Welding gone wrong...

[scsmith42]

[mla2ofus]

Mighty expensive little welding job!!

[N2 Welding]

Damnnnnnnnnnnnn!

[walker]

Ouch, just totaled a mini van!

[tapwelder]

Seems like the handled the fire pretty well.

Amended shop policy. No longer will we provide any welding service.

[mrmikey]

When I first started out 45 years ago , I worked in a welding shop that had an automotive spring shop with three bays in it with pits. There was no barrier between the welding shop and the bays and you could look over and see what was going on. They pulled in this fancy car, don't remember what it was exactly, something along the lines of a Camero or like.
I remember looking over and thinking "Da*n that's a nice car, maybe some day" then went back to doing what I was doing. !0 minutes or so later I looked over and again thought to myself, " I don't remember noticing the tinted windows, odd" Well, they weren't. They were burning the shock bolts off and set the interior afire, it totaled the car, completely gutted the interior. So I can see how they set it afire in the video.................Mike

[Meltedmetal]

Ahhh....the smell of roasted minivan in the morning. Nothing quite like it.

[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???

[arcflash]

They seemed to know what to do. Almost like it happened before!

[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!

[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.

[SlowBlues]

Honestly one of the best features of the new 4c style lenses are the ability to see flames!

They ought to advertise that fact in the features.

[ccawgc]

wonder which one of the guys standing around was supposed to be on fire watch.
I have been in plants where you could not make an arc with out filling out paper work and having some one watch you weld and make sure you do not start a fire.
No welding with out a fire permit.

[Munkul]

yay, we exported some idiocy on video this was in a city about 2.5 hours from me.

He saved his welder, though... lol

As Sammm said, we've all done it... just (hopefully) not as badly... nor on camera!

[Slowxj]

Although not with a welder I foot one have caught myself on fire twice with a grinder.... not proud, but mistakes happen....

[Lis2323]

As Sammm said, we've all done it... just (hopefully) not as badly... nor on camera!

Yep. My worst nightmare.


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[N2 Welding]

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 :/

[whtbaron]

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.

[akpolaris]

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

[old miner called Pop]

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?

[CAVEMANN]

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.

[Lis2323]

They were taught to brush the lit torch tip on their pant leg to extinguish it.

I really wanna say you made that up!


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[old miner called Pop]

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

[Slowxj]

The day I extinguish anything hot on myself I want someone to just put me down as I have obviously lost my mind lol

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[whtbaron]

I thought the big debate was whether you shut off the oxy or gas first... not whether or not you use your tongue.