Especially when a hot piece of metal goes down your pants and lands right on your dick. Yes, this happened, and it was extremely painful.
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Welding is very dangerous
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One more reason to Keep it in your pants. Ive always thought those guys that wear baggy pants that fall below their asses would have problems welding.
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Must have been a shot in a million.
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Are you saying the target was small? :) RR
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Snip off the finger from an oven mitt!
RF
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What are those leather aprons for?
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All I know is that they don't protect your buttocks.
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That's what you get for welding behind your back. You'll do better if you face the work. d8-)
-- Ed Huntress
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There was a girl in our grade eleven class that claimed she was a virgin. We thought she must be a welder.
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She ain't Palin's kid!!!!!!
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Persactly!
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Well this is OT (Off Target) but I'm still learning. Tig welding in shorts and T shirt. Sensitive spots to radiation are biceps just on the inside and the V neck opening of T shirt. But a new spot subject to burns: The inside of both knees where I forgot just how hot the end of the rod was still. It took two burns to get it thru my head. Decided to use long sleeves which stopped the radiation burns but when welded item slipped on the bench, I grabbed with my left hand which was holding the rod and guess where the hot end of the rod went? I quit stick welding because the hot sparks managed to bounce off the floor and enter the tops of my shoes and create an entertaining dance (to others). I quit gas welding because when finished with a bead you have to be real careful where the flaming torch is pointed. Yes dear heart, welding can be dangerous (and entertaining to observers). Another thing learned the hot spot doesn't cool off any faster if you even use some very creative cussing.
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Depends on the state he lives in.
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Yeah, I know. What I don't know is if he still lives in Arizona, and if Arizona is one of the twenty-something states that doesn't allow felons to vote.
-- Ed Huntress
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Back in the early 70's, the owner of the shop I supervised hired a pair of brothers, "hippies" they were for sure, and assigned them to my crew, taking away my two best trained workers. (I think he either knew of my patience or my need for amusement). Their dad had taught them the rudiments of stick-welding and some of the trades before they "went that away". They came to work in ragged-out jeans, though they did wear a sort of waffle-stomper hiking boots.
Downtown Bethesda, MD, one late June morning, wellding up a bracket for the sign we were installing, Mike was on the sidewalk, beside the truck, welding up this bracket and the sparks "caught" in the fringe on his jeans-cuffs. It was a hot June day, and I guess he ignored it all until the flames got up around both his kknees. He dropped the stick, and started to howl, moan and dance on the sidewalk. It looked like he was doing something like the Watusi or the funky-chicken, with a dash of whirling dervish thrown in for good measure. We got him extinguished with the jug of lemonade, but what was left was ugly, red, and immodest.
His hippie love-life took a downturn for a while, too, so he said.
"hgr" probably wouldn't comment on that
Flash
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On 9/14/2008 6:25 PM Flash spake thus:
I give your story an 8.5 (especially cuz you can dance to it).
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All weldors discover, one day, that they are great dancers.
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You want to wear a long-sleeve shirt and long pants, and leather boots. I work with my shirt untucked (no way for something to tuck itself in behind my pants waistband, and my pant legs over the boots.
Wear natural materials -- I just wear cotton (ie jeans cloth) jeans and shirt, though leather is better. Plastic melts.
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Polyester is plastic, and melts.
Same for nylon.
Cotton does not melt - it only carbonizes or burns.
Molten metal has a low rate of sticking to anything except metal or meltable plastic ("thermoplastic"). Molten plastic sticks to most things.
Cuffs on 100% cotton denim blue jeans have main hazard being catching a drop of very hot molten metal that sets your pants on fire. Better to lack cuffs. Slightly better to have your (non-meltable) shirt untucked so that if a drop of molten metal hits your shirt, it can't stop on your person at the beltline.
I have only dabbled in welding and I braze and torch-solder only casually, though I know what carburizing/reducing and oxidizing flames are, and this much I know!
Now for another thing to worry about - drops of molten metal igniting things, or starting little smouldering hangfires that (rarely enough to make you "not be sufficiently vigilant") wait several minutes or hours to become a more overt fire!
- Don Klipstein ( snipped-for-privacy@misty.com)
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FWIW department, AZ does (as AZ does on other occasions) has a rather convoluted law about this where you can apparently vote after one conviction as long as you have paid restitution and court costs assessed. After two you can't unless okay from a judge. ACLU is on the case if any is interested.