If you ever want to feel better about your fabbing/welding skills...

[dmaxvaz]

:rofl:

i saw that on compd like 6 months ago:spit:

 

[Osubeaver]

Attended the "welding with bird chit and toothpaste" class maybe?

 

[RPM Motorsports]

I have actually had to let "Certified" welders go for welds like that. No Joke!

 

[Turbo Buick 6]

What a joke:spit:, I'de like to see them weld in a mirror and left handed....your not a real welder till you can do them all the same

 

[dmaxfireman]

hey i never got to see you do that! you do weld better after a few drinks tho hahaha did not believe it til i saw it!

 

[1lowdiesel]

those are some good ones. i was just teaching my girl how to weld this weekend and she did better than any one of those on her first try. she got the "you can hear a good weld" thing down pat!

i wish i had some pics of crap that came into my buddies suspension shop. it's scary that the things even made it down the road.

 

[Dozerboy]

What are you guys talking about thats some nice work. Ya'll ought to see what our mechanics do and they "know" how to weld.

I found a pic of one fix
Here is what they had to fix as you can see it has been "fixed" several times. There is something wrong when you build a water wagon that gets dragged around a rough uneven job site weighting over 24K and don't build it to have any flex or suspension at all. It actually looked worse after they fixed it. I didn't get pics of the fix, but it evolved lots of rod most of it was used as filler pieces. And a 3/8"x2"x6' piece of flat stock that as welded on top of that broken pipe. It lasted 30 mins on flat ground 15 of those where spent sitting still getting filling it up. After I brought up the fact it needed to have some flex they did a better job fixing it the next time, but it still ain't going to last, but until we get it stuck and have to push it out.

 

[carcrafter22]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but, I was under the understanding that turbo tolerances and balances are CRUCIAL, adding a quick bead to a broken part would throw off the balance and it'd self destruct right??? LOL :cool2:

Nah! those extra blades just add more power, to hell with balancing it :rofl:

I am trying to understand the piston idea, I mean the others I can understand, they were terrible and pathetic but I can at least understand their thinking. Whats with the piston pic? were they trying to lower compresson? create a specific texture on the piston top? just screw up a set of pistons?

Sadly my 11 year old niece can weld better than all those guys (seriously she can).

 

[MACKIN]

Oh come'on you know all those welds will look perfect with a little ( or a lot of ) grinding.

 

[Dozerboy]

I don't know it might take some JD weld to really finish them off good.

 

[03maxpower]

thanks mackin i dont know why all these other a holes are putting down my welding its not like im performing surgery