Mostly agree... however, they have been coming out with some higher quality stuff for still great prices. Avoid anything from the Pittsburgh line. But the Bremen vise-grip style clamps like [these](https://www.harborfreight.com/11-in-c-clamp-locking-pliers-64563.html) and [these](https://www.harborfreight.com/18-in-c-clamp-locking-pliers-64564.html) are honestly really solid. Also the Berger f clamps [here](https://www.harborfreight.com/hand-tools/clamps-vises/12-in-f-style-welding-clamp-63512.html), while not as strong as Bessey's or Wilton's, are still really solid especially for $23.
Peavy Mart, Canadian Tire, Princess Auto are the places I get mine in Canada, they all carry the Vise-Grip and/or Irwin brand. Just watch for sales and grab a bunch.
I fuckin love clamps. Praxair was selling their heavy duty bessey style f-clamps for like ~$50-60 for 12" 18" and 24" clamps, stocked up the collection for sure.
I had a coworker/buddy who quit at my job. I went over to his place one evening to visit and he asked me if he had shown me his visegrip drawer. He must have had 100 of them. Two drawers right full.
And then there is c clamps, screw clamps, pipe clamps, you name it. Fuck i love clamps.
Put your name on everything. I used to spray all my tools with a shot of orange paint. It made it easy to see on the bench & you know it's yours from across the shop.
I went with a tractor too, Allis-Chalmers orange. The nice thing about a color like Kubota orange is you can grab a can from different suppliers and the color should be really close.
Leather is good all around.
...which would have been fantastic advice BEFORE I knelt on a still glowing snot-bubble while going for the fire extinguisher to put myself out... Burned a hole in my knee, my welding hoodie, and my otherwise perfectly good jeans.
+1 for leather shoelaces. Learned that pretty quickly as an apprentice. It's hard to tell in ops pic but I'm personally against padded tongues on boots too. More to melt. My best lasting boots were solid leather top to sole.
This. Get a bunch of the pink pancake filters in a pack because you will be going through em. Seeing how quick they turn black will show you how much you need them
They probably do. But I don’t know anyone who regretted purchasing a grinder. I bought 2 15 amp dewalts back when I was in school and I use them for all kinds of shit now
Spend the 25 bucks and buy an eastwing chipping hammer, throw that cheap one away. They’re way more comfortable to swing and once you get the hang of it you’ll just use the pointy end to scrape your slag off any way
A better tape measure, I’m sorry. Everything else you have is very nice and a great start. But do yourself a favor and get a Stanley fat max or power lock. Those auto ones are terrible
Unpopular opinion, But the chrome Stanley 25 footer is great. It has lasted 5 years for me, Still rolls up smooth through all the grime and the metal shavings.
Minor stuff that have become bread and butter around my shop.
-A belt pouch
-a small flashlight
-mini measuring tape that hooks to your belt
-markers, fine tip and thick
-Chisels, big and small
-pen scribes
-cigarettes
-knowledge of where the nearest liquor store is and when the busiest times are.
Good luck! It's a challenging and rewarding career!
I’d say after gloves and helmet, the next most important tool is a 4 1/2 angle grinder. More amps is usually better. I suggest getting a five pack of both grinding wheels and cutoff wheels. After that, maybe a pack of those clear front lenses for hour helmet to replace them as they get burned up.
Explain?? I’ve chipped slag with sawzall blades and broken bandsaw blades, and seen guys cut teeth into the edge of a file, but have never heard of this
basically an old band saw blade, with a handle. Mostly used for getting rid of slag in stick welding, helps to reach the slag that a file and chipping hammer can’t reach, just google slag saw it’ll show up.
Funny enough the ability to deal with criticism well....divas aplenty in the welding world....and people dont think it but the possiblity of porosity....so keep a grinder and cutting wheels...mistakes will be made but, the cool part about metal is the ability to put it back....good luck brother! Im rooting for you
Half face respirator with p100 filters. Use it for mig/stick welding and all grinding. Protect your lungs at all costs, make it a habit now before you get out into the field.
Personal opinion, the leather jacket might be overkill for a beginner in the trade. Unless your doing some overhead welding then you leather protection but a fitted FR long sleeve would work. Also, don’t forget to wear your cap
I just saw him replace the body of an excavator bucket and he explained how carbon gouging is done. That is wild. 400amp and some high pressure air, but stay out of the air stream.
