How To STACK DIMES With a (MIG Welder) For Beginners🔥🔥🔥 

Dang you slaying it, thats movin some metal. I bet you can lay down some slick beads!!!

We do the same, but the machines are cranked up ALL the way on voltage and wire speed. It's VERY hard to find people to start no matter how much experience they have, they burn through as soon as they pull the trigger... Hell I still burn through, but I can start the "bead" over and go a Lil faster over the whole and fill it...

Bro I make dumpster and car haulers. we make 1 a day. Everyone does. I paint and put the axles and wire it up. I even cut my own stuff and weld it I bust my ass

I’m doing 3mm sheet for bins, we set a nice outside corner every join and flip the bin to suit a vertical down, manage to get some nice looking beads with good penetration.

Yea we push out server cabs 50 + a day depending on what line you're on and I wish we had the time to make things pretty

Thats awesome, My dad started me around 12 and im 45 now still welding. My dad use to be a pipe fitter/welder for a power company for years, thanks for sharing and watching!!!!

Its like a different tool for every job, Now granted I dont use it all the time but when your in chassis fab and not welding over 3/16" wall max square tubing it works pretty good. Not saying it works for every situation. I do break test with acid on all my processes and it faired pretty well with proper settings. Thanks for your input, I always consider everyone's knowledge!

@@ACDesignsGarage one thing for sure, almost every welding job has its own ' different ' processes.

I'm an underground mine foreman of 24 years and countryboy/hillbilly that agrees with watching the flow and doing whatever works to get consistent penetration and metals fused together as one. I guess it's easier said that when you are expected to do a job right and sometimes paying the price for wasted time and materials you're going to learn quickly or find the guy that knows what he's doing. Lol

Do you make a good amount of money?

@@berrymansir not really. A lot of it depends on WHERE you work, not so much what kind of welding you do. In 1970s I had a job ' squirt- gun welding' at a union shop, large plant, fast and furious and made pretty good cash for the time. After that job went away I got job at a small company doing much, much more detailed welds of all kinds but only made about half as much. That's where I really learned how to weld good. Then in 1990s I worked another union job everything from structural heavy iron tubing and channel to MIG welding stainless steel sheet without burning through and made okay money. I was only ' B ' rate welder, you needed to be ' A ' rate journeyman to make the bigger bucks. Last 20 years I have been working smaller company custom TIG welding and torch braze welding. I only make mediocre bucks but it's real easy going and I'm getting old. To make big dough you need to be pipe welder or work a big union car plant or something.

I got mine in 94 or 95 and shes still my favorite lol

What kind of welder did she buy you?

Thank you very much for the kind words, hope it helps you!!!!!!

Your very welcome, you got it, just practice practice practice!!!

Thats awesome, I've want to build me a tube buggy also. Thanks for watching

So this is my whole reason for getting into welding I’ve been watching cars and cameras a lot amd a lot of gokart fab watching fd champ mike essa build roll cages all I wanna be able to do is have a couple motors and be able to weld me up some chassis ultimate goal is building a 1000 cc cross cart buggy thing in the design of a rc car set up.. but my question is would a 120 volt welder be suitable for welding some steel tubing for a off road chassis and would y’all happen to know the desired tubing dimensions for building a cross cart I’ve read alot of different things and I’ve also seen people build mini bikes with Home Depot conduit I just wanna know the cheapest strongest steel

Thanks, I still have my old miller buzz box that was my first machine. They keep on goin!!!

Thank you for the kind words and for watching, if you get a chance check out my 1968 camaro play list, I do alot of custom paint work also.

Awesome so glad it helped!!!!!

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Sorry for the late response, hope you had good luck, let me know how it went!!!

Thats Awesome !!!!!

I also have the spool gun and it works pretty well, but im like you there is no substitute for tig lol

Awesome good luck on your class!!!

Awesome, thanks!!!

Not to mention he is not running hot enough to keep the air out

Your very welcome, thanks for watching, as for welding opportunities the sky's the limit, keep learnin and earnin!!!

Thank you !!!!!!

Thank you!!!!

Thank you for the kind words, hope it helped!!!

Hahaha awesome!!!

Id have to agree I got mine in 1994 and shes been a work horse ever since!!!

Thanks brother, I think I may make a video on shooting arc shots, it took me a year to figure out how and id like to share the process. Most guys won't share how they do it.

@@ACDesignsGarage that would be awesome. Yours are the best I’ve ever seen.

Yeah I've learned alot from his video's!!!!!

I think he's recording the arc shots through that other helmet that's on the table

@@beastwolf7 that’s a good possibility. Sure we’re good videos

@@beastwolf7 you are correct, im gonna try and do a video on my settings on my camera for the welding sheild, thanks for watching!!

Hahaha thanks that sticker is probably 20 years old hahahaha

Thank you very much!!!

Thank you, yes its based on automotive applications like 3/16" and not structural applications.

Awesome so glad ut helped, thanks for watching!!!!!!

I agree 100%, thank you for watching!!

