Weld it up?

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Ah, the joys of welding. No matter what you wear, no matter what precautions you take, that one spark will always find a way into somewhere, be it your ear, down your shirt, or, even worse, down inside your boot. I swear that most of the bad language my kids know comes from being outside with me when I am welding!

[Scruffy Bodger]

16 minutes ago, EyesWeldedShut said:

She also spent years trying to work out why all my fleeces, T shirts and the like had teeny-tiny moth holes in them (and hers didn't).

Sure it wasn't smoking too much resin? 😉 😇

[Dobloseven]

I suppose using children as human welding clamps would be frowned upon as well, these days.

[EyesWeldedShut]

17 minutes ago, Scruffy Bodger said:

Sure it wasn't smoking too much resin? 😉 😇

Honestly? Never touched it - probably 'cos I never smoked tobacco either.

 

4 minutes ago, Dobloseven said:

I suppose using children as human welding clamps would be frowned upon as well, these days.

Nah - got my own digits (still) for that. Earned my welding assistant spurs on a farm where the instructions were;
"Hold that"
"Don't look at what I'm doing"
"Thought I told you not to look?"

Forty odd years on Specsavers tell me that my retinas are not that bad for my age so, maybe, I got away with it?  

[EyesWeldedShut]

28 minutes ago, Wibble said:

Please don’t remind me of the annual Burns competition at school!

Ohhh - much pain there eh? Poor, wee, timmerin beastie and all that sort of stuff. Absolute ballache.

Only claim to fame from my family is that my granny was the toilet attendant out at Alloway back in the 1980s. She's passed on, the toilets have been demolished but the Burns Competitions still continue - says it all really.

[Wibble]

15 minutes ago, EyesWeldedShut said:

Ohhh - much pain there eh? Poor, wee, timmerin beastie and all that sort of stuff. Absolute ballache.

Only claim to fame from my family is that my granny was the toilet attendant out at Alloway back in the 1980s. She's passed on, the toilets have been demolished but the Burns Competitions still continue - says it all really.

It’s stayed with me. I can still quote a poem by Sandy Thomas Ross. Didn’t all have to be burns. “In ma wee red motor, I can gang for miles, up and doon the gairden , through the lobby miles” Aaargh!

 

[DodgeRover]

1 hour ago, Scruffy Bodger said:

If you try you can set fire to the clothes you are wearing with the sparks from the grinder before you even get to the welding ... 🤪😂

Did that on site cutting down an RSJ, got the cut finished and was thinking my ankle feels warm looked down and my jeans were on fire where the sparks had accumulated.

[dikkehemaworst]

11 hours ago, Imhotep said:

You’re right regarding the lack of places wanting to do it mind. It’s why my AX GT has been off the road so long, needs a rear quarter, sills and inner wings doing, and I’m expecting 4 digits so not lowballing, but I can’t even find anyone who will entertain the job. 
 

Shameless plug, if there’s any welders on here please speak to me. I would love to get my car back on the road.

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