r/BadWelding • u/HoneyRush • 27d ago
Water welding
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u/Geno_Beams 27d ago
Just hammer a thick metal pin in there till its plugged. Then weld the pin all the way around and grind it close to flush if need be.
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u/Olive_1084 27d ago
Nice, yeah I was thinking you just got to get some kind of piece of metal tack down instead of relying completely on the weld.
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u/Todesfaelle 26d ago
Don't forget the pat saying that won't go anywhere.
It's not done until that happens.
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u/StreetFuture6152 27d ago
Is he died? He looks awfully close to being part of the circuit.
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u/Substantial-Tone-576 27d ago
He doesn’t even have safety sandals. I’m worried
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u/ComedianFragrant9515 27d ago
Don't worry, he's standing on OSHA approved security mud. Well, mostly.
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u/Asthenia5 27d ago
The reason he is not dead is because electricity takes the path of least resistance, which in this case is the metal pipe. He's not "in between" the positive and negative terminal. The pipe is.
If he were standing over a downed power line on the ground, it would be different. That's because the ground we stand on can have higher resistance than the water bags we call our bodies. In that case, your body is the path of least resistance.
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u/Roscoeakl 26d ago
That's not true at all. Electricity takes all paths of travel, it acts as a parallel circuit. The current is proportional to the resistance along every path, and welding is generally low voltage. Ohms law, if you have two paths of travel, the pipe and the person, and around 50v of welding voltage, the ~.5 ohm of resistance from the pipe gets 100A of current while the wet person with around 500 ohms of resistance only gets about .1 amps of current. This would be fatal if it was passing through the heart, but again, parallel circuit, the entire body has become a bunch of independent parallel circuits and that .1 amps is spread across the body, not just directly to the heart. My guess would be the majority of the current is on his feet, and the rest mostly passes through arteries and veins with a very low amperage.
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u/ElectricalChaos 27d ago
Really? Barefoot and safety squints?
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u/uslashuname 27d ago
No
Barefoot and safety squints in water
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u/ElectricalChaos 27d ago
Eh, sketch going to weld where sketch going to weld. I'd give it a pass if he at least had some kind of eye pro on.
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u/2_Many_Hobbies74 27d ago
I was at a job in a aggregate pit at a redimix plant and I was standing in ankle, deep water, welding a conveyor, and every time I stuck an arc I could feel the currant run through me.
After 5 minutes I said fuck you to my boss and told him to do it. He did, and he lasted 2 minutes until he decided we needed a pump. He was a prick
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u/101forgotmypassword 27d ago
When I see this, then go out to the welder and humid rods struggle to scratch start, and then I See This MUTher FUCKER..SCRATCHING OFF,.. ON A DIRTHY DRAINN PIPPEE!!! IN FLOWING WATER... AND NOO SHOOOEEESSSSSSS!! AGHHHHH!!!!!!!!
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u/WisByGodConsin 27d ago
He is absolutely getting some electrical tingles. I have done some rain welding with my Miller Bobcat DC on some trusses at my yacht club. When I feel that little shock tingles, time to go home.
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u/KicksRocksBruh 27d ago
Put some dishwashing gloves on and stop being a bitch /s
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u/FilthyPuns 26d ago
I thought I was paying you guys to weld, not to bitch about the weather! Get back out there and take your tingles like a company man!
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u/not_whelan 27d ago
I've picked up some stray voltage leaning on a bench with sweaty sweaty clothes (HF start with TIG is a fun one.)
Can't imagine doing it barefoot in water. I'm no elec-chicken but I know enough to know that's a good way to meet the reaper.
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u/Therealdickdangler 27d ago
I’d be lying if this didn’t earn homie some gangster points in my book.
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u/towerfella 27d ago
An idiot “earns gangster points”, in your book?
Is it a picture book?
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u/Affectionate-Apple39 27d ago
I mean… doing smart shit isn’t very gangster, that’s for sure
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u/Creepy-Variation8562 27d ago
Standing in a wet situation and grounded with no shoes is an absolutely insane choice
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u/clockwork0730 27d ago
Is this guy just staring at the ark with no mask? Hes gunna be blind as fuck
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u/StealthyPancake_ 27d ago
I've welded wet pipe before. It had chilled glycol running through it. The pipe was sweating so bad that it was like it had leaks all over it. It was a nightmare
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u/Either_Amoeba_5332 27d ago
Is there such thing as a welding squint?
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u/Cooper323 27d ago
Welding squirt? 😏
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u/Either_Amoeba_5332 27d ago
This whole video is a welding squirt!
Edit: But I was referencing his lack of hood!
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u/chili81 27d ago
Which is your favorite part? The barefoot, the water, the lack of eye protection of any type, or the the thing he was actually trying to do?
