Always wanted to be a welder. Life took priority and didn’t have time for school. Now I’ve been taking up welding at the house as a hobby. Learned a lot from this channel. Preciate you guys.
Bro you gave up before you even started you can do it you got a decent car and the time to pick up a travel job? I can put you on with a tanking company out of Charlotte and they will help you pass certs and learn in the field then paying for classes
From one instructor to another , well done! It’s refreshing to find someone who’s teaching to the facts, uses actual AWS terms and definitions terminology, and references code. Too many people on TH-cam teaching people incorrect information, personal concepts and improper language. Thank you! Subscribed!
As a first generation American born and raised in North Carolina by a German Father and French Mother I can say with certainty that Ya'll did the American/British system of inches and feet conversion into Metric Millimeters and Meters Perfectly!! Helpful welding videos for trade school students too!!
I never have left a comment for any video channels but this video thus far has been the best ! You as a video instructor on TH-cam Was able to open up my learning receptors and now I feel confident enough to go into my booth and dominate this welding plate. Thank you so much look forward in viewing more videos from you
Awesome and the meteric measurements made sense out of what would otherwise have been Chinese, or American as it were. Great work guys keep'em coming I'm working my way through your library and learning a boatload...you're a heap more useful to my education than those fellas that call themselves my teachers. Respect.
I like the fact you mentioned the code and inspection - as a engineer we spec out the welds for a reason - most of the time we may not even understand all the complexities of what it takes to achieve the spec we just know what outcome is needed - I know you may think we know everything HA! However, most likely if we are calling something out because of some standard or because of an FEA model we have done. Another really good video!
that makes so much sense! i was welding a trailer yesterday and i'm not a pro welder by any means but i can sometimes lay a decent bead. all my welds were full of porosity and i was so frustrated because i couldn't figure out what was going on. it was a bit windy and i didn't correctly clean the oil off the new steel. i used some sort of crappy citrus cleaner that had left a film behind so that must have been the issue! thank you!
Aside from saying "para" instead of "a", that intro was surprisingly well spoken! 😂 Greetings from south of the border! Your videos have helped me so much!
Undercut! When I started stick welding I used 1/8" 6013 at about 160 amps on my big-ol 240V Sears welder. Nice and easy to strike an arc made what I thought was a nice weld, but had undercut!
Awesome video! The Spanish in the beginning and the 'typical' shop behavior at the end really brought the whole informative video together! 🤣🤣🤣💯👍 Can't wait to go out to my shop tonight and see if I can screw up less with this new knowledge! Thank you guys!
Thanks I'm on my first weld job and I'm not used to working outside w booth so I have trouble getting correct angle due to tight work space (behind pipes)
I'm trying to fix a couple pinhole leaks in a hard radiator line. I drained the water from the line and when I attempted to plug the hole my weld had a ton of porosity. I'm in a garage with no draft, I tried more gas, less gas, material is clean aside from the inside which still has a little moisture from the coolant. Is the moisture inside causing my porosity problem? I've tried everything
Thanks for the tips. I only weld for my own machinery, I don't do welding professionally, so I won't get inspected for it, LOL. But I do want to weld perfect and do worry about if my welds are strong enough. I seem to be hopeless at fillet welding and vertical welding. From your video I can see that I get undercut and worm holes a lot. I think I'm doing perfectly with the weaving and going at the right speed and angle, but obviously not. Sometimes I will get a perfect run in the middle of a run of crap weld. I always fix worm holes by clearing out the slag then welding in it and it's always perfect that time. I think what I'm doing wrong is I definately angle the electrode too steep and I must be moving too quick. Working outside doesn't help either, as the wind makes me wobble and I end up with the electrode going close then a mile away. I will try and do better tomorrow and will try and keep the electrode at the same distance as the thickness of the electrode. I am cutting out and replacing rotted metal on a tractor topper mower and typically welding steel of 3mm to 5mm.
