I know it's mean to say, but it's such a relief to not have a Mike Brewer barge in to interrupt "class" to talk about money. As really this is very instructive and educational.
Not mean - just honest. Brewer's cheeky chappy impersonation just made me want to swipe the back of 'is 'ead wiv a bag o' sand. You don't need a clown when you're engaged by an artist.
@@JimmyJayJunior Yea and he lived an colourful life. Why he invented the current nuzzle, was each time he was done welding, he had to do some maintenance every single time. This was late 80s where I called as the automatic revolution. As a kid I always remembered he went in his "inventions cottage" where he swear worst than a sailor. Due he had also an temper, so he never gave up. But he never become rich of it, due many competitors tried to steal this inventions. Especially some chinese companies blocked his Japanese patent application. If you google his name in google patent, you'll able to see it, where it says under the JP as "pending". That way, they could steal it and my late dad died as a poor man in 2019.
Edd, I've been watching beginner welding videos for a while and this is exactly what I needed - clear, structured, and focused on what you need to know - you nailed it!
When I was an hourly employee for Caterpillar Tractor Company in the early 1970's I learned how to first stick weld and then went to mig welding using submerged aic where the shielding is caused by a granular flux that is deposited at the same time as the wire and it melts to form a slag just like stick welding and is one of the hardest to learn because you cannot see the weld puddle and you have to judge it by the glow thru the flux. Before moving to being a machinist I learned and mastered out of position welding including pipe and overhead welding, aluminum and stainless steel and even friction welding. All things that helped me later on as a quality analyst for failure investigation.
I welded some brackets for caterpillar in the early 80’s with the same technique I think, the wire has a powder core in it but also I think a shielding gas of C02 mix that had to be heated at regulator. The wire was larger than conventional mig and we could get a 1” fillet weld with one run but we did them at 45 deg angle. Was impressive process. I only did it few times didn’t like as it was a dirty process but we had two guys full time on it, their lungs must be destroyed even using extractor fan!
Inspector I guess.? Most inspectors I ever came across knew what it should be, but did not have the skills to make it happen. Just saying., a monkey can be taught to recognise poor work , but the skill is in performing the task
theres no mistaking it when youre listening to someone describing something that he truly and thoroughly understands and then when you add to that a natural knack for presentation as well as a clear easy going cool personality you get an awesome teacher like this guy. well done sir.
My dad was a certified three position welder back in the day. Video brings back lots of memories. This is absolutely one of the best tutorial videos on welding they I have seen. Great job Ed and team!
Man, this video came at the right time. Yesterday i bought inverter welder from Lidl/Aldi so that i could learn welding from my father, my father has 40+ years experience with welding a lot of different stuff, mostly in welding water turbines, screws and so on. Today i finally tried and i am happy that my father is teaching me welding. It was my life goal for many many years. Obviously my welds are not great, i am too fast from what my father is telling me but hey, i am learning and eventually i will be making a good enough welds. Live and learn.
Never to old to learn, my Dad was a Boiler maker welder , he worked all over the world, he served his time for 7 years , as a boilermaker , rivitor, corker etc , worked on pipe lines and storage tanks in Libya, Germany, Scotland and God knows where else , he's passed away some years ago , but anything to do with welding brings him to the forefront in my minds eye 👁. Great video.
Ed is a brilliant teacher and should be elevated to Professor Ed (status) by now. Another great and informative video and I look forward to more of these in-depth subjects.
And this is where Edd shines! He explains so well, like no other! This is why he is always so interesting and enjoyable to watch. This video is going right into my metal shop folder! Thankful for you brother Edd!!!
My MIG night class instructor was an ex REME Master Metalsmith. He explained that it is vital to remember welding is just an electrical circuit. As such, good contacts are crucial. So, make sure your earth us attached as close as possible to your work & ensure the connection area is clean metal together with the area to weld 👍
The danger of a rouge earth is if you put it along way from the work, when you strick up the circuit can run all over the place and cause sparks where it jumps a gap. This happend to a mate of mine in a petrol chemical plant and it caused a mega fire and he got burned.
He was a clown. SOME welding depends on that yes but welding itself is a principal with various different way's to achieve it. Electric circuits not neccesarily envolved.
As my boss said when I was learning to weld - if your weld sounds like frying bacon, you're doing well, if it smells like frying bacon you should reconsider.
Been welding for a couple of years semi professionally, taught myself what I know from various youtube videos. I learned a few tips from this, probably the most informative TH-cam welding video I’ve watched
I welded for years and years from being a young man and was pretty good. Gas weld and brazing, arc weld with a stick ....but oddly I never managed with MIG which people say is easier. I'm now retirement age ( though not retired) and restore 60's/70s motorcycles for my pleasure. I occasionally need to weld and it really rattles my cage to have to take it to someone as I don't have the gear any more. After watching this superb vid I'm going to buy a MIG welder and get some practice in. Thanks Ed. A masterclass in making a friendly, engaging, informative tutorial.
It would help a lot if some of these 'how to MIG ' video authors would do a ' how to MIG when all you know is stick' special video. For example, I offered someone to get his stone age MIG welder going, being new to it myself. First problem, the shroud on the weld tip was missing, and no spares are available. So I had to modify another to fit, learning along the way that it is insulated and electrically floating. Also I was welding on the floor , so the 2nd thing that struck me was that you can't see the bloody thing, I mean the tip ( so unlike stick) so had to get a table. On this old welder, the tip is always 'live' which makes 'starting' difficult for the novice. Also, its roller has only one groove, will that be ok for a range of wire sizes?; and is it ok to have narrower size wires going through a larger tip?. Such issues are all in the 'rude awakenings' category and it would be good if the experienced guys included such matters in their 'teaching' videos.
