🔥 Tips to Pass a 1G Stick Weld and BEND TEST 

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The Bob Ross of welding...when I get stressed...I tune in and relax....always great information..thanks so much Bob!!!!

Whose the guy who dislike this video? He literally showed every aspect of the process, INCLUDING WHAT NOT TO DO and bend tested his own welds so you know it was done properly. Probably someone who couldn't sit still for more than 5 minutes.

Great video! I really like the pedagogical approach where Bob tells us what he's going to do, narrates what he is doing during the weld, and then explains how to identify success and failure.

man, that was a sweet root pass. these videos have gotten so much better since bob took over.

Excellent teacher! I learn more from these videos than I ever did on the job. I started out putting exhaust headers together for old bikes, then I got a job doing repair to train cars, and now I'm working at motorcycle frames. I have a much better understanding of what I'm doing now, thanks for helping me become a better welder!

Well done!! Enjoyed the start to finish and bend test--great job!! Not all welders can teach welding--you have that gift and i thank you for all the welding knowledge you share with your viewers! God bless!!

Passed 1G stick welding test in my 3rd week of shop 10th grade and i just wanted to thank you for sharing your knowledge with the world, i am now practicing open root 3G stick and after that my teacher is going to teach me pipe.

Thanks Bob! Really enjoyed this video and the thing I liked the most was your laid back attitude. A pleasure to watch!

Thanks, Bob. Great explanation and demonstration of terms us newbies hear all the time but don't really understand. It's crystal clear now. Well done.

I was a welder, now I am a school teacher. This approach meets all the criteria for excellent pedagogical practice.

Another great video Mr. M and to that comment about “seeing” the weld it’s called heat affected zone it’s totally normal especially on a bend test to show the exposer of the weld and heat input.

Excellent demo Bob - very useful indeed.

Excellent video with an excellent description of what is being done. Keep up the great work and thank you very much for the valuable training!

Good job Bob. Recently retired started welding for a living in 1976.

I love your videos! I weld at a very amateur level. You know, I can do enough to get by but nothing structural. Keep up the great work.

great video Bob informative and straight to point as usual keep the video's coming this is gold

These videos provide me as much instruction as my instructors. So helpful.

Thanks for the videos Bob! These have helped me on my “not so critical” structure welding.

Thank you again Mr. Moffett. You answered so many of my questions with the bend tests.

This may be the most complete demonstration I have seen in a welding video. Great idea showing us what can go wrong and what happens in a test when you do it wrong. Would be a cool video to show us how to fix those problems if they do happen. This new host is a huge improvement over the last guy. Keep up the great work.

I think its really great that this guy and others takes the time to make these videos. I've learned a lot watching these videos. Thank you Sir.

Bob has really come around. He has gotten better and better with each video. Always been a good welder, but his presentation has gotten so much better. Great job and thank you for all of the helpful information.

I had never heard of a bend test before. That sounds like a good way for me to test the welds I make with my powerarc.

Thank you Bob, that was a very informative and educational video. Well worth the viewing time and the bend test and prep was icing on the cake. Thumbs up from me!

Super informative. Really like that you show what to do right and what to do wrong. Thanks!!

thank u this is better explained and not rushed. I appreciate it. so far I'm having issue with leveling it with an oxy fuel cutting torch. and when I put the plates together they ain't spaced apart evenly. with practice I'm sure ill get it

John here love a good weld a lot of fun back in the day watching your show puts back in time with some boys out at the old plant just retired in Jan.of this year

You've done a lot to help me with this channel. Thank you so much.

Thanks to you sir now I know how to put it on on my basics 1G for my school from PH

This is so cool, I want to learn how to weld now

Thanks man, I'm learning stuff. Your help is greatly appreciated.

Excellent tutorial video by a pro, thanks!

Mr. Bob, always a pleasure watching your videos, I like your strait forward relaxed approach you have, that's what I relate to, that's the way it is in the field keep it real. Turn and burn brother.

best welding series on youtube :P great job

Awesome video. Purposely making the mistakes is a great learning tool. Very informative. Thank you for doing this. Brian Hutchison.

in canada we have two stop starts on the root. good video!

Yet another great video. Thanks Bob.

Thank you for your video sir and thank you for sharing your knowledge with us I am in school currently and we’re working with 7018

Nice video, very informative! It seems that even welds that are not perfect can hold some amount of pressure! Great video!