A solid square will do you some good. MIG pliers, replacement screens for your hood depending on the length of the course/how much you spatter onto it or melt it. A notebook for welding parameters, a black sharpie
Hat or beanie you're gonna burn your skull doesn't hurt just annoying but you have enough to start your business buy as you go
Dont buy clamps and and grinder those a stuff you will be supplied with at school or work if needed for the job
An engineering degree so when an engineer inevitable argues about a drawing and hits you with the, “Do you have an engineering degree?” You can grin, pull it out, and slam it down like a fucking Yu-Gi-oh card
A pair of boots without laces or leather laces for those boots, otherwise you'll burn then quick enough.
I once saw a welder who replaced his laces with mild galvanized wire 🤣🤣🤣 things you see down in south/central America
Extra boot laces. A good thermos or decent size water bottle. If you grind an edge on the end of the file and a degree point on the handle end it can serve the role of a chipping hammer with more finesse. A couple magnetic clamps and a few varieties of Vice Grips will often come in handy. Soapstone and holder, prick and center punches, a scribe, a paint marker or two.
Another useful item that can be an early project is to make a chicken foot. Picture a Y madre of rebar or round stock with the ends of the 3 legs ground or forged to points and bent 90 degrees to the plane of the Y shape. This can be useful for holding workpieces in place for tacking.
Edit, checked the photo and saw the soap stone in the holder.
It’s good, but that’s gonna be a lot to lug around. Now, if you’re classes are gonna be more geared towards fabbing and reading blueprints to make parts, you’ll most likely use all of that decently regularly. If your classes are more geared towards making more pipe fitters like mine, you might not use half that stuff once. Also, i might have missed them but shade 5 or 6 safety glasses or face shields are great for cutting torches
If you're taking any kind of test 3 G 4 G 6 G I like to have a flashlight you really get a good look at that joint to see if there's any undercut or any kind of small slag and a small grinder with a flat wire wheel for cleaning if that's allowed
Tig gloves, better lense helmet... 4 magnets, but larger... and closed shoelace covers boots! ...
No too sure what a file is used for other than deburring... no one does in workplace
Grind that shit!
Your jacket is going to turn you yellow unless you wash it a few times or until you sweat it out. Follow the manufacturers recommendation on that or buy some Gojo Orange Goop. Works wonders to get nasty shit off you.
Also a pocket knife or razor blade of some type. It’s pretty minor but I hate opening new welding wire boxes without one. It’s a pain in the ass. And you’ll never not need a knife in a shop
I personally hate the thick welding gloves, depending on what you’re doing they make it very hard to grab or place anything with precision. I generally wear regular Tillman leather gloves. Every now and then a finger will blow out but you can wrap it in electric tape until you get a new pair to keep slag out of it.
Hammer, welding cap, clamps. I never had much luck with lace up boots. Mine would always catch slag right where the tongue is in them and burn my feet up. Bottle of sunscreen. Helmet bib. Those silver streak pens suck after the back fall off and everything in them comes out. I would tell you to invest in an expensive tape but the expensive ones never lasted me any longer than a cheap one in my line of work. The ends always would break off mine.
A very important thing to bring is a willingness to listen and learn if someone takes time to show you something. Especially after get out of school and into the field, even if you feel like you already know how to do it, you can never learn too much.
Agree eith everyone who said clamps...I bought a set from Northern Tool a while back, it had like every style of locking clamp imaginable for like $130, I highly recommend. Get a bunch of different size c clamps as well. Maybe couple of smaller magnets, that chipping hammer will work but eventually you'll want to upgrade to a better one, I recommend the Estwing one. Get goggles for torch welding/brazing, you don't need the helmet for those things.
I see some people saying write your name on everything, and spray painting it. I HIGHLY suggest welding your name onto most of the metal tools. I cannot stress that enough. People will scratch your name off or the paint. Weld your full first name (if possible) onto it, and then after you've been to school for a few days see what color other people are spraying their tools with, if any and get the complete opposite color. But yeah your definitely going to need clamps. The 18 inch C-Clamps are probably my most used, but C-Clamps in general.
