This is the video all these young guys need. I've been all over the country and I see a common trend of 2 things. People who can't weld out of position. And too many starts and stops. I love that you left/showed the mistakes too. Good real world welding simulator sir.
Reminds me of me being a young man, I was 28 when i finally became imployed as a welder in a tank shop in Sapulpa,Ok. Thank you and have a blessed day America
I attended classes to workshops. Tech schools too. Welded many coupons. When I started in the real world, I was amazed how a Bridge deck actually moves. Welding joints on many joint repairs on Bridges constantly moving because of traffic live loads, was always a challenge. But if there’s no challenge, you’re not learning and progressing. Excellent video.
Kind of a welding obstacle course.....great idea! Just started using, and getting the hang of dual shield. Will be hitting the scrap bin, and try and put something like that together. Looks like a great way to get familiar with a new process.
I have a similar weldment like this for my students but tend to use smaller material because of the price of steel, and space it takes up in scrap, but this is badass practice! Well done!
I’m 15 I’ve been wanting to weld for a long time and just bought my first welding setup I plan on running fcaw and getting comfortable with welding in general, anyways I want to get as much knowledge in my mind about welding before it gets here so I can do it correctly and I literally searched up “how to practice welding” 😂 and this video popped up, thank you for making this, amazing video!
This is the reality of welding in the real world. It's not all coupons on fixtures in your face. Do the dry runs. Get your body position straight before you spark up.
I'm glad you showed this especially with the ibeam, I tell you what though this place I worked at I had to weld on some ibeams where I had to get a taper nozzle and a taper diffuser even that was a pain, I had to move my body in a weird direction only thing that sucked was, I had one repair but I was able to grind out the weld, at least I was able to get all the porosity out and make a smother weld. But another thing, I think should be taught and I had to learn this to is how to do a leak test and how to properly pass one and what to do on a tie in, and what not to do on a tie
Just my 2 cents I would turn voltage down to 22.5 -23 225 wfs I really like your channel I've been welding 27 yr and teaching for 17 keep up the good work
Nothing to trash talk here, just good real world information/weld practice. Well done duder. I have a rebel 285 and I'll tell you whut, that fan is LOUD! I'm glad your mic isn't doing it justice. My biggest complaint with it, is that the fan runs for so dang long after a weld. No matter if your TIGing at 20 amps, or MIGing at 200 amps, that fan is going to run for 5 minutes. I wish ESAB would have worked some circuit magic to run the fan per the demand. But she's a beast, I'm glad that I picked the 285, because I never don't have enough oomph to punch in.
its the punchest inverter in my shop forsure, im sure thats why it runs so long... assumes youre maxing out the beans all the time.. lol weld is a weld. fan on foreva... it is loud
Structural welding is so underrated. Don't get me wrong, I can appreciate the pay that pipe welders make, but the ability to weld as you're showing here and the fact that if it wasn't for structural welding, there wouldn't be any skyscrapers, bridges, automobiles, etc, etc...there's no reason why the pay shouldn't be closer to pipe welders pay or even tied neck in neck.
The same rules apply with any process, tig is tricky with the extra hand and filler, and stick can pose a problem with arc strikes if youre not careful.
yes, I have excuses, i actually have a PARR and a respirator, sucker is heavy or no one can hear me in the MIC. try to put enough breeze on me, Likely ill do the next one outside at least lol
Great video man. I don’t miss welding dual shield allllll day lol. I like 100% co2 myself. The weirdest positions I’ve been in were overhead usually. With a bad fit up, raining lava baby. 🤌 oh and props to keeping smooth. I learned to not whip with dual shield.
Perhaps I missed it, but what Brand Dual Shield wire and Size. Also if you adjust voltage or wire speed, could you say a few words while you are welding about what you changed them too and why? I think most folks know each welder is going to have its own characteristics, and I’m not trying to replicate your settings, but rather get a feel for tuning my own Voltage and Wire Feed Speeds, especially where changes in direction may necessitate adjustments or accounting for the metal heating up. I think a lot of us newbies would appreciate that kind of narration. Thank You
this was some ESAB .045 71T-1 with 75/25 mix gas, other gas mixes can be used and will likely affect your settings too. all filler operates withen a certain range of settings. If im welding flat or horizontal , will weld hotter than if im welding vertical or overhead i will decrease the voltage in order to have a more "sticky" puddle. that still penetrates but can climb without digging a hole to china. The WFS usually goes up with the voltage or down with the voltage. Essentially its your amperage, and plays a bigg roll in penetration. Toooo much or too little can make it run terrible of course. but if your settings are "synced" for the task you could blow dig a hole with too much wire. as you sene me do
Nice video, one thing I've always heard is you should weld going down instead of up. Heat rises and it'll make runs as it compounds the heat all the way up the material. If you go down it doesn't seem to do that so badly. $.02
Not with flux core because you can get slag entrapment and not enough penetration. The only time I've gone downhill is when fitters leave it all trashy or if there's a gap I'll do a quick downhill and then burn it hot going uphill but it's not the correct way to do it... . that's my .02 before you know it we'll be at a nickel lol
youre right! i could do more efforts to protect myself. I dont have much of an excuse, i have a PAPR on the wall. its just super heavy, and no one can hear me talk through a respirator.
