Saw a guy do it yesterday at Maverick in La Porte . A Coonass from home, La !!!!!! ✌👊😎 he passed. I passed branch and bell!!!! Nice video. Please buy a welding hat for your ears, ,
Got my start in the pipe department at a US Navy Shipyard. They also made us use 7018 for the root in the corner of a booth 2G and 5G and made an emphasis to grind every start. Also had to do TIG in the same scenario and both were 6" pipe ~ half inch wall. The bowl legged old fart giving us the initial instructions yelled at us young boys no back stepping on starts....grind, grind grind. Ended up being an ace mirror welder on hydraulic lines arrayed. I'd do so much mirror welding I sometimes had a hard time tacking something for someone without a mirror. Good times. Great video and skills. We never tried it on DCEN though.
Just found your channel, enjoyed it greatly. Went to Sweden in 2010 whilst visiting family in Denmark. My husband went to a welding supply in Dansk and told me of how similar the welding supply was to the USA and even SMELLED THE SAME ! Thanks
I ran this when I lived in Sweden. Its really all in the hand remote but when its done, its bad ass. I have never seen it done in California and Im a Union pipefitter. Awesome job. cheers TyT
Did the same test today. On a 60mm pipe 12mm thick. And i used ok 48.15 in the root. Dcen 75amp. 3.5 opening And 2.5mm land. I did not have remote but root went out nice. Thank for nice tips And tricks. I am from NORWAY.
Nice job! Here in New Brunswick, Canada we also do 7018 root, fill and cap if required, although a 6010 root is becoming more commonplace. Great idea using a remote for the root pass, i would love to see that become a standard here as well. Also i can tell you from 20 yrs experience welding that the 7018 root is much harder to master, again nice job.
Yeah the remote is definitely a boost both in quality and production rate. I have personally never run a single 6010, so it's nice to get your opinion about the difference. Thanks for watching and comment.
Just found your channel young man. You have great skills (far better than my welding skills) and videos are good. Thanks for uploading and best regards from North Yorkshire, England.
Words don't invent themselves now do they :D Instant like. I like the thoroughness and attention to essentials and details on your process. Good job! :) Subscribed.
I have been welding pipe for 30+ years. 7018 and stainless stick is very impressive. If you very good rod both helps. I have welded pipe with every process except a sub arc.
Good instruction and humor. Would you please make a video of the internal components of your Esab welding machines (manufacturers, specs, etc)? In the Western Hemisphere there is great confusion and fraud regarding price and components in welding machines.
For those that don’t know dcen is straight polarity and the arc is jumping from the rod to the work piece and dcep is reverse polarity and the arc is jumping from workpiece to rod.
I've used 7018 for root pass before and to achieve this is to understand how polarity affects your weld and the technique needed to execute this. Using 7018 all the way for me is a hard technique to learn but very rewarding.
What a great find this channel is. Great info, lovely arc shots, superb welding skills. Weird not to hear an American accent as on most welding vids & still yet to find a Brit who's putting out video, they must be out there
Hi Thank you for this very nice video. Note that you have potentiometer based amp setting which you are I think using it is also possible to have two toggle switches : one for +1 amp up and one for -1 amp down remote control.
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I think they called it "straight polarity". Welders would try it every now and then with 5p on pipeline. A good inspector could catch them in the act if he kept his s am/fm radio on a.m. Win around the bead hands. Thanks for the video
Yes, you're right about the polarity I got it wrong there. About the polarity its a little different in Europe compared with US. In Europe its what the wps allows you to do is what matters. In fact this filler from ESAB is recommended from the manufacturer to run on dcen for the root pass. Thanks for commenting and watching. Have a great day.
Thanks alot for kind words. as a matter of fact we recorded a new video last weekend, and I am editing it right now so maby in a week it will be uploaded. But I have never welded 6010 not even seen a 6010 rod in sweden. but who knows what the future bring. Thanks for watching
I really don't know! It seems to be the common practice here. I was talking to the old timer I work with ,though, and he said they used all 7018 for the pipe jobs he was on.
very nice video shows you know what you are doing. I am surprised that there is no 6010 in Sweden , it does make root passes easier. I have some Esab 7018 it works well. I usually use Blueshield electrodes from Air Liquide they have 6 different 7018 rods have a look at their stuff. They are a Canadian company . By the way I have been using a Fronius MV180 and I like it.