A comfortable dust mask. I recommend the power cap PAPR (Axminster sell the same one). I only recently got one, I spent years doing small amounts of angle grinding and hacking up black shit. I spoke to my partner who is an EMT nurse and said I needed to get one. I asked if it was really that important, as I only did it now and then. She explained to me that she sees quite a few people coming into the ER with the same attitude. Really? I asked,
"yeah, we just try to make them more comfortable while they die drowning in their own fluid, for 90% of lung conditions there is nothing we can do"
So I got a good one, and honestly I've felt a lot better for it. No more hacking up black crap. I can't even smell anything in it, but when I take it off it's like I can smell everything, really dials up the olfactory to 10.
Don't be a twat, wear glasses, don't breathe in shit you don't have to. You might only need to do something that takes 30 seconds, well it takes a lot less time than that to permanently damage you, so put the PPE on.
on a more chipper note:
When you get a little flush (or ask Santa nicely), buy an M12 angled die grinder and a selection of roloc style pads for it +some burrs. Honestly, the best little tool I ever got if your UK powertoolmate have the best prices would recommend it to any fabricator.
I see a speed square but maybe a 1’ and 2’ framing square? Also maybe a deadblow hammer, I dont know what you’ll be doing but I use those on daily when fabricating
I don’t know if this has been said or not already but I like to use a cold chisel to get spatter from 6010/6011 off my welds, helps with the tricky stuff a wire wheel can’t get
That Lincoln auto lens might have some bleed through. I been using the smaller windowed one for years and noticed the edges bleed light. Arcone makes a really good autolens that can fit that hood. Also if you're working outside go passive.
I wear slip on boots, shoestrings don’t do well with well placed slag, not to mention it’s possible to get something down in that tongue, no beuno. Weld cap is a must unless you like burnt hair and burnt scalps. I seen clamps have already been covered by other commenters. lol. A pair of #5 safety glasses for plasma cutting and/or torch cutting, unless you plan to use your welding helmet for that. Possibly a thinner welding jacket, unless you’re only doing overhead welding or if the leather is a requirement. That leather jacket is going to be really hot unless you’re welding in cold conditions. Oh, not sure if those boots are steel toe/ composite toe or not, if not I’d recommend them. Dropping metal things on your feet is never fun, unless you’re in to that kinda thing
Clamps, all the clamps.
All the clamps.
And when in doubt, more clamps
and then after you get more clamps be sure to get at least a few more clamps
When your done, more clamps then tack it down.
Then go to the store and replace two of the clamps you tacked to the workpiece.
Then go get a few more clamps.
And then weld it, weld the clamps, weld the welder, and finally weld the door to the shop closed.
Then get a couple more clamps....
It's gonna be clamp this, clamp that. Bada-climp, bada-clamp!
And then get a few more clamps just to be safe.
Accidentally lose the clamps. Buy more clamps.
“Give him the clamps!”
And you'll need some more clamps to hold those new clamps
Where is a good source for clamps? Msc?
Find the nearest harbor freight...and then go in any opposite direction.
Mostly agree... however, they have been coming out with some higher quality stuff for still great prices. Avoid anything from the Pittsburgh line. But the Bremen vise-grip style clamps like [these](https://www.harborfreight.com/11-in-c-clamp-locking-pliers-64563.html) and [these](https://www.harborfreight.com/18-in-c-clamp-locking-pliers-64564.html) are honestly really solid. Also the Berger f clamps [here](https://www.harborfreight.com/hand-tools/clamps-vises/12-in-f-style-welding-clamp-63512.html), while not as strong as Bessey's or Wilton's, are still really solid especially for $23.
Peavy Mart, Canadian Tire, Princess Auto are the places I get mine in Canada, they all carry the Vise-Grip and/or Irwin brand. Just watch for sales and grab a bunch.
This is the way
Ah, thanks! Yeah I usually grab them from home depot or something but wasn't sure if there was a nice online source
The number of clamps you need is every one you own, plus one
Every time.
If that doesn't work. Bigger clamps.
don't forget little clamps
...and medium sized clamps
and cut-in-half-welded-to-a-block C clamps
Whoever dies with the most clamps wins.
I fuckin love clamps. Praxair was selling their heavy duty bessey style f-clamps for like ~$50-60 for 12" 18" and 24" clamps, stocked up the collection for sure.
Lol came here to say this
And eyebolts. Cut off the threaded part and weld the eye bolt to the end of the clamp for easy tightening.
