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This is the method of welding that the US sent technical advisors to the USSR during world war 2 to show the soviets how to make really good welds on the hulls of the soviets tanks. It increased the durability and decreased the production time of the tanks so that the germans had a really bad time on the eastern front. As an example the T-34's made before the war started were good but once production speed was increased, the T-34s were susceptible to having their hulls crack at the joints between the massive plates. So these tanks were literally cracking apart after being driven only 10 or so kilometers. And if they got hit by a high caliber glancing blow the hull would be ruined due to it cracking along all the seams. Afterwards, both speed and quality increased massively allowing the tank factories to outproduce the Germans by a factor of almost 10.
Evidently some people have never seen seem welding equipment for straight line runs. Some people call that track welding equipment. Some of that equipment has multiple adjustment points to follow very irregular seams. I have seen subarc welding equipment with a hand held torch. The massive slag blanket and unmelted flux really help to slow the cooling rate in the weld zone and heat affected zone.
I am 13 my grandfather was a ironworker for 40 years and he started teaching me to weld when I was 7 and I can now make welds not as clean as that but pretty clean for my 6 years of welding. All my friends think am a nerd because I can use a welder, angle grinder, asleden torch(pretty sure I spelt that wrong) , as well as a plasma cutter. Most of my friends don't even know what those are and it is cool to be able to read the comments on videos like these and be able to understand what people are talking about.
Young man - my salute to you and your grandfather. I'm about to retire from an almost 40 year engineering career - like you - my father taught me to be handy, and he stressed the value of an education as one of the few things in life that once you'd earned it, no one could take it away from you. My childhood dream was to work in the space program - I achieved that (Space Shuttle, JPL, SDI ("Star Wars"), and went on to a second career in medical devices. You are privileged to have at your fingertips the greatest storehouse of information in history - the internet - but you have to process, assimilate, and use it for it to become your knowledge. You're on the right path, and following it diligently is how you will become great. Nurture and grow your curiosity, your thirst, your need for intellectual and physical advancement. Learn to do the things that others can't. Be that nerd - the one that always gets called when one one else has a clue. Improve and polish your communication skills - when you're an accomplished adult, no one will care where you went to school or what your GPA was - they'll judge you by the words you speak and write (acetylene))) and by what you can actually do. Combine this with a kind and gentle character, a healthy sense of humor, and a thick skin, and you'll be as fine a man as you can be. The journey won't be easy, but every life is a struggle - even for those you think "have it all". I wish you the best - I hope that someday when you're about my age, you'll look back and remember this, and think, "that man told me the truth".
Overbuilt automotive and ed federoff thank you so much for those words you sound just like my grandfather. And I will remember these words especially acetylene. :)
That's awesome. I've been encouraging my friends' 15 yr old son and he's taking welding in school and really likes it. Its a better future than becoming a My Little Pony. Just saying. 😏
Sometimes, you get a regular guy that absolutely hates the way shit is done and invents a machine to do it so he can get home sooner to drink beer.......and fuck his wife.
Haha, this takes me back. Spent 9 months as the offsider on the other side of those 4 ft diameter cans knocking off the slag strips with a hammer (point and chisel-point). Steel was 3/4" thick, and usually took 3-4 rotations to fill the gap (was a wider gap) with cap weld on top to finish. Looks like you don't have a problem with slag strips these days. It was 35 years ago for me. Welders were still Lincoln Electric though, but no fancy digital displays. More or less just a knob for volts and a knob for amps. Nice work :)
Then you are not keeping up ....well your comments is 7 years old .....wait a minute 6 years ago I was operating a tower trolley sub arc that welded 12-16 foot diameter tower sections together and this would have gotten me FIRED!
So... 8 years later, YT recommends a video to me that I A) would never think to look for; B) Something I had NO idea existed; and C) Had too many beers to understand what's going on!! Don't get me wrong, I've dabbled with welding before ...but this...wtf is this sorcery?!?! I think it's pretty cool. I kid around but this stuff IS fascinating to folks like us on the "outside" of these trades!! Pretty cool!
My Dad was welder, working to built Navy ships back when one wage earner could support a family. He was really good. Was the guy they brought in to rework other guys’ flubs. Later he worked on pumps for nuclear reactors. Had second jobs. Never had a problem finding one. He’d go in, take a test, and be hired.
