Welding rod stingers and how to keep your welding rod from shaking. 

I hope everyone appreciates the years of experience you are getting for free from Taylor.

So far best advice I've gotten from you is kneeling on your own toe of boot to avoid kneeling on rocks or mud. Life saver plus helps balance haha.

Great video's. I have been welding now for 50 years and have truly enjoyed your videos. I still have an old Miller Thunderbold AC/DC welder that still works great that I bought in 1984. Anyways, way back when the Alaska Oil Pipeline was built, an old welder who worked on it gave me a bunch of welding rod they used when he came back to the lower 48. I don't recall the brand but they were 333 and 444 rods as marked on them. The 444 rods replaced the 333 rods because the 333 would crack once in a while he told me. I used the 444 rod all up about 25 years back now on excavator buckets and other heavy equipment. As I recall, it was the smoothest rod I have used, maybe to this day. The repairs seemed bullet proof too. The rods were 1/8 and seemed to be about 20 - 24 inches long or so too. Again... Excellent videos you have posted!!!!!

Great video. Just getting started and your videos help a lot. Thanks.

Awesome information... great guy who shares information that is costly to learn in the beginning and I'm not even a welder. Just an enthusiast. You young men have a great benefit with RU-vid and men like Mr. Taylor willing to share valuable information that only cost you your time. Thank you, sir. your channel is awesome. Much appreciated.

This will be a big help since I have early onset Parkinson’s and am trying to figure this stuff out now. Thank you.

Hey there bruv. You are sharing your knowledge and advancing the whole damn species! I swear to god dude you are doing something bigger than you know!

Take the chuck key out of the chuck. It does not belong there unless it is in your hand at the same time..

Ty for the content. Very helpful for someone who has been welding farm and ranch on family property and looking to get into the trade professionally

I miss the weekly welding informational videos. Thanks Chris !!! I still watch the Financial Prepper but its hard to beat any video dealing with welding. Maybe you can show us how to solder gold or silver on the Financial Prepper channel. 🤣😂

Taylor I am not a welder but welding with a stick is interesting to me , you explain it well , and today I learned why I never tried welding for a living , I dont like traveling that much .

Good practical advice. Thanks.

I friggin love how straight forward and practical all your advice is 👍🏻 I’m excited to start welding school

The content, advise and words of encouragement is spot on and very helpful in every one of your videos I’ve watched! So thank you for taking the time to help people like myself who weld but also try to improve a little more every day!

Short and simple, you make a difference. Thank you.

Thanks for addressing my question regarding the shaking. Your content is truly appreciated and helpful. Merry Christmas to you and yours.

6013 is rod used mostly (mostly) outside of the US in the developing world (or poor countries). They use it for EVERYTHING (including everything it shouldn't be used for). I know because I've travelled abroad over the last two decades and always liked seeing what kind of local welding was going on. It's invariably 6013 and sometimes 7018 but mostly 6013. What you'll never, NEVER see is a 6010.

Great advice

Another great one.

You give awesome advice man! I love your channel!

Great job Chris!

That's very helpful - thank you

Just came across your channel this morning and maaan, great and helpful tips you’re sharing appreciate it brotha 🙏

Thanks brother for all your advice thank God I found a great company welding all the new gas lines in the north east side of the state

Still learning , how to position for comfort an view of metal flow . Thanks son

Hey man, thank you so much for making this video. You've earned a new subscriber. I just got a cheap Chinese stick welder from Amazon for like $90. I'm not looking to become a fabricator or anything like that. I have little to no previous welding experience, but I want to be able to fix/repair/build little things around here on the ranch without having to hire a professional welder to come out for a 10 minute solution that costs me $150. I fired up my little Hone welder today and just played with it on my makeshift setup using a bunch of scrap steel I bought from the local scrapyard, and was very impressed with how the little welder performed even with my limited knowledge and experience. I was able to run a respectable bead across some flat steel, then cut a couple of 5" pieces of 3/4" square tube with a 45 degree miter joint. Was able to tack the joint using a magnet to hold the pieces at a perfect 90 and then go around the joint and make it strong. I blew through the outside of the joint and learned how to fill in the gap with some pretty sketchy methods of arc-puddle-wait, arc-puddle-wait, and ended up with a terrible looking joint that was at least strong and solid, and I can grind it down and it will look pretty decent. I decided to google, "how to keep my welding rod from wiggling", and ended up here. I had NO idea that you could steady the rod with a finger, and was a little stymied by the fact that the shake in my hand was translating into a 1"+ wobble at the end of a new rod. So far, I'm pretty happy with my first day of welding, and even though I've managed to weld my workpiece to the table, my vise grips to the table, my magnet to my vise grips, my welding rod to every damned thing, and at one point, my rod to my ground clamp (THAT was exciting), I'm getting it figured out. Welding is something that was always a mystery to me. I've done just about every other type of craftsman work across multiple industries, but I've never really liked working with metal. I'm really looking forward to getting better at this, and I'm happy to have found your channel to help me with that. Keep up the good work!

ABCs= always be comfortable.

Hey sir.... Have I told u how Amazing u are!!! The interlocking of the pinky and thumb..... 😲 🤯 I'm gonna try this Tuesday and let u know how that works! Ty so much for the info!

