10 TORCH CUTTING POINTERS (Never Use Your Grinder Again) 

Just wanted to say I like your positive and humble attitude. The world seems too short of that these days so it's wonderful to hear / see.

Hey austin I'm 13 just learning to weld and watch you a lot for tips. I am addicted to welding and hope to learn all that I can. I am a 4th generation welder so it's in my blood.

I’ve been welding for a little over 10 years and there is still not a video that you release that I don’t learn something from !! Thank you for the excellent content 🤙 Also the videos are edited, exceptionally well, which makes the viewing experience all that much better.

I've been a welder fabricator / ironworker for about 20 years & I get good tips from your videos, I try to keep a open mind and learn everyday. Thanks

Your comments will get most people further than any lesson. It will make people stuck in life take the next step to “Learn something new everyday” Thank you, sir.

Mr. Ross I have been a pipefitter for 24 years, I love your videos especially pipe fence videos. Your video on torch cutting was good, but for the apprentice I would show more about your hand placement, arm, and body position. This would aide in them staying comfortable especially in a ******* position. I remember learning I used to cook my gloves. Love ur videos. Rusty

At 3:30 of this video, THE SOUND, I am 71 years old and I have only heard that sound from my best friend and mentor in 1981. He was 20 years older than me, I lost him about 7 years ago. ANYWAY!!! YOU ARE RIGHT ON WITH THE CLEAN TIP!!! At 5:13 it is hard to tell but "I think" you are to close to the work. I would hold the tip about 1/2" above your work. The Victor 300 series is "in my opinion" the very best torch that has ever been produced (period)! Les, my mentor had the 100 series. When you pierced the half inch plate you showed me something I have never seen before. That is to raise the torch to keep the tip more clean. That is a GREAT tip. I wish you and I could get together and share some WAR stories. I have followed your channel for about two months or so. Have a GREAT day and looking forward to your next video.

Always good tips, Possibly the best tip in all of Austin's videos is kindness, practice that in all you do especially on the job . Pleasant people are a pleasure to work around.

I like this video. Most fabricators do not even know how to use a cutting torch now days. I would be lost without it! I remember as a kid, an older gentleman that worked for a company by the name of Liftall Forklift. He could cut through what I remember was 4" thick steel. It was so amazing and awesome, that I would put it up against anything CNC done today.

Hello sir austin,I am from the Philippines 🇵🇭 love watching your video I got idea about how to make proper cutting just a newbie.god bless you always

Thanks for the words of wisdom Austin. Enjoyed the helpful tip on the cutting torch. Always enjoy your videos. Stay safe and have fun too. Fred.

Love how you make your videos INVITING and welcoming to viewers. Keep it up!! Great job!

Your videos are Soo informative!! I have learned so much from you and we've never met !! God bless you and your family!! And keep all that good content coming

Thanks so much you are a great down to earth teacher/spokesperson!!

Appreciate what you teach so much man! I’m still hooked on videos you’ve done years ago. Thank you for taking the time to make these videos!! I’ll have a rig one day!

Thank you for your help with cutting metal. I know much better now. When lightning the torch, my dad always said crack open the oxygen first and then open the acetylene to light the torch. That way you won’t have any soot or black paratroopers.

Amen Brother, it’s easy to let life’s struggles get you down or use it as an excuse for our failure. Gratitude for our blessings and remembering we are not OWED anything helps us work harder each day to earn that which we deserve. Keep up the great work!

Thank you for the the tips and meaning of gratitude, I do forget sometimes to be grateful for the things I do have!!!!!! Really appreciate it!!!!! Great video!

Awesome video brother! & Amen on the ending “tip” 👌👌👌! I just got setup with my torch and this video is super helpful! Can’t wait to get proficient with it! Blessings man!🔥👊

I enjoy your videos, being able to torch cut or "burn" skillfully is required in the trades. I've been a Weldor/Fabricator for 45 years. With the type of skills you promote, a person can go anywhere, in most any industry, and find gainfull employment.

Thank you , I'm off out to a rig in the North Sea ,Scotland and this tutorial will be in the forefront of my mind as myself and my work mates have the task of burning/cutting of guild buckets, we will be using rope access to get to the work site Excellent tutorial Thank you for all your Time and effort .

43 years in the welding industry for me and still learning. Thanks for sharing your experience. Clean tip it's the truth. Gotta say the " moisture coming out" is not coming from the steel... Its from the flame.

