You might be a weldor if....

[mikeswelding]

ymbawi

You might be a weldor if the most beautiful, curvaceous woman you have ever had on your arm is a tattoo.

[Tengsr]

ymbawi youlearn to put your glove on the proper hand before trying to tak somethin together, and long arc into your hand that is holding the pieces in place(about 7 hours ago) but I got a longneglected tetnis shot out of it

[Tengsr]

ymbawi, youve been meaning to take that half eaten burrito outta your helmut bag for the past couple of weeks

[Tengsr]

you know that whip and pause, isnt a kinky bondage thing

you forget your not using an autodarkening hood and stand there like a nob, wondering why its taking so long to lighten up after every electrode.

[torn7th]

You yank your hood up and look at your so called "FIREWATCH" and ask do you smell something burning? "Oh S!#T its me" LOL true story.. Gotta love 6011 and 6010 rods..

[Burnt hands]

Your wife puts a magnet in the washing machine with your work clothes to trap all the steel particles so the following wash loads don't end up with rust spots.

Don't ask!! - although I will say I now have my very own washing machine.

[hockeyguynick]

Back when I was learning to TIG at the local college the welding instructor said every day don’t throw your TIG torch over the metal you just welded there is a water line in all that for cooling purposes, He also said it never fails no matter how much he says it one idiot will do it......

My classes where late at night and my dad was always in bed before I even went to class. But one night my dad called, I panicked and threw my TIG torch over the metal I just welded and left my boot to talk to my dad when I came back I had a nice BIG puddle to clean up LOL.

After that I made it a habit to throw the TIG torch over my leg. Well as any one who has ever learned to TIG knows when you’re new you don’t always let of the pedal quite all the way and some times the tungsten gets red hot!!! Well one night I threw that RED HOT tungsten over my leg and missed the gap between my legs and threw it right in my lap it burned threw my pants faster than butter, O yea I also forgot to let the pedal all the way and sent a small charge to my William!

I can laugh at it now but back then it was a sore subject to talk about. LOL

=KR=

I'da been happy if it was my leg. i wasn't thinking and hung up my torch on a pipe above my head, then I stood up... Left a perfect imprint of a #6 cup dead center on the back of my neck. i swear it burned clean through to my spine, lol

[brwo00883]

you analyze the welds on everything while shopping whith the girlfriend..

haha, i second that

[1930case]

Back when I was learning to TIG at the local college the welding instructor said every day don’t throw your TIG torch over the metal you just welded there is a water line in all that for cooling purposes, He also said it never fails no matter how much he says it one idiot will do it......

That's one reason our school uses gas-cooled torches.

Our setups look like these. No problem to maintain and swapouts are instant.

http://weldingweb.com/showthread.php?t=38106

[kandrwelding]

You might be a Welder if.....

Back when I was learning to TIG at the local college the welding instructor said every day don’t throw your TIG torch over the metal you just welded there is a water line in all that for cooling purposes, He also said it never fails no matter how much he says it one idiot will do it......

My classes where late at night and my dad was always in bed before I even went to class. But one night my dad called, I panicked and threw my TIG torch over the metal I just welded and left my boot to talk to my dad when I came back I had a nice BIG puddle to clean up LOL.

After that I made it a habit to throw the TIG torch over my leg. Well as any one who has ever learned to TIG knows when you’re new you don’t always let of the pedal quite all the way and some times the tungsten gets red hot!!! Well one night I threw that RED HOT tungsten over my leg and missed the gap between my legs and threw it right in my lap it burned threw my pants faster than butter, O yea I also forgot to let the pedal all the way and sent a small charge to my William!

I can laugh at it now but back then it was a sore subject to talk about. LOL

=KR=

[Mat_Billings]

...if you find the whole welder/weldor debate redundant.

...if you've had metal ground out of your eye twice...in one month.

...if that pulpmill Black Liquor smell is "The smell of Money!"

...if you've ever had to ask a regular customer, "What did you break now?"

...if you've ever had a 7 year old tell you that "You have spots on your head!" after shaving your hair down to a 1/4".

I worked with an individual that burned his unmentionables...The ironic thing? He went by the name of Willy!

[Gmmandan]

If you ever have gotten a piece of slag in your ear and can hear the melting ear wax.

[davinci2010]

Don't forget about the 14" grinding wheels for those tungstens! L.O.L.

[mcostello]

If at the moment all you are wishing for is ONE good tack to hold this slippery son-of-a-gun still so you can get on with things.

You might be a newbie welder if you wish that TIG tungstens came in 36" lengths and filler rod came in 7" sticks, makes more sense when you are new at it!

[K.C. Brashear]

Ok, time to take a break from the technical stuff and have some fun. Let's see who can come up with the funniest (yet, probably true) way to finish that statement. There will be a prize......ok, not really, but it sounded good. Have fun with it. SSS


Here's mine:

....you constantly have a "sunburn" from your bicep to just above your wrist.

you try to explain the burn on you pecker to close friends and family

lol some one had to say it