super99
Well-known Member
Let me begin by admitting that I am not a certified welder, I'm just a farmer welder that has been welding since I was a teenage and I'm almost 67 now. At work I'm a material handler but have
been going in 2 hours early for a couple of years building carts, tables, fan mounts, etc for the machine shop. From time to time we have parts that are bad, poor laser cuts, holes drilled wrong, etc and I have been welding them shut and grinding them smooth to be reworked. Yesterday my boss came to me with 180 pins that the holes are drilled too big, can I weld the holes shut so they can drill them on the other end and not have to scrap the pins? I wasn't very optimistic, but told him I would try on a few and see what they looked like. I welded 10 pins, 6 were OK, 4 had pins holes in the weld when I welded the 2nd side. Kinda hard to get the wire down inside that small hole to fill it up. Almost impossible to grind weld off and have a round pin. I told boss we need the piece it goes in to in order to grind the pin so it fits. He is going to take them to the line tomorrow and see if they are usable like that. I hope they tell him to scrap them and run another order, we'll see. They are extremely paranoid about scrap cost because it looks bad on paper, but will spend 2 or 3 times the cost of the part to fix it on overtime, but that's OK. Big Business, go figure! Chris
been going in 2 hours early for a couple of years building carts, tables, fan mounts, etc for the machine shop. From time to time we have parts that are bad, poor laser cuts, holes drilled wrong, etc and I have been welding them shut and grinding them smooth to be reworked. Yesterday my boss came to me with 180 pins that the holes are drilled too big, can I weld the holes shut so they can drill them on the other end and not have to scrap the pins? I wasn't very optimistic, but told him I would try on a few and see what they looked like. I welded 10 pins, 6 were OK, 4 had pins holes in the weld when I welded the 2nd side. Kinda hard to get the wire down inside that small hole to fill it up. Almost impossible to grind weld off and have a round pin. I told boss we need the piece it goes in to in order to grind the pin so it fits. He is going to take them to the line tomorrow and see if they are usable like that. I hope they tell him to scrap them and run another order, we'll see. They are extremely paranoid about scrap cost because it looks bad on paper, but will spend 2 or 3 times the cost of the part to fix it on overtime, but that's OK. Big Business, go figure! Chris