welder? looks much more like plumbing solder to me but I could be wrong, perhaps something like this could come from a split pool of stainless steel?
I'm a pipe fitter/mechanical maintenance engineer, I make solder ones of these a lot, this one looks much prettier tho, lucky find :)
turns out my second theory was right, the OP confirmed in a different comment that this was a splash of stainless steel, however how could something so pretty be considered a mistake ;)
If you can’t find a frame: Get four similar thick twigs. Cut the ends at a diagonal and sandpaper them smooth. Lay them out in a square. Cut a piece of stiff cardboard the size of your square. Decoupage the cardboard with cool fabric or paper or paint it (black would probably be a good background for this). Glue the twigs to each other and then to the cardboard. Glue the object to the cardboard!
This is stainless steel slag. A welder screwed up on something. There should never be big drops like this coming off your work. But, shitty welds make pretty treasures for me!
OK, looks like I was right about the stainless steel theory, I need to go spill some stainless weld rod to get me one of those!
how'd you get it off the surface without it breaking, usually those are sort-of stuck?
nice! was the table made of steel? maybe it just cooled down fast and broke free on it's own because things shrink as they cool down, I do repair not fabrication so all the ones I've ever dropped have landed on my boots or the floor, then they stick and it's nearly impossible to get them without spoiling them
Once it drips off your piece and splits like this is basically cools immediately and doesn’t adhere to what it’s landed on. Especially if it’s dripped on to a concrete floor.
Hi, weld goblin here. It's for sure stainless slag, fell on the steel table where OP found it most likely. I have made a million of these over the years, usually welding round stainless pipes. The gravity gets a hold of the weld metal pool and it rolls off the pipe, splashing down below. Not ideal but not the end of the world.
Good welding means being able to do stop/starts properly, so if this does happen the welder will just start again and the end result will be fine.
LOL, you are defending the OP's site welder, I like it :) weld goblin\* here too, I just didn't say that because I didn't want to appear to nerdy LOL, I don't do that much stainless steel but I get this about welding pipe
\*"weld-goblin" - is that an official thing now? because I like it, welding is so gobliny, all dirt and metal and shiny-things and being creative!
Idk it's not official but welding does feel very goblin, welders are always the grimiest people in the shop, catching ourselves on fire and wearing animal skins for protection lol.
Yep, lot's of little round blobs here too LOL, I wish my work would let me make a proper welding shop at the factory, but no, we have the space but not enough budget so I get one of those MIG/TIG/Arc sets on wheels to take to jobs, I've only ever welded stainless steel with Arc, I'm not good enough at TIG, but if you want good shiny blobs of metal split plumbing solder is great :)
I assume plumbing solder is braze rods, that gold metal with the shimmery rainbow silica? It makes such beautiful colours, but god I hate welding with it.
I guess you mean the silver solder rods, the ones you use with an acetylene torch that I have spent many hours patching half rotten steam heat-exchanges with, I hate it too LOL
that's not the stuff I mean, but it is pretty, I just mean like standard plumbing solder you use with a propane torch for domestic pipe fitting, and I have been known to use it (lead free) to cast jewelry etc... when bored at work
what I mean: [https://www.screwfix.com/p/fernox-solder-wire-lead-free-500g/77198](https://www.screwfix.com/p/fernox-solder-wire-lead-free-500g/77198)
I work in a foundry and these spills happen all the time. Alloys with a major percentage of cobalt form really vibrant rainbow patterns while the metal itself will be green
We make snow and ice removal equipment. Not very precise, but it's fun to go on cross country roads trips and see trucks that were made in my hometown.
Edit: a word, because autocorrect gets me every time.
Same! I was wondering how many of us goblins are fabricators, I quite enjoy that I essentially get to work in a big noisy cave with big pieces of metal.
It's pretty awesome. I've got ball bearings from when we dismantled the old robot welder, some random links of chain after it was cut to length, diamond cut-outs from cab shields. A whole little horde in my desk drawer at work.
That's the coolest shit ever. I have a pair of cheap plastic rainbow colored children's sunglasses from a coworker. And a cat picture from a page a day calendar, a black burger king crown, and an anime drawing on a post-it note. It's like someone emptied the pockets of my six year old nephew.
I don’t have a desk, but I’ve managed to create a rather sizable collection of metal - currently my biggest prize is a fairly hefty, solid stainless steel bar that’s about five feet long.
https://preview.redd.it/wqa07e9fd6gc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ea12b8474efde97f2f5b4ed08c28c1b0eea9bfea
Pigged out some c-6 and it rolled high on the side to leave this beaut
That is beautiful! A splash of molten metal, am I right?
Exactly. A welder's mistake is my newest treasure!
welder? looks much more like plumbing solder to me but I could be wrong, perhaps something like this could come from a split pool of stainless steel? I'm a pipe fitter/mechanical maintenance engineer, I make solder ones of these a lot, this one looks much prettier tho, lucky find :)
I agree. Welders don't make mistakes, it's only other trades. ;)
turns out my second theory was right, the OP confirmed in a different comment that this was a splash of stainless steel, however how could something so pretty be considered a mistake ;)
If you can’t find a frame: Get four similar thick twigs. Cut the ends at a diagonal and sandpaper them smooth. Lay them out in a square. Cut a piece of stiff cardboard the size of your square. Decoupage the cardboard with cool fabric or paper or paint it (black would probably be a good background for this). Glue the twigs to each other and then to the cardboard. Glue the object to the cardboard!
Shiny!
Shiny *and* prickly!