Ed has done an awesome job of cramming nothing but gold into this video. If you are new to welding and don't understand just look up the bit you do not understand to you work it out.
I work on turbines, generators and valves and for a while I couldn't figure out which kind of welding I wanted to learn. I had a view in my head that MIG welding was like the hot glue of welding, since it seemed so easy to do, compared to TIG welding, and even stick welding (since there were so many different welding rods to choose from, as well as machine settings, and with stick or TIG you could make mistakes really easily). So when I was on a job where we were adding support piping to an LP turbine's bearing brackets, and all of the welding was done with MIG machines (granted, incredibly expensive machines, but MIG nonetheless), that sealed it for me. If MIG is good enough to support the end of a 350,000# rotor, then it's good enough for my backyard needs. Yeah, of course there's a lot more to it than I'm letting on, but I think nearly anybody can learn how to do some basic welding with a small MIG welder. Maybe most of it won't be good enough for NASA and you won't make a career out of it, but learning with a MIG welder will build the confidence you may need to start tackling stick welding and TIG welding.
As a TAFE-taught welder - this was bob-on for giving beginners information. Get the setup right, and the welding process can be learned quickly and a good technique can develop with metres of bead run..... Good job, Ed!
Ed is a genius for picking a Range Rover to restore on his channel. Even with a team of 8 men working full time it will take about 436 episodes to finish.
Unfortunately the consistency is the weak point of this channel. I get all enthusiastic for something and then the following episode is published 6 or 7 months later
I think I've only welded once in my life and it was decades ago, however, I come from a family of blacksmiths and my father was particularly a good welder, I think I only saw him with MMA but did some TIG/MIG as well. Now, all this is to say that this is really a good video on "welding 101", you can't just add more information into less time and make it understandable for those who know nothing about the subject. Good job indeed.
Of all the beginner's tutorials I've endured on TH-cam recently, yours is the only one to describe angles, pushing, and pea shooters. Most excellent, sir, thank you.
I always walk away with knowing more than I did watching Edd videos. Bought a new welder and cannot wait to dive in. Been on my bucket list to learn. It seems to be therapeutic to me while being creative while actually repairing something or improving a part. Thanks Edd. Love your content. ❤️
I didn’t know you had a TH-cam until just now. Are you being throttled by algorithms? Thank you for sharing your genius with the world. I’m glad I found you
GMAW (MIG) is a great skill to learn. I am a welder by trade. A lot of welders like to claim that SMAW (Stick) is the only way to weld. The truth is SMAW is increadibly portable and fairly versatile. But GMAW/FCAW is the most productive hand held process by leaps and bounds. If you take a standard 1/4" plate with a 5/16" to 3/8" fillet weld a guy using SMAW will probably weld a single pass at 4 inches-per-minute. If you tooled up your GMAW machine to run spray transfer you could run that same weld at 12 inches-per-minute. That's 3 times the rate of production not including rod changes and post weld cleaning. So learn it all. If you have to weld pipeline in a ditch then SMAW is the best choice. But if you are in the shop and need to weld a few hundred base plates to square tubing then GMAW will make you the most money.
@@geoffmooregm Interesting what you've said, thanks for the advice. Honestly when I started my welding course I was only interested in Oxy-Acetylene Welding, GTAW and SMAW.
@@milo631 If you are going to turn it into a career then you definitely want to be proficient in all of the main processes. If you ever find yourself welding thick parts MCAW (Metal-Core) or FCAW is the only way to go. I did a lot of 1" and thicker parts that were too small to get our SAW head into so we had to weld it by hand using MCAW. I would never want to weld something that thick, 8' long with SMAW. A weld that took me half a day would take days. The largest part I did was 2.5" thick and 84" in diameter. It was a Circumferential CJP groove weld done with SAW. Even at 750A welding non stop with wire feeding from a 1000lb drum it still took 20 hours a side. Imagine if you were asked to do that by hand 🤯.
I think an Ed and Trevs blog episode would be a fun as well as informative episode. Both good for a laugh and know how to explain without being patronising.
Welcome back stranger! Never get enough of your workshop enthusiasm. Rather than producing a one size fits all, how about a faster moving less detailed show with a monthly workshop going into the Edd detail that we love? Would rather have a two speed workshop than no workshop at all. I love to see your skills applied in projects but as a frustrated spanner I could listen to you talking nuts and bolts for hours. Keep safe. Keep broadcasting. Your brand is unique.
incredible, the best explanation I've ever received in my life, very good, no one had ever explained so well, in such a pragmatic and effective way how to do mig welding, you are number one edd, a real masterclass GENIUS
@EddChina0 ,😆😆😆 I bought a used deca welder to restore my 1965 fiat 500 thank you to support my work with your videos, happy to follow you since 2008 maybe? on Discovery italia, and now on TH-cam
Always have my breakfast or my cuppa coffee on a Sunday with the sound of the trucks up high and watching some fine examples the truckin industry in New Zealand 🇳🇿 have to offer. Since subscribing, I've not been disappointed. Thank you again
Very good tutorial edd, covering the different types of welding and it's origin. The explanation of how to do mig welding, was way more educational and instructive than the education/introduction I received on how to arc weld when I was in high school in the 60's/70's in South Australia.
Omg you've got a TH-cam channel. I used to watch wheeler dealers with my grandad and it was so much better when you were in it. I only watched it for the parts you were in. I found it so interesting seeing how you fixed everything to such a high standard. Hope you're keeping well Ed.
Hi Ed great to have you back. You passed over the PUSH for MIG and PULL for TIG very quickly. We have a very good TIG welder at work and he 'hides' when he does TIG so no-one can learn his secret!! I don't know if this is the secret but his work is excellent on SS. I will check!
