Proud to be a Graduate from Valencia Advanced Manufacturing. Instructor Jason Becker and Josh Lebeau arevery knowledgeable in all the Welding aspects. Grateful to have learn from the BEST! Class of 2017
As a teacher and instructor, it just makes me smile to see two generations collaborating like that at the top of their respective and collective games. Give Moffett and Red Beard a freaking hand. The content and exchange were great. Man, I'd love to have you guys as my instructors. Get the best teachers, get the best successors.
yeah it's a shame that high schools really don't help kids understand there's a lot more to this world than going to college and to be honest we got way too many college graduates that are unemployed anyways,it's easy to program a computer to do basic administrative tasks but it's going to be awhile before terminators running sub Arc machines themselves, lol
I'm glad to have gone to school here! Graduated from Josh LeBeaus first class of 2016/2017! I always recommend this school to whoever in my area is searching for a welding school because these guys know what they are doing and have done it for awhile. If I never went to this school I wouldn't be working where I am now and I couldn't be more thankful. Continue doing great Jason and Josh!
been welding over 20 years love this channel. they was talking about volts and wire speed made me smile where i work we weld lower control arm for a military vehicle were running pulse spray at 450 ipm at 54v love my job lol
I ran sub arc for 12 yrs, up to 5/64th wire. Sometimes up to 650 amps lol. Def need to pay attention or own a back gouger but believe me you learn fast.
just went to a one week class for subarc this past October, incredible experience, very satisfied and there is a high skill level for this, not just a simplistic or mind numbing task at all. Cleveland was where the school was.
Good to see the grass roots of the American renaissance in action. A terrific facility and program that is fuelling the return of quality manufacturing, product and workmanship back to the USA. Thanks for sharing.
If you want to get really good at running SUB arc and their different setups (position wise), find you a tank building company and look no further. Most (not all) tank building outfits run sub arc for the floor seam welds, corner welds and horizontal seams. The horizontal seam sub arc setup is usually called a "girth seam welder" or "3 o'clock".
Yeah that’s where I’m at now, came as a pipe welder so it’s been very interesting to learn about tank welding. Going replace a floor on a 200, next Thursday
I once made a sub arc welding machine mobile, with a variac so that it could weld up to 60” pipes which were 12 meters long, in one go. We fabricated coolers an condensors out of these pipes for the Dutch marine.
Great stuff! Had the pleasure of working on one of these bad boys back in the mid 70s. Its purpose was to weld bridge girders up to 60m long using 1/4” electrode. A big ol’ 3 phase ac motor driving a dc generator. The hardest part of the welder’s job (operator) was to remove the excess flux without breaking the flux shield, 🤣, as the competition between the operators was to see who could retrieve the longest piece, 🤣. It was our job was to disconnect then reconnect & test operation after repair. I actually went with the gen to the elect motor repair workshop and assisted with the armature rewind. Great experience for an apprentice to follow all the work and testing. Cheers guys and thanks for the memories.
Best job to have in a shipyard in the cold winters up north, 20 degrees or less. 1" plate in two passes. Broom and shovel to sweep up flux, usually sweep it on your feet. Of course this was back in the 70's.
Thanks Bob, you are a legend, you have driven me to move up and move on. Going to get the aws cwi. Youu really want to see some heavy sub arc, my shop would be happy to have a field day.
I learned SAW after becoming a welder kind of by fluke. Worked out to my advantage because it is a saught after skill. If you can learn how to do it then take the offer.
Just bought a welder advertised as capable of powering this type of welding (a Miller Dimension 652), I will never need this but it's interesting anyway.
Sub arc is cool. You guys should post a video on the do's and don'ts for this. I wish I had an actual instructor when I was thrown into this. Just a little too much amperage turns that welder into a quiet plasma torch, lol! I work for a pipe company, anything from 25" to 111" OD. (And we sub arc on a roller.)
When you talked about Tower welding .....been there done that, cans( rings ), inside stringers ,flanges, and on the tower welding those bitches together , lol . My first experience with sub arc with a one hr training period cause the instructor was sick and the damn training equip broke down. Thank you folks whose name rhymes with virginity.Your new name sounds like what a drunk would do to a lady. Hope the welders I taught in handheld are doing well, since I taught the actual labs .
Lincoln does have some nice Sub-Arc machines that they make. I helped some of the guys up in Canada build some about 4 years ago, last time I looked they've updated the machines so that they can be controlled by a touchscreen . I think there was a video that they put out from Fabtech 2017 showing off the manipulator.
The new machines can be ran a few different ways. They have a new controller thats alot simpler, can be ran from a laptop or any type of computer (including a touchscreen), or can be built into an external PLC controller.
Damn, Sub arc looks very cool would love to get in on the class; but I'm in San Antonio TX, gettting ready for TIG intro and advanced classes, this Fall semester.
This type of welding was invented in 1935 but the Soviet Union didn't know much about it. Their T34 Tanks had weak welds that the Germans exploited until 1942 when the USA taught the Russians how to do it. The T34 became a legend after that.
Umm, submerged arc welding was invented in Russia. As you say there were holes large enough to let the rain in in the T34 armour where it was welded. What has to be remembered is by the time Fritz and Hans who were masters of their trade and had completed 5 year apprenticeships were finishing their first complete bead Ivanka and Katusha who were an illiterate goat herder and nursery school teacher two weeks ago had finished welding their first tank.
@@johnparrish9215 Depends on whether you think it was Linde research or a state secret that the Russians used for making tanks before WW2 :) P.S.unsurprisingly the welds on the Russian tanks were stronger than the armour.
HOLY SHIT Bobs been teaching longer than I've been alive! BTW I'M 30! not a teenager!😳 Thought he was in his 50's, he's gotta be pushing assisted living age!
@@stevenmurata4392 No definitely not a farm machine. Unless you find yourself welding pieces thicker than 1" at least 4' long every day. The last big weld that stood out to me was 76" diameter and 2.25" thick circular welds. They took 12 hours straight at 750A to weld up. We used a scissors lift to reach the top because it was rotating on a set of rolls that move the part up about 18" off the floor. Its was a cool weld to do. We ended up making 3 press rolls like that for an OSB mill.
These guys are a contradiction to. "Those that can do, those that can't teach". Both have been there here, done that. These are the people who will MAGA. Mad respect guys. God bless you both.
I think that really applies to general education such as schools K-12 and most colleges and universities not trade schools. There are always exceptions at most schools though.
sir i want to ask you a question why you cant weld steel on AC. I tried once with tig. and it was no bueno. however i want to know what reasons stand behind this.
@@Tjm5806 a was always a curious Pearson when i hit the situation like noone use ac on Steel i want to know why. Mean i recently got a mindblow i saw explenation of electric current flow its absolutley crazy i recomend every one to se episode of sience asylum absolutley mindblowing
AC works with stick welding too, good for rutile 6013s, iron powder 7024s too. Completely eliminates arc blow when welsing structural steelwork. Spattery though.
Nathan C The basic principal of arc placement is still very much being used and knowing exactly where the wire is coming out of the cup under all the flux goes hand in hand. It is still possible to trap slag and never even know it until it gets shot. Not anyone can run sub arc
drew sperling Absolutely, you are welding blindly with only your knowledge of the operation guiding you through. I have seen some terrible messes from guys not running properly.
