r/BadWelding • • Apr 16 '24

26,000 Member!

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Hey all, thanks for helping this community grow! Big thanks to all of you for being good people and being active.

As some of you know there are a bunch of spam post and post that don’t belong here and I , as the only mod can’t keep up with 26,000 people. If a couple of you are interested in helping out, please send me a message and some details on why you think you could help out with this community.

Thanks all!


r/BadWelding • • 7h ago

These welds on a 100.000$ tesla model S...

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70 Upvotes

r/BadWelding • • 2h ago

New To Stick welding

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r/BadWelding • • 1d ago

Guy came in for a weld test

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722 Upvotes

Said it had been a while, I’m not really sure what he was aiming to do exactly


r/BadWelding • • 4h ago

Please rate

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r/BadWelding • • 14h ago

Just laid this weld.. I sneezed in the middle of the weld tho 😕

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9 Upvotes

r/BadWelding • • 11h ago

Could anyone suggest where I should look for a job?

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r/BadWelding • • 1d ago

Farmer weld on aluminum tank

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43 Upvotes

r/BadWelding • • 1d ago

Not welding, but sanding. Check out this horrendous sanding job I saw at the zoo a while back.

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61 Upvotes

r/BadWelding • • 1d ago

Gate and window-grille fabricators: would a simple Android cut-list tool help your workflow?

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r/BadWelding • • 3d ago

Help, my welder seems a bit tense

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r/BadWelding • • 2d ago

Welding aids/ jigs

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Hey I’m a product design student currently working on a product for new/ diy welders to help them learn the skill more proficiently I’m am winding any one has used any jigs or aids to do do this, or what you found most difficult when it came to learning the skill, thank you any discussion are welcome just looking for some conversation.


r/BadWelding • • 3d ago

Rust and its consequences.

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We took two new packs of welding wire, but after a few clean layers, we found rust inside. We struggled with the settings for a long time until we looked inside and realized what was causing the problem.


r/BadWelding • • 4d ago

How'd I do?

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30 Upvotes

First time ever welding with no prior training/experience guided with 15 minutes of YouTube tutorial. Also for people telling me to grind the paint before hand, I already did. Just did a terrible job at the weld it self


r/BadWelding • • 5d ago

New to friction stir welding. How am I doing?

398 Upvotes

r/BadWelding • • 5d ago

I think the light on my ground needs work

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55 Upvotes

Cheap machine with a shitty ground that I've already repaired a few times, really just need to rebuild it with twice the size.


r/BadWelding • • 6d ago

Saw this and remembered this sub exists

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48 Upvotes

r/BadWelding • • 5d ago

Titanium welding, has anyone made a container to welding small titanium parts in to keep them in an envelope of argon?

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Tig welding titanium and needing some ideas on keeping the metal in an all argon environment while welding. I have a back purge set up for tubing but nothing set up to do flat stock. I was thinking like a Tupaware container with steel or aluminum in the bottom and just feed argon in from the bottom to keep oxygen out
Building a transmission mount and crossmember for an 8hp swap into an f-body
Thanks in advance to anyone


r/BadWelding • • 5d ago

Any tips just started few weeks ago

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7 Upvotes

6010 stick welding


r/BadWelding • • 6d ago

Hey siri, play One Nightstand by Chris Kleiber

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r/BadWelding • • 6d ago

Some people shouldn't own welders

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r/BadWelding • • 6d ago

Just hanging around-Owens Corning expansion project in KS

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r/BadWelding • • 7d ago

My first trys in welding Copper (TIG)

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I’ve been welding stainless steel and carbon steel for a year now, and I’m certified in both. Next year, my boss wants me to get certified in copper welding and furnace pipe welding as well. To be honest, I’m a little nervous about it because it’s definitely not as easy as welding stainless steel or carbon steel. 😂
For the copper heat exchanger, I used 130 amps, 0.5 liters of argon for purging inside the heat exchanger, and an argon flow rate of 14 liters per minute at my TIG torch. I used pure argon, not an argon-helium mixture, because we only use the argon-helium mix for our qualification tests.

I also want to mention that I’m not a walk-the-cup welder. I weld freehand because walk-the-cup is prohibited at our company.

Honestly, I found welding copper really difficult. It feels like you’re blasting one spot with 130 amps for three minutes straight, and absolutely nothing happens. Then, as soon as something finally starts happening, everything melts away really quickly. 😂


r/BadWelding • • 8d ago

How the

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Not even bothering to crop, there’s so much to say here


r/BadWelding • • 9d ago

Apparently a flock camera is a victim of bad welding.

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Just popped up on my Facebook feed, not the original poster nor can I verify it’s not ai. I did find it funny though lol.