It's great to see this type of teaching available. I'm a fan of Bob Moffat and Jody of welding tricks ... until you guys they were the only welding channels I had full confidence in. I've been a welder for over 42 years with the largest majority fabrication and repair of Heavy Earth Moving Equipment and then the past 20 yr. I've been the sole Maintenance Specialist/ Welder at a large school district making repairs and Fabricating everything metal. Even with my experience I need welders like you all to give me lessons, hints, and tricks. Hell, Bob Moffat called me personally and talked me through an issue I was having with some Stainless Steel. Glad your channel is here, I'm a subsriber!
Hello mr. Brady im a newly grad in a welding school funded by Phillipine Govt. And im glad that there is a channel like this because it will enhance our hidden skill inside us.
Great video. Thnx. Pls. do more. Your "6" restarts are a great technique. I've never heard it said that way. It's so simple. That will surely improve my lumpy restarts.
Really like watching your channel it’s helped me a lot in my college welding class. i really like the way y’all teach it’s helped me a lot. Keep up the good work y’all!
this is good...the other guy is like god level welder and sets the bar very very high...this guy shows a more realistic welding that will PASS...remember it aint always gotta be pretty shit needs to pass
Whatever.. passing a 4G is known as all position... it overrides and certifies you for 3-g and 2G.. as long as the welding procedures and parameters. Are the same
Depending on the CWI administrating the test and the WPS you're given would determine wether you use the 3/32 or 1/8 7018 or a combination there of for the test. Most CWI will check your fit up and your root pass before just letting you continue with the test. Good test plate though.
There is only one procedure for a 3g 1.1 just one. According to the AWS specifications.. certain jobs and applications may change.. the specifications and procedures but they have to be approved... so a certified welding instructor giving a AWS certification cannot make up his own rules... and as far as 1/8 or 3/32 7018.. that does not make a difference at all as far as the AWS certification specifications... as long as you stay within the specific parameters that the different diameter wires have... 7018 is 7018 no matter what size diameter... but each size diameter has a different specification for Heat input.. bead width and interpass temperature!!
@@xbettervibes congrats now you just have to certify again when you get a job and do it the way they want. AWS Certs are BS bro have been welding 12 years and even tho I have my AWS certs structural and GTAW PIPE never has one company asked to see them and thats because they do there own test witch is harder anyways.
I have a question I hope you will answer, please. Pipe doesn't use a backing strip for the root so I wonder, out in the "real world" will there always be a backing strip on every joint or does the backing strip in the test represent something else that would be found out on the job? Could you go a bit further into the "why's and where for's" of the test procedures besides just how to lay the bead and settings, etc.? Thank you!
Great video! Thank you for taking the time to put this out there for us to watch. Wish your welding academy was closer to Ohio I would love to attend. Have a great day. Cheers
Great vid! Good info, and easily understandable. Thanks! Serious question..... why do most of you guys wear pipeliners? Is there any advantage to that good that I am missing? I still use my grandfather's Bandit with a #10 gold.....
Super videos, you guys are first class! If I lived close by, I'd be right there with you for "Tune-ups". Several things I am interested in. I would like to see 7018 stringers all the way out. Sometimes the guy giving the test (... if you are going for a job) wants stringers. I would like to see a coupon bend; I always hold my breath on that one. Lastly, (...yeah, I know it's tough) what rod do you prefer? I've used them all. The company you work for supplies the consumables; they might use your requests. I have had both horrible results with some brands, and stellar looking welds with others (all fresh out of the can, or, rod oven). With the crew leader looking over your shoulder, I hate using inferior (in my opinion) brand rod. Especially when you are the new guy on the crew. All comments appreciated; Thanks.
If it was me I would have done a stringer cap. You can run very hot on stringers and they will blend together very well and be slick as snot. My advice to this welder is get a hood you can see good enough that you don’t need to grind your edges. If you have problems finding the edge of weld that is were your inconsistency is coming from.
Make sure to keep your rod 10° angle.. over and over again at 10° angle.. but I watch these guys videos multiple times and.. when the welding rod reaches about 6 inches.. he's at 0°.. when the welding rod is brought down to about 4 in. His rod angle is pointing down the Stinger is above the ark!! At 3 to 2 in Rod length his rod angle is 15 to 20 degrees down.. so yeah so much for that
Carl Boucher when I was in school one of the instructors would hold a serious drag angle of 15-20 when he would do 3g7018 vertical and it was one of the slickest welds you’d ever seen! Moral of story is, do what works for you. (I could never get a hang of draging 7018 vertical)
Question, If U get undercut, in the root or fill passes, when u do your next pass run hot and fill it In, and as long as your caps have no undercut isn't that ok ?
Yo bro, could you do a video about the best machines to weld for mig, tig and stick am trying to buy one but I don't know so much about machines, am sure other people would be interested on a video like that too, and thanks for your videos they help a lot ✌
Millers are great for shop welding, so pretty much mig and fluxcore and tig. For stick & tig welding in my opinion, the lincoln takes the win. A machine thats DC only gives out a smoother arc, than a machine thats AC/DC like the millers and some lincolns, and it works both ways too.
