Does your earth look like this

[BurnBern]

I went and helped a friend with a bit of welding on Monday. He pulled out his earth and went to clamp it to the work piece. Well needles to say when i saw it I was almost crying with laughter. I think he was a bit taken aback by the laughter and he said there was nothing wrong with it.

I then asked how was his welds were. He said he wasn’t very good with welding and I said no wonder look at that earth. We changed it out and his welding improved. No more bird poop welding!


So i was wondering what do your clamps look like?




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[JKalchik]

How on earth do you do that to a ground clamp..... no, wait, I'm not sure that I want to know.

[Diggerg]

Using it to strike first arc on a rod? Getting polarity wrong?

[ajfoxy]

Probably using it to strike an arc... bad, bad, bad.

[Dirtytires]

Oh my.....

[towtruck]

I have a piece of 1.5" x 1/4" bent into a hook for a ground. Just hang it on what your welding. ......it fell off the wire a year or so ago and I just vice grip the wire to the piece now.
....I'm lazy.

[ajfoxy]

Oh my towtruck that is priceless...

A good ground helps make for a good weld.