I wondered what happened to you Ed after the tv show. I just stumbled on this TH-cam clip by accident and sat down with a class of ice tea to watch. As always you are great in front of the camera and a pleasure to watch. Glad I found how to keep up with you. As y’all would say “good job mate”
I was gutted when you where no longer on wheeler dealers ,since then I've stopped watching it,and I found it hard to see you do all the work and not even driving the car you sorted out at the end,only just found out you have ur own TH-cam channel and still working on cars ect, fantastic also love you store and item's and I am about to buy your hard copy signed book.keep up the fantastic work ,ur a great guy and very talented. Respect
I’ve been welding since 1973. I’ve also seen many explanations of welding types and how and what to do. Some have been pretty bad, and a few, very good. Frankly, unlit TH-cam just showed. me this video, I had never heard of Edd. I’m happy I now have, as his explanations here, in this video, are among the best I’ve seen anywhere. It was enough to force me to subscribe.
@@eddchina As far as instructions and safety none came to mind. I was really impressed at how you managed to shorten some of the explanations. I do have a suggestion for a "next chapter" which would be to show / explain the way different materials react. stock bar compared to hardened steel and then aluminum could have it's differences shown? Thanks for over 30years of content.
😊👍 I learned arc/stick and gas welding about 50 years ago, but missed out on tig and mig welding. (The college I learned at has been demolished, rebuilt, and the workshops converted to offices.) So, a demonstration and explanation of the correct techniques for my missing bits, is a real boon. In particular, that the angle of the torch is the opposite from tig and stick welding. Thanks!
I've not done any mig welding yet so the dozen or so instruction videos I've watched have been been very confusing.....until this one Outstandingly clear and logically explained. Thank you so much 👍👍
For those sticklers for technical accuracy: when 'MIG' welding with a Argon CO2 mix (rather than mIg = Insert gas so pure Argon) for shielding it's MAG (ACTIVE gas) welding. Also with a 'MIG' welder the power setting adjustment your changing the voltage (MMA AKA 'stick' or 'arc' you adjust the current setting). The other main adjustment on a basic 'MIG' welder is wire feed. PS depending on the settings chosen the same basic equipment can be used for 'short circuit' : 'spray transfer' : or even 'globular' 😎
I've always been curious why MIG (131) was favoured over MAG (135 ) when it came to choosing a generic name ? When 99.9 % is MAG welding with very little MIG
I've watched several Mig Tutorials (American) and learned a bit of something from each, (then forgot or was or often left confused) which over-all; sadly for me - left a poor "weld" in my memory banks! (Here) In just one Tutorial Edd the Man says and demonstrates more than all the other Vids put together. Simple , clear and yet Comprehensive. BRILLIANT!
Thanks for the great video. I know oxy acetylene welding, but i wish you did a section on gasless MIG welding ,which, I think most people watching would use.(I am learning to use, too)
Exactly the point I was going to make as not everyone can store or needs a big gas bottle in the garage. My friend bought a (cheap)gasless MIG welder and we can't get it to weld correctly even though I am a qualified MIG welder and worked in the car industry for many years. Personally I wouldn't go with a cheap gasless and can't comment on whether they are any good even if buying and expensive version. Wire Speed is another point he didn't cover.
Thanks Eddie. I started in the 70s with arc and carbon arc and in the 90s I did mig. What a difference. Thanks for the info, I've learned a good deal from it. I have a gas less inverter now. I've yet to try it out. 😊
Hi edd, loved your master class on mig welding, have you considered doing other master classes on other workshop themes? Say maybe between you, paul some of your other mates make a list of say up to 4 things. Post the list on your channel for your subscribers to vote on and the one with the most votes gets a masterclass. I love how you cover many different projects, wouldn't want a masterclass interfere with that. Maybe if you're going to have a lull between a few projects and I'm sure that happens from time to time. A masterclass might be a nice little filler and a look into life in the workshop , just a thought. PS love the channel ☺️
Welding is one thing i really haven't tackled whilst working on vehicles despite owning some cars with serious corrosion problems, i think this video is going to have several watches just so i can pick up the basics.
Wow. I had tons of difficulty TIG welding and finally gave up. Part of the problem was the cheap welder I was using. But after watching dozens of tutorials, this is the first person who indicates that magnets could actually interfere with the TIG weld itself. I was frustrated that the magnets would grab my wire and prevent me from maneuvering, but I didn’t know it could affect the welding directly. If I had known this, maybe I wouldn’t have given up so easily. Thanks, Edd!!
I had to pass a macro etch test (the strictest weld test in the country) to manufacture OEM exhaust systems for JLR, Edd's advice and information is spot on.
Best video I've ever seen on weldind.Everything is perfectly explained, not boring and super helpful in deciding what is the right type of welding you need for a specific job.Edd China,you're amazing, I can't thank you enough, keep doing what you're doing!
Wow thank you, after watching a ton of videos, on where to start,on this mig welding adventure, you are the first one to come through the coconut. Thank you Edd
Learned to stick weld with a Lincoln 225 on a farm. Started to work for a fortune 500 company. Was instructed to use a MIG welder. Once welder is set, then easy as pie.
Thanks, Edd, lots of tips for a very amateur backyard welder like me. My MIG/MMA welder is not Synergic like your GYS but has a table inside the door with values for amps, wire speed and so on. I was a bit skeptical, but talking to a professional welder, he was familiar with my welder and said that table was pretty good.
