Quote: Thanks for the kind words Challenger1 ! Forgive my lack of understanding, but you wrote against grinding a weld. I wish that my skills were good enough to weld and then paint the stuff that I do. I'm trying to improve, but I still need to "tune up" what I weld. What is the reasoning behind the statement? A weaker joint? In most cases, I just knock down globs or high spots. Somebody wrote in a post somewhere else in this forum: "Pretty welds are not always strong, and strong welds are not always pretty." That gives me hope!
Grinding is a no no mainly because:
1. It can hide a bad weld 2. It seldom if ever makes a weld stronger 3. It is proof welder is willing to break the rules 4. It is against standard practice 5. It hides a good weld
Reality check, that half the population is smarter then 50% of the people and it's a constantly contested fact.