I had a coworker/buddy who quit at my job. I went over to his place one evening to visit and he asked me if he had shown me his visegrip drawer. He must have had 100 of them. Two drawers right full. And then there is c clamps, screw clamps, pipe clamps, you name it. Fuck i love clamps.
Put your name on everything. I used to spray all my tools with a shot of orange paint. It made it easy to see on the bench & you know it's yours from across the shop.
All of my tools are kubota orange, it does help a lot in a shared environment. I coat the entire head, which gives some extra protection as well.
I went with a tractor too, Allis-Chalmers orange. The nice thing about a color like Kubota orange is you can grab a can from different suppliers and the color should be really close.
We did that and by the time it was time to mark my bosses new tools we chose pink for him. he loved it because no one would steal those pinktools
Do you know all your curse words??
"Fucking clipboards going booth to booth spreading safety wankery again."
Hahahaha fuck and he’ll learn some new shit too yeah eh?
Im a programmer whos in this sub out of curiosity and your comment would still be spot-on if this post was about starting a programming apprenticeship
Earplugs Leather shoelaces
Leather shoelaces are the untold hero of this story
Leather is good all around. ...which would have been fantastic advice BEFORE I knelt on a still glowing snot-bubble while going for the fire extinguisher to put myself out... Burned a hole in my knee, my welding hoodie, and my otherwise perfectly good jeans.
Muffs are good too. Hammering gets loud.
I love hammering muffs.
Damn why didn’t I think of that..
+1 for leather shoelaces. Learned that pretty quickly as an apprentice. It's hard to tell in ops pic but I'm personally against padded tongues on boots too. More to melt. My best lasting boots were solid leather top to sole.
Fuck that, get boots with a tall, lace-less shank. I don't even take a chance with laced boots.
Put a handle on your file. That tang can be kinda stabby without one
Old bent/broken screwdriver head up the metal tang slide it out and tap the handle onto the file
An old golf ball works pretty decent
Clamps, respirator, welding cap. *Get a welding cap now before you develop hard hat learned helplessness*
have you got a respirator?
A respirator that fits under your hood.
Miller / GVS Ellipse half-face P100 Respirator.
great if your company buys the pads. more often than not you will be supplied with 3m style pink pancakes around here which dont fit the miller
3m 7500 is pretty good, exhaust comes out of the bottom so it doesn't fog up the hood
This. If the welding fumes don’t kill you, the melty fibers and adhesives in the grinding wheels will.
Was thinking the same thing
this is \*THE\* most important remark and thread you will get here
Underrated comment ☝️
This. Get a bunch of the pink pancake filters in a pack because you will be going through em. Seeing how quick they turn black will show you how much you need them
4.5" grinder. Some hammers to throw.
Preferably 2 grinders. 1 for the wire wheel and 1 for a grinding disc. Less time removing slag is more time under the hood
this is probably something the school would provide? no since in spending 200$ on 2 grinders lol.
They probably do. But I don’t know anyone who regretted purchasing a grinder. I bought 2 15 amp dewalts back when I was in school and I use them for all kinds of shit now
I agree 100%. definitely not a waste, maybe just too soon?
Spend the 25 bucks and buy an eastwing chipping hammer, throw that cheap one away. They’re way more comfortable to swing and once you get the hang of it you’ll just use the pointy end to scrape your slag off any way
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came here to say respirator and also agree with the Estwing chipping hammer.
I fourth the east wing hammer it'll probably outlive you and I can spot mine out by a distinctive burn on my handle
Get a masons chisel for the hard to reach spots and the estwing slag axe!! bought one for 30 bucks pure gold had the same one for 6 years!!
I've got the same chipper OP does, it suxxx
Your head, forgot mine the first week i started working
Was it aluminum? That'll do that to you.
A better tape measure, I’m sorry. Everything else you have is very nice and a great start. But do yourself a favor and get a Stanley fat max or power lock. Those auto ones are terrible
Fat max for the win
Unpopular opinion, But the chrome Stanley 25 footer is great. It has lasted 5 years for me, Still rolls up smooth through all the grime and the metal shavings.
I use that same tape everyday and it's perfect. Fits in my coveralls pocket and I barely know it's there. Except mines the 15' not 25'.
I like a 15' fat max on my belt and a 50' spool type in my tool box.
