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Only 5.3% of US welders are women. After years as a professor, I became one

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254 points Michelangelo11 | 1 comments | 06 Nov 24 00:24 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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mgarfias ◴[06 Nov 24 06:50 UTC] No.42057648[source]▶
The photos of the welds made me think she needs to goto welding school.

Ugh. I’m a total hack and can do better.

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1. cjbgkagh ◴[06 Nov 24 21:04 UTC] No.42069371[source]▶
They're not the worst welds I've ever seen but they're very good either. I would be embarrassed if those were my welds and I wouldn't take a welder with such welds seriously regardless of their gender. The quality is on the level of pretty low end job-shop. I wouldn't care about the bed slats but it would be hard for me to ignore the bad welds on anything regularly visible.

Making welds look good is more than just appearance, the appearance tells a story about how the weld was developed, how the temperature was controlled, how deep the penetration, porosity etc. It's easier to do this than do a post weld validation of weld integrity. TIG welding requires a lot of skill and is not like using a glue gun.

Laser welding on the other hand is much easier. Instead of making the large investment in time to learn how to TIG weld property she could just skip it and go direct to laser.