Austin, your videos are very useful in my job, thanks for share them, best regards from Portugal

Great tips brother, I appreciate it that , thanks for sharing your experience,🙏

I appreciate the tip on raising the tip when starting a plunge cut. I have plugged up many a tip doing a plunge cut.

thanks man. i enjoyed the message at the end. I'm 53 years old and I have to learn how to weld in order to top out at my job. I'm starting from scratch. I appreciate your videos.

thank you for you video. I have been using a torch for 50 years as a uneducated person. I am going to study with your school because I should have blown up my shop years ago just from ignorance. thank you again. I am off to the welding supply to get some things I need to replace 30 years ago. You probable saved a Hugh accident from happening.--Bob

another good video. Also hearing plays, a part in good cuts. When you are cutting at the right travel speed you will hear a distinct kind of a buzz and it will seem more metal is being cut

Good evening Austin, really good advice. I had a very wise gentleman told me to live with gratitude and contentment. Everyone trys to keep up with the Joneses. I just found your videos and I am binge watching them. Thank you for the great tips, tricks and techniques. It is great that you share your expertise. Take care and good luck.

this is one thing I need to get better at is torching. good video I'll have to try some of these out

just got on my first welding pipe job. ss heavy wall 1 inch socket welds 60 welds in so far! thanks for the help

I enjoy your videos. Your attitude is inspiring.

Sweeet video Austin! Straight cut than I ever could, hell I couldn't even get the machine on! Get after it Austin

Thanks! I’m an auto mechanic by trade and use the torches almost on the daily. Mostly heating up seized fasteners, but cutting the odd time. Pretty sure we got the wrong tip on our torch. Will be double checking the pressures also!

My Dad worked the offshore rigs in Prudhoe Bay forever when I was growin up in the eighties and nineties, did a lot of welding and then did a lot of it in his free time at home on his off hitches and I never took an interest until about ten years ago and he has such a gruff attitude that by then he didn't want to show me a thing. I've been self teaching and aside from readin I like to utilize RU-vid for not just welding but everything technical in general and it's been that way for a number of years now. All of that is to say that you're one of the best welders I've seen and you have an awesome channel here, you carry good humor and a top notch bedside manner, thank you so kindly for sharing your valuable time with all of us, it's much appreciated Sir, take care.

Thank you for the content and positive message!

Came for the tips, left with the tips. New sub. Grateful you're grateful.

Sure enjoy your videos! Another good tip is to try to be comfortable if at all possible, things just work better and smoother!

Thanks Brother. Good advice on being grateful. 👍

Hello Austin, I like and learn a lot from your videos. I’m just up the road from you outside Owasso. I’m a Aircraft Mechanic by trade and am a better grinder than welder but getting better. Thanks for all you do to teach us.

Thanks for the tips!

Very informative video with a great bit of advice at the end. Cheers from Australia

Nice work great tips!

You have a Victor torch,use Victor quick disconnects. Victor has chart cards for tip sizes and pressure settings. Also rate of travel for various kinds of fuel gas! Don't spend all day pre/heating,take a coping chisel,raise a burr, the burr will heat to burn temp and you can start burning immediately!!!

Great tips!! Thanks!!, I learned something today!!!

I collect and overhaul torches, regs and flowmeters (getting a heap of core 450 Victor regs and flowmeters for less than scrap at auction got me started) per factory literature. I like your hose idea because the small OD combination Victor handles don't fit my big ol' meathooks! Worth knowing (you do but others may not) is there used to be MANY different torch body styles in the old days when OA welded and cut everything. I decided to collect and try every major brand of US torch since it's so cheap to do and the torches last many decades. The best variety are the old Oxweld/Purox/Linde/L-tec/Union Carbide (the welding industry consolidated like mad middle last century!) and their industrial "feel" is like the feel of a gun that fits your hand. Many have bodies as thick as the hose you use and their VARIETY is impressive. No wonder they were so popular for so long. I'd take their feel over other brands and though most models are out of production cutting tips are still easily available online (I stock up cuz I'm cheap). I'd say Smith have the best quality today and have the best engineered tips. Harris work fine but I never fell in love with them. Airco (now Concoa) combination torches tend to narrow handles I dislike and Concoa (smaller line of course) use the same tips but don't sell rebuild kits. Their steel heads are tough though and would be a quality choice for other companies because they take abuse so well. Of course since Victor are everywhere it makes sense to carry those on the road (unless you bring spares and spare tips). I got bored and did what many old shops did and took the body of a CA 2460 from my donor pile then installed the longer tubes (don't forget the internal mixer) and cutting head off an old ST1100 straight torch (same exposed nuts at base is the match). I used a HD 310C handle (not mandatory but I had a cool one with different sized knobs (which were sold for mining use so the user knew which was which by feel instantly). That got me an extra-long combo torch that fits in a small box with my other heads, heating tips and rosebuds. Hardly cost anything and is sometimes quite handy. 450 series Victor regulators make the most sense to me because kits are cheap and you can replace a bad seat in a few minutes in the field. I grind the internal chamfer off a SIX POINT (caps for emphasis) to fully grip the shallow nut (which works for many shallow nuts, the chamfer is purely a production aid to center the broach). Thanks for all your videos! I directed our welding student to them since you're a better communicator than many if not most instructors.

