You surely do. I can remember times where there simply was no way to get my head where it needed to be to see the weld with a welding helmet on. Had to find goggles with a 10 shade to make a couple welds.
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Critique my welds
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You surely do. I can remember times where there simply was no way to get my head where it needed to be to see the weld with a welding helmet on. Had to find goggles with a 10 shade to make a couple welds.
Seems that welding on a vehicle is never in a easy position. Another option is to pull the glass outa a non darkening helmet and hold it up if your head won't fit between the framerail. If you don't already..... Get some ear plugs to stuff in your ears. Also a good pair of gloves, a beanie, and a coat is a good investment, it's one thing to weld with no gloves and a tee shirt when welding flat.....sucks when ur stuffed under a car. Also an auto darkening helmet helps with starts quite a bit.
Don't get hung up on needing to make a weld in "x" number of passes. In practice your position dictates that a ton. Real world you have to move around and pretzel your self and weld around stuff. Practice tieing in welds/start and stop. Alot of real world welding is vertical, overhead or horizontal. there are 4 planes, why don't we ever get to weld flat like we started in school?
easiest to learn flat welding plate though and get your puddle control down.
Don't get hung up on needing to make a weld in "x" number of passes. In practice your position dictates that a ton. Real world you have to move around and pretzel your self and weld around stuff. Practice tieing in welds/start and stop. Alot of real world welding is vertical, overhead or horizontal. there are 4 planes, why don't we ever get to weld flat like we started in school?
easiest to learn flat welding plate though and get your puddle control down.
I think I told this story a long time ago.
When I was going to college in Orlando, one of my friends had a Camero. It developed a weird banging sound when hitting bumps.
After we crawled around it for a while, it was definitely coming from the trunk.
He got in the trunk while I drove over some railroad tracks.
After a few minutes he started cussing and hollering. When I opened the trunk, his hand was bleeding.
He had traced the noise to the little shelf on the front side of the trunk space. Could not see anything with his flashlight so he stuck his hand up there.
Found out that the upper shock mounts had broken loose and the square end of the shocks were sticking up into the trunk.
When he hit bumps, they slammed up and down through the holes they had punched in the bottom of the trunk.
They did a pretty good job of trying to punch holes in his hand too.
The only possible way to weld them back was to lay right under them while welding. I darn sure was not going to do it. We shopped around, and found a guy who several people said was a great welder when sober...............
He looked it over, said he would do it for a case of beer. After the first couple of minutes, he climbed out, put out his shirt and part of his beard, and said he was going to have to have an advance on his payment.
But, after about 2 six packs, he welded both mounts non-stop, and did a great job. He could not do it with a hood, so he used goggles.
After he slid out the last time, his shirt was mostly gone, only patches of his beard remained, and there were many many blisters and pockmarks on his face except where the goggles were.
He smiled and there was splatter stuck to his front teeth.
We bought him a second case, he earned it.
The mounts never broke loose again, but about 3 weeks later we ran into him and he remembered us.
Said that after he sobered up and looked in the mirror, that there was not enough beer in the world for him to do that again.......
When I was going to college in Orlando, one of my friends had a Camero. It developed a weird banging sound when hitting bumps.
After we crawled around it for a while, it was definitely coming from the trunk.
He got in the trunk while I drove over some railroad tracks.
After a few minutes he started cussing and hollering. When I opened the trunk, his hand was bleeding.
He had traced the noise to the little shelf on the front side of the trunk space. Could not see anything with his flashlight so he stuck his hand up there.
Found out that the upper shock mounts had broken loose and the square end of the shocks were sticking up into the trunk.
When he hit bumps, they slammed up and down through the holes they had punched in the bottom of the trunk.
They did a pretty good job of trying to punch holes in his hand too.
The only possible way to weld them back was to lay right under them while welding. I darn sure was not going to do it. We shopped around, and found a guy who several people said was a great welder when sober...............
He looked it over, said he would do it for a case of beer. After the first couple of minutes, he climbed out, put out his shirt and part of his beard, and said he was going to have to have an advance on his payment.
But, after about 2 six packs, he welded both mounts non-stop, and did a great job. He could not do it with a hood, so he used goggles.
After he slid out the last time, his shirt was mostly gone, only patches of his beard remained, and there were many many blisters and pockmarks on his face except where the goggles were.
He smiled and there was splatter stuck to his front teeth.
We bought him a second case, he earned it.
The mounts never broke loose again, but about 3 weeks later we ran into him and he remembered us.
Said that after he sobered up and looked in the mirror, that there was not enough beer in the world for him to do that again.......