This is pretty much the same set up they use at the shop I work at. They are trying to set up a flux recovery so they can use it a few times. Awesome videos!!
In Ireland this is known as Submerged Arc Welding and according to the steel fixer that attempted to teach me how to arc-weld back in the early 1970s the technique was reputed to have been perfected by a team of welders and engineers at the Haarland and Wolfe ship yard in Belfast (wher Titanic was built) and was used initially to butt weld large sheets of plate steel together to form ship-decks etc. Nice demonstration video.
i work in pressure vessel fab shop in the east bay California we use this process all the time for our round and straight seams for the large and small pressure vessels and heat exchangers we build. Awsome and super chill process to run if you know what your doing. Set up is the key for a clean sub arc weld.
I remember reading that the engineers working on Apollo in the 60’s had a problem with their welds and finally decided that the automated welder was the problem. So they took it apart and reengineered it. Great strong welds afterward.
been doing this type of welding for 40 years, when you've got your act together, things go smoothly, when things go badly.....time for the gouger and grinder
Do this every day on round seams on pressure vessels. Far from perfect, I think its a popular process just because of the sheer amount of metal it can lay down so fast. Alot of ours have to pass x-rays and have a certain amount of imperfection or less. I believe it has a good amount of porosity, but so much is passable. I believe its been around since the 30s, and I wonder how ide never heard of it until i started this job.
I used to do this sort of welding on a tank welding machine back in 1973, welding hot water tank bases. It does a very neat welding and no sparks escaping.
@@MFKR696 Thank you for that correction, it bothers me that the least informed out there are the most confident when they speak. I used to work at Lincoln Electric in Euclid Ohio and loved seeing these massive pipe welding machines in action!
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One company I worked for bought a new lincoln sub-arc machine and they came in to show us how to use it properly. I am a die hard miller fan but I have to give it to lincoln for doing that.
HE IS RUNNING "WAY" OUT SIDE OF PARAMETERS BEING SEMI AUTOMATIC LIKE THAT YOU SHOULD HAVE HAD A MUCH MORE UNIFORM WELD, I COULD DO BETTER FREEHAND WITH DUAL SHIELD OR EVEN CORE SHIELD 6. IF I WERE RUNNING YOUR WELDER, I WOULD HAVE THE INCHES PER MINUTE, VOLTAGE , AND AMPERAGE SO DIALED IN YOU WOULD ONLY SEE A DIME HEIGHTH AND WIDTH WELD WITH PERFECT UNIFORMTY
It can be a bitch/finicky sometimes depending on how it's prepped. Our shit is pretty clean so we don't even etch the oxidation off we just go right to welding. The new machines make it so much nicer and smoother. It's very fast, hot and bright as hell! You'll flash burn yourself in the matter of only a couple min. Literally.
A lot of the 1/4 to 1/2 we weld we run around 24v at around 200 amps. The old standard push pull machines would do the same but at 26v and with lots of spatter. so these new machines will weld the same thickness with better quality using less power :-) 100% duty cycle.
Well it comes at a price. These are about 15k$ machines. Not cheap at all! Funny thing is the power unit is only like 60 pounds and the feeder is like 30 or less lol. Big power in a tinny arse package :-)
I'm sure you seen the newer miller product line. Everything is micro chips and computer boards now. No big several hundo pound machines. Even the plasma cutters rated for 5/8 are suit case size now.
Actually, Tank builders are using sub arc to weld horizontal round seams, using a nylon or canvas belt on rollers positioned about an inch of so below the seam to catch the flux and allow it to accumulate above the wire and arc, therefore submerging the arc. It makes really nice welds even in this position and if you are careful not to blow through thinner material, can do in 3 hours what would take 3 welders 2 days to complete, and do it with very high weld purity.
+Colonel Angus Nice idea for the guy but you really need a lesson in how advertising works, don't set someone up to fall without knowing what goes on first.