Thanks for comment. 7018 gives a more ductile weld that is more resident to cracking. I think that's why we are using 7018 instead of 6010. plus a 7018 weld is prettier to look at. Fronius makes great machine's. If I rate welding machine's 1 kemppi 2 fronius 3 esab. Thanks for watching
It sounds like the 7018 is some kind of hard impressive thing to use abroad...here in sweden we are not even offered something else,we dont know how to use other "easier" rods. If we are Lucky it could be offered some special root Rod like Elga p47 wich can be welded good in lower ampere like 62-65 If wanted. Most welders use ok 48.00 and weld with 70 ampere or more without controller and + is on rod
Started with pipe training ( 159 mm 8.1mm wall ) and can't figure out how to handle the cap pass with 7018 3.2mm rod . The problem is that I can't control the heat from 4 to 2 o'clock and it doesn't matter if I do stringer or weave . Is the wall thickness to thin or is the technique wrong ? Also I saw a comment from Fildres from an old video and he recommended to do an upside down U shape rod manipulation, hold a tight arc on the sides and long arc it on the middle to flatten the molten metal and I really works but still looks to hot. Thanks again for your help and tips on the 7018 root pass and your amazing videos and arc shots.
+Андрей Клименко hard to give advice without seeing it. First try to keep your arc consistent. Arc length about half of the rod 3.2/2=1,6mm is about right. Aim rod at the centre of the pipe. Try amperage between 105-120 somewhere around that should work. If u long arc a 7018 to much you will get porosity. Z or u weaves have little effect by comparing with 7018. Good luck with your welding.😉
Very nice work. Haven't come across that procedure here in Canada for pipe. I have heard of a similar technique used for piping used as a structural component, like a pile.
DarrinsFarm Thanks! Here in sweden no one knows how to run a 6010 root anymore. we stopped using it for about 30years ago. 7018 gives better welding quality witch is better suitted for cold conditions and more resident to cracking than a 6010.
Crazy how ideals can be so different. Here pipelines that are being buried are welder all the way out with xx10 rods downhill. Makes me want to work in different countries just to see how they do things differently. Always wondered why esab rods said ok on them. Just assumed it was a quality control thing.
We use 7018 roots in Canada. I'm guessing you are out west ? Here in NL at the Come by Chance refinery all the stick roots are 7018. The only difference is we run reverse polarity. Which is harder to run than straight.
Very instructive and clear arc shots. You're improving the channel. Do you film through the welding helmet or through neutral density filters? So curious... Welding greetings from Denmark
Bo Helsted Hey Bo! bought a nd filter for capture welding really expensive. but i dident get any good pictures with that. this i have built my own filter with a 11 din welding glas. I use my old Sony a33 camera and set focus and brightness manually.
So when you getting in position to do 7018 you don’t have to be so far away from the pipe, because it makes me feel uncomfortable, my teacher told me to do that… when your doing the bottom right can you get a little closer and work your way up as you turn your wrist?
never tried the 7018 root. Just watched weld.com he did a good one also. but you could see he wasn't a fan. I will try it some time soon. thank for video
trey Stewart It is not ac... In this video yes he welded with the stinger In negative side. You can also do it with DCEP, like 7018 is usually ran. But nothing To do with AC lol!
Hello NSW, I'm enjoying your video about the 6g 7018, want to try this process tommorow what is your pipe land and gap. Your penetration was outstanding and uniform, I've had a hard time using 6010 for the root either uphill or downhill. HELP
I'm trying to learn a 7018 root now, when you get to your edges are your watching any of the parent metal melt or are you kinda just moving from edge to edge to keep it from keyholing?
i decided to have a go at this with a piece of scrap pipe using 6013 2.5 mm with welder set at 80 amps just to see what happened ,I am reasonably with the result but I don't think it would pass inspection , but I will try again perhaps I will do the test