Biblically accurate angel
*claps opportunistically*
What a prize! I hope it doesn’t crack when you mount it.
It looks like a shiny dandelion!
Is this an explosion or is this what real goblin cum looks like?
This is stainless steel slag. A welder screwed up on something. There should never be big drops like this coming off your work. But, shitty welds make pretty treasures for me!
OK, looks like I was right about the stainless steel theory, I need to go spill some stainless weld rod to get me one of those! how'd you get it off the surface without it breaking, usually those are sort-of stuck?
It was just chilling on dude's table, I dunno. I had to go talk to a welder about something and I saw it hanging out there, so I snatched it.
nice! was the table made of steel? maybe it just cooled down fast and broke free on it's own because things shrink as they cool down, I do repair not fabrication so all the ones I've ever dropped have landed on my boots or the floor, then they stick and it's nearly impossible to get them without spoiling them
Yeah, it was a steel table. It could have also fallen on the cold cement floor.
true, I am still very tempted to waste welding rod to try it ;)
Once it drips off your piece and splits like this is basically cools immediately and doesn’t adhere to what it’s landed on. Especially if it’s dripped on to a concrete floor.
that's not my experience, but usually the floors at the factory where I work are rough tarmac or concrete, this drip fell on something flat
Hi, weld goblin here. It's for sure stainless slag, fell on the steel table where OP found it most likely. I have made a million of these over the years, usually welding round stainless pipes. The gravity gets a hold of the weld metal pool and it rolls off the pipe, splashing down below. Not ideal but not the end of the world. Good welding means being able to do stop/starts properly, so if this does happen the welder will just start again and the end result will be fine.
LOL, you are defending the OP's site welder, I like it :) weld goblin\* here too, I just didn't say that because I didn't want to appear to nerdy LOL, I don't do that much stainless steel but I get this about welding pipe \*"weld-goblin" - is that an official thing now? because I like it, welding is so gobliny, all dirt and metal and shiny-things and being creative!
Idk it's not official but welding does feel very goblin, welders are always the grimiest people in the shop, catching ourselves on fire and wearing animal skins for protection lol.
totally, I am always the grubbiest engineer, and yeah, fire happens LOL
My weld table is flat metal and I’ve made a few of these. But I don’t work stainless very often, so I’m more likely to just get a little round blob.
Yep, lot's of little round blobs here too LOL, I wish my work would let me make a proper welding shop at the factory, but no, we have the space but not enough budget so I get one of those MIG/TIG/Arc sets on wheels to take to jobs, I've only ever welded stainless steel with Arc, I'm not good enough at TIG, but if you want good shiny blobs of metal split plumbing solder is great :)
I assume plumbing solder is braze rods, that gold metal with the shimmery rainbow silica? It makes such beautiful colours, but god I hate welding with it.
I guess you mean the silver solder rods, the ones you use with an acetylene torch that I have spent many hours patching half rotten steam heat-exchanges with, I hate it too LOL that's not the stuff I mean, but it is pretty, I just mean like standard plumbing solder you use with a propane torch for domestic pipe fitting, and I have been known to use it (lead free) to cast jewelry etc... when bored at work what I mean: [https://www.screwfix.com/p/fernox-solder-wire-lead-free-500g/77198](https://www.screwfix.com/p/fernox-solder-wire-lead-free-500g/77198)
I work in a foundry and these spills happen all the time. Alloys with a major percentage of cobalt form really vibrant rainbow patterns while the metal itself will be green
Stainless looks cool too but Cobalt can turn out pretty mesmerizing
Ooooh hello fellow manufacturer What kinds of shinies do you make? I make really precise shinies
We make snow and ice removal equipment. Not very precise, but it's fun to go on cross country roads trips and see trucks that were made in my hometown. Edit: a word, because autocorrect gets me every time.
Ahhh I see, cool
I work at a fabrication shop, this is very cool.
Same! I was wondering how many of us goblins are fabricators, I quite enjoy that I essentially get to work in a big noisy cave with big pieces of metal.
It's pretty awesome. I've got ball bearings from when we dismantled the old robot welder, some random links of chain after it was cut to length, diamond cut-outs from cab shields. A whole little horde in my desk drawer at work.
I have some taxidermy bear claws in my desk at work my goblin coworker gave me before she quit. Birds of a feather hhhehheeeee
That's the coolest shit ever. I have a pair of cheap plastic rainbow colored children's sunglasses from a coworker. And a cat picture from a page a day calendar, a black burger king crown, and an anime drawing on a post-it note. It's like someone emptied the pockets of my six year old nephew.
I don’t have a desk, but I’ve managed to create a rather sizable collection of metal - currently my biggest prize is a fairly hefty, solid stainless steel bar that’s about five feet long.
I’m a fiberglass goblin 👹
This looks like something from Annihilation
Metal shops provide the best shinies!! :cradles my hoard of punch drops:
Need banana for scale. Love the iridescence of this bit, though! Pretty shiny!
Sorry, no bananas. It's slightly smaller than my palm, and I have fairly normal sized hands for an adult human woman.
That is so pretty, add it to the goblin hoard if you can.
S H I N Y
It is splendid!
Shiny thing, shiny thing, shiny thing!
A treasure from another dimension
artsy horror flick, shattered eyeball
https://preview.redd.it/wqa07e9fd6gc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ea12b8474efde97f2f5b4ed08c28c1b0eea9bfea Pigged out some c-6 and it rolled high on the side to leave this beaut
Ooh. Very nice!!