That was hands down the best practical explanation on mig welder set up I have ever seen. Zero wasted detail, crystal clear explanation, easy to understand and excellent demonstrations. You know your stuff and you know how to teach it. This video is a keeper!
My Lincoln 180 mig has sat unused in my garage for 20 years....I welded one nut to a steel shovel… And screwed that up! You gave me the courage to go try weld again.
@@robthewaywardwoodworker9956 I'm working on doing his accent, which is fun. Up is "op". Weld is "whaled". Still working on most of the rest. "Love taps" on the old gauge at 3:15 is a hoot. "Lessee... looks like this nuclear reactor core temp gauge is acting up again, showing to be way too hot... *TAP TAP TAP*."
Really helpful. I watched many similar videos but none of them walked me through the logic and the practice, and laid out a straight forward step by step process to dial in welder, no matter what the brand is.
Undoubtedly one of if not THE best sheetmetal MIG welding setup videos on YT. This is priceless stuff. Straight to the point-- not a second of wasted video time. Deserving of $!!!!
Great video Fitz. I’ve had a welder in my garage for a year and was afraid to fire it up but after watching this video I had the confidence to give it a try. I set it up and ran through the settings and was running beads that looked pretty decent within a half an hour. Now I’m practicing and learning more everyday. This is a great channel. Thank you
I took welding classes at community college for two quarters and didn’t learn as much about set up as I did from you. Especially helpful because I have a 110V welder!! Thank you
I've watched many, many videos of how to weld thin sheet metal. This is the only one that I've found that show the difference the various settings effects the weld. Most other videos just show them welding and techniques. Different techniques will give you results but if the settings are not right, then you get gnarly looking welds and a lot of blow throughs. Excellent video tutorial!
Thank you so much for this. Lincoln Electric's own webpage or website doesn't seem to have videos this good. This and your other videos have been instrumental in helping me restore my 1971 Cutlass S! Thank you.
I have struggled with this for years and after watching your simple tutorial I was able to go out and run a bead and do some spot welds without blowing holes or ending up with a pile of weld wire that took hours to grind down. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
I backed up and found this set up lesson. I cannot put into words how well you did it, amazing basic lesson. I do various gauges for the hobby I do. I make items of all kinds out of scrap tools etc. I’ll do this lesson with those metals with my Miller. Thank you Fitzee
Cannot THANK YOU enough, this is exactly what I needed, you taught me so much. Very excited to weld now that I know what I’m doing. I’ve been so frustrated with my welds. Thank you sir 🙏
Thank you for the lesson! I have not tried a Mig welder yet, it looks very interesting. back in my hot rod building days, I just used an old Lincoln buzz box and a lot of stainless welding rod, that was about 50 or 60 years ago! I like to learn new things, I will be 81 in august, it is never too late to learn. I think you are a very good teacher.
From three minutes in this is brilliant stuff. The key for me was getting the machine dialed in to run nice welds in the middle of a sheet and then leaving it alone, no adjustment to sort out butt welding problems, just adjust your technique.
This is one of the better mig welding sheet videos I've seen. If you're new to mig welding sheet, correct welder set up is the key to producing good consistant welds. Good vid man.
one of the best welding videos, because it addresses what people need to know, to many people are frightened of flack from top welders or dreamers that think they are better than they are, But you tell it the way it is, and you explain the basis of tests better than anyone I have heard before, Great job. Cheers From Garry in Australia
Must be the best ‘how to’ video on setting up. No magic formula just trial and error with a bit of process added in. Suddenly welding doesn’t seem so much of a black art. Cheers...
@@guymigneault1757 ... you can use heavier metal to gain strength but some of the key to fab work is to stay one gauge heavier to make it more forgiving when grinding down the seams. On the floor panels, I have found it difficult to make those press molds (and other bumps) that add stiffness so I usually go two gauges thicker on a floor just so it doesn't "oil can" when you apply weight.
Thank you Fitzee for delivering such a straightforward lesson on how to set up for welding sheet metal. I'm more at home welding 3/16" to 3/8" flat bar and angle but I am getting ready to weld on my Saturn Vue body where it had rusted away. I cut away the badly deteriorated parts, fabricated replacement shapes and will next weld them into the car.
I have a flux core welder and this video was a great help even though the technique is a bit different. I love watching your videoa because you explain everything you do clearly. Thank you. Always remember too practice on different types of metal and if you cant remember the settings , write them down in a note pad.
