 Grinding your welds
Great welders make great welds that need no additional clean up to look good. The rest of us may sometimes need a grinder clean the welds up a bit and or smooth them out.
Does grinding the surface of the weld scratch or score the metal in such a way that it makes it easier to start a fracture at the scratch line and break? Does the direction of the scratching matter?
Does putting a radius on the weld (through grinding) weaken the weld? I am not talking about digging back into the parent metal just knocking the top off the weldment which leaves a radius.
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