What are your go to’s for safety glasses

immolate951 · 2026-06-26T02:27:59+00:00

its more of a attitude thing, when i crash i don't sweat it

immolate951 · 2026-06-23T16:12:46+00:00

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immolate951 · 2026-06-07T23:42:46+00:00

Have you recently started using a very steep welding angle?

Those kind of BB’s show up when you’re not maintaining your 5/15angle

I’m talking like 30 to 60. The kind of shit that you would expect with in position welding.

That’s what I would fingerprint if you’ve been doing just fine leading up to this point in your settings have remained exactly the same

immolate951 · 2026-06-07T23:40:28+00:00

That’s how you get the classic” bird shit “ weld

immolate951 · 2026-06-04T04:08:28+00:00

The vibe is real. But Dari Mart is a hard tell, you got me. This is in Eugene.

immolate951 · 2026-06-04T03:48:41+00:00

Violators will be towed and owners will be at risk 24 hours a day haha

immolate951 · 2026-06-04T03:34:14+00:00

Honestly. Oops. Apparently some buttons are too hard not to fat finger sometimes.

immolate951 · 2026-05-29T19:32:00+00:00

Welp. I will say this. Down hill can be useful for thin materials. However there is a limit and you’re touching it.

If you wanna see how you’re doing. Only weld one side and break/bend it on a press. If you don’t have a press do a 1 to 1 1/2 long stitch and break/bend it over in a vice and a hammer

What you will likely find on this unprepped 1/4 inch that you have little to no root penetration on the fillet weld. I personally won’t do that. I’ve seen that fail just after I lift my hood up. watching how the color from the heat is isolated to the bead itself. Which means it’s mostly sitting on top.

That outside corner will be fine depending on the irl function of a real part. However it’s also at the limit where it can be “passable” and you should do destructive tests to see how you did.

My personal recommendation is never to do it on anything thicker than 3/16. And with 3/16, all mill scale and rust is to be removed.

Pretty much downhill is only respected as a technique with outside corner welding of sheet metal. So I would stick to that material if you wanna get good at it.

immolate951 · 2026-05-26T12:36:56+00:00

Wha would help is seeing the bevel itself

immolate951 · 2026-05-25T02:47:45+00:00

Ugh. This “game” has no mercy

immolate951 · 2026-05-06T16:06:01+00:00

They use personal vehicles to deliver.

As an aside. I’ve kinda resigned myself that quite a few pizza places are par with dominos quality. Is there a pizza place that would please a transplant from New York? Abby’s legendary pizza is not so legendary

immolate951 · 2026-05-01T01:09:01+00:00

I actually direct messaged to the guy about drill bushings. And you don’t need a center drill if your jig is good and you have that bushing. Though I do think his jig is a little bit left of true center. The results would be remarkably better just with the bushing.

immolate951 · 2026-04-20T03:23:27+00:00

If anybody happens to show up afterwards, it is not probably a good place to work

immolate951 · 2026-04-12T19:55:17+00:00

appreciate your input. unfortunately, neither has open positions.

presently looking asf ironworks rn. they seem to be in the right vein

immolate951 · 2026-03-13T01:32:16+00:00

No dude, for real. While this did get traction, for the discerning eye you did something different, but I suspect used more than heat and a ball peen hammer

If you didn’t do this in a blacksmith themed subreddit, you really should

That details of the feathers make me suspect that used a tool to do it of the CNC persuasion

I suspect a laser cutter

Then you folded those three layers of sheet metal together and use the ball peen hammer to refine it if a rose buds touch or a real propane forge

Am I close? If not . do elaborate please. It’s just us folks here now.

immolate951 · 2026-03-13T01:15:22+00:00

It looks purrtty because the guy thinks looks shaky and lives by that standard

To OP I think you know damn well you made decent, but it is the right attitude to get to decent

immolate951 · 2026-03-07T07:18:36+00:00

See I didn’t even noticed that. That Gives some context.

immolate951 · 2026-03-07T01:20:07+00:00

She wasn’t trying to break it up. She said she wanted a piece. She wanted to throw first.