Could you do a video on what causes crown ups? I don’t know what else to call them but its when your GMAW and you finish your weld, then all of a sudden, it’s like a volcano erupts in the spot you finished your weld. Not sure what to call it other than a crown up. Love the video, thank you for the great knowledge.
Hey guys I am new to welding and I am listening and practicing the techniques you all share. However I have a question about porosity. You mentioned hydrocarbons like paint and wd-40 lead to porosity. Being that I am new to this industry will this be a problem for a cellulose rod like 6011 ? Guys at work tend to say you can burn paint off. I should mention by trade I am a mechanic. So I am taking the advice I received on the job with a grain of salt.
As a new hobby welder I am experiencing all these new welder problems. With about 6 hours experience with a 120v hobby stick welder. My biggest problem right now is trying to clean up my first pass welds. I mean some are really bad. So when I grind them and use the hammer and wire brush. Down in the bottom of all those imperfections is slag that I can't get to. So the second passes is worst than the first. Do you have any advise on this? Even grinding almost all the weld away usually can't clean up the slag. Thanks for your videos. I try to learn some from everything I watch.
@@hotlinedubai1235 LOL. Yes absolutely. I took a 2 day, weekend class at the Community college. Where I had a welder,pipe-fitter come in and show us what to do. It wasn't really for greenhorn guys. It was mostly as a refresher for former students that hadn't landed a job yet. But he let me in and I had a great time laying beads.
Beard looks good. Has it ever caught on fire?? Man cub came out of hibernation! Nice tip on removing stinger from electrode! What kind of camera filter do y’all use when filming the welding segments? What about Bob?? Ya know the fella that was here before man cub and captain red beard?? You and the cub a great! Thinking of Bob though. Throwing out positive vibes to Bob!! 🌈🦄🍄🐲🐽🐯🥨🍺🍪🍩🥩🧀
Matt D thanks man. Only singed the beard once and that was in this video. The hood keeps it pretty well covered. Bob will be back early fall. He asked for some personal time and we are respecting his request.
We use high end camera that can capture the arc shot. It's all settings. However, You can get good arc shots with your phone or a handy can and some #9 gold glass
Hi, thanks for your help I appreciate it. Hola !!!! Gracias por la info y esperando ser un excelente soldador a través de esta info . Gracias desde México CDMX
@@GodslilRedneck23 What I would really like to see is the different process of GMAW in the family of globular, spray arc and there's one more fairly new one that I can't think of the name off hand, explained and their appropriate uses. I read about or maybe saw a small clip on that new process. If I remember correctly, it was closer to spray arc, yet different. Thank you.
This is great tips but one thing that has me f up I work with welding different gauges like we make container “homes” and we talking about welding 1/4 to 18 gauge corrugation ? Idk of flux core is good horizontal postions tends to burn through if I try to even the weld on both metals I tend to focus more on the thicker part to allow more penetration and then weave it to the thin metal with out blowing through ? Any tips ?
And also causes under cut when I weld horizontal if I weld vertical down welds just fine just when I tend to weld over head horizontal and flat horizontal tend to create under cut 💕
I figure if I do everything wrong, can't blame me for x, because it was x, y and z and probably also included a few additional errors. One area of Porosity in my first weld (on a plow mount non-critical weld) may have been caused by smoking the stick and thereby screwing up the flux, or my lack of experience, having inadequate heat to start, and not pushing 7018 (Dragging). The stick got red hot and smoked and the flux chanced color and I wonder if that altered the chemical composition and wreaked havoc on that area of the weld. Maybe the neighbor's fire truck call this morning was a turkey frying error, not a porosity problem, anyway it wasn't either of us, so Happy Thanksgiving.
I plan to build a bicycle chopper using my 90amp Craftsman Arc welder with 6013e rods, any advice? I want to do this because these custom bicycle builders keeps telling me I can't
There is a series on YT of a French guy making a Ford GT40 replica with a stick welder... It can be done if you're good and use 1.6mm wall thickness minimum. Quality bicycle tubing is about half that but you did say this was a chopper...
