from a former boss back in 1975... Maybe he stole it from you (but I don't think that you're old enough!)
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Re: Welding gone wrong... Originally Posted by scsmith42 Bill, just remember that no good deed shall go unpunished… You must have stolen that quote from me.
Re: Welding gone wrong... Originally Posted by Willie B Screw you & the horse you rode in on, I ain't brushing the flame out on me!. I can injure myself without that. Sunday, Mrs. B wanted a Chinese bird feeder repaired. It was painted, so I rubbed it around the table to scrub off a morsel of Chinese paint. For extra ground, I put a copper brick inside. After welding a big washer across the break, I wanted to extract the copper brick. Despite unusual caution, I brushed the hot washer with the back of my hand. 1/3 Square inch of skin remained stuck to it. Wednesday, it hurts! NO I am not doing it on purpose!!! Bill, just remember that no good deed shall go unpunished…
Re: Welding gone wrong... Screw you & the horse you rode in on, I ain't brushing the flame out on me!. I can injure myself without that. Sunday, Mrs. B wanted a Chinese bird feeder repaired. It was painted, so I rubbed it around the table to scrub off a morsel of Chinese paint. For extra ground, I put a copper brick inside. After welding a big washer across the break, I wanted to extract the copper brick. Despite unusual caution, I brushed the hot washer with the back of my hand. 1/3 Square inch of skin remained stuck to it. Wednesday, it hurts! NO I am not doing it on purpose!!!
Re: Welding gone wrong... Originally Posted by farmersammm Y'all can call the guy a moron, but who hasn't started a fire, either with a welder, or a grinder. It goes with the territory. Usually the only thing I set on fire is myself! Damn frayed blue jeans!
Re: Welding gone wrong... Anyone remember those plaid shirt/jacket things, they went kinda fuzzy when you washed them the first time. Decades ago that's what I used to wear while welding, they were cheap and warm. First time I used one after it was washed I struck an arc and the whole jacket went up in a sheet of flame, went out before I realized what had happened, never burnt long enough to do any damage other than pinked up my neck a bit and the stain in my shorts. After the initial burn they were fine. It was fun when a newbie would wear one, we'd come up behind him and touch a lighter to the bottom, made for a wild second or so..........Mike
Re: Welding gone wrong... Everyone around not seeing the flames. I would how the explanat the black color in car maybe ¤ it came that way" Dave
Re: Welding gone wrong... Originally Posted by farmersammm Y'all can call the guy a moron, but who hasn't started a fire, either with a welder, or a grinder. It goes with the territory. Oh, sure. Once I was grinding a coupon with a flap disk. I smelled something burning. I turned around and a spark from the grinding had flown about 20 feet away and set fire to some dead grass. Flames were going up 8 feet. I had a water hose right there and put it out, but it scared the living crap out of me. Since then I've almost always welded with a water hose next to me.
Re: Welding gone wrong... That would scare the hell out of me. I'm sure I would have been pitching water on the tire because logic would go out the window.
Re: Welding gone wrong... One word, “carbeque”
Re: Welding gone wrong... Originally Posted by William McCormick He had to be a newbie if he didn't know you cannot weld on something paper-thin with a carpet on the other side. Sincerely, William McCormick I went to a junk yard to get a seat belt to replace the failing retractor mechanism for an old Explorer I wanted to keep going for another couple years. Found the right part and the guy in the shop removed it from the vehicle by torching it out. Ayup, right through the seat belt too, totally trashing it. How dumb can you be to torch out a fabric part? I left without my part...
Re: Welding gone wrong... Originally Posted by farmersammm Y'all can call the guy a moron, but who hasn't started a fire, either with a welder, or a grinder. It goes with the territory. He had to be a newbie if he didn't know you cannot weld on something paper-thin with a carpet on the other side. Sincerely, William McCormick
Re: Welding gone wrong... Originally Posted by BaTu My first thought was that he was tacking exhaust components, but I can't see the separation from a pipe to the floor conducting any significant Heat. So, whatever it was that he was doing, it must have been against the Floor itself to start the insulation & carpet to "catch" like that. How stupid could this guy be? It wouldn't occur to him that the, other side, of what he was welding might be getting Really Hot??? Have a guy inside pouring water if you aren't going to take the carpets out. Sincerely, William McCormick
Re: Welding gone wrong... Originally Posted by scsmith42 Ma'am the muffler bracket welding will be $250, rugs, upholstery, headliner, ozone treatment, paint job, $7,000 Sincerely, William McCormick
Re: Welding gone wrong... What advantage was there to extinguishing the flame on your clothes. The gas still needed to be turned off after the flame was extinguished?.
Re: Welding gone wrong... Originally Posted by Lis2323 I really wanna say you made that up! [emoji33] Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Sorry but it IS true. I don't think the kid came back to finish school that year. I agree POPEYE, I would think it's just a matter of time before there was a screwup.
Re: Welding gone wrong... I thought the big debate was whether you shut off the oxy or gas first... not whether or not you use your tongue.
Re: Welding gone wrong... The day I extinguish anything hot on myself I want someone to just put me down as I have obviously lost my mind lol Sent from my SM-A426U using Tapatalk
Re: Welding gone wrong... Originally Posted by CAVEMANN They were taught to brush the lit torch tip on their pant leg to extinguish it, he happened to be soaked in gasoline though. You got to be kiddin me!!! Excuse my language but that is just f&^%ing stupid dumb s$%t. I never heard of anything so stupid...even not being soaked in gas is pretty dangerous...and stupid
Re: Welding gone wrong... Originally Posted by CAVEMANN They were taught to brush the lit torch tip on their pant leg to extinguish it. I really wanna say you made that up! [emoji33] Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Re: Welding gone wrong... Originally Posted by old miner called Pop Brushed the torch to extinguish it? What do you mean? rubbin the tip on somethin or what? They were taught to brush the lit torch tip on their pant leg to extinguish it, he happened to be soaked in gasoline though.
Re: Welding gone wrong... Originally Posted by CAVEMANN One of my schoolmates in 1973 & 74 at ARIZONA AUTOMOTIVE INSTITUTE worked at a muffler shop & was doing a job on a vehicle when he impinged a gas line, he got soaked in gas and as he brushed the torch(oxy-fuel welding)to extinguish it his uniform caught fire & burned him severely. Extinguishing the torch this way was policy and normal practice in the shop, I'll bet that changed quickly. I think the guy fully recovered but I sure wouldn't want to be treated for that kind of burn. I burned my right calf to the point of having to scrub it with a surgical brush daily to make it bleed, I didn't get to lay there and endure the pain, I was the brush operator. IT SUCKED! Brushed the torch to extinguish it? What do you mean? rubbin the tip on somethin or what?
Re: Welding gone wrong... Maybe he was closing a hole on an exhaust pipe. Lots of short arcs allowing the puddle to cool and fill the hole. Pad underneath the carpet starts to smolder before the carpet does....... At least m experience from muffler pit work
Re: Welding gone wrong... When I have to weld on a combine I soak it down with the water hose first, and keep an extinguisher on hand. When I was working in the body shop we always kept somebody on watch with an air hose when we were welding on things that could spark into the interior. That plastic will go up like a gas soaked rag.
Re: Welding gone wrong... Originally Posted by Slowxj Although not with a welder I foot one have caught myself on fire twice with a grinder.... not proud, but mistakes happen.... Yes had that happen to a couple of shirts already :/
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