I sure love your videos u tell it how it is

Also make sure you eat and drink, and don’t drink caffeine, nicotine doesn’t help thought I do vape, some drugs might make it worse also. Last thing, I know getting your hand further down the stinger gives you more range of motion, and keeps your hand away from the heat when your rod gets small, but the lower your hand is on the stinger, the more leverage you have so the end of the rod will move more with small movement or shakes with your hand. Sometimes choking up on the stinger can help. And stay calm don’t get frustrated

Great videos

A guy on eBay had a nos 300 amp stubby so I bought it. Practiced a little with and I looked like a monkey messing with a football getting the rod in and out. Gonna take a little practice but I liked it. When you bend your rod it doesn’t roll around in the stinger. Thanks for the videos.

Really nice Victor lathe in the background brother

6013 is a high penetrating rod that can be pulled with light oscillation. It actually welds really smooth!

And, relax your hand. I have shaky hands but by holding the stinger gently I freehand most stuff. Tensing your hand transmits a lot of shake to the stick.

i like to use the clamp stingers with 7018 cuz i can choke up on the rod by braking off alil of the flux and clamp on to the rod a couple inches in so the rod is shorter and stops the wiggling

Hey Chris I’m a senior in high school and I’ve been watching your videos for a couple of weeks and have learned a lot. I recently bought a 1972 red face SA 200 for my first welding machine and have been practicing 6010 and 7018 everyday after school for a couple hours in all positions. I’ve been having trouble running 1/8 and 3/32 7018 vertical. My puddle keeps falling out no matter my arc length, adjusted heat up and down but to no avail. Could it be bad/older rods? Any help would be appreciated.

T300 make good grounds. That’s the only uses I have for it.

Hello dear Chris. Could you please make a video with close recording of stubby rod saver ? Like how it pinches rod and its holes. We don’t have stingers like that in our country

I just purchased a 400 A stinger holder similar to the black one in this video, but a cheapy. Right away the rod holding part doesn't impress me the rod is not very tight unless I mess with it over and over like the opening is too wide or the clamp pieces too smooth. Any suggestions? I have all 3/32 rod BTW. Enjoy your videos and I am a tig guy learning stick just for the hell of it.

Great videos that actually teach how it’s done, do u have any stubby rod savers for sale love to have one

Hi Chris! I have the very same stubby rod saver that you like. It was given to me. I cannot figure out how to connect the cable to it. It has a "bullet point" and a threaded sleeve in the handle where the cable connects. There are no set screws or any of usual, self explanatory cable attachment means and it doesn't have any instructions. Am I making any sense? Thanks.

Do you know what Chris I still do that on the lathe after 40 years running a lathe I guess I’m just gonna have to break down and wear it around my neck

Oh man I’ve burned 100 boxes of 6013 they work good welding galvanized steel without having to grind it off.

6013 runs weird. It is very prone to porosity, and it does not penetrate much at all. I don’t like it at all. It runs nothing like a 7018 or 6010 it’s different than both. I can’t remember if it’s ac but I know you can run on DCEP

I couldn't find any of those. I didn't here you say the name of it until now (I've skipped around on your videos), but went looking for one as soon as you showed it to us. Do you have a source? Oh-out of production-damn. Not finding any of those I bought a twister by ESAB, it's a bear to get the "grip" off! Maybe I'll get it installed today. Funny thing--the only place I can find the ESAB stinger new is out of Ukraine on Ebay. I bought a "tested" unit (less $) . ESAB doesn't list it at their site even. I sent them an inquiry.

First step isn't bending the rod, it's don't get shit faced the night before haha

Taylor interested in this stinger but as you said they don’t make em anymore. What bout the Lenco Twister? Comparable?

Chuck wrench left in that 4 jaw chuck.

I hit root and head but top metal does not come plate gap 2:5MM but the rod is also 2:5mm, the route is not correct, how will it be?

Hey Chris, love the channel. I'm probably late but do you have any of the stubby rod savers left? If you do I'd love to buy one off you. Either way thanks and keep up the good work

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Has anyone used something similar to a tig finger to hold the rods steady?

I noticed your chuck key in the chuck a few seconds into the video. Did I pass?

6013: all of the angle and tons of heat.

Question I have checked all my welding supplies and none of them have welding leads, I don’t know the best types of lead I have black leads but they are used and really old, and I was wondering what are the best leads and what size wire would you go with

I've known alot of welders that yse the drinking shakes to help them whip

Sliver on the anvil

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Why did you retire?

Chris a 6013 used for thin metal strikes easy poor penetration your not missing anything

Problem: Lathe chuck key is in the chuck

Do you do any Tig?

Get that chuck key out of the lath now you kidding me right now bud thats a big no no lol how long did you work in the machine shop lol that was the first thing i seen when the video came on side ol crap thanks for the video bud

I was hot fingers. Now I regret it lmao. But that’s what happens when you are starting out I guess

Switch to Decaff

Silver gold spot price backboard is missing

N the olden days most old cranky welders would not ever give a novice welder any advice. They held onto their welding knowledge like they were national security secrets! Y'all young 'uns r lucky! Eat up ever tidbit!!

Where would a man start to even look for one of those stingers? eBay is a bust.

I see a silver coin on your bench! Lol

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I hope you’re not welding on that anvil. 😢

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