Personally I’ve never seen the traditional perocity in duel shield flux core. Probibly has somthing to do with the fact that I’ve never run the stuff idk
Always wanted to be a welder. Life took priority and didn’t have time for school. Now I’ve been taking up welding at the house as a hobby. Learned a lot from this channel. Preciate you guys.
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Bro you gave up before you even started you can do it you got a decent car and the time to pick up a travel job? I can put you on with a tanking company out of Charlotte and they will help you pass certs and learn in the field then paying for classes
From one instructor to another , well done! It’s refreshing to find someone who’s teaching to the facts, uses actual AWS terms and definitions terminology, and references code. Too many people on TH-cam teaching people incorrect information, personal concepts and improper language. Thank you! Subscribed!
Jason Hill thanks for the support.
@@GodslilRedneck23 Love your vids. As a level III, I ensure my inspectors and welders understand welds, acceptable and not acceptable.
You’ve taught me more than my weld instructor has in 3 weeks keep up the great vids thanks.!
As a first generation American born and raised in North Carolina by a German Father and French Mother I can say with certainty that Ya'll did the American/British system of inches and feet conversion into Metric Millimeters and Meters Perfectly!! Helpful welding videos for trade school students too!!
really appreciate metric conversion, keep up
ya, some shops use machinists measurements, even in USA
I never have left a comment for any video channels but this video thus far has been the best ! You as a video instructor on TH-cam Was able to open up my learning receptors and now I feel confident enough to go into my booth and dominate this welding plate. Thank you so much look forward in viewing more videos from you
Where has the old man gone...I love his teaching mannerisms. He’s awesome!
White Church Farm Outdoors bob is taking a personal break
Bob is taking some personal time. He should be back in early fall
Red Beard for the win, not a bad instructor among them, just three excellent styles.
Awesome and the meteric measurements made sense out of what would otherwise have been Chinese, or American as it were. Great work guys keep'em coming I'm working my way through your library and learning a boatload...you're a heap more useful to my education than those fellas that call themselves my teachers. Respect.
Excellent information! Although I must say that his "poor" welds looks loads better than my "good" welds lol
Feel ya haha, struggle is real
I like the fact you mentioned the code and inspection - as a engineer we spec out the welds for a reason - most of the time we may not even understand all the complexities of what it takes to achieve the spec we just know what outcome is needed - I know you may think we know everything HA! However, most likely if we are calling something out because of some standard or because of an FEA model we have done. Another really good video!
Chris AA thanks, we appreciate the support. We try to cover all the bases and terminology for welders, inspectors, hobbyists, engineers etc.
Videos like this helped me pass my certs..
Gratis Media glad we could be of assistance.
@@GodslilRedneck23 Thanks again Jason. Hell, you and Big Bob need your names on my certs, much as I look at these videos while in class lol.
that makes so much sense! i was welding a trailer yesterday and i'm not a pro welder by any means but i can sometimes lay a decent bead. all my welds were full of porosity and i was so frustrated because i couldn't figure out what was going on. it was a bit windy and i didn't correctly clean the oil off the new steel. i used some sort of crappy citrus cleaner that had left a film behind so that must have been the issue! thank you!
Same, having porosity in my weld using a 85 dollar welding machine
Aside from saying "para" instead of "a", that intro was surprisingly well spoken! 😂
Greetings from south of the border! Your videos have helped me so much!
Thanks for providing all the great videos for free!
The WALTERS thanks for the support. We appreciate you watching.
Great video . Nice job with all your info ,and thumbs up to the camera guy
cheff Solo thanks for watching. Yeah the camera guy does a great job.
Shout out to the camera guy! He must have done something right cause he never catches shit anymore. haha
I learn way from your channel , than I did in welding school , blessings
Really liking your series of showing problems and solutions. Great Job !!!
Didn't know Action Bronson was into welding😁. Great video man👍
Undercut! When I started stick welding I used 1/8" 6013 at about 160 amps on my big-ol 240V Sears welder. Nice and easy to strike an arc made what I thought was a nice weld, but had undercut!