The best video on sheet metal mig Thank you! I will show to this to everyone in the shop You should right a guide we can have in the shop Thanks excellent work
It has been about 30 years since I have done any welding. I have a Lincoln MIG 140 and this video and common sense explanation was exactly what I need to get started again. I recently retired and finally getting the chance to do some sheet metal restoration work on my truck ans sports car. I followed exactly what you said and everything is working out well. Many thanks !
Hi Fitzee, thanks a lot for this explanation and demonstration. I'm a newbie welder working on some bodywork and restoration for the first time. Your videos have been very helpful. Cheers!
Best video description I've seen on setting up a mig welder. My brother taught me this method years ago (he's a professional). I do it every time I change material thickness, before I start on the actual work piece, results in a good weld every time.
Thank you for the tips. You've actually made me believe I can do some of this. Bought some new floor pans for an old truck I've been hanging on to for many years. Maybe I can make it pretty again!
Wow i cant believe how much of this video answered why i keep blowing holes. Thanks game changer for me i was struggling and couldn't solve . Thank you
Ive been wrenching and welding on things out of both necessity and enjoyment for years, self taught. I became what I would consider proficient. That being said, I am greatly appreciative of the tip you gave about cutting your patch piece on an angle. Thats going to help me alot. Thank you.
Pretty much me too. Rust work, and machinery repair. My excuse has always been, my welds may not be pretty, but their strong. Always room for improvement. My welder is real old. And it’s definitely a woman, moody! Some days she purrs, some days just quit!
I missed the part about 45ing the edges. I don't want to watch the whole thing again right now, and I can't find it by moving around. What is the 45ing patch 'tip' all about?
Thank You very much for this lesson. You were thorough and understandable. You showed not only how it should be, but how it should not be which is just as important. Thanks again.
Been mig welding for years as a hobbyist and former production welder for 10 years. It pleases me to no end to see such thorough instruction as I enjoy seeing what others have to offer. You are one of the few on RU-vid that doesn't see the need to have the latest and the greatest equipment to accomplish your tasks. This idea that one must have a 220 volt mig with automatic, electronic doo-dads to make good welds is total commercialism. Also, the touted requirement of having to use a 25%/75% Co2/Argon gas instead of straight Co2 for sheet metal is another expensive addition that I see promoted, that isn't required. When I was doing production work, we used straight Co2 for structural mig welding without any issue. We were building baling machine frames of all types of configurations for specific balers used to bale anything from cardboard to cotton and even scrap metal. We were achieving good penetration without porosity using .030" wire and Co2. Fitzee, you're a no BS kind of guy. Thanks for taking the time to share your experience without hawking some kind of expensive crap.
I took welding class to learn how to MEG but they didn't show how to set it up and I use flex core because I don't know how and your video will help me set my welder up thumbs up.
Something my welding teacher taught us back in high school in the 70's if it sounds like bacon and eggs frying with a constant even crackle you are on the right track.
They all sound like bacon frying at most speeds and temperature to me. I suppose rhe even crackle is the key? lol This fellow just explained the difference without saying so. Something I needed to know.
It's like adjusting a carburetor, if anyone out there remembers those, or tuning a piano, or in the morning when you've made that perfect cub of coffee, when you know you got it just right!
Never a truer word spoken, if you can bead weld thin sheet then you wont get decent penetration!! I'd like to read the 124 'dislikes' comments for this video because I'm never too old to learn something ;-) Most of my working life was with TIG, I went into MIG welding cars 6 or 7 years ago & I'm learning day by day . . . . this guy is excellent!! Thank you!!
When I was younger, no one would teach me to weld. i even offered to grind and sweep for free for a few tips. Nada. Finally bought a rig and climbed the hill hard school. That was .. let's say a long time ago. Had an intern a few years back who wanted to learn. It may sound silly, but I decided to teach arse-backwards on a whim, working on control first, and then theory. Basically took a sheet of 16 gau, set up the welder, and went back to grade three forming the cursive alphabet on the sheet with bead. You'd be amazed at how well this worked. With gun control under her belt - applying good weld theory literally fell into place..
This video is so good on how to set up and weld sheet metal, that I watched it twice before I had a welder and it’s my go too video every time before I weld....thanks 👍👍👍
Thanks! That was a generous gift to me as someone with a welder just for the "just in case" usage. you were excellent in your demonstration. Again, Thanks!
I have searched for an instructional video just like this one! This was awesome. Great presentation format covering the needed information that all the other videos I watched lacked. Thanks!
