Beginners Pipe Welding Rules to Live By 

Did you go to St Cloud tech as well? They suck! Went there just last January,I am 52 so not inexperienced.

Same.. learning more from this guy than the school I gave thousands of dollars too..

Same same

Best to keep a straight face in this crowd, eh?

"Do it however you want." Spoken like somebody who became a "qualified" and/or "certified" welder when somebody pointed him toward a MIG "welder" and a pile of "marginal" parts with the burn-throughs left but most of the bolt holes nicely filled and a solid 50/50 chance after "addressing" the warpage with the old "Bend to fit. Paint to match" treatment the "customer" would never their new fire trucks were made out of the finest "recycled" road signs money and meth could by and told "We want them faster, cheaper and less marginal and if you can turn them out faster than the new guy in Powder Coat can get them bent to fit and painted to match starting...right after coffee break so you've got a good 35 minutes to "study" before the "test" which will be open-book and one question - "They faster, cheaper and less marginal?" - if you pass you'll be "qualified" and if you last the day and stay ahead of Powder Coat, you'll be certified. Guaranteed. Who do you have to outpace in Powder Coat? Your predecessor. He's a vision-impaired autistic Amish amputee with Parkinson's and multiple personalities who got promoted to Powder Coat on a probationary basis pending your "certification" process because we just can't afford to lose that kind of PR and public funding for our "employee diversity program" because...hell, he's all 14 of our "diverse" employees. And since somebody over him talking to herself about putting that "certification" to better use and getting out of Toronto and heading out to work on the pipeline for Trans-Canada where he'd probably be an "inspector".....what time is it now?... we figured we should try to keep him here before the government makes him Prime Minister of Public Safety and he starts writing some "codes" for all the shit we can't do like finish a basement in a brand-new house without Mike Holmes cleaning up after us when the contractor removes garage roof "structure" without a permit and leaves 20 plants and a pallet of asbestos furnace filters in the nursery before splitting with half the $750,000 "quote". Be a damn shame something stupid like national safety codes for private homes in poor neighborhoods here in our democracy kept us from buying, building, leasing, repurposing, overpressurizing and "misplacing" any more pipelines "in the states" where we're so loved and respected and admired for our "environmentalism" and "free health care" and low crime rate up here where there is no racism or hate or poverty or social or cultural division or nutjob psycho "intellectuals" or "academics" with radical thoughts and ideas about "white privilege" and "imperialism" and "social engineering" through "border security" and prohibiting all "people of not Canada" from "immigrating" by having all intermational flights from "not Canada" go through "Canadian customs" in...not Canada. Aka "the states". Why don't we have those riot-inciting hate-speaking."conspiracy theorists" in our own population and country? We use "NAFTA" to "trade" them to "the states" in exchange for "goodwill". "

DEEREMEYER1 tf did I just read?! I want my 5 minutes back.

@@downhilldaddy9346 I scrolled to the bottom hoping there was a comment like your so that I didn't have to read that essay. Thankyou

@@deeremeyer1749 didn't read that. I will always wonder how you ended up talking about NAFTA on something related to amps in a welding video.

Less HAZ,

Yes....the slow-mo exposes nuances that are often overlooked by the naked eye. Particularly helpful with rod manipulation advice. PLEASE (If you haven’t already done so) make a slow -mo vid. of the technique used to do a one pass fill pass on vertical 1” mild steel plate with 7018 (5/32 or 1/8 rod or both). I’m looking to get back into welding at 63 (and ok phys.). Your videos are extremely helpful. T.Y!!

Bob not a pipe welder any more too old bad eyes But I was same as you run 6010 foot 7018 hot pass same heat 90 to 105 amp depending on machine

Damn fine hood. You won't be disappointed.

@@bobmoffatt4133 how does the Sentinel keep up with open root tig welding? Weld pipe all day and 95% of the time is tig root. Hav tried a few over the years, but every one ive tried has started "flashing" on and off after a while. Tried Optrel, Speedglass other Esab. Gave up with all of them and went back to Gold lenses. Would be handy to find one that can hook up to my airfeed and use for all processes👍👍

@@kf8575 I've been bit a couple of times but rarely. I'm understanding it's how you set sensitivity. DM on IG

Soy de Mendoza Argentina un abrazo Bob

Because you never take

@@listenquran294 sometimes it happens to me to cry Think it's normal It's only make me strange to see Bob being moved

Sounds like a sore throat to me... Probably from mixing the Winter climates of Florida and Kansas! 😂

There is a video in RU-vid land I watched about a year ago that tested this.

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get yourself a Lincoln....

Yeah we had some haters that said it wasn't ground out enough.

@@bobmoffatt4133 Haha they dont know they talking about your the teacher NOT THEM

@@TheWeldProfessor Usually I grind very little a dig with the arc. Haters.....

Ant_ 369 you should be sticking to the same rods you use I’ve never heard of switching rods

Depends on your weld procedure. When I was welding in the states there were no rules. On a posi weld I would do a 6010 up hand root then a hot 6010 down hand hot pass then fill and cap with 7018. Here in Canada I have to fallow a weld procedure. Roll welds is 6010 root then 7018 hot pass fill and cap. On posi welds its 6010 up hand 7018 hotpass fill cap. Tho sometimes if I want to push my root on a posi I will run a quick hot hotpass downhand then fill and cap with 7018. Xray cant tell weather you ran a 6010 downhand hotpass anyways.

@@oilypatch323 Same here....Started as maintenance pifefitter 1973 ; retrained again, 4 years, became combo pifefitter/pipewelder. I love to learn how others work in different places. Oily Patch, I welded a lot like you.

@@tomasmucha2133 it was I eye opener how lacks the states was. They only xrayed 10% as up north it's mostly 100% unless it's sweet pipe. I remember xray and the shop guys in Texas in awww how clean us Alberta boys blazed and cleaned up lol. Also I'll never forget how our Forman wore flip flops in the shop and no eye protection lmao!

Keep it up. Also dont take everyones advice, these videos are great, buts its important to do what works best for you. If certain methods work better, then do those. Every welder is different.