It's nice to see u named the video , arc stikes instead of arc strikes
Thanx man that is very helping for someone who study CSWIP.
Awesome video! The Spanish in the beginning and the 'typical' shop behavior at the end really brought the whole informative video together! 🤣🤣🤣💯👍 Can't wait to go out to my shop tonight and see if I can screw up less with this new knowledge! Thank you guys!
Super well explained.. also weld video looks great... easy to learn. Thank you
Good start to what should be a good series. Thanks.
Thank you sir 🙏
Kevin Lee stay tuned there’s more coming. We appreciate you watching.
@@GodslilRedneck23 no worries. I'll be watching anything this channel puts out.
Great arc shots, and outtakes are fun cheers
Nice video, and GREAT BEARD DUDE!
Cverastegui thank you for both compliments.
I was having undercut problems. Sorted thanks mate. Great vid as usual. (i've just started welding).
Jesus, that ending. Im crying!!
Lol! Nothing more fun than catching the weldor on fire while he's welding!!
Awesome outtakes Red!!
Tommy T that little 💩 singed the beard man, 😂 not cool.
if you had undercut on the top edge of the join like @4:50 could you run another bead along the top toe of that weld and be ok?
Xzempt depends on what the weld size is specified but yes, that’s a common fix in many applications. It will ultimately be up to the inspector.
Very well explained, thank you.
Awesome session ! Thanks for the knowledge that u provided.
How’s Bob
ronnie holloway my thought as well, I hope everything is going well for him.
Yeh is Bob ok?
what happened to him?
Gaston Glow he’s taking some personal time off, not sure what exactly but let’s just hope he’s alive and well
@@GraduatedIn i think he was dealing with the flooding that happened a while ago
Awesome guide! Thank you guys!
Really good informational video!! Must keep reminding myself to buy a crocodile stinger then the twisty type.
Check out the stinger V. We haven't pulled the trigger on one yet, but hear awesome things.
@@Welddotcom Such a good idea of a design, but UK based!
Weld.com pull the trigger 😂 I wanna try it out.
Great video, thanks!
Thanks for watching 🙏
rufusmarmeduke thank you. We appreciate the support.
@@GodslilRedneck23 are you guys working out of Largo? Best regards... Paul
Thanks I'm on my first weld job and I'm not used to working outside w booth so I have trouble getting correct angle due to tight work space (behind pipes)
Great series, will you be covering mig & tig?
Robin R. Yep
Will u please do a video on 3f undercut with 1/8 7018
Great video brotha 🤙🏻
Be careful, you’re developing a Bob-like sense of humor.
Thank you for the advice and I appreciate your videos
Really love the videos dude, I like your teaching style. Is Bob ok? Having seen him in ages,he also had an amazing teaching approach
He should be back around early fall
Me gusta mucho este video. gracias Señor.... Oh sorry, Awesome video brother.
Okay, Beto ORourke. I would prefer if you spoke in Romanian!
Steve just Steve Muchas gracias hermano.
Jason Becker - It’s called a joke. Don’t go full PC on your viewers.
None Blank nah. Not going PC here.
@@blanknone5408 easy goes it, Robert Francis
Look forward to every video... you guys Rock!
So HELPFUL. THANK YOU!!!
I'm trying to fix a couple pinhole leaks in a hard radiator line. I drained the water from the line and when I attempted to plug the hole my weld had a ton of porosity. I'm in a garage with no draft, I tried more gas, less gas, material is clean aside from the inside which still has a little moisture from the coolant. Is the moisture inside causing my porosity problem? I've tried everything
Thanks for the tips. I only weld for my own machinery, I don't do welding professionally, so I won't get inspected for it, LOL. But I do want to weld perfect and do worry about if my welds are strong enough. I seem to be hopeless at fillet welding and vertical welding. From your video I can see that I get undercut and worm holes a lot. I think I'm doing perfectly with the weaving and going at the right speed and angle, but obviously not. Sometimes I will get a perfect run in the middle of a run of crap weld. I always fix worm holes by clearing out the slag then welding in it and it's always perfect that time. I think what I'm doing wrong is I definately angle the electrode too steep and I must be moving too quick. Working outside doesn't help either, as the wind makes me wobble and I end up with the electrode going close then a mile away. I will try and do better tomorrow and will try and keep the electrode at the same distance as the thickness of the electrode. I am cutting out and replacing rotted metal on a tractor topper mower and typically welding steel of 3mm to 5mm.
