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WootFatigue cac/scrote 6d ago (text post) 204 thread views #328912 earned 104 coins from votes

I was welding galvanized steel while wearing my nice watch and got a piece of slag embedded in the crystal.

I'm fuming but also fumed.

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Dramamine seed/feed Listen Dramamine has become unstuck in time. Putweet 6d ago #7547599

Perhaps you should be wearing PPE and not your watch :marseyunamused#:

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6d ago #7547572

I hope you were doing it outside too because of the zinc fumes

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WootFatigue cac/scrote DWHITE___________DYNAMITE 6d ago #7547601

I was doing it in my garage and holding my breath.

Now I've got the piece sitting a big tub of two different rust removing chemicals mixed together giving off some weird steam.

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WootFatigue 6d ago #7547614

the second part is correct, you can easily remove with caustic acid, but you should put that outside

under no circumstances should you ever weld that shit indoors without a shop fan and Flux-Core mig or something

I did something similar when I made my dad a shitty lamp by welding chains together, but I fully removed the zinc coating with muriatic acid, outside

what were you welding ??

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WootFatigue cac/scrote DWHITE___________DYNAMITE 6d ago #7547629

Cool lamp.

There's this bracket on the Volvo undercarriage that provides support for the driveshaft and contains the main exhaust hangers. It rusts out in about ten years and they stopped making them back in 2018.

By this point all of the good ones have been salvaged or are rusting away pressed between the ground and underbody in some junkyard, forever inaccessible. Without it the car is basically totaled, unless you want to convert to FWD and rig up some other kind of exhaust support.

It's like the only part of the car that rusts, aside from easily changeable suspension components.

I have the driveshaft taken out right now in preparation for a new exhaust system so I figured I'd fill in the rust holes and give it a good coating of epoxy paint while it's out.

The exhaust had to be custom made because they don't make those anymore either and as a result I'm putting a $2k stainless system on a $2k car.

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WootFatigue 6d ago #7547658

Cool lamp.

Thanks :marseyblush:

I have the driveshaft taken out right now in preparation for a new exhaust system so I figured I'd fill in the rust holes and give it a good coating of epoxy paint while it's out.

The exhaust had to be custom made because they don't make those anymore either and as a result I'm putting a $2k stainless system on a $2k car.

Ahhhh ok thats sounds forgivable, all the people I kinda know who advise me on welding that aren't bubba are frightened by the fumes, whether that's appropriate in all cases idk because I just do it for shits and giggles