Watched this a year ago, now i got a real welder and i get to apply it! YOU DA MAN FITZEE. I never thought i would replace unibody panels and and form my own floorboards from a sheet of metal. Now i get parts cars for the metal, 🤓 All thanks to your youtube channel.
Very informative for a total beginner like me I’m gonna definitely use your advice welding my classic mini, thank you so much I’ve watched all your videos and think what you achieve is amazing
Blown away, what a master showing all this detail 1 Learnt so much more & my confidence has gone up dramatically. Love this channel & the videos, keep them coming.
Last summer I welded in some floor pans in my Datsun 620, this video helped me so much. Even though this is the first comment I have made, I have watched almost all your videos, much thanks for all the great tips!
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Your tutorials remind me so much of a beloved shop teacher of my youth..straight forward, easy to understand, results orientated and the use of simple effective methods and tools..really appreciate you sharing this with all of us...THANK YOU
I love the fact that you include a lot of details in your explanations. Sometimes, people think it's too much, but I see details as a more precise understanding. I, especially like the way you explained the inconsistent weld of the Lincoln welder due to the welder's unique problem, not operator error. Thank you.
Fitzee Excellent information. You have a great way of teaching, that’s probably why your channel is growing so quickly. The word is out on this Newfoundlander 🇨🇦
Although I can leave a 'stack o dimes' with my stick welder, all I could do with my wire feed is make a mess. Never had formal training. The way you explain it, finally makes sense to me. THANK YOU - I owe you.
Great video Fitzee! Although I've been using my welder for a few years, I'm now working more with sheet metal. I took the time this afternoon to go back and practice what you've done with setting up your machine. I think I now know where the "sweet spot" is on mine! I even clearcoated the test pieces for future reference! Thanks!
I've been welding cars for the last 20 years as a hobby and this is by far the best video I've seen for sheet metal work. I would add a couple of things that might also help beginners. First, check that the wire feed is steady - rusty wire and poorly made and/or adjusted mechanisms will make good welding impossible. Cheap welders almost always fail on wire feed mechanisms! Second, make sure your metal panels are clean and as rust-free as possible - I've seen many people trying to weld rusty metal when they could have cut back a couple of inches to clean metal. You should be proud of your videos - you will have helped a lot of people weld properly without a lot of swearing!
I am just starting to teach myself. Very helpful, no bs and to the point with great info for a newbie... at least for me . Thank you very much, well done 👍
Yes sir I built me a welding table and it took me a while to adjust the Mig welder. I burn through it a couple of time's. My Lincoln welder is shot it can't even Iay down a steady bead. It got the job done. I went out and bought a new Vulcan welder 220 to start welding with. I'm going to have to use your method to get to know the machine. To set it up depending on what I'm welding.
Thank you. I have a Chinese 250amp mig which I thought was no good at thin sheet welding because it was too big. Thicker steel is much more forgiving even with wrong settings. I have watched lots of videos on setting up a mig but none have been as simple and well explained as yours. After 10 minutes following your method, I was able to run short beads on 1mm sheet and pulse better than I thought possible. You have saved me from buying a new welder. Subscribed!
I want to thank you for your extremely thorough and easy to understand video. I have welded heavier metal but I knew that you use different techniques for sheet metal. I'm so glad I chose to watch your instructions and they will be most helpful.
I’ve watched this before, never MIG welded before but I have a car to restore now, a rusty TR6 so I set up the brand new MIG this evening according to Fitzee’s instructions and then re watched the video to the end and started practicing on scrap, 1mm sheet cut from an old cabinet. Can’t believe it, after 20 was welding and after couple of hours up and down the two adjustments it’s all starting to make sense and the welds are not bad at all. This man knows what he is doing and has a really good way of explaining. Believe him , it’ll work. I’m very grateful, thanks Fitzee, I’m excited now about the next steps thanks to you.
Keep at it. More you practice the better you will get. Play around with holding your tip close then far away. Get to understand what changes do to your weld and you will see and understand it alot better. Have fun
Thanks´for the video, some great tips in there. ( especially the pulse bead method, I always wondered why I blew holes in a the sheet, now I know how to do it correctly)..
I just stumbled upon your videos today and I've learned more about welding in the last 3 hours than I have in all of my attempts to find this info. I have loads of sheet metal work to do on my 72 Nova and just bought my first MIG setup. Excited to get started, and feeling very confident because of the experience you've shared. Thank you!