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Where did you get your welding cap bud
Brandon Hernandez @bluecollarcaps on Instagram.
Could you do a video on what causes crown ups?
I don’t know what else to call them but its when your GMAW and you finish your weld, then all of a sudden, it’s like a volcano erupts in the spot you finished your weld. Not sure what to call it other than a crown up. Love the video, thank you for the great knowledge.
😂😂...i was like...wait,what???....good intro bro!
Hey bro I like bob but I’d like to see you stick around too though. Love the stick welding.
Whatz up Welders thanks man, I plan on being around for awhile.
Outstanding Jason
Paul Brown thanks Paul.
Bro calculation on heat treatment and metallurgy. How to decide post heat and preheat welding. How to avoid distorstion
Hey guys I am new to welding and I am listening and practicing the techniques you all share. However I have a question about porosity. You mentioned hydrocarbons like paint and wd-40 lead to porosity. Being that I am new to this industry will this be a problem for a cellulose rod like 6011 ? Guys at work tend to say you can burn paint off. I should mention by trade I am a mechanic. So I am taking the advice I received on the job with a grain of salt.
As a new hobby welder I am experiencing all these new welder problems. With about 6 hours experience with a 120v hobby stick welder. My biggest problem right now is trying to clean up my first pass welds. I mean some are really bad. So when I grind them and use the hammer and wire brush. Down in the bottom of all those imperfections is slag that I can't get to. So the second passes is worst than the first. Do you have any advise on this? Even grinding almost all the weld away usually can't clean up the slag. Thanks for your videos. I try to learn some from everything I watch.
Any progress?
@@hotlinedubai1235 LOL. Yes absolutely. I took a 2 day, weekend class at the Community college. Where I had a welder,pipe-fitter come in and show us what to do. It wasn't really for greenhorn guys. It was mostly as a refresher for former students that hadn't landed a job yet. But he let me in and I had a great time laying beads.
@@johnwhite291 good good wish you good luck
Beard looks good. Has it ever caught on fire?? Man cub came out of hibernation! Nice tip on removing stinger from electrode! What kind of camera filter do y’all use when filming the welding segments? What about Bob?? Ya know the fella that was here before man cub and captain red beard?? You and the cub a great! Thinking of Bob though. Throwing out positive vibes to Bob!!
🌈🦄🍄🐲🐽🐯🥨🍺🍪🍩🥩🧀
Matt D thanks man. Only singed the beard once and that was in this video. The hood keeps it pretty well covered. Bob will be back early fall. He asked for some personal time and we are respecting his request.
We use high end camera that can capture the arc shot. It's all settings. However, You can get good arc shots with your phone or a handy can and some #9 gold glass
Red beard you rock brother, thanx for the info
How do you protect your beard during welding? Aren't you afraid it will catch on fire?
Dan L. The leather on my hood keeps it covered pretty good. I also have a leather flap on my face shield.
lmao nice intro dawg, i deadass thought it was gunna be in spanish
Rusty wire and worn tip will plague you with porosity too.
Hi and thanks
but what if you are getting porosity with electrode?
I see the everlast welders. I’m curious how they are holding up ? Are they a sponsor or do you just like them ?
Gene Miller I have one and it works good
Hi, thanks for your help I appreciate it. Hola !!!! Gracias por la info y esperando ser un excelente soldador a través de esta info . Gracias desde México CDMX
When is the next time you talk about continuity? 😍 Btw, nice grinding rack you made.
Thanks
10:4 littleAl Thanks man, what would you like to know about continuity?
