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… where the glue gun has orders of magnitude more power and speed and the “use electrical resistance to create heat” portion of the show necessarily happens OUT
by hamburglar 4y ago
… where the glue gun has orders of magnitude more power and speed and the “use electrical resistance to create heat” portion of the show necessarily happens OUTSIDE the housing. It’s a cute comparison but a MIG welder is a lot more dangerous than a glue gun.
- hamburglar 4y agoI’m also gonna pick a nit here and say “like a hot glue gun” is what you say about a MIG weld that is done entirely improperly. If the filler material is just acting like glue, you might be sticking metal together but you’re not welding. So this tongue-in-cheek description also misleads newbs into creating bad welds.
- 83 4y agoThat is picking a nit. Bad welds are still welds, you just need more of them :p
- Gordonjcp 4y ago"A grinder and paint make me the welder I ain't" I discovered when I first bought a MIG that there's a world of a difference between "I have a welder" and "I am a welder". I used to be bloody good at oxyacetylene, too...
- hamburglar 4y agoIt’s possible to weld so poorly that you are really brazing, not welding. And what a hot glue gun does is really analogous to brazing rather than welding.