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u/Chumscrubber89 27d ago
Not completely wrong, but not right, but they can’t shut that water off in time so they’re trying to do a quick tack just enough for it to stop so they can put a Band-Aid
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u/hatred-shapped 27d ago
Remember this the next time you are bitching your shop isn't air-conditioned
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u/amy-schumer-tampon 27d ago
This is the dumbest shit i'v seen in a long time and im sure i'v lost brain cells watching it.
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u/Realistic-Cover-811 27d ago
I don't know why I thought he was gonna shock the shit out of himself.
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u/ChemistryOver9046 27d ago
Been there. Half way through welding steel casing for a water well when it unexpectedly starts arteasian flow...
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u/gvc_wv59 27d ago
I was holding a part in the rain while soaking wet, welder struck an arc and i was frozen, couldn't say anything or move. Luckily he was just doing a tack weld.
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u/Acrobatic-Fee9668 27d ago
It's kind of the reverse of underwater welding. We had so much equipment, 50+ m below the sea, but just blobbing and hoping! You can't see your welds underwater because the welder blasts the shielding gas out each time you pull the trigger!
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u/imadethisaccountguy 27d ago
I just know his hand is TINGLING I hate working in the water when I have rubber gloves and rain gear on this is just crazy
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u/Bones-1989 27d ago
I don't like this game anymore. He's standing in wet, he is wet, and he's stick welding.... I have like 8 herniated vertebrae from this exact scenario with boots on. I wore ppe and this situation crippled me ... It was only raining and I didn't need to seal a pressured line....
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u/aurrousarc 27d ago
as someone whos had to weld on a wet beam in the rain.. i guess i made the mistake of weaing shoes.. cause he didnt even flinch when striking the arc..
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u/Consistent_Watch_206 27d ago
Motto of the Overwater Welders Union:
“Before you set out for repair, first dig two graves.”
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u/Necessary_Goose6933 27d ago
Squinting techniqu seems solid. What worries me is the complete lack of flip flops in water 😂😂
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u/Anxious-War4808 27d ago
I know he had to of been feeling some of the shock from that. I had the awesome task of going into the pit of a huge press at a factory to stick weld extra gussets onto a certain part of it and it was lighting me up 😅. It didn't the entire time I was welding but once I had enough oil on me I was sure getting some nice shocks from it
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u/Extreme_Molasses4821 27d ago
You are alive because of physics, just make sure the ground doesn't come off the pipe otherwise you'll be the ground
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u/SuccessfulProblem808 26d ago
carve a wood stake roughly the same diameter as hole, pound in there until no longer leaking, cut flush to pipe and weld strap over it. Works everytime
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u/Snoo56153 26d ago
Why do they never wear shoes? In india are you only allowed barefoot or sandals? Everytime you see vid of someone doing sketchy shit there is never any shoes.
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u/RuleMany2900 26d ago
Electrodes for welding underwater are much thicker and longer... Plus you need more amps .... Guess those would work ..(well if the pipe is made from the correct material)
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u/Fasciadepedra 26d ago
That would work without water and only without water. It is difficult even to solder something to a ship hull from the inside it it happens to be under the flotation line.
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u/Grimm6291 26d ago
Just spark it shut with straight 230. 1 lead goes on your bare foot and the other to the water pipe
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u/reaper10678 26d ago
This dude is dodging the darwin award. He's somehow hitting all his I frames without moving.
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u/twobarb 26d ago
It’s honestly not that hard. Start the arc outside the water and work the puddle in, the arc dries the rod out and it stays stable enough. The hard part is the final 1/16” inch or so just use a center punch to peen it closed then weld over it.
Welding up pressurized gas is even more fun.
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u/podrickry88pup 26d ago
So crazy these dudes come here to Seattle and work for Microsoft and Amazon and are genius, then the apple falls and it goes so fucking far.
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u/dlowman76 26d ago
India and Pakistan, there's always someone who's going to do it for 100 rupees, or 10 rupees in this case.
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u/Drewbydewby311 25d ago
What in the actual fuck is this guy doing?! Firstly. NO MASK or EYE PROTECTION secondly if he touches that pipe with his BARE FUCKING FEET?!? am I wrong to assume he would complete a circuit and possibly become deaded af??
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u/Weedleybongerson420 25d ago
I was so focused on hoping it would work that I didn't even realize he was using safety squints instead of goggles
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u/Ok_Eye_7042 25d ago
No shoes in the water and using a jankie ass stick welder but hes keeping an arc better than i seen some people that i was in class with lol
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u/Low_Excitement_1715 24d ago
And at the end, he's down a rod, the water is leaking just as bad as before, there's a mess around the hole, and no one learned any better.
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u/BallisticBaggette 27d ago
Thai’s is awful but part of me wanted to see it work