@@GodslilRedneck23 What I would really like to see is the different process of GMAW in the family of globular, spray arc and there's one more fairly new one that I can't think of the name off hand, explained and their appropriate uses. I read about or maybe saw a small clip on that new process. If I remember correctly, it was closer to spray arc, yet different.
Thank you.
10:4 littleAl its coming. We’re waiting on some new toys so we can really highlight the differences for you all.
@@GodslilRedneck23 Cool. Welddotcom must have deep pockets. Lol
This is great tips but one thing that has me f up I work with welding different gauges like we make container “homes” and we talking about welding 1/4 to 18 gauge corrugation ? Idk of flux core is good horizontal postions tends to burn through if I try to even the weld on both metals I tend to focus more on the thicker part to allow more penetration and then weave it to the thin metal with out blowing through ? Any tips ?
And also causes under cut when I weld horizontal if I weld vertical down welds just fine just when I tend to weld over head horizontal and flat horizontal tend to create under cut 💕
I'm curious about the coupon bursting into flames at the end, what happened there? Did you guys put some flammable on the metal?
Loud and clear !
I figure if I do everything wrong, can't blame me for x, because it was x, y and z and probably also included a few additional errors. One area of Porosity in my first weld (on a plow mount non-critical weld) may have been caused by smoking the stick and thereby screwing up the flux, or my lack of experience, having inadequate heat to start, and not pushing 7018 (Dragging). The stick got red hot and smoked and the flux chanced color and I wonder if that altered the chemical composition and wreaked havoc on that area of the weld. Maybe the neighbor's fire truck call this morning was a turkey frying error, not a porosity problem, anyway it wasn't either of us, so Happy Thanksgiving.
while you're at it, can you show what causes / how to prevent slag inclusions and lack of root fusion with 6012?
I plan to build a bicycle chopper using my 90amp Craftsman Arc welder with 6013e rods, any advice?
I want to do this because these custom bicycle builders keeps telling me I can't
There is a series on YT of a French guy making a Ford GT40 replica with a stick welder... It can be done if you're good and use 1.6mm wall thickness minimum. Quality bicycle tubing is about half that but you did say this was a chopper...
Red beard you are great but is the moffat bear coming back
Yeah. Looks like early Fall is the target return.
Weld.com
Yay
Steve Doucette thanks man, I’m looking forward to his return too.
Should do a video about undercut on vertical welding.
👍🏻 educational.
And the WD-40 comment makes sense when you get to the end. :)
I have problem with 7018 slag is eather hard, powder or thin, why is that happening ?
appreciate the spanish man! awesome!
Base metal bursts in to flames. I hate it when that happens!
Lee Barnhart right 😂
you didnt mention anything about porosity with electrodes... been struggling a little with porosity on the last quarter of my weld with electrodes
What is the other name for welding porosity? Answer asap
Hi ,, can someone tell me the type of this defects ??
Great video, what happened to Bob?
Thanks a lot very helpful
Personally I’ve never seen the traditional perocity in duel shield flux core. Probibly has somthing to do with the fact that I’ve never run the stuff idk
“Not all discontinuity is a rejection” not in my garage
Love this guy's content, its great... But I miss Bob measuring rod diameter with his nose and mouth
I'll make sure to pass that along to him 🤣
Good ! Y’all should put translation on your videos a lot Hispanic people follows y’alls channel too
Your beard is alot better than Bob's tho
if you keep a really tight arc, you can go pretty dang fast and not worry about undercut
Nice video
The wind! I should have thought! That explains why my last weld looked like a cheese.
MAYBE YOU WERE HUNGRY
Porosity and undercut? That’s called artesian and people will pay extra for the rustic and distressed look 😂
🤣🤣🤣
thanks man it is good
I thought it was cool on the porosity that you could hear the weld sound change when he shot the compressed air in
What's undercut?
Cause?
LOL. I was gonna close the video after the first two seconds!
Thank you :)
Very nice English btw haha, nice vid
Where's Bob??????
Ah ok, so THAT is what an arc strike means. I work as a firewatch at a Navy shipyard and the welder I watch is constantly doing that.
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