Mine is this strange sort of faux Synergic. You look up the thickness on the chart that came with it, it tells you how many amps. Once you set the amps it picks a wire feed speed for you. I am still getting used to it. My first welder came with no chart and to top that off in spite of being a 110 Volt machine it has 7 amp settings and automatically sped up the wire feed each time you raised amps. I never really got a handle on it. I managed to get a chart off of a badge engineered Snap On that was made by the factory as my welder. Still need to try that out sometime.
Thanks, Ed. Another usefully informative video. I started my machine shop apprenticeship in 1975. We learned a little welding (MMA and gas) in the first year but no MIG or TIG. Thanks for filling in a few gaps. One point I would add: the discoloured area ("Heat Affected Zone") around a mild steel weld can be significantly more prone to corrosion than the virgin material. Small parts can be sent out to be hot dip galvanised, otherwise a zinc rich primer is strongly recommended. I have seen the HAZ go rusty in a matter of hours.
Just a safety addition with the flap wheel you used for cleaning the work before welding it, I witnessed a friend of mine use one against two pieces of box section that were at 90 degrees to each other, the edge of the flap caught in the join between the two and kicked the grinder back into his face and cut through his bottom lip, 50 stitches and a lot of blood later he was thankfully okay, but just make sure you watch that kickback!
Brilliant lecture. He,s a real pleasure to listen to and REALLY informative. Having welded for 50 years myself he answered several little mysteries that I'd always wondered about. Great work Ed. You have the gift of grabbing the listeners attention.
hi ed , those helmets are not solar powered, they have a small battery in them like a cr2032 or similar, the solar panel is for reaction for the lens to dim, if they stop working i.e the lens doesn't dim then just replace the battery
Great video Edd one of the best instruction vids on MIG I have seen. Now interested in one of those new generation machines my old one works well but is too heavy to transport. Like the idea of setting the weld parameters into the machine and it calculates amps and wire speed.
Very well explained! I would humbly add that for instance Mag welding is using Co2 as shielding gas MAG =Metal Active Gas welding. The Co2 is then adding carbon to the weld pool. And it splatters more. Also with Tig welding you might have argon/helium mix like 80/20 like in my garage because the previous owner was a welder salesman and left the 50L tanks for me when I bought the house. Thanks Edd China for making this very well instructive video.
One thing I had to overcome when it concerns welding, was the fact I didn't know really anything about it. What settings do I use? I could never get a weld that looks that good! I don't want to be judged by my inabilities...and on and on. Then I decided, what does it really matter? Am I making a living doing this? No. In the end, I realized the more I do it, the better it gets, the more confortable I become, and really, at the end of the day, are the two pieces stuck together, and not coming apart? If yes, then good job.
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I know it's mean to say, but it's such a relief to not have a Mike Brewer barge in to interrupt "class" to talk about money. As really this is very instructive and educational.
Not mean - just honest. Brewer's cheeky chappy impersonation just made me want to swipe the back of 'is 'ead wiv a bag o' sand. You don't need a clown when you're engaged by an artist.
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100%
I have to agree. I watch the old series now which I loved and get really annoyed at Mike’s banter and interruptions. Ed’s is so much more interesting
But the ads are a pain😬
Each time you weld, you honor my late father. My father invented the current mig/mag nuzzle with the patent nr: 4956541. RIP my dad, Ossi Hiltunen.
Nuzzle?? Not nozzle?
Thats so cool. People like your Dad make the world what it is today. Hes part of history!
@@JimmyJayJunior Yea and he lived an colourful life. Why he invented the current nuzzle, was each time he was done welding, he had to do some maintenance every single time. This was late 80s where I called as the automatic revolution. As a kid I always remembered he went in his "inventions cottage" where he swear worst than a sailor. Due he had also an temper, so he never gave up. But he never become rich of it, due many competitors tried to steal this inventions. Especially some chinese companies blocked his Japanese patent application. If you google his name in google patent, you'll able to see it, where it says under the JP as "pending". That way, they could steal it and my late dad died as a poor man in 2019.
@@statostheman that sucks man he deserved his dues
@@JimmyJayJunior Only way you can do is spread the word about my dad and remember what he contribute to this world.
What a great bloke, engineer and presenter. He is so well liked on here, I can't see why the TV channels haven't signed him up.
TV wants trivia and fake jeopardy. No self-respecting engineer will play that game.
Edd, I've been watching beginner welding videos for a while and this is exactly what I needed - clear, structured, and focused on what you need to know - you nailed it!
my thoughts exactly, great vid Thx
I'm starting out trying to understand welding before I buy anything. This is the first video that has made real sense, so thank you.
Welding has seemed like a dark art to me for years but this video has made it far simpler and more accessible. Thanks Ed.
When I was an hourly employee for Caterpillar Tractor Company in the early 1970's I learned how to first stick weld and then went to mig welding using submerged aic where the shielding is caused by a granular flux that is deposited at the same time as the wire and it melts to form a slag just like stick welding and is one of the hardest to learn because you cannot see the weld puddle and you have to judge it by the glow thru the flux. Before moving to being a machinist I learned and mastered out of position welding including pipe and overhead welding, aluminum and stainless steel and even friction welding. All things that helped me later on as a quality analyst for failure investigation.
I knew a slag once🤔I too tried to keep her under water.
I welded some brackets for caterpillar in the early 80’s with the same technique I think, the wire has a powder core in it but also I think a shielding gas of C02 mix that had to be heated at regulator. The wire was larger than conventional mig and we could get a 1” fillet weld with one run but we did them at 45 deg angle. Was impressive process. I only did it few times didn’t like as it was a dirty process but we had two guys full time on it, their lungs must be destroyed even using extractor fan!
I did a 6G coded pipe eelding course from aged 16 to 18 very intresting, submerged arc machine is well cool
Ftiction welding ??????
Inspector I guess.?
