My son and I have been learning to weld. We were welding a thin stainless steel muffler (1 mm thick). we practiced a lot on a scrape piece until we got the welder dialed in and our technique down. Our first attempts, we burned thru and got lots of heat distortion. Once we were happy we took a break tomake sure we were on out A Game for the muffler. I started my muffler weld-we got lots of splatter and really poor welds. We both tried and both sucked. We thought we lost out technique, tried different settings and then tried to force it. We did about 4 inches of really poor welds. Then, I realized I turned the gas off when we went on break. OPS... The rest of the proejct went off well. LOL
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My favourite was catching the wire feed speed knob with the harness and turning the speed down 
AndersK
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Most of us have done it at some time or another
...and we keep doing it
But when one is more experienced it just take a short burst to realise what just happened and you just hope no other noticed....
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ALL of us have done it.
Those who say they haven't are either telling porkie pies or are not welders. Just last week I smashed one of my Pyrex cups doing exactly that. (Gas flow keeps them cool, forget to turn it on and they crack in seconds) dohhhhh!!!