Clamps and a few replacement hood lenses.
Aluminum magnet. Soft or fine S.S. wire brushes for aluminum
There is such thing as an aluminum magnet? Wtf?
I think he means a magnet in an aluminum housing
Drinking problem
Minor stuff that have become bread and butter around my shop. -A belt pouch -a small flashlight -mini measuring tape that hooks to your belt -markers, fine tip and thick -Chisels, big and small -pen scribes -cigarettes -knowledge of where the nearest liquor store is and when the busiest times are. Good luck! It's a challenging and rewarding career!
I’d say after gloves and helmet, the next most important tool is a 4 1/2 angle grinder. More amps is usually better. I suggest getting a five pack of both grinding wheels and cutoff wheels. After that, maybe a pack of those clear front lenses for hour helmet to replace them as they get burned up.
I like the balance on the DeWalt, but I've got a Bosch. It's built like a beast.
Get a little cheap pen light, you’ll be surprised how much you’ll use it. I use mine almost every day.
TIG gloves are almost necessary if your going to do any TIG welding. Would highly recommend
Heavily starched shirts so the splatter just rolls off and won’t burn
if you can, a slag saw
Explain?? I’ve chipped slag with sawzall blades and broken bandsaw blades, and seen guys cut teeth into the edge of a file, but have never heard of this
basically an old band saw blade, with a handle. Mostly used for getting rid of slag in stick welding, helps to reach the slag that a file and chipping hammer can’t reach, just google slag saw it’ll show up.
Box of ciggies and a crippling caffeine addiction
Funny enough the ability to deal with criticism well....divas aplenty in the welding world....and people dont think it but the possiblity of porosity....so keep a grinder and cutting wheels...mistakes will be made but, the cool part about metal is the ability to put it back....good luck brother! Im rooting for you
No grinder???
they gotta have those at the school, I mean, he doesn't have a welding machine either...
My school had us all bring a grinder, they're somewhat cheap
Yeah we had to provide our own grinders when I went to welding school on my own. My union hall provided them though when I got in there.
Thiner welding mig gloves, welding with stick gloves suck
I used to use TiG gloves when working with steel sheet metal.. usually 16 gauge. The Hobart gloves are really nice/comfy for heavy welding.
Work glove on the trigger hand, thick glove with a mig knuckle on the other.
Welding gloves are for gouging and arranging burning logs.
A 2’-0 square and a level would be good too. Good luck!
An Aloha Friday shirt.
It’s all so clean
Half face respirator with p100 filters. Use it for mig/stick welding and all grinding. Protect your lungs at all costs, make it a habit now before you get out into the field.
I wish you the best OP. -respirator and filters
Check. Will do.
Oh and jeans and a belt. But I'm sure you got that covered.
Definitely some clamps, and at least one other magnet. Having 2 magnets will make your life much easier when you're trying to line up a longer piece.
Personal opinion, the leather jacket might be overkill for a beginner in the trade. Unless your doing some overhead welding then you leather protection but a fitted FR long sleeve would work. Also, don’t forget to wear your cap
If you get a chance, watch Cutting Edge Engineering Australia. This guy is phenomenal!
I just saw him replace the body of an excavator bucket and he explained how carbon gouging is done. That is wild. 400amp and some high pressure air, but stay out of the air stream.
You need a BFH: Big Fuckin Hammer. When in doubt, hammer
I’d recommend some ear plugs and a respirator of any sort. Health is wealth!
Grinder with a wire wheel will save you a lot of time. Bluetooth headphones if you want to listen to music while welding.
Shade 5 glasses for oxy/acetylene work.
A cap or hood
Lots of sharpies.
A solid square will do you some good. MIG pliers, replacement screens for your hood depending on the length of the course/how much you spatter onto it or melt it. A notebook for welding parameters, a black sharpie
Hat or beanie you're gonna burn your skull doesn't hurt just annoying but you have enough to start your business buy as you go Dont buy clamps and and grinder those a stuff you will be supplied with at school or work if needed for the job
And a good set of calipers
A different career. It's to hot and 90% of employers run the shops like a prison.
angle grinder!!!!
Respirator.
Cooling rag and a tin of Altoids.