Yeah its similar, I love walking the cup with tig, tig is my favorite process by far!!!

U should just seam it

@@liamadvena2921 Just showing people how to do this process.

Thank you!!!!

Thank you, hope they wasn't using me as a example to show what not to do hahahahahaha

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Thats my favorite also!!!!

Yeah I love my millers, those 200s are work horses for sure!!!

Dang I hate to hear that man, people can be awful. Thanks for watching and support 🙏

Hahahaha yaks are bad, hope it helped lol

Thanks for watching, I thought about shooting a video on stacking dimes with flux core soon . Make sure to subscribe to follow along!

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Awesome hope it helps you, thanks for watching!!!!!!

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Thank you!!!

Hahahaha thanks!!!

Thanks for the tips! That process is what I call whip and pause, gonna do a video on it this week.

Basically whip and pause. I'm okay at whip and pause but I'm better at a straight push. My whip and pause pulse spray transfer however looks immaculate lmao, gotta love pulse spray

Generally speaking, MIG doesn't create "slag" as we traditionally know it. The issue comes from dragging impurities BACK into the weld puddle. The silica glass that forms on a MIG weld will always float to the top. NOW, if you switch this over to flux cored wire, THAT is when you run the risk of slag inclusions in the weld.

Also makes for a weaker weld with less penetration.

Yep

I was doing mig today for vertical I was doing upside down v and it worked really good for me

Even just breaking the bead will tell you if you penetrated properly. Which I doubt ANY of these welds did.

Yeah it works well also, I do it that way sometimes!!!

I do the same. Its commonly known as the "whip and pause" technique.

@brianwalker1933 Ueah I like to use it alot in high visible areas on car chassis

Thank you very much!!!!!

Its like a tool in a toolbox, its not for every job. I mainly do automotive/race car fab not structural steel or pipeline weld. Now with that said not using the right heat range and joint prep will cause it to fail. Ive had my welds sail 50ft off a jump flip end over end and not break so they can be strong. The best thing to do is a break and etch test for every job and youll be fine. Thanks for watching!!

@@ACDesignsGarage completely agree. I guess my only comment back to it would be. Laying dimes down with a mig gun. Is usually what definies what someones primary occupation is. If a welder sees somebody laying dimes down, he knows that guys a mechanic. Now when they break open the tig gun it's a different story. And usually a sign of functioning art. Generally that's an indicator of somebody's skill level at welding. Also will show you difference between somebody who works on cars for a living and someone that gets thought to apply the same affect to airplanes....my only concern though is when someone gets thought to do this and thinks that it's the go to tool, and applys it to something structural. I've worked on boats, barge's, outdoor equipment. And ran into shops with mechanic's who don't know the difference. Then watched them apply dimes to Semi Tanks and have them think that they knew what they where doing because they'd been doing the same foolish thing for 23 years not realizing that the guy that was 15 years their junior was more educated on subject of welding then their 20+ years of Mig experience

Your not wanting or trying to stack dimes on your root and subsequent passes but your wanting to put a pretty cap. When it comes down to it if you can lay down quality weld just as fast but yours looks better to the eye your gonna get the job.

Thank you and thanks for watching!!!

Thank you!!!!!!

Forget it Albert. Kids nowadays have to have digital and auto darkening hoods. I use a Fiber Metal with a 4-1/4" lens. My stick machine has an on/off switch and one knob. Lift arc on the TIG no polarity switch. In the pipe rack just swap the stinger and ground to go from TIG root to 7018 hot, filler and cap. I ant walking down no ladder to swap polarity.

@@davidrule1335 it sucks that it is a dieing art to be a welder. I keep a fiber-metal with a 13 for air arc. I do use auto darkening most of the time. It sucks how most people won't have the ability to set their own machines, because the program is the best for the situation. I can't run a mig with factory settings It just doesn't work for me. That is why in my opinion a transformer machine is the best to learn on. Then when you get to digital man you can make it do what you want because you understand the basics. When you can run a bead and the mig sounds like a tig with the hertz buzzing laying dimes.

@@albertpierce6263 When I'm tacking up fab work I can't see the layout lines with those hoods. Of course I've been blinded a few times in 30 years. But the auto hood, to me' is only good for the plasma. For that it's nice because you can dial in the shade you want. on your last point, I would call that "spraying" it in. Great penetration but some times awesome splatter balls!

It a honor to have someone with your experience on here!!!!!

Thanks brother

Yes it does help and also I think the flux inside the flux core wire causes alot of that. Flux core is awesome, but if you ever switch to the gas and solid core wire youll love it!!! Thank you for watching, if you have any questions let me know!!!

Yes it should be fine also you can try soap stone!!!

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I totally agree, I use this method on car chassis and light fabrication for the looks, but on structural I use stringers. Thanks for watching!!

Hahaha thats awesome, you got this!!!!!

I 100% agree with you!!!!

Thanks for the tip!!!!!