Most inspectors I ever came across knew what it should be, but did not have the skills to make it happen.
Just saying., a monkey can be taught to recognise poor work , but the skill is in performing the task
WAY TO GO!
theres no mistaking it when youre listening to someone describing something that he truly and thoroughly understands and then when you add to that a natural knack for presentation as well as a clear easy going cool personality you get an awesome teacher like this guy. well done sir.
This was legitimately better information than I learned from My welding instructor.i would love to see a tig master class.
Edd can't TIG but that's an idea.
@@tonydaddario4706 ooff 🤣
You are a marvelous teacher Edd. Can you do a video on brazing?
A masterclass requires a master. Mr. China may be a master of something but not of welding.
My dad was a certified three position welder back in the day. Video brings back lots of memories. This is absolutely one of the best tutorial videos on welding they I have seen. Great job Ed and team!
Yes, I agree that this is one of the best tutorials I have ever seen.
Man, this video came at the right time. Yesterday i bought inverter welder from Lidl/Aldi so that i could learn welding from my father, my father has 40+ years experience with welding a lot of different stuff, mostly in welding water turbines, screws and so on. Today i finally tried and i am happy that my father is teaching me welding. It was my life goal for many many years. Obviously my welds are not great, i am too fast from what my father is telling me but hey, i am learning and eventually i will be making a good enough welds. Live and learn.
Never to old to learn, my Dad was a Boiler maker welder , he worked all over the world, he served his time for 7 years , as a boilermaker , rivitor, corker etc , worked on pipe lines and storage tanks in Libya, Germany, Scotland and God knows where else , he's passed away some years ago , but anything to do with welding brings him to the forefront in my minds eye 👁. Great video.
Enjoy the time you are spending with your dad mate and repetition is the key to picking up a new skill best of luck 👍
So he has 40+ years of experience and he was ok with Lidl welder? Doesn’t make sence🤔
Best explanation of welding types EVER 👍🏻👍🏻
Ed is a brilliant teacher and should be elevated to Professor Ed (status) by now. Another great and informative video and I look forward to more of these in-depth subjects.
I'm starting my first little welding project at the weekend and found this info super helpful. Thanks
Thanks, hope it works out, listen for the crackle!
The world needs more people like Ed, thanks to him and the team that put this together!
Also, more of this sort of videos!
And this is where Edd shines! He explains so well, like no other! This is why he is always so interesting and enjoyable to watch. This video is going right into my metal shop folder! Thankful for you brother Edd!!!
My MIG night class instructor was an ex REME Master Metalsmith. He explained that it is vital to remember welding is just an electrical circuit. As such, good contacts are crucial. So, make sure your earth us attached as close as possible to your work & ensure the connection area is clean metal together with the area to weld 👍
The danger of a rouge earth is if you put it along way from the work, when you strick up the circuit can run all over the place and cause sparks where it jumps a gap.
This happend to a mate of mine in a petrol chemical plant and it caused a mega fire and he got burned.
He was a clown. SOME welding depends on that yes but welding itself is a principal with various different way's to achieve it. Electric circuits not neccesarily envolved.
I learned more about welding watching this video than I did at 4 terms of evening classes getting to C&G level 2. Well done.
As my boss said when I was learning to weld - if your weld sounds like frying bacon, you're doing well, if it smells like frying bacon you should reconsider.
Been welding for a couple of years semi professionally, taught myself what I know from various youtube videos. I learned a few tips from this, probably the most informative TH-cam welding video I’ve watched
I welded for years and years from being a young man and was pretty good. Gas weld and brazing, arc weld with a stick ....but oddly I never managed with MIG which people say is easier. I'm now retirement age ( though not retired) and restore 60's/70s motorcycles for my pleasure. I occasionally need to weld and it really rattles my cage to have to take it to someone as I don't have the gear any more. After watching this superb vid I'm going to buy a MIG welder and get some practice in. Thanks Ed. A masterclass in making a friendly, engaging, informative tutorial.
It would help a lot if some of these 'how to MIG ' video authors would do a ' how to MIG when all you know is stick' special video. For example, I offered someone to get his stone age MIG welder going, being new to it myself. First problem, the shroud on the weld tip was missing, and no spares are available. So I had to modify another to fit, learning along the way that it is insulated and electrically floating. Also I was welding on the floor , so the 2nd thing that struck me was that you can't see the bloody thing, I mean the tip ( so unlike stick) so had to get a table. On this old welder, the tip is always 'live' which makes 'starting' difficult for the novice. Also, its roller has only one groove, will that be ok for a range of wire sizes?; and is it ok to have narrower size wires going through a larger tip?. Such issues are all in the 'rude awakenings' category and it would be good if the experienced guys included such matters in their 'teaching' videos.
Ed China is a national treasure. I'm gutted that he's not on telly with his own show.
Ed has done an awesome job of cramming nothing but gold into this video. If you are new to welding and don't understand just look up the bit you do not understand to you work it out.
I work on turbines, generators and valves and for a while I couldn't figure out which kind of welding I wanted to learn. I had a view in my head that MIG welding was like the hot glue of welding, since it seemed so easy to do, compared to TIG welding, and even stick welding (since there were so many different welding rods to choose from, as well as machine settings, and with stick or TIG you could make mistakes really easily). So when I was on a job where we were adding support piping to an LP turbine's bearing brackets, and all of the welding was done with MIG machines (granted, incredibly expensive machines, but MIG nonetheless), that sealed it for me. If MIG is good enough to support the end of a 350,000# rotor, then it's good enough for my backyard needs.
Yeah, of course there's a lot more to it than I'm letting on, but I think nearly anybody can learn how to do some basic welding with a small MIG welder. Maybe most of it won't be good enough for NASA and you won't make a career out of it, but learning with a MIG welder will build the confidence you may need to start tackling stick welding and TIG welding.
