Welding

[nowires]

Been brushing on my mad fab skills the past few days and I just can

 

[crash2]

Vertical welding it the HARDEST to do besides overhead.

 

[skinny_pedal]

Vertical welding it the HARDEST to do besides overhead.

Great tip captain obvious:fawkdancesmiley: Keep practicing more on your butt, joint, and straight welds. Get those more dialed in. The start attacking the vertical. Try a little more heat also.

 

[boxboy]

stick or mig?

 

[War-Jeeper]

Vertical welding it the HARDEST to do besides overhead.

stick or mig?

Im gonna go with MIG welding on this one, just takes lots of practice Charlie, make sure all your flat joints look perfcto first then move to horizontal before you do the verticals biggest thing is to keep pushin that puddle along pay close attention to the front of the puddle:awesomework:

Classes at everett are pretty inexpensive though too

 

[boxboy]

if its mig just weld down hill if you need more strength then roll the work to a flat position. If you really need to weld vertical up MIG just turn the machine down a little more and hold a little longer on on the edges and try to use a push and not a pull...

if its stick use 6010 root wipe it up or drag it down then a 7018 cover

 

[crash2]

I always run my verticles down. Turn up the heat and turn down the wire speed. Your main concern is rolling liquid metal down and not actually penetrating the metal.

Charlie if ya want some tips I can show ya tomorrow night.

 

[War-Jeeper]

I always run my verticles down. Turn up the heat and turn down the wire speed. Your main concern is rolling liquid metal down and not actually penetrating the metal.

Charlie if ya want some tips I can show ya tomorrow night.

the correct way is up hill and creates a stronger weld FYI :awesomework::redneck::fawkdancesmiley:

But if im in a hurry i too weld downhill, but for the WABO tests that doesnt fly so i can do it either way:redneck:

 

[dirtygoat]

Park the rig on a hill...:fawkdancesmiley:




Question:

Does anyone know how to get to Carnegie Hall???




Answer:

Practice, practice, practice...

 

[GRW]

Lay the material on a table and weld it flat

Pipe can be tuff to weld also.

Practice Practice Practice...

 

[nowires]

Sorry guys I passed out last night. I never thought of turning up the heat and down on the wire. As far as making sure the joints are tight, I have years of experance at doing that. :haha: So I am good on that one. It has been 3 years since I picked up my welder so It is comming back, Just takes time. As far as up side down. I fwill take hnts on that one also. If anyone has some good links to videos or anything. That would be cool


Thanks for all of the help. I will post pics of my mad fab skills soon

 

[Jeepasaurusrex]

What wire are you using? Hard wire cannot be ran up hill correctly. If you want to run some vertical up welds, switch to dual shield. I run .045 and 1/16" wire all day up hand, but its dual shield. You can run that wire in all positions. Hard wire is a flat only wire.

 

[nowires]

What wire are you using? Hard wire cannot be ran up hill correctly. If you want to run some vertical up welds, switch to dual shield. I run .045 and 1/16" wire all day up hand, but its dual shield. You can run that wire in all positions. Hard wire is a flat only wire.

Um it comes in a box from Central. :haha:




.30 no shield

 

[Damnyankee]

Great tip captain obvious:fawkdancesmiley: Keep practicing more on your butt, joint, and straight welds. Get those more dialed in. The start attacking the vertical. Try a little more heat also.

more heat vertical = more run out.

tak a plate to the bottom of your vertical weld, and used that to start your base. it will be a bad weld, but doesn't matter cause you will cut it off anyway.
in addtion, keep moving, make micro figure 8's this will help dispurse the heat to keep it from running.

 

[nowires]

more heat vertical = more run out.

tak a plate to the bottom of your vertical weld, and used that to start your base. it will be a bad weld, but doesn't matter cause you will cut it off anyway.
in addtion, keep moving, make micro figure 8's this will help dispurse the heat to keep it from running.

And I will try this also.

Glad I have the loader for I can pick up the work and roll it around

 

[Damnyankee]

Um it comes in a box from Central. :haha:




.30 no shield

so, NO Shield? gonna need some kind of shield to weld PROPERLY.
expecially vertical.

 

[Jeepasaurusrex]

Sounds like your using flux core. uke:

 

[Jeepasaurusrex]

You can also "dime" it in vertically. Its basically a continuous row of "tacks" going vertical. Not as strong as a true vertical weld, but they do look half way decent. I will take some pics today of both.

 

[Damnyankee]

You can also "dime" it in vertically. Its basically a continuous row of "tacks" going vertical. Not as strong as a true vertical weld, but they do look half way decent. I will take some pics today of both.

I"d prefer a good, but shitty looking weld to cold ass no penetration good looking stacked dimes.

 

[TRG4runner]

I"d prefer a good, but shitty looking weld to cold ass no penetration good looking stacked dimes.

X2 on that! :awesomework: