You gotta see this!!! WTF!

[Super Mech]

How is this guy not dead?

http:/www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgAThGrCV4A

I don't know how to make the link active. Can someone tell me?

 

[bgott]

 

[white6589]

Copy and pasted off of the address bar.

P.S. He's nuts!

 

[chrisexv6]

Receptacles!!!??? WE DONT NEED NO STINKIN RECEPTACLES!!!

 

[redwrench60]

He's alive because he wasn't the path of least resistance. He's making a lot of sparks and blowing holes in **** but welding.......maybe not. I also didn't see any circuit breakers to trip, looked like a "developing country"

 

[t1r2u3s4t]

It's not tripping because he hooked up before the fuse...

 

[Davefr]

It's the welding shop at the Harbor Freight factory.

 

[deathbound]

Can you say "arc flash"?

 

[ARAMP1]

On one of my overseas deployments, I noticed a guy welding without a hood or any real protection. I asked the guy who appeared to be the foreman "what happens when the guy goes blind?" His reply was "we get another welder."

 

[AUDIHenry]

This is how it's done in a lot of countries where access to high quality equipment is cost prohibitive. You'd be surprised how someone with a battery powered arc welder (think car batteries) can do a better job than the average Joe with a Lincoln welder who can't put down a decent weld to save his life. (pun intended? lol)

 

[wreckerman5357]

That kind if **** makes me wonder how they have an overpopulation problem in that part of the world.

 

[wornoutoldman]

That kind if **** makes me wonder how they have an overpopulation problem in that part of the world.

They might be blind but can still reproduce...

 

[Justin1776]

No welding hood required!

 

[Super Mech]

How can he hold that Gizmo under water? And then put it in his pocket. Does anybody know what that really is?

 

[tatra]

see , here's proof that the gooberment nanny state types that enforce so called safety and enviromental laws are in it just for the money.....so called third world entreupenership skills are what are going to take this great quality of life away from us , and rightfully so.....i bet the feds and local officials are in cahoots with the steel toe boot , welding helmut , fuse , safety gear type manufacturers.......

 

[t100]

China, building San Francisco bay bridge one inch at a time:

 

[djb2]

How can he hold that Gizmo under water? And then put it in his pocket. Does anybody know what that really is?

It's very likely a coil of wire used as a resistor, perhaps with some reactive inductance. The long feed wires also provide some resistance.

The water was to keep the box from overheating. It may have a cotton rag or fiberglass (or asbestos fiber) pad to retain some of the water.

 

[tonym]

He's alive because he wasn't the path of least resistance. He's making a lot of sparks and blowing holes in **** but welding.......maybe not. I also didn't see any circuit breakers to trip, looked like a "developing country"

wonder when they will develop a welding helmet

 

[Murphy4570]

This is how it's done in a lot of countries where access to high quality equipment is cost prohibitive. You'd be surprised how someone with a battery powered arc welder (think car batteries) can do a better job than the average Joe with a Lincoln welder who can't put down a decent weld to save his life. (pun intended? lol)

It is all in the skill of the welder. The quality of the equipment only makes a good welder a great welder, it can't magically make you a master welder by itself.

Same thing with all tools. Just cause Steve the oil change D tech got himself a nice new KRL box, doesn't mean he suddenly knows how to do engine swaps.

 

[8paintchips]

realy makes me feel lucky to be an american welder, and there arnt many times i feel lucky to be a welder.

 

[geologist]

Their next great invention.....

 

[Jason280]

Haha, I knew what it was before I even clicked on the link!

 

[shurik06_83]

Their next great invention.....

funny as those shades might aper they have been around for thousands of yrs the idea was to limit the amount of light u get while traveling across the tundra if u go out on a bright day in the tundra u will go blind from all the reflected light

 

[redwrench60]

He looks like one of the lords of death punks on Big Trouble In Little China lol

 

[lgrlife]

China, building San Francisco bay bridge one inch at a time:

@ t100
Shame ,those should have been American welders building the new bridge parts for the San Francisco bay bridge...