You might be a weldor if....

[spark]

New here but haven't found this one yet. You have no hangers in your closet.

you just got you oxy/acet bottles and no welding wire delivered and your wife finds all your clothes laying on the bed with no wire hangers.

[out-of-the-game]

you are a true welder.
when the patterns on your arms and back that were made by the blobs of hot spatter and metal that got past the leather start to resemble tatoos without the colour.

when you reach my age and the grey hair is more like sun bleached white and happens to starts where your helmet finishes.

when you buy a toy welding set for your childs first birthday ( wife was not happy) then a toy grinder for there second. ( then the wife reminds you there a girl) so what!

when the wife realises the 125cc tot-rod you are building is for your sons second birthday ( she is NOT happy)

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more than just hobby

You might be a welder if you recieve holiday greeting cards from the steel supplier and welding is just one of your hobbies,not your real job. Thats beside all the counter people knowing your name.

[hellsbells483]

ymbawi; you have random coupons everywhere.

i cleaned my room and my car and found a good 45 coupons ranging from 1/8-1 inch thick lol

[Diverdude]

YMBAWI: your watch looks like it has brail wirting on the glass from all the splatter burns.

[seattle smitty]

Hah; get her over here to tell us about it!!

Grannies can surprise you. Mine was visiting from Missouri many years ago, and wandered up when I was picking through a stack of boatbuilding wood. She made some remark, so I told her what it was. Her response was, "Is it air-dried or Kiln-dried?" Surprised, I asked, "How do you know about that?" Turns out that as a young gal she had been a secretary for a little lumber camp in Arkansas during WW1.

[4sfed]

. . . if, upon hearing that you are a welder, some non-welder proceeds to explain that most of the skill has gone out of your trade with the advent of the new equipment (wire-feed welders, electronic hoods), that his grandmother could learn to do it . . . (snip)

Hey! My grandmother was a welder . . . tank parts in WWII.

[Wade]

I was just at the gym checking out all the welds on the equipment. Nice thread.

[dondlhmn]

A weldor if.......

You are a weldor if you wake up in the middle of the night thinking about that last pass you made....and it wasn't at a member of the opposite gender ( I have to use that word because if I say s*x this danged thing edits it to ***!)

You are a weldor if you bring test welds, REALLY great looking cover on tests or cut and bent coupons to your wife as presents....and,for some reason, she doesn't seem to appreciate them at all. WTF???????????????

[seattle smitty]

. . . if, upon hearing that you are a welder, some non-welder proceeds to explain that most of the skill has gone out of your trade with the advent of the new equipment (wire-feed welders, electronic hoods), that his grandmother could learn to do it, and that he is planning to pick up a new 120V wire-feeder from Harbor Freight and do all his own body-work like Jesse James, build himself a trailer, make a trailer hitch for his pickup, and who needs you anymore?

[kbraby]

YMBAW if you don't notice that you got bit by ants, until you see the puss filled bite marks that look like fire ant bites the following day...

[Frank Motoweld]

You are a welder when you make a smart a$$ comment and when your wife slaps you in the back of the head,the slag breaks off and she discovers you do still have hair!

[Frank Motoweld]

And then on the way home you discover it is actually the hair folicals in your nose (as well as every hair that you have) have the smoke inbeded deep into them instead

10-4 Buddy,10-4

[FusionKing]

After 3 weeks of vacation,your sweat still smells like 7018 smoke as you're in the sun on the beach.

And then on the way home you discover it is actually the hair folicals in your nose (as well as every hair that you have) have the smoke inbeded deep into them instead

[Frank Motoweld]

Ymbawi

After 3 weeks of vacation,your sweat still smells like 7018 smoke as you're in the sun on the beach.