After 45 years of welding I learned a couple of tricks. Ed, you are the best, keep up the great work.
As a TAFE-taught welder - this was bob-on for giving beginners information. Get the setup right, and the welding process can be learned quickly and a good technique can develop with metres of bead run..... Good job, Ed!
Yep, Edd's video was far more informative that what I learned at TAFE.
I don't know anybody that can explain these things better than you have done . .. brilliant
Ed is a genius for picking a Range Rover to restore on his channel. Even with a team of 8 men working full time it will take about 436 episodes to finish.
And it'll be broken the very next day lol
🤣🤣🤣
Unfortunately the consistency is the weak point of this channel. I get all enthusiastic for something and then the following episode is published 6 or 7 months later
Lol! 🙂
@@quartfeira Guy has other fish to fry. He is not a full time TH-camr far as I'm aware.
This is the greatest video for beginner I ever see
I think I've only welded once in my life and it was decades ago, however, I come from a family of blacksmiths and my father was particularly a good welder, I think I only saw him with MMA but did some TIG/MIG as well. Now, all this is to say that this is really a good video on "welding 101", you can't just add more information into less time and make it understandable for those who know nothing about the subject. Good job indeed.
Of all the beginner's tutorials I've endured on TH-cam recently, yours is the only one to describe angles, pushing, and pea shooters. Most excellent, sir, thank you.
I always walk away with knowing more than I did watching Edd videos. Bought a new welder and cannot wait to dive in. Been on my bucket list to learn. It seems to be therapeutic to me while being creative while actually repairing something or improving a part. Thanks Edd. Love your content. ❤️
Thanks for this. Nobody ever seems to explicitly explain things, you are just meant to know already.
Brilliant teaching with excellent balance between the theory and practise, learnt a lot - thanks Edd
I didn’t know you had a TH-cam until just now. Are you being throttled by algorithms? Thank you for sharing your genius with the world. I’m glad I found you
Talk about perfect timing. I'm currently doing a welding course and MIG is coming up for me. Thank You
Great, hope it answers all the questions you might have...
@@eddchina Thank you, it helps alot🙏🏾
GMAW (MIG) is a great skill to learn. I am a welder by trade. A lot of welders like to claim that SMAW (Stick) is the only way to weld. The truth is SMAW is increadibly portable and fairly versatile. But GMAW/FCAW is the most productive hand held process by leaps and bounds. If you take a standard 1/4" plate with a 5/16" to 3/8" fillet weld a guy using SMAW will probably weld a single pass at 4 inches-per-minute. If you tooled up your GMAW machine to run spray transfer you could run that same weld at 12 inches-per-minute. That's 3 times the rate of production not including rod changes and post weld cleaning. So learn it all. If you have to weld pipeline in a ditch then SMAW is the best choice. But if you are in the shop and need to weld a few hundred base plates to square tubing then GMAW will make you the most money.
@@geoffmooregm Interesting what you've said, thanks for the advice. Honestly when I started my welding course I was only interested in Oxy-Acetylene Welding, GTAW and SMAW.
@@milo631 If you are going to turn it into a career then you definitely want to be proficient in all of the main processes. If you ever find yourself welding thick parts MCAW (Metal-Core) or FCAW is the only way to go. I did a lot of 1" and thicker parts that were too small to get our SAW head into so we had to weld it by hand using MCAW. I would never want to weld something that thick, 8' long with SMAW. A weld that took me half a day would take days.
The largest part I did was 2.5" thick and 84" in diameter. It was a Circumferential CJP groove weld done with SAW. Even at 750A welding non stop with wire feeding from a 1000lb drum it still took 20 hours a side. Imagine if you were asked to do that by hand 🤯.
Thanks Edd, I have not welded since school and I want to get back into it, going to weld on my 94 Silverado.
I think an Ed and Trevs blog episode would be a fun as well as informative episode. Both good for a laugh and know how to explain without being patronising.
I'm sure Ed could learn a lot from Trev.
Welcome back stranger! Never get enough of your workshop enthusiasm. Rather than producing a one size fits all, how about a faster moving less detailed show with a monthly workshop going into the Edd detail that we love? Would rather have a two speed workshop than no workshop at all. I love to see your skills applied in projects but as a frustrated spanner I could listen to you talking nuts and bolts for hours. Keep safe. Keep broadcasting. Your brand is unique.
Incredible amount of accurate informations in just 27 minutes. Yes that's a masterclass.
I came for ed china. 5 years from now people will be coming because this is extremely informative.
Some people can just EXPLAIN STUFF, some people can't. You do an incredible job man! Thank you.
incredible, the best explanation I've ever received in my life, very good, no one had ever explained so well, in such a pragmatic and effective way how to do mig welding, you are number one edd, a real masterclass
GENIUS
@EddChina0 ,😆😆😆 I bought a used deca welder to restore my 1965 fiat 500 thank you to support my work with your videos, happy to follow you since 2008 maybe? on Discovery italia, and now on TH-cam
Always have my breakfast or my cuppa coffee on a Sunday with the sound of the trucks up high and watching some fine examples the truckin industry in New Zealand 🇳🇿 have to offer.
Since subscribing, I've not been disappointed. Thank you again
Very good tutorial edd, covering the different types of welding and it's origin. The explanation of how to do mig welding, was way more educational and instructive than the education/introduction I received on how to arc weld when I was in high school in the 60's/70's in South Australia.
nice hints on why the car or mechanics seem sub standard.
Edd China - master of all things mechanical - and a master communicator.