that's because to many trade schools are now focusing on MIG and TIG training. Which is one of the biggest reasons why so many trade school grads can't pass welding tests
You are casually leaning over the pipe and beam endings as if you assume that they will also be cut out in real life applications like they are here. Let me assure you, that in most cases - they won't be, which kind of defeats the purpose of this exercise. I'll take your practice piece, match the distances in between said objects, add the fact that it's outdoors and windy, and raise it by the fact that there is no chance in hell you'd get within arms reach of any of them, so you'd have to use one of them heavy, brass, long neck guns, and peak that off, that the only way to weld this, is so that the weld gun itself is in your way of seeing that weld so you'd have to weld it halfway by heart. That will grow some hair on your eyeballs, mr workshop fancy pants. ;)
to be fair.. im using both hands for the majority of it. If i grab the trigger with my left instead of the right, ill still be using my right to help me guide everthing. nooot that crazy unless we are talking tig.
This is the video all these young guys need. I've been all over the country and I see a common trend of 2 things. People who can't weld out of position. And too many starts and stops. I love that you left/showed the mistakes too. Good real world welding simulator sir.
Reminds me of me being a young man, I was 28 when i finally became imployed as a welder in a tank shop in Sapulpa,Ok. Thank you and have a blessed day America
I attended classes to workshops. Tech schools too.
Welded many coupons. When I started in the real world, I was amazed how a Bridge deck actually moves. Welding joints on many joint repairs on Bridges constantly moving because of traffic live loads, was always a challenge. But if there’s no challenge, you’re not learning and progressing.
Excellent video.
Kind of a welding obstacle course.....great idea! Just started using, and getting the hang of dual shield. Will be hitting the scrap bin, and try and put something like that together. Looks like a great way to get familiar with a new process.
An excellent explanation video to help show real world welding in what people will face... Well done fallar 👍
It’s refreshing to see that you are so transparent 👍🏼
I have a similar weldment like this for my students but tend to use smaller material because of the price of steel, and space it takes up in scrap, but this is badass practice! Well done!
I dont blame this cost like $80 in scrap from the local metal supply diggin trough drops.
This is so good. The endless coupons are like teaching some one to drive a car that only goes in a straight line. Real day to day is anything but.
I’m 15 I’ve been wanting to weld for a long time and just bought my first welding setup I plan on running fcaw and getting comfortable with welding in general, anyways I want to get as much knowledge in my mind about welding before it gets here so I can do it correctly and I literally searched up “how to practice welding” 😂 and this video popped up, thank you for making this, amazing video!
This is the reality of welding in the real world. It's not all coupons on fixtures in your face. Do the dry runs. Get your body position straight before you spark up.
Yessir! we have to start thinking outside the box teaching these students once they can handle 8inch of plate weld.
We're happy our grinder & abrasives performed well in this one, Austin! 🙌
Worked like a champ!
I'm glad you showed this especially with the ibeam, I tell you what though this place I worked at I had to weld on some ibeams where I had to get a taper nozzle and a taper diffuser even that was a pain, I had to move my body in a weird direction only thing that sucked was, I had one repair but I was able to grind out the weld, at least I was able to get all the porosity out and make a smother weld. But another thing, I think should be taught and I had to learn this to is how to do a leak test and how to properly pass one and what to do on a tie in, and what not to do on a tie
Just my 2 cents I would turn voltage down to 22.5 -23 225 wfs I really like your channel I've been welding 27 yr and teaching for 17 keep up the good work
Very good informational video, thank you.
thanks for watching!
Nothing to trash talk here, just good real world information/weld practice. Well done duder.
I have a rebel 285 and I'll tell you whut, that fan is LOUD! I'm glad your mic isn't doing it justice. My biggest complaint with it, is that the fan runs for so dang long after a weld. No matter if your TIGing at 20 amps, or MIGing at 200 amps, that fan is going to run for 5 minutes. I wish ESAB would have worked some circuit magic to run the fan per the demand. But she's a beast, I'm glad that I picked the 285, because I never don't have enough oomph to punch in.
its the punchest inverter in my shop forsure, im sure thats why it runs so long... assumes youre maxing out the beans all the time.. lol weld is a weld. fan on foreva... it is loud
New video idea ~ aluminum spool gun tips and do's and don'ts. Keep up the good work man love your videos!!
Structural welding is so underrated. Don't get me wrong, I can appreciate the pay that pipe welders make, but the ability to weld as you're showing here and the fact that if it wasn't for structural welding, there wouldn't be any skyscrapers, bridges, automobiles, etc, etc...there's no reason why the pay shouldn't be closer to pipe welders pay or even tied neck in neck.
Ouuuch yo smokin bro 🔥
Flux amazing Core. Well done
thank yah kindly
Nice video. Thanks for sharing.. 😊
Could you do the same video for Stick, Mig, TIG? I would love some pointers to use at work, Tia.