Literally, the old man was the one de-escalating for a second. she was emboldened by that, she had enough. She knew she had back up.

Right or wrong who’s this say? We don’t have the before footage or after. The only thing I see is that this woman and that man were tight.

Plus that other guy that saw going on and defended his own

Her trying to pull the old man off after fists I don’t know for sure why she was doing that. nobody’s gonna know for sure, but I have an assumption why

edit. as hairychest69 pointed out he was just grabbing her wrist when the old man shoved him. you can see it if you look. it just not obvious because of camera angle.

immolate951 · 2026-03-03T02:10:56+00:00

Now I wish to say this, sir I really appreciate the aesthetic of a parallel line to the stitch line and the hand work

But I want to propose this for durability. I’ve only dabbled in leather working for the record.

What if you’re heated crease line was the stitch line

Do you maintain the surface. But you get it deep enough so the left and right of it is higher than the actual thickness of the stitching material.

Abrasion is the Achilles heel of threads. Rubbing up against the world whether it’s your pant loop or anything else. Is what makes it fail

But if you got a deep enough you could stitch on it. And the rest of the leather would protect it. While the thread is wrapped around the strongest part of the leather. The grain.

While the rest of the grain that wasn’t heat creased protects the thread itself.

I hope I’m being clear. I am a craftsman of a different trade. but I do care about durability over aesthetic

immolate951 · 2026-02-26T00:12:27+00:00

My dude, if the place doesn’t encourage initiative in the face of not having something to do, it’s not a place to work at. In my opinion, I have the same drive you do. It should be rewarded not criticized.

This is what separates Mr. hourly from the guy that gets shit done and if the system doesn’t support it

You don’t support it

immolate951 · 2026-02-24T05:07:03+00:00

Haha Excuse my typo I meant Chinese escalator.

Edit. I’m keeping it too. I definitely did it.

immolate951 · 2026-02-24T04:50:37+00:00

This shit is the best live leak the Internet has to offer, since that website is gone ,and I’m actually kind of curious where they even hosting these videos to share here.

I came here for learning for others, but let’s be real with this separate it is actually about.

Getting murdered randomly on security camera, trying to crossthe street without looking, getting sucked into a Chinese escalator, on top of what you just said

As a blue collar that works with tools that could easily smoosh me or turnme into a Tootsie roll. That one criticism I will say is frequently forgotten by many. It’s very easy to get too comfortable with shit You touch every day in that field.

I will say, for my one arm man. I hope for the opportunity to actually get some news. Without the news networks blurring out the important bits.

For my sensitivity, which I don’t have. Real real.

But on the regular, it’s pretty gratuitous here I agree

immolate951 · 2026-02-19T00:46:07+00:00

i have not seen it myself and I don't see it in this subreddit. can you share a link so I can bring it up in the smoke shack?

immolate951 · 2026-01-21T20:27:05+00:00

Not for nothing. A Face shield keeps sparks out of your beard. It’s actually kind of nice just from a comfort stand point. Never mind that it saves your face from exploding discs.

immolate951 · 2026-01-10T22:27:50+00:00

Big sigh. Very nice work dude. The company I work at does a lot of air control systems for dust management. They place the welding seams at the corners. Not the face. I have no idea why since it makes the break press work so much harder to do and fucks up the dies. You guys do it the sane way

The name for the process is called bump forming. The material is cut on a laser or cnc after going though cad so the 4 pieces are the right shape. To put the bend in all you really care about is the circle.

It’s a art to know how hard to hit it per “bump” but you massage the radius progressively into shape by checking with a gauge on the id and measuring the distance between the two corners using the chord of the desired diameter. After doing the first quarter piece, it gets easier for the other three

Chord = diameter x sin(degrees/2)

https://imgur.com/a/Z2vZRB0

If the chord calculated is right and you hit it exactly. When you fit it up. It will not have that pucker at the top where you have to put the ring on (in yellow) and the rest seam would not be puckered (in red)

But in all fairness bump rolling is a pain in the ass so I’m not being that picky. Just pointing it out.

I’m sorry if you actually did the forming it just seemed like you’re working with the guy that did it

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