Thanks Bob. Great Video! Phil from Austria

I never took a G1 test plate but it's good to see how it is done. So many welder fail trying to do a g2 test plate or g3 test plate flat when no one is looking. Thinking the weld was stronger flat just to find out that the penetration was poor in the flat position.

Jodi, u and Bob r the best instructors

Thanks for all the help man. Learned a lot more watching your vids than wasting rods.

Absolutely love this channel

Another great video. Thank you for all the information you share.

I love welding and after watching Bob's videos, it only confirms it even more👏

Thanks for the very precise instructions. Great channel.

Exelent as always!!👍

Love you videos Bob, thanks.

Very nice instructions..very helpful!

Old folk sure do love their coupons . Great video.

16:36 i loved when that happens when i weld in school. i had that happen a lot to me and other really did not had that happen to them a lot only like a few times. wish i could go back into welding but i like the job that i have right now. there is not point for me to get back into welding if i dont have anything to weld for.

Very informative.... really nice to see how it's done!

Thanks Bob Great Video

thanks for the lesson, great info ,,

i like the demonstration on how to do it wrong. i find making mistakes to be the best way to learn

These videos are invaluable! Thanks so much for the instruction!

Man this a very good video, very detailed. Very knowledgeable guy. 🧑‍🏭

nice video bob, greetings from Germany!

You do a great job , thanks for the info.

great video bob i follow from mexico

I really wish I'd had a teacher that could explain all the aspects of what was happening and WHY like you. Instead I had a person who just criticized without a corrective answer, just told you this is the way do it right never really teaching you what you did wrong. So yeah I had A LOT of bad habits I had to overcome because no one ever explained what I was doing was wrong and what happens when you do it that way. Just told you thats wrong go fix it😑😧 discouraging.. I hope a few of your students go on to teach. There will be a new generation of competent skilled welders that come out

Awesome teaching thanks. Good job

Awesome video! Great information! How can anyone be interested in a welding future and dislike this video?

Good video, Thanks.

Bob is the man!

If there were teachers like you in public school, I might have made it to high school..lol Thanks for all the vids.

THANK YOU SO MUCH

You make just one of the best welding videos i has see. I want lear how to weld. But i saving money to enroll in school

Thx for the vid!

How can someone dislike such great work? like seriously

My welding instructors in the 70s were boilermakers trained by the TVA Tennessee valley authority in 40s and 50s.They went from moonshine stills under pressure to pressure vessels,condensate units and turbines.Same only different.In retrospect they were very fine welders.They tig welded the root on the boiler tubes in new construction.On repairs they had a lead splitted.A "Y"one boilermaker outside the wall of tubes one on the inside.They were skillful sharing the same machine they would break arc quickly around the far inside and the other welder would strike up quicky in the same hot puddle.Repairs were stick welded.8010 8018.Preheat post heat of course.In the rural areas at that time many were KKK members and they solicited new members on the jobsite..They understood pressure vessels and condensate units because they were already using them on their moonshine stills.WHAT A BUNCH OF CHARACTERS!When you "boomed out"[traveled somewhere]the first thing you learned was [by word of mouth]where to purchase the local moonshine.Usually sold for 20$ and in a one gallon milk jug.Luckily you were so busy during the "shut down"that there was little time or energy [even for a young man]to spend in idle stupid stuff]especially since the journeyman put all the hardest nastiest work on the apprentices.[and rightly so].There was a hierarchy in the boilermaker unions at that time complete with literally black balling apprentices [with white and black marbles]If you got a black marble you were OUT!And you would not even know who put the black marble in.There was a secret knock at the union meeting if you were late.I think they were tied in with the masons somehow.Anyway in the early 80s I felt the calling to go west young man -so I went back to Alaska where I had spent a few years prior.The rest is history I was a pipe welder for 42 years been retired for 2 years now.However I will always be indebted to a couple of fine welding instructors that are dead now so I guess I can say their names Roy Chaney and John Feltman.And a mention to the cantankerous old "Possum" Elrod who almost black balled me [probably ]because I made him get up off his lazy a** from the bucket he was sitting on in a confined space when I accidentally turned on the wrong set of oxy/acet gauges : the hoses of which ended with nothing on them venting to atmosphere .Once he smelled and heard that he was forced to get up off his lazy ass where he had been watching me work on a superheat header for two weeks.I had a lot of fun down there in Dixie.Back then if you were sent for an" A" cloth ie [asbestos cloth]you went and got it and got back on the elevator with a ragged old asbestos cloth contamination every one.Times have changed some things better most worse in my humble opinion.

