I’m about to graduate from welding school and wanting to work either in Montana or Colorado, I’m worried about being a welder and being transgender and that my documents still saying female when I have transitioned to male will out me and I won’t get hired or my boss will tell coworkers etc all I want is to make a living, and get my work done. I’m mostly just worried about people hurting me, I can handle being called names and such I’ve got pretty thick skin, seems like I see another trans person get killed every other day and being in this industry has me concerned, but I love welding.

Shop rag protest flags. Had my Ukrainian up since Russia invaded, the Rainbow since June of 23, and now my triangle. Fuck Fascism.

I'm currently in welding school, jumping ship from the culinary industry (8ish years experience)

In that world I never really got any pushback or caught flack for being Trans male to female, I'm 25 and have been out since 17. I just did the work well and rose up along the chain.

I know the trades in general are male biased but women can still make it. I'm unsure about what to expect being a Trans woman.

Any insight would be lovely, thank you

My daughter, who is transgender, is considering going into welding. We live in Texas and she wants to move away some day, so she wants to learn a trade, like welding or electronics. I'm a librarian, so I don't know much about the field and how LGBTQ friendly it is.

Any insights?

The whole “we need trades people” thing is a scam. They don’t want apprentices, they want us to be pre-born with 5 years of experience. There’s no work, unions won’t hire you, non union shops won’t hire you and for those of us with families who can’t relocate on a dime, you’ll be stuck with no work. They also aren’t hiring for nuclear work, that’s just for unions (WHO DONT TAKE APPRENTICES)

Not just welding, ironworkers, carpenters, Iluna, elevator mechanics, crane operators, you name it, no work. Mostly because they’re giving it all away to foreign workers.

The government is lying to all of us.

There are many more buttplugs this is just the largest and the one they are the most proud of.

I work in a fab shop. Need some prank ideas. I ain't talking the little harmless innocent stuff. I'm after the dirty dirty. Got a blood fued going right now and it's time to turn it up. Started easy enough, but it escalated, alright? I put Tabasco in his vape. He doused me in fart spray while I was in the tool room and locked me in there. Shits getting real.

First off if posts like these aren't ok I'm sorry, I just don't know anyone specific I could ask and figured this would be a good place to ask.

So basically I use they/them pronouns and have an interest in pursuing a welding job, I'm not sure what kind yet as I'm still researching and such. But one of the things I worry about is I know that different types of careers can be worse for people like me and I was wondering how much of that I should probably expect if I become a welder.

As a note I do look pretty masculine and if I had to go by he/him pronouns for safety and such I would, but I'd very obviously prefer not to have to.

I want to weld this sprocket segments together and I don’t know what MiG wire of mma electrode to use so the welds have a chance on not cracking .i have tried with MiG ER70 s6 wire and 7018 rods both of the fail and cracked ,I wasn’t expecting them to hold but I tried.!

Why is this sub still nsfw?

I was taught gloves for everything, and different kinds for buffet purposes, because in working with metal, assume everything is hot enough to burn and or sharp enough to cut. And if it wasn’t those things right now, it would become so soon enough.

Which is why it was bonkers to me that one of the shop rules is “no gloves when working with anything that turns: grinders, buffing wheels, drill presses.” The thought is “you’re more vigilant when you know your hand are exposed.

Obviously, gloves your hand doesn’t fill snuggly are a bit of a hazard. Most leather gloves are too long in the thumb for me. But my bacon has been saved at least teice from really bad injury because I was wearing hand protection.

All that said, no gloves when working with spinning tools seems bananas to me.

Y’all who do this for a living…what is your thinking?

PS, I’m not an AI, which I’ve noticed post a lot of “I can’t believe X is happening to me.”

Hey guys, unfortunately I broke my shoe playing football but luckily I have access to some welding equipment (it's my roommates to weld like technology things). I didn't ask him and showed him it and now he's going mental, will welding the bottom of my shoe back to the rest of it really be an issue? Also, don't worry I won't do it again and now realize it's dangerous and it kinda burned my shoe but it still kinda works and doesn't look that bad.

He wants me to buy him a new one but I view it as a nonsense. No harm, no foul.

I have a 1 inch gear to weld onto a half inch shaft that broke on my snowblower. My shed is totally inaccessible. Am I looking for trouble if I do a little well job in my house?

(yes I know I will get in trouble for my wife, I mean trouble from spatter all over)

for context I am by no means a competent welder, this is my 4th time ever touching one. I am a collision repair student being taught mig for body work related welds. As far as I know the welder was set up correctly, and we have very nice equipment, but the welds are just ugly. Maybe its just a mig thing but the welds are more of a dull grey rather than silver, theres little brown caps on it, etc. Is there anything I should change settings wise or technique wise that could make my welds more physically appealing?

I’m no messiah, not even good. But I laid the unpainted welds after my coworker did the painted ones. We work at the dump and these are just patch panels for a dumpster for reference.

Also I know to prep metal better, this is for garbage. We have hundreds of boxes and it’s not worth the time.

Hello, I’m a mechanical engineering student at a US college. Recently, a friend of mine who is also a mech-e student was taking a manufacturing course in with a welding unit in which students are given the opportunity to try welding during class. Unfortunately, the professor did not allow him to participate because he wears a turban, for religious reasons, and the welding helmet didn’t fit properly. To this day nothing has been done at my university to fix this issue. Does anyone know where I could get a welding helmet that will fit someone who wears a turban?

Dude was welding few meters away from me when i saw the first sparks i turned my head and walked past him.

I dont think i saw more then maybe 2 seconds lets round it up to 5s (prbly more like 1.5s but just assume the worst case) of welding

how dangerous is such exposure to welder

Whats the chance of me getting arc flash or whatever its called and how long will it take to heal if i somehow got my eyes burnt

Atleast he didnt weld as i walked past him