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Good job Kase

 

I was the only one to pass out of the 5 that tested and I was the youngest lol

 

How old are you? Jw. And why are you learning welding? What's your goals with the craft?

 

Any certain pay you're interested in?

 

Wait... you can tig but can't run a 60?

 

Congrats on passing !! Some of us who have been around sometimes feel wishing Good Luck can be a Jinx!!

Can Tig weld but doesn`t like to run 6010

What are you going to when your Weld test to get in the Door is 6010 and 7018 vertical up as most all of mine have been in years past

 

Your young yet you will figure it out!!

 

Best bet is to find a chemical company that uses stainless flex hoses for purging. Find out what company supplies the chemical company with their flex hoses. Those hoses are all TIG welded. The chemical companies use the hoses once then discard them.

 

You don't have to goto school for that then. You can weld up stainless kitchen stuff all day at a lot of shops for like $16/hr.

 

All these people offering you jobs are just offering you a test. I've tested at a nuke plant before. If you have any intentions on working in something like that then you need to have a different mindset. Don't give up on 60 just cause it's hard. Because you're gonna have to do it in the field eventually. You can take a pipe welder test and not touch a 60 rod. Most tig root and hot and 70 fill or tig all the way.

They may not test you for 60 but you don't want to be the one welder who can't run one. Trust me.

Take it with a grain of salt but from someone your age who is in that career field, everybody expects us to not be worth a fuck because apparently only old timers can weld :rollseyes:
Don't give people a reason to continue that mindset. Show em that young guys can have drive and weld just as fast and clean as them

 

Good. And don't get discouraged by a challenge too man. I've been practicing my tig for over a year now and still can't get it perfect. But it happens. You'll be given shitty fits and awkward positions to weld in the field. Can't just quit cause you struggle. You're gonna be a welder man. And there's 2 types of welders. The crybabies and the badasses.

Which one are you gonna be?

 

Cause it's true lol. You got the welders who won't fucking put a bead in if the fit is 1/16 off and then you got the welders who can weld a fit that's a 1/2" off.

Ask anyone who has been welding long or been around welders enough lol. Can't make this shit up.

 

You need to learn how to do both. The WPS for the test will determine this.

Downhill is usually for pipe AFAIK.

 

But if your test is 2G then downhill isn't an option soooooo you can't just learn downhill and call it good lol.

 

Downhill...7018? Your instructor told you to do this? Set that fucker up an account on here so we can talk to him lmao. You don't ever do 70 downhill.

 

Okay well Rule #1. Don't ever do 70 downhill unless you just feel like grinding. 70 has a ton of slag (you should know this). Next is we have this crazy thing called gravity on planet earth.

So slag + gravity = not a fun time.

By the time your filler metal burns, all you're doing is covering slag and that's IF tou can even get the rod to really burn lol.

That's why it works for uphill tho because slag falls down.

You don't have that problem with 60 because they barely have any slag at all.

 

Yea but there's no career where you only run 60 soooo you're gonna have to push on and keep practicing.

Even pipeliners have to weld 70 uphill occasionally

 

Btw man I was on here when I was going to welding school too. I could search back far enough and find some shit I used to struggle with. I'd get on here and ask for help like you so you're not alone during all this for the record.

Fuck one time I even tried to see if BAMF would hire me as an apprentice lol

 

If I can step across it, I can bridge it.

Just kidding, but confidence is a big part of this gig.