The same rules apply with any process, tig is tricky with the extra hand and filler, and stick can pose a problem with arc strikes if youre not careful.
I always start and finish my welding process at or near the most difficult area to weld
Noted
dr.weldz is the 🐐
BAHHHHHH
Great job
Real world welding . 🤘🏻
What wire size? I do hand rail mostly and use .035.
I also had the same question when you were at the welding school doing the uphill vs. downhill.
this is dual shield FCAW with gas, .045 71T-1 wire from ESAB with 75/25 mix gas
Should all welds be made in the same direction?
You need to wear a mask! Great video! Thanks for sharing! 👌👍
yes, I have excuses, i actually have a PARR and a respirator, sucker is heavy or no one can hear me in the MIC. try to put enough breeze on me, Likely ill do the next one outside at least lol
hello. what kind of wires can do multi pass welds? what are their codes on the packages? on the internet it seems they only sell e71t-gs !!!
Try NR-211 MP. Designed for 5/16 max multipass welds.
Can you do one but with smaw 7018 ?
I seen the point of the weld on the pipe where your arm got stuck 😅, been there done that!
happens! try not to do it again! and if you cant move, freakin stop lol
Great video man. I don’t miss welding dual shield allllll day lol. I like 100% co2 myself. The weirdest positions I’ve been in were overhead usually. With a bad fit up, raining lava baby. 🤌 oh and props to keeping smooth. I learned to not whip with dual shield.
That's awesome glad you dug it!
Perhaps I missed it, but what Brand Dual Shield wire and Size.
Also if you adjust voltage or wire speed, could you say a few words while you are welding about what you changed them too and why?
I think most folks know each welder is going to have its own characteristics, and I’m not trying to replicate your settings, but rather get a feel for tuning my own Voltage and Wire Feed Speeds, especially where changes in direction may necessitate adjustments or accounting for the metal heating up.
I think a lot of us newbies would appreciate that kind of narration.
Thank You
this was some ESAB .045 71T-1 with 75/25 mix gas, other gas mixes can be used and will likely affect your settings too. all filler operates withen a certain range of settings. If im welding flat or horizontal , will weld hotter than if im welding vertical or overhead i will decrease the voltage in order to have a more "sticky" puddle. that still penetrates but can climb without digging a hole to china. The WFS usually goes up with the voltage or down with the voltage. Essentially its your amperage, and plays a bigg roll in penetration. Toooo much or too little can make it run terrible of course. but if your settings are "synced" for the task you could blow dig a hole with too much wire. as you sene me do
I need to practice this myself I get out of position all the time and stop. 😂
What wire?
ESAB dual shield 71T-1
Nice video, one thing I've always heard is you should weld going down instead of up. Heat rises and it'll make runs as it compounds the heat all the way up the material. If you go down it doesn't seem to do that so badly. $.02
Not with flux core because you can get slag entrapment and not enough penetration. The only time I've gone downhill is when fitters leave it all trashy or if there's a gap I'll do a quick downhill and then burn it hot going uphill but it's not the correct way to do it... . that's my .02 before you know it we'll be at a nickel lol
@@WeldersforJesus I rarely use flux, but your reasoning makes sense. $.01. There ya go.. :)
Great video thanks. You should wear a fresh air mask though. Or a respirator. Stay healthy😊
youre right! i could do more efforts to protect myself. I dont have much of an excuse, i have a PAPR on the wall. its just super heavy, and no one can hear me talk through a respirator.
Yeah I understand, respirators and talking on a TH-cam video is a bad match. Keep them videos coming, you are doing a great job 😁@@Welddotcom
Anyone else running Esab dual shield having trouble with random wormhole porosity?
Ive seen it before, and its a pain to trouble shoot. Most of the time, i find that it just wasnt used up fast enough or isnt stored properly
I like the teddyworld picture in the background.
ICONIC
We should see some 6010 SMAW. The trades are saying they're seeing too many people rush into MIG and TIG. Shout out to the STANG!!
that's because to many trade schools are now focusing on MIG and TIG training. Which is one of the biggest reasons why so many trade school grads can't pass welding tests
Are you not tasting all of those fumes?
You are casually leaning over the pipe and beam endings as if you assume that they will also be cut out in real life applications like they are here. Let me assure you, that in most cases - they won't be, which kind of defeats the purpose of this exercise.
I'll take your practice piece, match the distances in between said objects, add the fact that it's outdoors and windy, and raise it by the fact that there is no chance in hell you'd get within arms reach of any of them, so you'd have to use one of them heavy, brass, long neck guns, and peak that off, that the only way to weld this, is so that the weld gun itself is in your way of seeing that weld so you'd have to weld it halfway by heart.
That will grow some hair on your eyeballs, mr workshop fancy pants. ;)
Remember kids he is a welder
Dude, if you would've Bob Rossed it I think you would've had way less happy accidents 🤷
Now do this again with your LEFT HAND 🤔 SHOW US 🙏🏾
to be fair.. im using both hands for the majority of it. If i grab the trigger with my left instead of the right, ill still be using my right to help me guide everthing. nooot that crazy unless we are talking tig.
You should did suck a lot of smoke