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Welding up a bracket, minding my own business, and yes ugly welds then all of a sudden POOF! Then I smell a 'grilling burgers' kind of smell.Stupid spider....
Reply:Thats great. I love it when bugs fly into my arcs, hah. Makes for a good conversation peice.
Reply:Hahaha!  That's awesome!  I was running 3/32 the other day on a turn table and couldn't understand what happened when my amp read out went hen spit for a second. Walked over to see what's left of a moth and about an inch of porosity. Lame!
Reply:good job you wasn't hungry
Reply:Originally Posted by Gerry1964good job you wasn't hungry
Reply:That's gotta be China, they'll eat anything that moves.....uugghh.Ian.
Reply:One shop I worked in, I was working at the opposite end of the shop...I was killing myself laughing!  A co-worker was being dive bombed by moths at the other end!  I was watching them circle and then just randomly kamakazi!  There were so many moths that night that after work, in the lights of the indoor/outdoor crainway, that the ground outside was covered in moths at least an inch thick!  They would follow the lights on the crane into the shop, so before running the crane inside we would have to kill the power to the gantry on the crane remote, re-activate it and then go inside.  (The lights took a bit to come on!)    I know it sounds like BS as it was a first for me!  At the time, I had never seen anything like it before...The next day however, there was not a moth to be seen.Last edited by mb_welder; 08-31-2012 at 07:06 AM.
Reply:I work in a campground.  I needed a piece of flat plate to weld a repair, I found one in the scrap pile an started welding.  Someone had used it as a bacon griddle in it's previous life and it made the whole shop smell like a Denny's at breakfast. We all went out for BLT's for lunch!
Reply:He was blinded for life and then his life end !
Reply:I had a dragonfly smack me in the hood about 3 times one night going after the arc reflection on my lens.Then I shot him down with choke cleaner and a zippo If you cant fix it with a hammer, it must be an electrical problem."Boy, everyone starts with a full bag of luck and an empty bag of experience. The trick is to fill the bag of experience before the bag of luck is empty."-Grandad circa 1990ish