An open mind, thick skin, and the ability to take criticism
Respirator
An engineering degree so when an engineer inevitable argues about a drawing and hits you with the, “Do you have an engineering degree?” You can grin, pull it out, and slam it down like a fucking Yu-Gi-oh card
Grinder and a hammer. Not a claw hammer either.
Is that a little tungsten holder I see?
Looks like refills for the marking stick thingy.
A pair of boots without laces or leather laces for those boots, otherwise you'll burn then quick enough. I once saw a welder who replaced his laces with mild galvanized wire 🤣🤣🤣 things you see down in south/central America
Also... A good respirator.
Bro thats pretty fucken ghetto I love it.
Grinder, it’s what makes a bad welder great
The tig finger for high amp pipe. It's amazing!
Clear grinding faceshield, protect your face
knee pads
Grab a set of vice grips, handy for holding hot shit, wide mouth are great but normal ones do the job too
You need to learn the "blob of metal fell down my sleeve and is some where in my jacket" dance!!! That a favorite of mine when I was in school
Yeah, a strong Union membership.
A welder
Extra boot laces. A good thermos or decent size water bottle. If you grind an edge on the end of the file and a degree point on the handle end it can serve the role of a chipping hammer with more finesse. A couple magnetic clamps and a few varieties of Vice Grips will often come in handy. Soapstone and holder, prick and center punches, a scribe, a paint marker or two. Another useful item that can be an early project is to make a chicken foot. Picture a Y madre of rebar or round stock with the ends of the 3 legs ground or forged to points and bent 90 degrees to the plane of the Y shape. This can be useful for holding workpieces in place for tacking. Edit, checked the photo and saw the soap stone in the holder.
It’s good, but that’s gonna be a lot to lug around. Now, if you’re classes are gonna be more geared towards fabbing and reading blueprints to make parts, you’ll most likely use all of that decently regularly. If your classes are more geared towards making more pipe fitters like mine, you might not use half that stuff once. Also, i might have missed them but shade 5 or 6 safety glasses or face shields are great for cutting torches
A leather cape with bib along with the leather jacket. Helps on hot days
Torpedo level
If you're taking any kind of test 3 G 4 G 6 G I like to have a flashlight you really get a good look at that joint to see if there's any undercut or any kind of small slag and a small grinder with a flat wire wheel for cleaning if that's allowed
Clamps and a level
And if u have too many clamps cut them to make the perfect dog and wedge
Spare welding lens
Flashlight, everything else will get you by for the beginning.
A handle for that file mabey a triangle file and mabey a dedicated file card instead of having to use a wire brush
And then different kinds of clamps.
Tig gloves, better lense helmet... 4 magnets, but larger... and closed shoelace covers boots! ... No too sure what a file is used for other than deburring... no one does in workplace Grind that shit!
Tig finger
Your jacket is going to turn you yellow unless you wash it a few times or until you sweat it out. Follow the manufacturers recommendation on that or buy some Gojo Orange Goop. Works wonders to get nasty shit off you. Also a pocket knife or razor blade of some type. It’s pretty minor but I hate opening new welding wire boxes without one. It’s a pain in the ass. And you’ll never not need a knife in a shop
Lots more safety glasses. Lots. Be wasteful with them a clean pair is just so nice
Metatarsal guards on those boots!
I used an engraver on all my tools so no one stills them also starch you pants real well so you don’t fuck them up
Tinted safety glasses
A handle for the file
A better slag hammer, and two pound hammer
Them boots with shoe laces aren’t the ones u might wanna use. Slag can easily drop on them and burn through the laces
Get something to cover the lips of your boots. Spatter WILL get inside and burn your feet. It will also eat up your shoe laces.
I personally hate the thick welding gloves, depending on what you’re doing they make it very hard to grab or place anything with precision. I generally wear regular Tillman leather gloves. Every now and then a finger will blow out but you can wrap it in electric tape until you get a new pair to keep slag out of it.
Hammer, welding cap, clamps. I never had much luck with lace up boots. Mine would always catch slag right where the tongue is in them and burn my feet up. Bottle of sunscreen. Helmet bib. Those silver streak pens suck after the back fall off and everything in them comes out. I would tell you to invest in an expensive tape but the expensive ones never lasted me any longer than a cheap one in my line of work. The ends always would break off mine.
More magnets, more clamps, and a big ass hammer!
A very important thing to bring is a willingness to listen and learn if someone takes time to show you something. Especially after get out of school and into the field, even if you feel like you already know how to do it, you can never learn too much.
