Let's see YOUR WELDS!!!

You master the stick weld process in any position on pipe you can easily master the tig and mig processes, no problem

 

True, stick is hard af if we're being honest here. I found TIG the easiest

 

How have I never seen this, what do they look like now??

 

Equally as terrible haha

 

well fuck

 

usually people say mig is the easiest

 

I am just learning to TIG weld during the Covid downtime. I have quite a bit of MIG, and some stick welding time all as weekend warrior, but brand new to TIG. I bought a Primeweld 225 last Summer but really have not had time to get on it much other than using the stick welder. Which, by the way is incredibly smooth.

The pic is a mix of three metal thicknesses and experimenting with three electrode size 1/16", 3/32", and 1/8' at anywhere from 60-145 amps. None of the metals were very clean, just scrap around the garage.

I'd say there are 3-5 decent welds in the whole bunch. I tried slow-fast travel, dipping filler faster/slower, a little pedal action, etc, so a lot of experimenting here. I learned a lot from these ugly welds. I was really just trying to get my timing and movement synched up. Still feel I learned a lot.

 

Mig is the most convenient, but Tig is definitely easier to learn.

 

1/4” open corner .035 wire

 

Working on it ever since that was posted, currently half way through a 2 year program at trade school for welding. Covid kinda stalled that for the time being which sucks, using the lack of shop time to read up on all the technical stuff.

 

Welding/fabrication treated me well for 54yrs in the trade,, if you're planning on doing it for a living concentrate on the heli-arc, (tig) still can't get use to calling the process that old days was called heli-arc and mig was called short-arc, AFTER you get qualified on the other processes. You can make some serious money tig welding tubes in furnances if you can pass what we called the "convection box" test. Tubes up against the wall a few inches away and a few inches off the floor. You can only see about 2/3rds of the weld the rest is mirrors and being ambidextrous, get just as good left or right handed... some serious welding skills when you consider the "severe cyclic" interpretation of the x-rays taken.

 

I used to build exhaust pipes for a living....never took any pics of my work though.....

 

Some old stuff.

 

my tie ins still suck

 

little more to go!

thick pipe!!

 

Not my welds but my 17 year old son's(Mason). He got a job building some handrails for a store by the lake. The owner had some 2 inch pipe that he wanted them made from. Mason doesn't have any experience with pipe so I helped him cut and fit it. 1/8 7018 with a Miller Bobcat 225. He has only been welding for about 2 months!

 

Picked up a spool gun a few weeks ago...reattached fender on aluminum trailer

 

Looks great! kept good torch angle wrapping around the radius

 

I guess I should have specified that he was using a stick welder. 1/8 7018

 

Tell the young man that this old man, retired welder, said that looks good. Especially for stick rod.
That is the correct process, 6010 root, 7018 fill and cap uphill.