Key To a Better PIPE CAP WELD - Pipe Welding Techniques 

Just like golf clubs and almost anything else, you can spend thousands but it is the guy holding the club that makes the difference.

You know that starch is fresh when the dry cleaning tag is still on 😂 love your content bud

LINCOLN WILL ALWAYS BE THE MILLER KILLER! 👨🏼‍🏭 just my opinion. I have a blue and white on my work truck it runs. GOD BLESS ALL YOU WELDERS TRYING TO MAKE ENDS MEET. We all should be taking notes from this young man and start a YT channel. Good luck men! Be safe and smart!

Thanks for the videos Austin. I've been welding everything, with everything for the best part of 40 years, but I'm still inspired by a new way of think or an approach to a technique I would normally take for granted. I've used a few of your techniques, and it's put a smile on my face and fire in my belly. So, you really can teach an old dog new tricks. Thanks for all your efforts, much appreciated.

I'm pushing 20 years welding and I've seen alot. I've seen so many miller's break down on the job or just stop welding for no apparent reason. To each there own and welders can agree to disagree. But I think Lincolns are a true work horse in the industry.

"How do you get to Carnegie Hall?.... practice!" Excellent video sir. I do mostly MiG welding in a pipe fabrication shop. I've had people ask me , how do you do that? I say 33 years of practice. Keep up the great videos sir.

Great advice on the cover pass. To hot and fast tend to create undercut, not letting it fill at the toes, something I worked for a while. Still slowing down running cooler amps. Easier to control as a fairly newbie.

A lot of Truth to what you have said, I started with an SA200, through help of our "seasoned brothers" I learned how to, you said it, manipulate, both machine and puddle, tough Continental motors, love the sound, leaking oil, spun bearing knocking never quit on me, bought Miller 300 for generator/ camping, hated it, until I learned how to let the machine do the work for me, loved the simplicity and at the pump$, quieter lighter and AC power, my oldest son still using it, I have 3 other Miller's including Big 40 with Continental, Yes, shoulder to holder, no matter what is at other end of cables, you have to learn to manipulate both machine and puddle, 30 yrs experience, I agree 100% well said, I tip my cap I never have forgotten to those who helped me along the way, I teach welding now at a Colligate school

Thanks for sharing with us Austin, great looking weld low n slow worked. Stay safe, Fred.

I believe the word you were looking for when describing the Miller’s was that they’re inverter style engine drives. Inverters can allow you to set the arc characteristics to whatever you want, however I don’t care for leaving my livelihood outside while it has electronic components that are more prone to failure rather than having a traditional rheostat or Rheostat/ Potentiometer on the SAE.

Thanks for being honest and straight up with us you're not only a good welder you're a good person

Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I am an absolute novice and have been picking up some great tips from you.

Great job Austin!

Excelente amigo muy humilde de tu parte transmitir esos conocimientos tan valiosos. Hace poco me gradué de un curso de soldadura mixto ( GTAW y SMAW ) en tubería y estoy abierto a seguir luchando, que consejo me podrías dar ahora que estoy empezando?. Saludos desde valledupar - Colombia. Bendiciones.

I run a Miller 350 pipe pro…… love the machine. one big difference I’ve noticed from a Lincoln is metal deposition, with a Lincoln you can “pile” so to say more metal than a Miller and that’s the straight DC characteristics compared to the inverter machines… but the Miller is a smoother machine and those electronics are what make it….. but like you said it still comes back to the guy holding the stinger at the end of the day👍

Your doing a good job Austin teach them youngsters and green hands

Great knowledge… shoulder to holder…. Practice makes better

I love my 200D but recently iv been looking at a Miller that ac/dc really is a nice feature

I just got a used miller big 40 and im learning to weld. That thing makes me look like i been doin it for years

I have never welded with a DC generator machine. Only rectified millers. How different is the puddle on pipeline rods with the DC generator machine?

Where do you set your machine for bead? just bought a Lincoln sae 300 and I'm trying to figure it out just curious where you set your machine mainly for bead and do you move your course current or do you leave it alone? Thanks in advance brother!

Very good video 👍 👍

Old welders use to say you have to train that 200 to weld how you want it to weld. I have a Miller Pipepro 400 now. I was skeptical when I bought it. I like it but still learning with it. Had a 200D before that 8000 hours on it and several 200s over the years.

love my miller 400 no problems since i bought it new 2018

I use a miller 350 lp that machine is amazing super slick welds

Own an older Hobart 500 amp diesel , also own gas driven Miller, and a gas driven Hobart, all 20 plus years old and each one is different in puddle configuration. The 500 is the baby that never flutters in the puddle. After almost 50 years of welding is the only way I can describe it.

Great video I have some pipeline questions to ask

What temp do you run 8010 three sixteenth on a cap hear all different temps

what are your settings on the sa 200

Podrías subir un video tutoríal aplicando 7018 en tubería, muchas gracias .😊

I have a Miller big 40 and a 1945 general electric. I have used the sa200. The 200 welded great up to its duty cycle but then would get hot and the arc would loose its punch and waver a lot. Shut it off let it cool and it would be fine for a.while. I don't see how pipelines put up with that. With the big 40 you can go all day 100 percent below 300 amps.

