Excellent Example of Welding

[slim_boy_fat]

these were probably done by same guy once he'd got hold of a MIG welder.....

Thanks, I've just sprayed my keyboard with coffee.

 

[TechnicAl]

I once saw an Aluminium Boat that had some welds that werent much better than that. I asked them where would it be launched and that I hoped the water wasnt very deep.....when they asked why, I said I thought it would sink (but I was only joking)

Unfortunately it did.

 

[Pigeon_Droppings2]

I think that guy quit and took a job welding steel roof beams

 

[Hood]

I think that guy quit and took a job welding steel roof beams

No he actually went into the clam pole business. They will only be supporting a few tonnes of swinging steel dredges on a stormy day with a couple of crew men standing below them as they guide the dredges aboard.

 

[ronan]

I remember a few years ago the Italian government, and some others too were considering making working on your car/truck/bike/whatever illegal. You would have had to bring it to certified professionals. When you see pure muck like that in the pictures, you can understand why.

 

[ronan]

Don't forget to get the turbocharger upgrade while you're buying;
these were probably done by same guy once he'd got hold of a MIG welder.....
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Thats an example of someone watching car restoration programmes on the tellybox, seeing the professionals make it look easy, thinking "i can do that, its easy", running out to halfords or somewhere to buy a gasless mig, and making a complete dogs dinner of something.

 

[Pigeon_Droppings2]

I reckon a darker colour like black would have been a better choice....yellow just highlights all the imperfections

I can understand starting off a bit rubbish if you are new to it....but with that much weld I think I would have eventually got the hang of it!

 

[Farside]

hate to say it, but see similar on a fairly regular basis, usually on farmers trailers, machinery, kit etc....only held together by the grace of god....

One particularly sobering thing happened just a minute before I got there - a farmer's trailer had snapped the towing hook off and had carried on straight across the bend on a small two-lane backroad I used regularly.
I stopped for a look and it wasn't bodged together; on the contrary it looked properly done, decent plate and good welds, but they'd not been up to the stresses they were under. It was a commercially-made trailer, not something the farmer had knocked together, but I suppose it was regularly overloaded, as I don't see the makers being careless with the specs or the strength of that crucial part.
As I say, if I'd been a minute earlier, that would have clobbered me good and proper.

 

[ronan]

I reckon a darker colour like black would have been a better choice....yellow just highlights all the imperfections

I can understand starting off a bit rubbish if you are new to it....but with that much weld I think I would have eventually got the hang of it!

I hope its a good quality load bearing paint no matter what the colour

 

[Rig Pig]

Looks like he did some chassis repairs too! Popped up on FB this afternoon.

 

[ronan]

Looks like he did some chassis repairs too! Popped up on FB this afternoon.View attachment 192402

How could anyone in their right minds, do that and think, yeah thats a good job ? If i did that, i'd have to get a 9" grinder and cut it out.

 

[minimutly]

I suspect that shot is post acid dipping, probably the slag allowed the "welder" to convince himself it was good?

 

[Pigeon_Droppings2]

As I say, if I'd been a minute earlier, that would have clobbered me good and proper.

I had one of those brown trouser moments in the late 1990s...boat broke loose and came flying across the carriageway...luckily at the last minute it did a sharp right...unlucky for the car in front thought!

 

[cianh91]

Iv done call outs to jobs that have been as bad as that when I got there.
Way too many think they can weld better than they can and will have a go at stuff they shouldn’t.
I remember lookin at a stock car fit one the neighbors he’d bought for his son and the roll cage actually had chewing gum under the paint instead of welds where they couldn’t get the better of welding it out of position so bodied some crap weld and used gum to make it look good .
I wouldn’t say people shouldn’t buy a welder and try to learn but they should know there limits and leave the structural weld which are the difference between safe and lethal to professionals

 

[chris pruteanu]

Looks like he did some chassis repairs too! Popped up on FB this afternoon.View attachment 192402

That's what a cut and shut job is ! Shocking !

 

[zeppelin builder]

No he actually went into the clam pole business. They will only be supporting a few tonnes of swinging steel dredges on a stormy day with a couple of crew men standing below them as they guide the dredges aboard.

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have you ever looked at some of the fairground rides ,or an old calmac ferry

 

[premmington]

have you ever looked at some of the fairground rides ,or an old calmac ferry

Some of the worst welding I have ever seen was on an old cruise ship - it looked like MMA welding - then it has some "filler thumbed over it" then painted white...

 

[dobbslc]

I remember a few years ago the Italian government, and some others too were considering making working on your car/truck/bike/whatever illegal. You would have had to bring it to certified professionals. When you see pure muck like that in the pictures, you can understand why.

Probably was a "professional"......

 

[Hood]

have you ever looked at some of the fairground rides ,or an old calmac ferry

I had to do some repair work to a standby boat that had just been fitted out at Rosyth (I think), it sailed from there, got half way to the rig and had to make for Montrose as a few sections had flooded. I have never seen welding as bad as some of the welds on that. Well I have but not from supposedly professional welders. Some welds were very nice and some were just pathetic. How it passed inspection I will never know.

 

[ronan]

I had to do some repair work to a standby boat that had just been fitted out at Rosyth (I think), it sailed from there, got half way to the rig and had to make for Montrose as a few sections had flooded. I have never seen welding as bad as some of the welds on that. Well I have but not from supposedly professional welders. Some welds were very nice and some were just pathetic. How it passed inspection I will never know.

They just want to get it gone into the hands of the buyers and get the dosh. Piddling little details like terrible welds aren't going to stand in the way of that.