Many welders on ship yards I've worked on (flux core 1.6 wire) drag the cap. 6gr London calling

@@zukispur5493 yep Flux core digs deep the occasion isn't as important as some other types of welding Flux cored wore is pretty foregiveig

@@johnkizziah108 yep. Femax iron power rods are used on most shipyards also on the hori fillets

@@johnkizziah108 ever tig rooted a pipe feeding the filler rod from inside the pipe (through the gap)

@@johnkizziah108 ever welded from the outside in striking arcs with both hands?

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I’m a new apprentice millwright .so I will be tuning in

@@Fretnoisemusic awesome thank you!!!!!

That one came on my welder but I looked up one for you online, ill put the link below images.app.goo.gl/UgCL6r3qMnxR2Noq6

Hahahaha thanks for watching!!!

Thanks for watching

Ive done several break and etch test and cant see any difference in penetration. Its all about your settings, you can do a cold weld pushing and not get good penetration

I think its preference, i watched a video on weld.coms youtube where they tested it with a robot both ways then cut and x-rayed them both and said they was pretty equal. Here is the link if you want to watch ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-QRhtjbFzWEc.htmlsi=lVG-_oWhna5h1aY1

It should be glowing a little or fading away, if your to hot your welds will look real grey with a flat finish. Hope this helps!!

Maybe check the tension on the roller in machine. Thanks for watching.

@@ACDesignsGarage got the millermatic 210 going, great machine, and got it for 500.00, believe I got a good deal on it. Thanks, Kentucky

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Dime stacking is American nonsense 🌚

Wrong!

So true, its hard to get people to watch the puddle!!!

Im thinking about doing a video in the next 2 weeks on that problem, I will say tape or mount a good LED flash light to the side of your welding helmet pointing towards the area to weld may help also good overhead lights helps, and also getting your face as close as you can get to the weld to see helps also. Hope this helped stay tuned for the video, thanks for watching!!!!!!

@@ACDesignsGarage I tried some things: cleaning mask inside out, getting closer to the welding, tried some projector lights but I think I need focused light. I also drew white dots and lines with marker on left and right of where my weld should go, that helped a bit, like a landing strip guide for planes :)

Use soapstone to trace weld joint.

We have done cut and etch on both ways and I dont see a difference.

@@ACDesignsGarage Reason I say this is over 40 yrs welding. And yes it can be a preference but most new welders tend to not move fast enough and shoot the wire into the puddle ( bad ) means your building up a puddle and not digging into fresh material. If you have about 10-15 deg push angle you will still see the puddle and where you are going you will also notice more dig and a flatter weld but you will get better pen.

Thank you very much, and thank you for your support 🙏

Yeah no biggie, in the light fab world im in, its pleanty strong enough for under 3/16 as long as you have your settings dialed, as for structural or heavy fab id use different methods.

I have used the weld splatter spray . You spray it on your metal before you weld and it keeps the splatter from sticking to your work piece.

air nozzle will blow your shielding gas away and you will have the ugliest porous weld you ever did see lol

@@jamesgreene5342 Thanks! That's why I was asking! I expected something lol worthy. And its hard to explain but my thought was instead of blowing it directly at the tip... have the air nozzles basically attached to the weld head blowing in any direction but towards the weld (or reflecting in to). I am sure this is why more complicated than I can imagine so my real hope was someone would say, "We have a working model that does just that!" or someone would say, "We tried and failed."

@@ACDesignsGarage useless when it comes to low hydrogen rods

Yes you will love your mig. It's good for all around welding. I'm going to put a link to one of my videos below that I made a while back on mig welding thin sheet metal if you want to check it out. I would get some 0.023 wire for doing sheet metal, it works great on body pannels!! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-S6spZdzqFxg.htmlsi=btVSF1hiKCCcUO5M Thanks for watching!!!!

@@ACDesignsGarage thank you. I will check that out as well.

Mig is just a caulkgun that sparks. Well actually Mig is clean, Fluxcored wire is the 1 that sparks more. Tig is the quiet 1 and there are no sparks.

@GenZRuinedTheWorld thanks. I sort of knew that LOL. I've been given a no gas MIG welder from a friend that hardly used it. Its not exactly the model I was going to buy, I was going to get a 130 amp gas MIG. Though the downside with that, is that I have to do all my welding outside, so it may have saved me money big time, as I may have had to do it all in some kind of tent in any amount of wind blowing outside. The one I've been given is a 100 amp no gas. Ok nobody likes splatter to clear off after, but I've made my fair share of splatter with our arc welder, so I'm kind of expert at removing it now, LOL. So it's flux core wire for me for now.

@@MrBooojangles a no gas Mig is fluxcored wire. That shit spatters like a 6010 rod. Fluxcore is the 1 that is for Outside. That's what they use in shipyards

Sorry just saw this, you can search mig welding cheat sheet and find really good ones!!!!

Ive done it both ways and couldn't tell a big difference with mig except for I can see better draggin it.

For sure

My machine dont tell voltage its old lol, but it was on 2 and 70 on wire feed I think. I usually run this style a little hotter than you would normally. The oscillating of the mig gun is where you get that look, but since your going back over a weld you turn it up a little!!!