Antoneo Alston the videos are good but they need to give out all the information on testing not just a one sided view. Also, it would be nice if the videos did incorporate a CWI there while they do these test examples to give a real live feel of what will happen at a test site.
I did this today for NOCTI and boogered it all up. For some reason every tome i got about 1/3(1/2) to 2/3 the way up 6 inch long and half inch thick plate i think it was my bead went from a bead to crap dripping every where. Couldt get it to stop no matter how fast i went or whoch weave i tried it went to crap in the same 2 inch space. 1/8 inch 7018 rod with what i think was supposed to be a 3/32 gap ay 115 to start and 120 for the hot pass, but my rod fit with room to spare and i didnt feel like complaining, plus i figured a wider gap might help me, so i didnt say anything lile a dummy. HELP!
Mick Chuknit it’s called arc blow. If you’re running 1/8” or smaller diameter put your ground clamp at the top of the plate. If you’re running 5/32 or larger put the clamp at the bottom. It helps out tremendously.
How come he’s not showing himself cleaning the weld at his stop before welding the tie-in/restart? That’s important to make sure that you don’t get any slag inclusion at the tie-in.
As you were running the bead, i noticed that you were starting a new rod over the flux shielding of the previous bead. Is that correct? But when you do your second pass, I guess you have to clean of the protective flux first. Just want to understand this better. Thanks for the vide.
Danylo66 always have to clean slag off. Never weld over slag. But in this case, the slag will run out of the crater since he is running vertical up. Gravity pulls the slag down. 👍🏻
The slag on the stop is very minimal so yes you CAN run one PASS without chipping so the slag will protect the previous rod you burned from buckshot and trash but YES when you finish a complete pass from the bottom to top of plate you will clean ALL slag before starting your next full pass.
Corey Dixon Sr. I see your work here Michael Tomek. Very nice welding on the 3G. My question is on the CAP where you mention the amps being set to around 95 amps while using 3/32" 7018 Rod. "Is that the same amps if I am using 1/8" 7018 Rod?
when you're running a 7018 1/8 inch rod the lowest you want to run it is about 115 or 120amps.... the only reason why he's running at 92-95 amps is because it's a smaller rod it's at 3/32 7018.
Just depends on test specs. You can weave or run stringers....but you gotta remember how far are you whipping to weave? Some places say 3x the diameter is a weave I've been somewhere where they consider 5x the diameter is a weave. Gotta ask questions....but I prefer weaves compared to stringers. Haha
@@roscojenkins9067 Its already beveled 37.5 degrees always 37.5, 37.5, 37.5 degrees don't let anyone tell you different it's always 37.5 degrees you got it. you just have to clean of the lime scale and fit it up yourself.
Aiden Hepburn CWB test are strict asf! Just so you know. Those Canadians don't play. Personally I think it their welding schools are better than the US. If you can pass their stuff then AWS test are easy.
Ahmad Ali thanks for the response. I have passed the flat and horizontal smaw so far. The shop im at now is all flux and metal core. Im stuck on the vertical stick. I do agree they are very strict having 2 stop starts on the roots is a pain.Being in Alberta everything has strict limits
Aiden Hepburn I've been thinking about getting into one of the welding schools in Canada just so I can get all that CWB info under my belt. But it's hard asf just to get in the schools if you are from the US. It would be nice. I hold certs in all smaw, gmaw, fcaw structural steel and GTAW stainless, aluminum structural, all position sheet metal cert and a auto body (GMA) welding cert. But I don't have and CWB certs. They are next on my list someday
@@jca66 so a plate test will have a quarter inch gap for the root opening, and using 1/8 diameter rod,you pretty much HAVE to run a 5/16 stringer for your root pass to tie in your bevels....
It’s kinda weird to me hearing backing strip I’ve always heard it as a backer bar Edit: I do 7018 open root with a 1/4 in. gap how long should I pause? I’ve tried 2 seconds on each wall but still get undercut.
Going to school for this as well. Just a short term class, I am now doing 3G aws d1.1 but it's to prep us for the test next class. They have me doing a 2 cap pass. Is it just preference or is it state by state code
It all depends on the company and client your working for. I have my aws certs, well they have been expired for about 9 years now only because I found out quick that companies don't care if you show them a peace of paper that shows your certified because they give there own certification test that is harder If your going to work for a bigger company like Bechdel, CB&I or Fluor just to name a few. You will always have to certify for every company you work for and the tests will all be different. The last test I took was for CB&I and it was 1 inch plate 5/32 gap 1/8 rod root to flush 3/32 5 stringer cap xray.
10:4 littleal I’ve never done this test for structural but when I took the guide bend test in college you blow it off with the torch and smooth it out before you cut the plate and bend it. I think they allow it because unlike pipe almost all structural is a joint and usually always has some sort of backing
With a backing strap? If so then I may have a idea of you being able to accommodate that position with mig. It would be the "Triangle" method or my personal preference a side to side motion, or even: well it's not common in the field from what I heard but there is an old method that I was taught called the "Squirting" method sounds funny I know. But it'll save your ass if it's the only thing or last thing to think of imo, honestly.
To many weave beads man. Just string it out all the way. I personally didn't like huge weaves. It didn't fill any faster, more tie ins, etc. Just not my preference. But if it bends, send it
