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Watched a buddy's weld go from garbage to textbook in about 6 months
Guy I work with on a refinery job near Baton Rouge could barely run a bead last spring, now his passes look like they came off a machine. Turns out he started recording his torch angle and rod speed on his phone and watched it back every night. Anybody else find a weird trick that clicked way later than you expected?
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olivia_moore18h ago
Frame by frame is wild for welding though.
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paul_taylor2118h ago
Funny you say that, I've seen the opposite happen more times than I can count. A guy gets obsessed with his phone and going frame by frame and overcomplicates everything. His welds get worse because he's second-guessing his muscle memory. That guy you mentioned probably just hit his stride naturally and the phone thing was a coincidence. Real improvement comes from burning rod after rod, not from analyzing video like a film critic. I've watched dudes with zero tech habits get good twice as fast as the analysis crowd.
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