Awesome info Ed. Everything you need to know to get the best results in 27 mins with no sales fluff. Love it ! 👍🏻 🇦🇺
Omg you've got a TH-cam channel. I used to watch wheeler dealers with my grandad and it was so much better when you were in it. I only watched it for the parts you were in. I found it so interesting seeing how you fixed everything to such a high standard. Hope you're keeping well Ed.
Hi Ed great to have you back. You passed over the PUSH for MIG and PULL for TIG very quickly. We have a very good TIG welder at work and he 'hides' when he does TIG so no-one can learn his secret!! I don't know if this is the secret but his work is excellent on SS. I will check!
Push for mig and tig,pull for stick(mma)
@@markspence9339 Depends. Thocker materials is different.
I wondered what happened to you Ed after the tv show. I just stumbled on this TH-cam clip by accident and sat down with a class of ice tea to watch. As always you are great in front of the camera and a pleasure to watch. Glad I found how to keep up with you. As y’all would say “good job mate”
Thanks Ed, this was a worthy masterclass on MIG. I would love to see you do other forms i.e. TIG in similar detail.
I was gutted when you where no longer on wheeler dealers ,since then I've stopped watching it,and I found it hard to see you do all the work and not even driving the car you sorted out at the end,only just found out you have ur own TH-cam channel and still working on cars ect, fantastic also love you store and item's and I am about to buy your hard copy signed book.keep up the fantastic work ,ur a great guy and very talented. Respect
Realy MASTERCLASS! You only left out one thing.......a cup of TEA!!!
Thanks. Snuck a few teas in off camera but did forget to mention a bit about earthing! Next video perhaps…
I’ve been welding since 1973. I’ve also seen many explanations of welding types and how and what to do. Some have been pretty bad, and a few, very good. Frankly, unlit TH-cam just showed. me this video, I had never heard of Edd. I’m happy I now have, as his explanations here, in this video, are among the best I’ve seen anywhere. It was enough to force me to subscribe.
Been welding 15 years still going to watch this because I know I will still learn something
Thanks, let me know any tips I have missed...
@@eddchina As far as instructions and safety none came to mind.
I was really impressed at how you managed to shorten some of the explanations.
I do have a suggestion for a "next chapter" which would be to show / explain the way different materials react.
stock bar compared to hardened steel and then aluminum could have it's differences shown?
Thanks for over 30years of content.
😊👍
I learned arc/stick and gas welding about 50 years ago, but missed out on tig and mig welding.
(The college I learned at has been demolished, rebuilt, and the workshops converted to offices.)
So, a demonstration and explanation of the correct techniques for my missing bits, is a real boon.
In particular, that the angle of the torch is the opposite from tig and stick welding.
Thanks!
I have been practicing MIG welding on my old VW Ghia replacing panels. Thanks for the lessons Edd👍
Brilliantly explained 👌🏻👍🏻
I appreciate the technical knowledge of Edd China, Making TH-cam great for sure.
I've not done any mig welding yet so the dozen or so instruction videos I've watched have been been very confusing.....until this one Outstandingly clear and logically explained. Thank you so much 👍👍
For those sticklers for technical accuracy: when 'MIG' welding with a Argon CO2 mix (rather than mIg = Insert gas so pure Argon) for shielding it's MAG (ACTIVE gas) welding. Also with a 'MIG' welder the power setting adjustment your changing the voltage (MMA AKA 'stick' or 'arc' you adjust the current setting). The other main adjustment on a basic 'MIG' welder is wire feed. PS depending on the settings chosen the same basic equipment can be used for 'short circuit' : 'spray transfer' : or even 'globular' 😎
I've always been curious why MIG (131) was favoured over MAG (135 ) when it came to choosing a generic name ? When 99.9 % is MAG welding with very little MIG
I've watched several Mig Tutorials (American) and learned a bit of something from each, (then forgot or was or often left confused) which over-all; sadly for me - left a poor "weld" in my memory banks! (Here) In just one Tutorial Edd the Man says and demonstrates more than all the other Vids put together. Simple , clear and yet Comprehensive. BRILLIANT!
I sort of wish I was starting my working life all over again!
Edd's a genuine bloke, learned a lot from these workshop videos
Thanks for the great video. I know oxy acetylene welding, but i wish you did a section on gasless MIG welding ,which, I think most people watching would use.(I am learning to use, too)
Wouldn't waste my time on that crap. Filthy process too much smoke and crap to clean off surface after welding.
Exactly the point I was going to make as not everyone can store or needs a big gas bottle in the garage.
My friend bought a (cheap)gasless MIG welder and we can't get it to weld correctly even though I am a qualified MIG welder and worked in the car industry for many years.
Personally I wouldn't go with a cheap gasless and can't comment on whether they are any good even if buying and expensive version.
Wire Speed is another point he didn't cover.
Thanks Eddie. I started in the 70s with arc and carbon arc and in the 90s I did mig. What a difference. Thanks for the info, I've learned a good deal from it. I have a gas less inverter now. I've yet to try it out. 😊
Edd you are amazing!
Learned to weld 35 years ago. Never had any PPE other than the old handle facemask. Great video and so easy to understand.
Hi edd, loved your master class on mig welding, have you considered doing other master classes on other workshop themes? Say maybe between you, paul some of your other mates make a list of say up to 4 things. Post the list on your channel for your subscribers to vote on and the one with the most votes gets a masterclass. I love how you cover many different projects, wouldn't want a masterclass interfere with that. Maybe if you're going to have a lull between a few projects and I'm sure that happens from time to time. A masterclass might be a nice little filler and a look into life in the workshop , just a thought. PS love the channel ☺️
Oh I do miss the old Wheeler Dealer day's....they're just not same without Edd....A True Legend.....!
