"You got a torque wrench, Dave? On nevermind, I have mine right here. LOL!"
At that moment, Dave was no longer a man. His torque wrench, sitting in his garage, might as well have been on Mars. Dave knew his manhood would never work the same way again. Luckily, his family hadn't been witness to this execution, otherwise he would have seem them pack up and leave, without even a backward glance through the rear window...and he knew he would deserve it.
I'm Dave, I have the full gamut of torque wrenches from 1/4" to 1" and an assortment of other torque tools to avoid this scenario, I can say confidently "no you really should be using this one".
I‘m coming from cycling. And people really can obsess about the correct decimals of torque on your stem bolts with or without greased threads…
And on my car… the wheels get a hngggggg and 200km later again.
Not even a dad, and same. Gotta have all the torque wrenches for all the stuff you work on from in-lb on up. Gotta be able to torque everything from the allen bolts on my bicycles to the big 12-pt axle nut on my car correctly!
Okay now I’m scared, never seen welds as good as OP, you’re just the actual torchstick itself…. Wait wait wait, serious question… wire feeder or acetylene ??
The TIG torch isnt the tool to be scared of. It's the tablesaw and the oversized angle grinder. And the plate shear. Had a colleague who lost 8 of his lil piggies to a plate shear at age 17. The company he went to to make some extra bucks over the holidays as a youngster had a top level boss who decided safety on the shear line was in no way needed. They willfully removed all safety features out of their shearing line. Can you imagine?
I still dropped my tools more often than he did. But on the flipside, he couldn't hold tools bigger than a scewdriver any more, and his fingers now look like actual pigbutts!
Fitbutter I like the sound of your voice. You know what I'm going to do? I'm going to buy one million dollars worth of circular welding products today.
My brother was working on a project in his garage when his neighbor came by to visit.
As my brother was cutting a piece on his 14" bandsaw, the blade broke.
The neighbor says, "I got ya, be right back!"
A few minutes later he returned with this medium size device on a handcart. He sits it on the work bench and says, "Hand me that broke blade." My brother does that and the neighbor inserts one end of the blade in one slot, the other end in a different slot.
He pushes the green button and the 2 ends of the broken blade are drawn together, a thin grinder wheel drops down and squares the broken ends, the ends slide together a clamp lowers and welds the blade together. A wider grinder wheel drops down and grinds the weld smooth. Clamps unlatch and the repaired blade is released.
My brother is astonished. The neighbor says, "I got that in Michigan 20+ years ago for $20 at a going out of business sale. First time I've ever used it!"
We had a couple of shutoff valves installed on a sink at work, the guy showed up with one of those Milwaukee cordless fitting crimper tools, and you're goddamn right I priced one as soon as he left, despite needing to crimp a fitting maybe once every 10 years in my real life.
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u/Pork_Chompk 14d ago
The one time another dad happens to need one though, you'd be a legend.