I used to do this stuff. Pretty rare type of welding I found. Most welders have no idea what the hell I'm talking about when I tell them about the company I worked at. We made rolls for foundries and also rock crusher rolls that make rocks into powder. The rock crushers were so hard we had to burn the cracks out before we could weld them back up instead of cutting them on a lathe. Interesting work.
you ought to see the long seems process.... five big wires. ran by 7 powerwave welders. we sub arc the ID with four wires and the OD with five wires. we make the PIPE
I welded Sub-arch for awhile, every wind tower is welded sub-arch. The kitty litter looking stuff is Flux so no shield gas is needed. When I welded we used 2 ,1/8" wire. One at 90º for penetration at 650v 31amps. The trailing wire was 550v 29amps. Trailing was fill and the pretty cap finishing weld. Our tip was set at 1 1/4 inch from the bottom of the crevice. Our average steel thickness was 22mm.
SAWs are awesome. We have one of those at the school I go to. I like how they use bolt cutters for their mig pliers and the slag is nothing short of epic.
yes, although what he is welding here is pretty thin. With my machine I start with lower voltage and amperage for the first pass, more of each on the second pass, ditto third pass, and fourth pass and on it remains the same. My setup is also a dual head which I can use on 36" and bigger diameter in which case, the fourth pass I fire up the AC unit.
When I used to repair welders I had to replace a transformer on a 1500amp Lincoln welder used for SAW. After the repair I wanted to make sure everything was working as it should so I went to the factory where it was installed. The operator was joining two 1" I-beams and was running around 1000amps. I had never seen SAW before just MIG and TIG so I was expecting to get a nice sun tan. I put on my welding helmet and stood back a few feet. Needless to say I got a few laughs at my expense.
Lincoln Power Wave power supplies are possibly as sophisticated as they get. The software is so flexible as far as waveform control and process analysis are concerned that they actually use these power supplies for welding research and development.
i work in the VCS sub program, we use something similar to this. they are not perfect and its a nasty process if you have to remove the weld and do it by hand, but it cuts down the time significantly building a submarine.
What a great process, not seen that often today only in heavy industry or shipbuilding. In the right application no other process can compete with its deposition and quality, just a pain with the flux and slag.
I used to work at Union tank car company and we used a bunch of these but theyre much larger than this one, to weld the joints for each tub much like this except the pipe is 10-12ft across and the wire is much thicker
It's a common practice in heavy industrial welding...it was patented many moons ago in 1935. Used in joining thick plates and piping that can be rotated as is shown here.
wound up here after trying to find something on air powered flux vacuum because apparently I am installing one on my sub arc tomorrow... not alot of sub arc videos on you tube... thanks for posting it...
I’ve seen it once at Cedar Rapids paver factory in Iowa and most of us was given an opportunity to hold the handheld gun and weld a few inches. You don’t need a helmet to do this nor could I see the puddle it’s very interesting.
LearningZone the computer was set so all he done was making sure there isnt no flaw or mistake in programming if it was their first machine . in all cool video
eu fiz um curso de solda de todos os tipos quando era menor de idade no senai do ipiranga isso a mais ou menos 46 anos mas essa solda eu desconheço eu só não segui na profissão porque o gás não me fazia bem era curso gratuito e nós recebíamos leite paulista de garrafa de vidro com a tampinha em alumínio...eu admiro demais o serviço ele é fantástico!!
lots of things can cause pin holes. you can use a flux core wire with the SAW process and it will give you a better chance of obtaining fusion and less of a chance of contamination. As long as the metal is clean a solid wire can be used with the SAW process. Using the FCAW process with a argon/co2 back up is an excellent welding process. SAW is great for long welds in the flat position but FCAW is much more versitile.
MrPunisheer Sure me too. Hold my vodka let me try! (I am russian) You fucking piece of shit if you dont fuse when i heat the fuck out of you you wilk get destroyed by russia! *metal fuses itself together*
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He's welding the outside "gert" seam. On wind towers it has a 30% bevel and a 5mm flush spot. You would also stand in the inside and weld the inside gert seam. We used 2, 1/4 wire Lincoln welders.