Thanks for this Ed, nobody does it better! 👏
I've been Tig welding for 3 years sort of self-taught. I'm only now just delving into Mig welding.. thanks for the vid
Fantastic how to video. Cheers Ed!
Hey, Steve!
I am an educated welder and you teached me things I didnt know. Thanks Ed. You are a good man
Welding is one thing i really haven't tackled whilst working on vehicles despite owning some cars with serious corrosion problems, i think this video is going to have several watches just so i can pick up the basics.
Next episode I actually get around to doing some welding repairs on John’s Range Rover chassis. Hope that helps too
Wow. I had tons of difficulty TIG welding and finally gave up. Part of the problem was the cheap welder I was using. But after watching dozens of tutorials, this is the first person who indicates that magnets could actually interfere with the TIG weld itself. I was frustrated that the magnets would grab my wire and prevent me from maneuvering, but I didn’t know it could affect the welding directly. If I had known this, maybe I wouldn’t have given up so easily. Thanks, Edd!!
I had to pass a macro etch test (the strictest weld test in the country) to manufacture OEM exhaust systems for JLR, Edd's advice and information is spot on.
Best video I've ever seen on weldind.Everything is perfectly explained, not boring and super helpful in deciding what is the right type of welding you need for a specific job.Edd China,you're amazing, I can't thank you enough, keep doing what you're doing!
what a great and comprehensive explanation, thank you Edd!
Wow thank you, after watching a ton of videos, on where to start,on this mig welding adventure, you are the first one to come through the coconut. Thank you Edd
A great tutorial on MIG welding Edd! Very easy to follow with great examples. Keep up the great work.
Learned to stick weld with a Lincoln 225 on a farm. Started to work for a fortune 500 company. Was instructed to use a MIG welder. Once welder is set, then easy as pie.
Oh man I've been waiting forever it feels to see a video from your shop Edd!! Great!!!
Thanks, Edd, lots of tips for a very amateur backyard welder like me. My MIG/MMA welder is not Synergic like your GYS but has a table inside the door with values for amps, wire speed and so on. I was a bit skeptical, but talking to a professional welder, he was familiar with my welder and said that table was pretty good.
Mine is this strange sort of faux Synergic.
You look up the thickness on the chart that came with it, it tells you how many amps.
Once you set the amps it picks a wire feed speed for you.
I am still getting used to it.
My first welder came with no chart and to top that off in spite of being a 110 Volt machine it has 7 amp settings and automatically sped up the wire feed each time you raised amps.
I never really got a handle on it.
I managed to get a chart off of a badge engineered Snap On that was made by the factory as my welder.
Still need to try that out sometime.
Brilliant, such great explanations of the whole process. Thank you.
Thanks, Ed. Another usefully informative video.
I started my machine shop apprenticeship in 1975. We learned a little welding (MMA and gas) in the first year but no MIG or TIG. Thanks for filling in a few gaps.
One point I would add: the discoloured area ("Heat Affected Zone") around a mild steel weld can be significantly more prone to corrosion than the virgin material. Small parts can be sent out to be hot dip galvanised, otherwise a zinc rich primer is strongly recommended. I have seen the HAZ go rusty in a matter of hours.
Great tip, thank you.
Just a safety addition with the flap wheel you used for cleaning the work before welding it, I witnessed a friend of mine use one against two pieces of box section that were at 90 degrees to each other, the edge of the flap caught in the join between the two and kicked the grinder back into his face and cut through his bottom lip, 50 stitches and a lot of blood later he was thankfully okay, but just make sure you watch that kickback!
Sounds terrifying, good tip
Full face shields are a minim with grinders , every one has the story about that one time.
Don't have that one time be your face.
Brilliant lecture. He,s a real pleasure to listen to and REALLY informative.
Having welded for 50 years myself he answered several little mysteries that I'd always wondered about. Great work Ed. You have the gift of grabbing the listeners attention.
Fantastic video, truly lives up to the title of master class.
A a novice welder this was very educational, thanks so much Edd!
hi ed , those helmets are not solar powered, they have a small battery in them like a cr2032 or similar, the solar panel is for reaction for the lens to dim, if they stop working i.e the lens doesn't dim then just replace the battery
Great video Edd one of the best instruction vids on MIG I have seen. Now interested in one of those new generation machines my old one works well but is too heavy to transport. Like the idea of setting the weld parameters into the machine and it calculates amps and wire speed.
Thanks Edd, that was incredibly helpful!
Great tutorial! A mention of flux core welding common is small home kits would have been useful.
Very well explained! I would humbly add that for instance Mag welding is using Co2 as shielding gas MAG =Metal Active Gas welding. The Co2 is then adding carbon to the weld pool. And it splatters more. Also with Tig welding you might have argon/helium mix like 80/20 like in my garage because the previous owner was a welder salesman and left the 50L tanks for me when I bought the house. Thanks Edd China for making this very well instructive video.
One thing I had to overcome when it concerns welding, was the fact I didn't know really anything about it. What settings do I use? I could never get a weld that looks that good! I don't want to be judged by my inabilities...and on and on. Then I decided, what does it really matter? Am I making a living doing this? No. In the end, I realized the more I do it, the better it gets, the more confortable I become, and really, at the end of the day, are the two pieces stuck together, and not coming apart? If yes, then good job.
Great video for non welders. Liked the Bush tv in the background, when I first started repairing TVs there were still some of those about.
Great Deco style, it still works!
I thought my dog farted when the gas audio bit played, Perfection..
LOL
Sure blame the dog,🤣
I have a burner’s license and also have experience with arc welding and acetylene welding! 😎 Thanks Edd for the great tutorial! 🏆
Ed a genus in every thing he does