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Tips/Techniques Making the Square Drive hole in a custom socket.

Tips/Techniques
Trev, it followed my joke about my welding skill. "Ol' Shakey, here. I use the braille method." I 'm decades past when I was merely an OK welder. Millwrights have to be able to weld.
 
Those welders are a selfish bunch. They don't want to teach anybody anything until we already know. Then they just want to argue. They use all kinds of jargon to confuse us too.

I think brail means to close your eyes and poke the weld rod/wire at some metal till it sticks, then turn the machine off, wait till everything stops glowing, cut the rod/wire, rinse repeat. It's a very slow process. But stuff eventually sticks together if you never look at it. Here is some of my finest braille:

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Thanks Obi wan:p
 
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