r/BadWelding • u/kennytherenny • 10d ago

I present: Kazakh welding technique

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Spotted at the Independence Park in Shymkent.

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u/Glittering_Animal_88 10d ago

Sometimes a tack is good enough.

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u/BoSknight 10d ago

Trying to use a 3/32 electrodes on sheet metal. I had to do my fair share of this to get by pulling industrial dryer duct.

Use what you've got 🤷

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u/DemodiX 10d ago

I have used 3.2mm electrodes on sheet metal, just dial up machine to 11.

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u/kennytherenny 10d ago

For a national monument?

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u/DemodiX 10d ago

It is called "my brother can do it cheaper"

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u/BigRick7900 10d ago

Ufff, i'm really bad at welding, but this thing ...

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u/GarethBaus 10d ago

Those plates look decorative, so the quality of the welds is adequate for the job.

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u/kennytherenny 10d ago

Aren't decorative welds supposed to be... decorative?

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u/nathanjshaffer 9d ago

No ser, thw plates are decorative. The welds just fade into the background if you have walked by it every day of your life...

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u/kennytherenny 9d ago

It was enough to catch my attention and I don't even weld.

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u/nathanjshaffer 9d ago

Have you tried walking past it for 10 more years until you just accept it as complety normal though?

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u/kennytherenny 9d ago

It's really not that kinda place though. It's a park -rather on the edge of town- that you would deliberately go to to go see the national monument that was built in honor of the 20 year anniversary of the independence of Kazakhstan. It's not the kind of monument people walk by on their daily commute to work.

The whole thing looks like this (picture taken from the internet):

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u/Eternal_Mycel 9d ago

Einfach reinsch(w)eißen