In a previous video, I showed you an embarrassing mistake that I made while welding up a custom iron railing. The mistake wasn’t noticeable until I got the whole iron railing out on site and started the installation.

Thankfully I was able to fix everything on site. Since I had my iPhone with me, I decided to take a quick video of what happened and how I was able to fix it. The problem is, this was a solo install and I was the only one there. It’s impossible to weld and hold video phone at the same time.

Many of you emailed and commented saying that you really wanted to see the actual welding process in action. So today I went into the shop and filmed a reenactment of what happened and the exact welding techniques that I used.

Part 2

This video’s a little long but I show in “real time” exactly how I fixed the problem.

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I hope that answered everyones questions about how I fixed the iron railing I was installing.

If you have any other questions or comments, please feel free to leave them in the comment box below.


PS> For everyone that signed up for the Iron Railing 101
Early Bird list, don’t forget to look for your email coming tomorrow (Friday) afternoon. Since you guys have been so supportive, I’m letting you have first crack at the course. I’m only doing the early bird thing until Monday though. After that you’ll have to pay top dollar and those special bonuses will be gone. It should be there around noon tomorrow.

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So how was your 4th of July weekend?

Here’s how we have fun at our house.


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What do you do to blow off steam on the weekends?

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This past weekend I was installing a beautiful railing for client that I had worked with before. I went through all the normal motions of measuring and finding all the perfect angles and went back to the shop to create some new iron railing goodness.

Everything went smoothly in the shop and I finished up all the fab work in a pretty short amount of time. The problem showed it’s head almost immediately when I began to set up the railing to bolt down to the deck.

My BIG Screw Up

In this quick video you’ll learn how to quickly fix a welding mistake, that can happen to anyone, without looking like a total idiot in front of your customers.

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No matter how experienced of a welder you are, these types of mistakes will occasionally happen. Chances are I probably just accidentally bumped something and it threw everything off.

How Do You Handle Mistakes?

What welding mistakes have you made in the past and how did you deal with them? Let me know in the comments below.

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