Yep... been doing it professionally (ASME code) until I got tired of it. Now I run my own company and mow lawns... exciting right?

 

You are making the same mistake most children do.
You are holding everyone to your standard while forgetting that once you knew nothing about what you were doing.

In other words passing on helpful hints will make you more friends than acting like an arrogant *** will.

I saw this a lot in my own past profession of lineman.
Hell I was guilty of it for a while.

Good luck on your lawn care business.

 

You don't take sarcasm very well do you? I said at the bottom of my pictures that everyone starts somewhere. I have taught a lot of people how to weld. Chill da fug out man, but you were a lineman, so it makes sense. You guys are kinda like pipefitters.

 

I can't afford one of them new full dress Kawasaki's.

 

I can't afford the maintenance bill on my Harley, lol.

THC, next time you weld a galvanized nut, clean off the galvanize with a grinder, turn your heat up a little bitt and run around the nut down hill. The bead should wet out a little more. You don't need a whole lot of penetration on something like that.

EDIT: Be sure to focus your arc and puddle more on the socket than the nut if you re-do it again. Be sure to prop on something, because I know I shake like a drunk, especially in the morning.

 

Wet out????
What is that?

As for propping it I had it clamped in a vice so that it would stay still while I bumbled my way through the welding.
I'd weld about 1/3rd then turn it and do it again.

Thanks for the tips!!!!

 

Wow, I just pee'd a little.

 

hahahahahahahahahaha!!!!

 

When the bead flattens out and penetrates.

That is a good idea... quarter it up so everything stays square. You'll get it... probably most of your issues was that damn galvanize. It's hard to get a squirt gun to bust through it.

 

Actually it wasn't galvanized.
I think it was nickle plated.
It was one of the shiny ones from Home Depot.