This is the method of welding that the US sent technical advisors to the USSR during world war 2 to show the soviets how to make really good welds on the hulls of the soviets tanks. It increased the durability and decreased the production time of the tanks so that the germans had a really bad time on the eastern front. As an example the T-34's made before the war started were good but once production speed was increased, the T-34s were susceptible to having their hulls crack at the joints between the massive plates. So these tanks were literally cracking apart after being driven only 10 or so kilometers. And if they got hit by a high caliber glancing blow the hull would be ruined due to it cracking along all the seams. Afterwards, both speed and quality increased massively allowing the tank factories to outproduce the Germans by a factor of almost 10.
I wanna see the rotisserie that spun those soviet hulls in a circle.
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Evidently some people have never seen seem welding equipment for straight line runs. Some people call that track welding equipment. Some of that equipment has multiple adjustment points to follow very irregular seams. I have seen subarc welding equipment with a hand held torch. The massive slag blanket and unmelted flux really help to slow the cooling rate in the weld zone and heat affected zone.
Appreciate the comment, huge fan of ww2, very interesting.
Imagine helping fucking communists. What a shameful country this is
I am 13 my grandfather was a ironworker for 40 years and he started teaching me to weld when I was 7 and I can now make welds not as clean as that but pretty clean for my 6 years of welding. All my friends think am a nerd because I can use a welder, angle grinder, asleden torch(pretty sure I spelt that wrong) , as well as a plasma cutter. Most of my friends don't even know what those are and it is cool to be able to read the comments on videos like these and be able to understand what people are talking about.
so cool to here a young feller is a man all ready be humble sir n keep up the good work brother ;]
Young man - my salute to you and your grandfather. I'm about to retire from an almost 40 year engineering career - like you - my father taught me to be handy, and he stressed the value of an education as one of the few things in life that once you'd earned it, no one could take it away from you. My childhood dream was to work in the space program - I achieved that (Space Shuttle, JPL, SDI ("Star Wars"), and went on to a second career in medical devices. You are privileged to have at your fingertips the greatest storehouse of information in history - the internet - but you have to process, assimilate, and use it for it to become your knowledge. You're on the right path, and following it diligently is how you will become great. Nurture and grow your curiosity, your thirst, your need for intellectual and physical advancement. Learn to do the things that others can't. Be that nerd - the one that always gets called when one one else has a clue. Improve and polish your communication skills - when you're an accomplished adult, no one will care where you went to school or what your GPA was - they'll judge you by the words you speak and write (acetylene))) and by what you can actually do. Combine this with a kind and gentle character, a healthy sense of humor, and a thick skin, and you'll be as fine a man as you can be. The journey won't be easy, but every life is a struggle - even for those you think "have it all". I wish you the best - I hope that someday when you're about my age, you'll look back and remember this, and think, "that man told me the truth".
Overbuilt automotive and ed federoff thank you so much for those words you sound just like my grandfather. And I will remember these words especially acetylene. :)
I also know how to weld, it's a fun hobby
That's awesome. I've been encouraging my friends' 15 yr old son and he's taking welding in school and really likes it. Its a better future than becoming a My Little Pony. Just saying. 😏
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TH-cam is recommending it to everyone. Cool Stuff.
You have to wonder how some of these machines get invented......OUTSTANDING
Sometimes, you get a regular guy that absolutely hates the way shit is done and invents a machine to do it so he can get home sooner to drink beer.......and fuck his wife.
Literally what the first person said with a touch of consistency. Same money, less effort.
@@jackmehoff2363 basically.
Thomas Edison
@@goathenaition No, John C Lincoln and James F Lincoln
Haha, this takes me back. Spent 9 months as the offsider on the other side of those 4 ft diameter cans knocking off the slag strips with a hammer (point and chisel-point). Steel was 3/4" thick, and usually took 3-4 rotations to fill the gap (was a wider gap) with cap weld on top to finish. Looks like you don't have a problem with slag strips these days. It was 35 years ago for me. Welders were still Lincoln Electric though, but no fancy digital displays. More or less just a knob for volts and a knob for amps. Nice work :)
(I hate when people do this)
Never saw a cleaner weld in my life. That machine is amazing. I may read up on Sub Arc Welding because it seems like a very interesting process.
Then you are not keeping up ....well your comments is 7 years old .....wait a minute 6 years ago I was operating a tower trolley sub arc that welded 12-16 foot diameter tower sections together and this would have gotten me FIRED!