When I started out it was 6010 bead a 7010hyp there after . With Hyp I learned the art of capping with as little manipulation as possible . Going down the side one would long arc it a little more than normal and tip the rod back and use arc blow to keep the puddle up . The longer arc would widen the puddle out and seemed more controllable . As one went down the pipe just catching the bevel over a flush fill one would watch the slag above and on the sides where the metal was being deposited . . On the sides would form distinct balls of darker slag on each side . This meant the cap was all most going on like low hydrogen down hand ,very smooth ripples . Today that does not happen with the 8010 g like that. The weld metal seems to solidify quicker and having those balls of slag like that means the weld metal has not quite flowed to the edge, hence you have to manipulate the rod more to get a better cap . The tops and bottoms are put on with a kind whipping motion and of coarse with a longer arc on the bottom . With the whipping motion one just catches the bevels as well . practiced it will look like a stack of dimes and uniform . The more you go past the bevel the greater the chance of getting pin holes . My welding Machine was a Lincoln 200 . I have used other machines but getting service for them was a problem . Even the Lincoln servicing could be a problem because you could count on one hand the people that were good at it in western Canada . Today up here if I was to start out in the business I would get a lincoln 305g . Reason cheap, light and they would weld similar things as a 200 would . Anyways good vid Austin

J p Harvey I been on the pipeline and fabing and oil field tie ins we and myself have used Lincoln and Miller's but myself I prefer a Lincoln with a small stinger to work it the, puddle and your hand and arm doesnt get as tired try to fit with your gap up instead of downward it comes down to practicing as you said make that cap pretty like stacked dimes

Right on

What size rod you capping with ?

Can you do a video on the a from your huave to lift your machine

Do you do little circle like steps on the sides? I’m trying to get slicker at capping so I can finally breakout on some smaller inch mainline but want to figure out how to lay down a sexier down hand cap, I use a 300D any tips are appreciated, thanks Austin your videos rock btw been watching you since I first got into welding 6-7 years ago

I’m a welder 👨🏻‍🏭 from Dallas and that’s the truth. Like I tell the guys a work. It the person not the welding Machine.

Hey Austin, can you talk about flash back arresters on your oxy acetylene set up if you use them. Torch side, regulator, or both?

Practice on an older machine, get set for tests on a slick Miller if you have it , yet practice on the lesser machine then get set for your test coupon on your most advanced machine.

Use a 61 Lincoln Red Face with Blue highlights. Very good machine. Diesel engine.

in every trade it is not the tool. It is the skill. That being said, the skilled will usually invest in the best tool, but they got their skills by starting with the most basic tool.

Around 3 o clock my arc will cut out, if I long arc it i can keep it alive. But it throws off my ripples. Any suggestions?

I used a Lincoln cross-country recently. I hated it for stick welding, tig welding was fine. I'll stick with the 300D classic if I have a choice

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What lens are you rocking in your pancake?

I was gonna make fun of your accent ....then I saw the 405 phone number and realized I have the same area code and accent 😂

GOLDEN arm boss what it is bottom line,

I have a miller 200 D it's great. Thays gone be some people go in debt after this.. 🤣 😂 😒

Ben driven a Lincoln for 47 years tried a few millers they just don’t compare turn the heat and see what happens 4th gear and running with the devil by by rainbows and unicorns

Lincoln for ever sa200 the best..

I’m a firm believer in not using things to cover up your short comings as a welder or whatever your doing but work harder at learning the basics and perfecting them and then maybe buy something that will make your job easier on a daily basis

Same with tattooing it’s not the machine it’s the artist, that said better quality tools can help but in the end it’s the artist.

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There are some cheap machines that can’t hold a smooth arc and it splays out everywhere..I have no idea why.. wavelengths.. frequencies..and smooth current and voltage I suppose .. sounds good anyway..🧐 .. oh sine waves… no idea either, but I remember watching oscilloscopes at school last century..ha.. Welders are Hot..🤩

8 minutes isn't enough.. you just teased me

Miller 😂

Is it me lol but every time I weld with a blue welder you it seems like you're not running hot enough lol

Its not the welder its the WELDER

Weld a 12” branch

Brush it, let us see it :)

I build metal buildings miller is way better than Lincoln i never liked welding with a Lincoln i don't know what makes them different but I definitely make better welds with a miller im sad to see you give up on building shops your in Oklahoma get a 30×40 or a small job like that ill school you up on banging um out. i think you would be good at weld ups i wanna send you some peices of perlin and plates i wanna see your thin metal to thick metal welds i know im good at wat i do by my welds compared to all the guys I've worked with 😂 bro you can't stop for nothing i blow holes wen it's windy sometimes but not often 😂😂

How is your wife doing? We don't see her anymore! 🤷🏿‍♂️

Yup hood time and I always say this, Learn to weld Shit Garbage. Hen you can master rusty holed junk bullshit and master that then all that nice new steel will be a breazzzzzzzzzzzz.

Hello. I work in the fields - I weld pipes using the downhill method (with 6010 electrodes). My partner welds faster than me. This makes me very nervous. His facing seam is narrow, dense and quite high in 3 passes of the weld. To make a beautiful seam, I make 4 or 5 passes. Tell me what am I doing wrong? Miller Big Blue 500x. pipes 20 inches, wall thickness 3/16 inches. Thanks.