Chapters: Tip 1 0:44 Rubber Hose Bonus Tip 2:18 Quick Connects Tip 2 2:55 Proper Pressures Tip 3 3:22 Clean Tip Tip 4 3:51 My favorite size of Torch Tip 00 Tip 5 4:13 Preheat Tip 6 4:59 Press Cut Lever Before Contacting Metal Tip 7 5:13 Proper Travel Speed Tip 8 6:01 Tip for Piercing Metal Tip 9 10:23 Gratitude

Great tips Austin. Enjoy the vidyas

Read an old book from 150 yrs. ago when torch work was a real deal. Clean yer tips by heating 'em red & plunge 'em into water. Then squirt 'em wi compressed air. Works like a charm!

Well done Austin, cheers from Florida, Paul

Great video! Good vibes! Point Loma welding has your back !

Thank you 👊🏽 Very Helpful 👍🏽

Gratitude ❤ .. thank you for that ! 🙏

Thanks for sharing your videos. You are top notch in instructional videos! Love the content . Love the coffee, come on 👍 👍👍🎯❤️welding😎

True professional he is! Go 798!

Very good Video 👍👍

I was going through the back room at work and came across a #6 Victor tip. Yoink! ^_^

I’ve only seen a few of your videos, and I like your presentations, and I have not seen you mention the importance of keeping oil away from gauges, and fittings. I was reminded again this time when you talked about spitting into your quick connect.

Grateful to you AR

I love this channel

Still love the content! Keep up the great work! Love it!

youre such a good dude

Thanks Austin.

Wow! Those were some clean cuts! What about cutting bolt holes? Thanks for the tips and demos! Subscribed!

Good torchman stay classy Austin!

The freehand cutting is amazing.

Thank you!

Well done.

I love metal, Mig, Tig, Stick or cutting, loving building stuff.

Tip #2 and tip #4 has changed my cutting game!

Great video

Thank you!!!!!

Insane how clean a cut can be made if you do it right.

Thank you Austin! Do you find the torch is preferred over the grinder w/ a cutoff disc?

Any videos on welding rusty dirty metal that you can’t get clean or can’t clean, Using a stick welder and what rods are used for doing this. Thanks for your videos, Ive watched a few lately. Have a great day.

im new to the channel. Appreciate the tips. I come from a machine shop and would like to learn more about welding.

Good tips here ! An clean them often lol

Tip #11…. Switch to oxy/propane if all you’re doing it cutting and NOT brazing. I use plasma for thin metal and oxy/propane for all thicker cutting and heating. It’s so much cheaper and there’s no 1/7th flow-rate rule you have to worry about, unlike acetylene. Propane is so much easier to transport, store, use and about four times less expensive than acetylene. The downside is more oxygen is used with oxy/propane cutting, but so what. 02 is fairly inexpensive. I love the switch and will never go back to acetylene again. However YMMV.

Thank you

What’s going on Austin. Coming from Memphis Tn. Enjoy watching your videos.

Very helpful video, we use lpg/propane for a fair bit of torch cutting in NZ and was wondering if there were any major differences in setup other than different tips and pressures?

I seen a stocky welder rock crush that stood with his feet apart cutting free hand over a piece of plate not touching it at all supper steady and smooth cut through a 3/4 plate

Nice video

Nice...can you do me a video of brazing up radiators with brass rods and acetylene? or do you already have one?

Something that I got told about cutting rebar for concrete is to start on the rib so you don't have to heat it up so much and it makes it quicker.

Bro I like your custom built welding cart. What gauge is the sheet metal on top and what size is the square steel stock?

👍thank you

Just subscribed but I watch on another device that want let me but I really enjoyed what I’ve seen so far

My torch work leaves me quite a bit of practice filling gaps:) I am fixing some of those thin metal round bale feeders now, very thin metal. I am using a flux core to weld it. New feeders are kind of pricey.

Thanks... nobody taught me about the pre heat.

Right on

cool and your fate or ours its in our brain and hands so first we think and after doing it whatever we like to do. I like seenig your cilps and explaining very simple better undresstanding for me than others weldone so when you enjoing doing something means you learning a lot and loving it being better and best. thanks myfriend god beless you and all of us serving humanity. thats why we are in this plant earth in this phisical mater state to enjoy what we do in here thats it.

Could you do a quick video over the skid that’s in your shop at 2:00

i don't know but I've been told some tips depending on the no. of fuel holes can be aligned north south and east west with torch head and can improve how wide your kerf is as well help to follow your cut line. just a thought.

Hey Austin where can you buy your welding caps at, thanks SAM

Tip number 11, always make sure to use the right size chipping pliers to clip your slag

Where are u located? I live in MN you talked about the weather being 30 outside.

New here thanks👋

Rember a clean tip is a happy tip

I would always clean back to bare shiny metal before welding clean metal mix in the weld pool less chance of slag inclusion from the oxidation scale on the plate. Clean feathers on the flame ring (sharp and even) and clean jet of oxygen piercing the centre so it 'cut's' clean and crisp. 👍😉