So... 8 years later, YT recommends a video to me that I A) would never think to look for; B) Something I had NO idea existed; and C) Had too many beers to understand what's going on!!
Don't get me wrong, I've dabbled with welding before ...but this...wtf is this sorcery?!?!
I think it's pretty cool. I kid around but this stuff IS fascinating to folks like us on the "outside" of these trades!! Pretty cool!
My Dad was welder, working to built Navy ships back when one wage earner could support a family. He was really good. Was the guy they brought in to rework other guys’ flubs. Later he worked on pumps for nuclear reactors. Had second jobs. Never had a problem finding one. He’d go in, take a test, and be hired.
I'm gonna start dumping kitty litter on my mig welds.
😂😂
Clean it first or you will get shitty welds
These are the two best comments. Got a good chuckle out it. Lol
I think it would work better with my $99 flux core.
I bet if you got a crate of sparklers and cut em into little pieces and dump em on your electrode you could do even better welds.
This is pretty much the same set up they use at the shop I work at. They are trying to set up a flux recovery so they can use it a few times. Awesome videos!!
I am not a welder, not even close, I'm lucky to apply a screwdriver properly, but I like to watch people do good stuff with tools. Lovely.
In Ireland this is known as Submerged Arc Welding and according to the steel fixer that attempted to teach me how to arc-weld back in the early 1970s the technique was reputed to have been perfected by a team of welders and engineers at the Haarland and Wolfe ship yard in Belfast (wher Titanic was built) and was used initially to butt weld large sheets of plate steel together to form ship-decks etc. Nice demonstration video.
Frussell3 It's still used for ship plates. I UT these types of welds. Most are very clean.
Frussell3 So the same name? What did you think "sub" was short for?
I X-ray a lot of sub arc welding , I agree , way less repairs then doing it by hand
Well I guess it wasn't perfected on the titanic
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Have done that in past. Surely requires a lot of patience and skills. Thanks for sharing
i work in pressure vessel fab shop in the east bay California we use this process all the time for our round and straight seams for the large and small pressure vessels and heat exchangers we build. Awsome and super chill process to run if you know what your doing. Set up is the key for a clean sub arc weld.
I remember reading that the engineers working on Apollo in the 60’s had a problem with their welds and finally decided that the automated welder was the problem. So they took it apart and reengineered it. Great strong welds afterward.
This video just passed 2 MILLION views! I can't believe it! Thank you to everyone who made this possible! You people are awesome!
+JgHaverty It's flux. Protects the weld joint from the atmosphere while it cools
12.887.428 views, could you retire yet? (i hope yt ads where activated xD)
been doing this type of welding for 40 years, when you've got your act together, things go smoothly, when things go badly.....time for the gouger and grinder
Youve been using an automated welder for 40 years congrats
Sub arc welding, will not replace us! Sub arc welding, will not replace us!!
I have heard about sub arc welding but i have never seen it. that makes a very neat weld
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Yes, unlike manual welding, it produces high quality weldments wherever NDT is required.
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Now I can weld my cats litter box.
+truantray Just be sure the cat is inside when you do!
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Do this every day on round seams on pressure vessels. Far from perfect, I think its a popular process just because of the sheer amount of metal it can lay down so fast. Alot of ours have to pass x-rays and have a certain amount of imperfection or less. I believe it has a good amount of porosity, but so much is passable. I believe its been around since the 30s, and I wonder how ide never heard of it until i started this job.
J'ai soudé des cuves pour total,ce procédé est très sains en radio
I used to do this sort of welding on a tank welding machine back in 1973, welding hot water tank bases. It does a very neat welding and no sparks escaping.
As someone who learned to slobber-weld in High School, I have to say those are EXCELLENT welds.
The "kitty litter" flux lets impurities rise and insulate the weld so it cools slow:-)
That answers the questions in my head, thanks.
Thanks for the answer!
Thank you for the explanation =)
H3R3T1C yea it’s kind of interesting they posted this comment not knowing the actual use.
@@MFKR696 Thank you for that correction, it bothers me that the least informed out there are the most confident when they speak. I used to work at Lincoln Electric in Euclid Ohio and loved seeing these massive pipe welding machines in action!
