Stick welding around the object?

[Tuomas]

short cuts are out but yet I see some repeatedly do it. A friend simply closes his eyes for short/ spot type welds and grinding. eye lids did not protect him when a cutting disc exploded probably, i think, from moisture from his tool box storage. I've had a couple of the 1mm ones fly apart.

Moisture ruins grinding wheels sometimes really fast.
Its somewhat usual that one doesn't know, that angle grinder wheels have expiration date.

Its stamped to that steel ring on the center of the wheel.

That's why i store my wheels sideways.
I take from the right, and but new ones to the left.

That way oldest ones are used first, before " best before " expires.