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Old 10-23-2005, 04:55 PM   #16
Ian
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I got another one. Its not a "I'm a complete idiot story", but it is funny.

when I was at school, we had to perform certain welds and get then signed off by the instructor. I was TIG welding aluminum and it was a corner weld. I had been trying to get this one weld signed off for a week and a half already, but the teachers kept telling me that they expect mine in perticular to be near perfect. that in it self pissed me off because there were kids getting welds signed off that looked worse than my crappiest one! Anyway, I had been trying to get the weld signed off all day and towards the end of the day, someone took over my welder. no biggie, I went and got another one. I grab some aluminum, sit down, set up the welder and I start welding. I just sharpened the tungsten so the arc was real nice. I get about halfway across the piece of aluminum and thats when two things happened. number one, I started getting shocked like a mother****er! normally, when that happens, I stop welding and I get another welder....BUT then the other thing happened. I realized that the weld I was in the middle of was damn near perfect! So I kept welding and getting shocked. It hurt like a bastard, but I finished the weld. I was so excited because it looked so good, I grabbed the metal with some vice grips and ran over to the teacher. He looked it over and this is waht he said."looks good, bring me another one that looks just like this and I'll sign it off." I got into a little argument with him about how that was ******** and that I am a better welder than he was (which is true, he could weld very well, but he was an AMAZING painter). that pissed him off a lot and I didnt get that weld signed off until a week later after showing him about 15 more that were the same quality as the first one.
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and 1 more smart ass answer by you and i'm going to reach into this monitor and grab you by the throat
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