2.5 MILLION views! Thank you all for making this possible! That's 500,000 views in under six months! Huge thanks to all the people of the world for all your views, ratings, and comments!
+xAZAZELx13 *HIGH 5^*
+xAZAZELx13 3.1 million...
I know I'm not supposed to ask this, but with your experience how much cash do you make. can u make more money. with tig? no trolling
4,015,553 jejeje good video man!!
xAZAZELx13 6.1 million views? it just doesn't seem like the kind of video that many people would watch. lol
One company I worked for bought a new lincoln sub-arc machine and they came in to show us how to use it properly. I am a die hard miller fan but I have to give it to lincoln for doing that.
I ran this process back when I worked in a water heater factory. Brings back memories.
very nice video. thanks.
HE IS RUNNING "WAY" OUT SIDE OF PARAMETERS BEING SEMI AUTOMATIC LIKE THAT YOU SHOULD HAVE HAD A MUCH MORE UNIFORM WELD, I COULD DO BETTER FREEHAND WITH DUAL SHIELD OR EVEN CORE SHIELD 6. IF I WERE RUNNING YOUR WELDER, I WOULD HAVE THE INCHES PER MINUTE, VOLTAGE , AND AMPERAGE SO DIALED IN YOU WOULD ONLY SEE A DIME HEIGHTH AND WIDTH WELD WITH PERFECT UNIFORMTY
@@In_Rem shut up bro and just watch the video, you couldn’t do Jack shit
@@noahstang u dont even know what parameters are
@@In_Rem dont really give a fuck tbh :)
Watch my videos
800,000 views and going strong. I never thought it would get over 1000!
Good stuff! We just got three new miller pulse mig machines for alum. Damn I'm gonna be outta a job here soon that's all I will say lol.
It can be a bitch/finicky sometimes depending on how it's prepped. Our shit is pretty clean so we don't even etch the oxidation off we just go right to welding. The new machines make it so much nicer and smoother. It's very fast, hot and bright as hell! You'll flash burn yourself in the matter of only a couple min. Literally.
A lot of the 1/4 to 1/2 we weld we run around 24v at around 200 amps. The old standard push pull machines would do the same but at 26v and with lots of spatter. so these new machines will weld the same thickness with better quality using less power :-) 100% duty cycle.
Well it comes at a price. These are about 15k$ machines. Not cheap at all! Funny thing is the power unit is only like 60 pounds and the feeder is like 30 or less lol. Big power in a tinny arse package :-)
I'm sure you seen the newer miller product line. Everything is micro chips and computer boards now. No big several hundo pound machines. Even the plasma cutters rated for 5/8 are suit case size now.
Perfect looking weld 💥
Ive never seen this process, very interesting! I'll have to look into this, very cool. Thanks!
Sand is there for that the welding doesn't cool down too fast other wise it cracks
@@axiglow6777 ..You are so fucking wrong.......
@@axiglow6777 it is flux not sand
@A- k and all casses its there for that the welding doesnt cool down too much
There's an unusual beauty to welding.
Its called satisfaction
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8 million now lol
8.1 you mean
8.5
ive been welding for 10yrs now and thats some cool ass setup. That rig lays a nice bead
Oh Baby, gotta love the SAW! The 2,141,463 hits to date are probably 20 or 30 guys who can't stop watching this vid. Good post!
I'm one of those guys..! And not even a welder myself... Inst. Tech.
Aww, you haven’t aged a day Mr. Video since I last saw you 8 years ago!
I watch one Friction welding video and suddenly my TH-cam looks like a mechanic's instruction guidebook
I ran one of these for a few years when I worked at a water heater factory. Thanks for sharing.
Actually, Tank builders are using sub arc to weld horizontal round seams, using a nylon or canvas belt on rollers positioned about an inch of so below the seam to catch the flux and allow it to accumulate above the wire and arc, therefore submerging the arc. It makes really nice welds even in this position and if you are careful not to blow through thinner material, can do in 3 hours what would take 3 welders 2 days to complete, and do it with very high weld purity.
I've never seen that kind of welding before that's freaking awesome thanks for the video
Those who have this in recommended in 2020
TH-cam bringing us all together again!
Yep
That is one of the most advanced welding power supplies available, if not the most advanced.