Fantastic info, priceless

Hi Mr. Bob I am Shahbaz from Pakistan. By profession, I am IT Expert but also a roof top welder. I continuously see your videos. Here it is to request you that kindly make some videos about home creation with thin pipes and metal sheets. Normally your videos (also other respectable youtube teaching people like you) use heavy and thick metal pieces which are not normally used in home level creations.

Awesome job

24:00 i think they think the purpose of the bend test is to assure the welds integrity under fatigue and stress on a regular basis.... if im correct they have no notion of the destructive power of that little tiny ram in a box. that it could be used to systematically topple a skyscraper to the ground. that force would never ever meet a piece of metal in real service. the test is designed to make it fail with a 2% chance of not failing. if you can weld in that 2% range you have earned yourself one step closer to a state certification.

Thank you sir !

Yeah 3g position gets me. Trust me those voids where you stack a weld over two welds can happen and rip your coupon open. I failed that way once. But also for beginners turn down ur temp/amps a bit. It helped me a lot to get my certs

I started to weld last year (freshman) now I'm a sophomore, still taking welding but I'm not taking my Bend test this semester, but next semester I can take it. I just need to do more practice. But wish me luck for my bend test next semester!

Great video!

very good video bob!

I am interested in seeing your technique in back feeding the filler metal using GTAW Process. Viewing the videos, I understand that is your favorite method in welding a root pass, either on pipe or plate in some cases. I would very much appreciate if you could show the "welders point of view", looking through the gap, while back feeding the wire, starting from 6 o'clock advancing to 12 o'clock. This is of course welding beveled pipe coupons. 6 - 8 inch schedule 40 or 80. It could be either a 5g or 6g position. Thank you for the educational videos.

great video

Nice video......... when I certified on D1.1, they didn't allow grinders. They (Iron workers union) only allowed chipping hammer, wire brush and an awl/pick.

Great Job

Thank you on the root mishap, I never really understood why I got a divot on the back side of my root. Now I do have one question on the 7018 fill did you plunge grind the edges of the weld and if so how deep should one go. I ask because i was told to do this before, but every time i have tried, I either got pin holes on my cap or it would bust on the bend. The only way I could stop that was to not grind it but crank the machine up by 5-10 amps, and I've been told that it's not the proper way to do that.

Good stuff 👍💯

Great vid as usual I’m ready for the point that I’m so good at all welding techniques that’s I purposely have to force a mistake 😆 in till then I’ll burn more rods and stick more tungsten

Thanks Bob for this great video. One question: what is the acceptance criteria for welding discontinuities in DT tests like bending shown here? naming the reference would do the job. Thanks in advance!

Awesome video Bob. Don't listen to all the mommies in the comment section crying about your ventilation. The smoke isn't that bad, it's a fact of welding. Hopefully you left out the grinding part so they wouldn't be nagging you about a lack of the safety guard. It might kill them if they had witnessed that reality of welding right after the mean ole smoke.

Great schooling!

I"m impressed Bob,great teacher

Best video I've ever seen produced on this, awesome job!

I've worked in metal fabrication as a finisher and as a CNC operator, Im out of the field now but interested in welding, I worked with a lot of welders and always enjoyed talking about their work. What is the best way to get into welding?

Due to English not being my language I am still unsure the root here is 3/32 7018 or 6010. This video is a jewel, as most of yours but this one really nailed it.! Thanks

I'd love to see a 6g stainless pipe demonstration using only the SMAW process. Thanks.

thank you for the the video! Could you please do a vertical and over head with back plate? I am in school and need to pass to get certified. this will help a great deal.

So should I long arc my I restart back from the keyhole as well or just deposit right over top of my previous weld?

Bob --Can you take us through a bend test for pipe for maybe a 8 inch? Show where to cut straps and prepare the test pieces. I know a 12X12 branch would take awhile that is why I was asking for a simple 8 inch pipe. --Keep up the good work. Learning alot from your channel and one day I am going to drive out and hook up with you on doing some welding.