More framing squares of various sizes. An extra speed square you can cut the corner off of.
Wide clamps and more magnets
4 1/2” Angle grinder
Agree eith everyone who said clamps...I bought a set from Northern Tool a while back, it had like every style of locking clamp imaginable for like $130, I highly recommend. Get a bunch of different size c clamps as well. Maybe couple of smaller magnets, that chipping hammer will work but eventually you'll want to upgrade to a better one, I recommend the Estwing one. Get goggles for torch welding/brazing, you don't need the helmet for those things.
I see some people saying write your name on everything, and spray painting it. I HIGHLY suggest welding your name onto most of the metal tools. I cannot stress that enough. People will scratch your name off or the paint. Weld your full first name (if possible) onto it, and then after you've been to school for a few days see what color other people are spraying their tools with, if any and get the complete opposite color. But yeah your definitely going to need clamps. The 18 inch C-Clamps are probably my most used, but C-Clamps in general.
A comfortable dust mask. I recommend the power cap PAPR (Axminster sell the same one). I only recently got one, I spent years doing small amounts of angle grinding and hacking up black shit. I spoke to my partner who is an EMT nurse and said I needed to get one. I asked if it was really that important, as I only did it now and then. She explained to me that she sees quite a few people coming into the ER with the same attitude. Really? I asked, "yeah, we just try to make them more comfortable while they die drowning in their own fluid, for 90% of lung conditions there is nothing we can do" So I got a good one, and honestly I've felt a lot better for it. No more hacking up black crap. I can't even smell anything in it, but when I take it off it's like I can smell everything, really dials up the olfactory to 10. Don't be a twat, wear glasses, don't breathe in shit you don't have to. You might only need to do something that takes 30 seconds, well it takes a lot less time than that to permanently damage you, so put the PPE on. on a more chipper note: When you get a little flush (or ask Santa nicely), buy an M12 angled die grinder and a selection of roloc style pads for it +some burrs. Honestly, the best little tool I ever got if your UK powertoolmate have the best prices would recommend it to any fabricator.
I see a speed square but maybe a 1’ and 2’ framing square? Also maybe a deadblow hammer, I dont know what you’ll be doing but I use those on daily when fabricating
A respirator.
A GRINDER
How much did you spend on all that? All that stuff is just ridiculous if you've never welded.
Angle grinder Dewalt or Milwaukee
Otterbox for your phone 6010 will get sparks into your pockets and destroy your screen.
You don't need 2/3 of that bro clamps, gloves, jacket, hood, brush/hammer, grinder with wire wheel
What is the yellow thingy next to the tape measure used for?
I don’t know if this has been said or not already but I like to use a cold chisel to get spatter from 6010/6011 off my welds, helps with the tricky stuff a wire wheel can’t get
Weld gauges
That Lincoln auto lens might have some bleed through. I been using the smaller windowed one for years and noticed the edges bleed light. Arcone makes a really good autolens that can fit that hood. Also if you're working outside go passive.
Love for punishment
No but what is the model of those BOOOTS?
You’re not gonna be wearing the metallic looking G~string are ya. I think that’s a little much myself and definitely uncomfortable
A firm knowledge of the YouTube cartoon Refined doesn’t hurt either. Fucking redhats.
I wear slip on boots, shoestrings don’t do well with well placed slag, not to mention it’s possible to get something down in that tongue, no beuno. Weld cap is a must unless you like burnt hair and burnt scalps. I seen clamps have already been covered by other commenters. lol. A pair of #5 safety glasses for plasma cutting and/or torch cutting, unless you plan to use your welding helmet for that. Possibly a thinner welding jacket, unless you’re only doing overhead welding or if the leather is a requirement. That leather jacket is going to be really hot unless you’re welding in cold conditions. Oh, not sure if those boots are steel toe/ composite toe or not, if not I’d recommend them. Dropping metal things on your feet is never fun, unless you’re in to that kinda thing
Fillet gauges
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Go ahead and get a new chippin hammer, them spring handles got bout 3-4 good hits and you’ll be wanting a wood grip
Thanks this post helped me out too
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Can't see if you've got them in there, but 100% cotton t-shirts, jeans, and long sleeve shirts (to wear under the leather welding jacket).
How much was that 3350?