The unit which provides the welding current.
This kind of weld is extremely very neat & lasting for heavy industrial use
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xAZAZELx13 why not monetize the video and get some money out of it?
+Colonel Angus Nice idea for the guy but you really need a lesson in how advertising works, don't set someone up to fall without knowing what goes on first.
+TimReeve93 ? ? ? ? ?
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@@noahstang 😳
13M views and 8 years later and hearted it
I used to do this stuff. Pretty rare type of welding I found. Most welders have no idea what the hell I'm talking about when I tell them about the company I worked at. We made rolls for foundries and also rock crusher rolls that make rocks into powder. The rock crushers were so hard we had to burn the cracks out before we could weld them back up instead of cutting them on a lathe. Interesting work.
That's awesome! Nice finished weld.
you ought to see the long seems process.... five big wires. ran by 7 powerwave welders. we sub arc the ID with four wires and the OD with five wires. we make the PIPE
When I googled sexy, this video popped up lol
+MrMasterMarksman because this IS sexy
Got THAT right!
I welded Sub-arch for awhile, every wind tower is welded sub-arch. The kitty litter looking stuff is Flux so no shield gas is needed. When I welded we used 2 ,1/8" wire. One at 90º for penetration at 650v 31amps. The trailing wire was 550v 29amps. Trailing was fill and the pretty cap finishing weld. Our tip was set at 1 1/4 inch from the bottom of the crevice. Our average steel thickness was 22mm.
That is one very impressive weld!!!!
The TH-cam algorithm back at it again with the old videos...
I miss sub arc welding. Did a lot of bridges in the early 80's with it.
I am also a submerged arc welder myself. I mostly welded with 3 welding wires/heads.
SAWs are awesome. We have one of those at the school I go to. I like how they use bolt cutters for their mig pliers and the slag is nothing short of epic.
Is there any risk of UV rays while doing this? I’m assuming not since there’s no light but I’ve never seen this before and I’m a welder 😅
There's a risk of uv rays
Interesting, I wonder if this thing could be strapped to a moving arm to make a rudimentary metal 3d printer
Jack Mcslay large 3D printer
It's better to do that with MIG or TIG welding. Also for large constructions it's easier to just cast the metal rather than '3d print' it.
yes, although what he is welding here is pretty thin. With my machine I start with lower voltage and amperage for the first pass, more of each on the second pass, ditto third pass, and fourth pass and on it remains the same. My setup is also a dual head which I can use on 36" and bigger diameter in which case, the fourth pass I fire up the AC unit.
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Is that suppose to impress me? Well it did. Great job.
Amazing how clean the whole process is!
Do you reuse the excess flux?
Thanks dude!!
Im curious, is there any shielding/flux on the inside of the pipe?
Some Sub-Arc machines have vacuum cleaner hose that sucks up the non-fused flux and returns it to the supply hopper.
they do have some sub-arc pipe machine where i work that does inside and outside shielding /flux but its spiral butt weld
Yes
Please make more of this. Coating if you can also!
When I used to repair welders I had to replace a transformer on a 1500amp Lincoln welder used for SAW. After the repair I wanted to make sure everything was working as it should so I went to the factory where it was installed. The operator was joining two 1" I-beams and was running around 1000amps. I had never seen SAW before just MIG and TIG so I was expecting to get a nice sun tan. I put on my welding helmet and stood back a few feet. Needless to say I got a few laughs at my expense.
Lincoln Power Wave power supplies are possibly as sophisticated as they get. The software is so flexible as far as waveform control and process analysis are concerned that they actually use these power supplies for welding research and development.
douro20 but can it run doom
That is the most beautiful weld...
that is a beautiful weld
You can get beautiful welds with TIG, too.
Luis Moreno The deposition rate is probably a little lower with TIG though! :)
Jon Bruce spray arc leaves the same bead by hand .
Orbital welding on jet engine components is even prettier.
Some say he is still there today welding that same pipe!
i work in the VCS sub program, we use something similar to this. they are not perfect and its a nasty process if you have to remove the weld and do it by hand, but it cuts down the time significantly building a submarine.
Weld done my firend.
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Thanks for the video. Got clear idea how it actually works.
