You might be a weldor if....

[Railmen]

YMBAWI: When your firefighter buddies show off their expensive new fireproof shirts, and your only comment is 'na, they burn'

All right here is one for ya

YMBAWI: your Buddy's in the fire dept. come to your garage fire that the next door neighbor set your shop on fire, and says to all the other firefighter on the first truck to your shop and says "BOYS IF ITS IN THE WEST END OF THE SHOP WE ARE JUST GOING TO WAIT TILL IT BURNS ITS SELF OUT"

Then the other firemen have a funny look on their face like WHY???

and he's says: Ty, welder, compressed gassed and who knows what else.....

I had 3 bottles of Acetylene, 2 100LB propane 4 20LB propane 5 gallon gas cans all over, boat gas tank.....

Not so funny TRUE STORY

no one was hurt and did not lose all, but what a pain in the butt.

Worse of all I was not even home when it happened was working out of town

Railmen

[vin-man welding]

after a hour of trying to tell your wife why mig welding is faster and more cost saving than stick. so you can make more money in the time you have for a small project. she ask you what it cost for the new mig. (busted)

[metalmeltr]

if out of all of your friends you are the only one who understands the phrase arg burn's a *****

if you wear a welding helmet to the grocery store and don't realize it

if you wear a welding helmet to a funeral to avoid being blinded by "the light"

[2much2do]

[QUOTE=Big Tattoo;202390]You joined this forum just to post to this thread.

"If your girlfriend tells you to stop picking your noise and showing her the black crap you find!!"

You try to use that black crap as filler metal.

You refer to your O/A rig as the blue tip wrench.

When your boss tells you to take the scrap steel to the recyclers and you dig through it for anything "usable" first.

When the "usable" pile is bigger than the one going to the recycler.

Working for a brick/block mason and you have almost as many pallettes of "usable" scrap as you do brick and block.

When your workmates look at your steelies and tell you it's time to buy new ones and they aren't even broken in.

When you drop everything just to weld up a broken set of cheap brick tongs.[/QUOTE

[TurboDSM]

You start a 100% wood project and end up needing to weld something to complete it.

[TurboDSM]

you have to go to the eye Dr. because that microscopic metal flake won't come out and your eye swells shut. The Dr. removes the flake and tells you to come back next week to have the rest of the rust removed.

[SuperiorFabrication1]

When you Forget your ground clamp all the time. Or forget to turn on your gas every single time you strike your first arc for the day..

When you set the gun down on your mig welder, walk away, comeback later and theres wire EVERYWHERE!!! And ya try to clean it up before anyone sees.

Oh Wait? wrong thread..

[kbraby]

when you realize that magnet induced arc blow is also descriptive of how you feel when it happens.

[Big Tattoo]

You joined this forum just to post to this thread.

"If your girlfriend tells you to stop picking your noise and showing her the black crap you find!!"

You try to use that black crap as filler metal.

You refer to your O/A rig as the blue tip wrench.

When your boss tells you to take the scrap steel to the recyclers and you dig through it for anything "usable" first.

When the "usable" pile is bigger than the one going to the recycler.

Working for a brick/block mason and you have almost as many pallettes of "usable" scrap as you do brick and block.

When your workmates look at your steelies and tell you it's time to buy new ones and they aren't even broken in.

When you drop everything just to weld up a broken set of cheap brick tongs.

[Hundguy]

YMBAWI,

If you spent the last couple hours reading this and actually LOL!!
or
If your girlfriend tells you to stop picking your noise and showing her the black crap you find!!

[kevin]

this actually happened today

your eyes are so bad from all those years of welding that you cant figure out why your weld gets worst each time you put the wire brush to it, it wasnt wire, yard sale plastic (small brush)

[tomasharvey]

You do a visual inspection of the welds at D-i-c-k's (has anyone else seen all the welded stuff in this store?!) Sporting Goods and point out all discontinuities you can find to your wife...and she gives "the look" followed by an eye roll every time...

[tanglediver]

Also YMBAWI you notice the excellent craftmanship of dirt dobber nests!!

They do make some nice weaves, don't they?



Here's a nice 4F!

[arc~angel]

..you point out to your mom how pretty or ugly the welds are on the bracket that holds up the credit card thing at the checkout line, or on the truck next to you in traffic

..the smell of argon and scorched clothing are nostalgic

..if you've ever smelled burnt flesh when you get in the shower because the water hits a burn you didn't realize you'd got when your sleeve was gapped open

[10sec.et]

great thread . heres a couple from my personal experience.....

YMBAWI.........

you drag your wife out to the garage as fire watch, while youre welding next to the fuel cel in your race car, and you have to send her back into the house because she keeps putting out all the "small" fires.


your neighbor knocks on your door after midnight because he saw "weird blue lights coming from under the garage doors".