• sickday@fedia.io
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    9 days ago

    Pick up something else like a trade. Would be a great excuse to pick up electric engineering or carpentry

      • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works
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        8 days ago

        Get a mask, gloves, a stick welder, and some scrap steel for practice. You can learn it off of Youtube easily enough.

        Just whatever you do, DON’T WELD GALGANIZED STEEL! The zinc evaporates into fumes and can get you very sick and possibly kill you. If you absolutely have to weld galvanized steel, do it outside with a fan blowing all the fumes down wind.

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          8 days ago

          Just whatever you do, DON’T WELD GALGANIZED STEEL! The zinc evaporates into fumes and can get you very sick and possibly kill you.

          See, this is the kind of thing that a class might teach, though.

        • Big_Boss_77@fedinsfw.app
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          8 days ago

          Oh no, I can weld, everything but TIG… I’m just a farm welder, learned functional welding to fix stuff but never learned “propper” techniques.