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Man that thing does an awesome weld job, very cool
What a great process, not seen that often today only in heavy industry or shipbuilding. In the right application no other process can compete with its deposition and quality, just a pain with the flux and slag.
Thays how we used to weld up cable spools on a B&E drag line
You have to wonder how youtube recommends this in 2020🥴🤯
3 million views, impressive. Good to see there is interest out there
I used to work at Union tank car company and we used a bunch of these but theyre much larger than this one, to weld the joints for each tub much like this except the pipe is 10-12ft across and the wire is much thicker
wish my welds looked that good.
Shipyard welders can get welds like that by connecting AC buzz boxes in parallel.
I woking in the Cameroon shipyard I am the best welder at this process
0:05 nice.
Once I asked a welder about sub arc welding, he told me we would need a swimming pool for that.
as beautiful as a picture
I hear bacon frying but I don't see any....this video is one big tease......grrrrrr
That's when you know your welding right when it sounds like bacon popping and hissing
damn I'm amazed at that and I've been welding since 08 and never seen nothing like this :/
It's a common practice in heavy industrial welding...it was patented many moons ago in 1935. Used in joining thick plates and piping that can be rotated as is shown here.
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wound up here after trying to find something on air powered flux vacuum because apparently I am installing one on my sub arc tomorrow... not alot of sub arc videos on you tube... thanks for posting it...
wow I am amazed on how clean that weld is, is so pretty
I have 8 years of experience of this type of welding with single, double and four lines simultaneously
How mutch power does one draw? Is it a normal welder?
Normal welding on lincon wire 4.0 610 amperes and 30/32 volts
Also depends on material
@@sarbjitsingh-pe5bm that is the output. He asked how much power it draws, which i assume as in how much the machine uses.
@@sicsempertyrannis6851 just multiply current by voltage and Bam you got your answer , according to the reply stated above total power is 19520 watts.
Seen something like this before...building Navy ships.
I’ve seen it once at Cedar Rapids paver factory in Iowa and most of us was given an opportunity to hold the handheld gun and weld a few inches. You don’t need a helmet to do this nor could I see the puddle it’s very interesting.
I run an esab on pressurized vessels. Its ran 800 amps using 5/32 L50 Lincoln wire and 960 lincoln flux
Great video friend. Very nice welding.
LearningZone Very Very Good welding.
LearningZone the computer was set so all he done was making sure there isnt no flaw or mistake in programming if it was their first machine . in all cool video
LearningZone just saying lol 👍 cool 🎥
LearningZone wrong, nice settings.
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I don't know what the hell Is going on but like it
titus pullo SAW
Bad ass.... tim the tool man would be impressed.
That weld is a thing of beauty
thats an impressive weld
Harbor freight has one of those for 49.99
maggs131 harbor freight sells cheap Chinese junk
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Don't buy ANYTHING from Harbor Freight. I have bought a few thinbgs there and every-time i did it would break.
Joseph Underwood i know its sad but its really funny to
Joseph Underwood it's not a joke. Fuckwit.
eu fiz um curso de solda de todos os tipos quando era menor de idade no senai do ipiranga isso a mais ou menos 46 anos mas essa solda eu desconheço eu só não segui na profissão porque o gás não me fazia bem era curso gratuito e nós recebíamos leite paulista de garrafa de vidro com a tampinha em alumínio...eu admiro demais o serviço ele é fantástico!!
lots of things can cause pin holes. you can use a flux core wire with the SAW process and it will give you a better chance of obtaining fusion and less of a chance of contamination. As long as the metal is clean a solid wire can be used with the SAW process. Using the FCAW process with a argon/co2 back up is an excellent welding process. SAW is great for long welds in the flat position but FCAW is much more versitile.
Above 36 volts too high it should sound smoother and lower wire speed
i can do that with a lighter.....here hold my beer
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MrPunisheer Sure me too. Hold my vodka let me try! (I am russian) You fucking piece of shit if you dont fuse when i heat the fuck out of you you wilk get destroyed by russia! *metal fuses itself together*
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He's welding the outside "gert" seam. On wind towers it has a 30% bevel and a 5mm flush spot. You would also stand in the inside and weld the inside gert seam. We used 2, 1/4 wire Lincoln welders.