Welding is not so hard

[brewjunky]

Bench welding is easy try doing those same welds above your head or vertical.Then tell me how easy it is.

 

[imsoweetadid]

Cruz....You suck !

I love you too lehr!!


Brewjunky, you couldnt get through Tulsa Welding School, unless you could do what you mentioned. We had to pass a 6G(for everyone else that doesnt know what a 6G position is, this is welding a pipe at a 45 degree angle) on both 2, 4, and 6" pipe, and pass a 2" stainless steel 6G pipe test as well which is like night and day, when it comes to technique, and setup. Once we bent out of all those, we then go onto this bastard called the "restrictor", which is the same 6G pipe test with tons of pipe, and obstacles in your way(Mirror welding), like it wasnt hard enough already, so yeah, I can do vertical, horizontal, overhead, sideways, slantways, retarded angle ways, and whatever ways they need me to do it. I can make my vertical and overhead welds look like the picture I posted, just takes practice that's all. Noone is better than another, because practice is what seperates the novice from the professional.

 

[brewjunky]

I love you too lehr!!


Brewjunky, you couldnt get through Tulsa Welding School, unless you could do what you mentioned. We had to pass a 6G(for everyone else that doesnt know what a 6G position is, this is welding a pipe at a 45 degree angle) on both 2, 4, and 6" pipe, and pass a 2" stainless steel 6G pipe test as well which is like night and day, when it comes to technique, and setup. Once we bent out of all those, we then go onto this bastard called the "restrictor", which is the same 6G pipe test with tons of pipe, and obstacles in your way(Mirror welding), like it wasnt hard enough already, so yeah, I can do vertical, horizontal, overhead, sideways, slantways, retarded angle ways, and whatever ways they need me to do it. I can make my vertical and overhead welds look like the picture I posted, just takes practice that's all. Noone is better than another, because practice is what seperates the novice from the professional.

I was directing my comment at the original poster so settle down

 

[BrewBeemer]

Bench welding is easy try doing those same welds above your head or vertical.Then tell me how easy it is.

Thank you! This is what I was certified with stick, Mig and Tig, out of position hence why I stated it took a long time for me to master this, there must be some people born with a tig torch in their hand stating they picked it right up.
Like I mentioned before and this without alcohol the night before, you can have a bad day of welding and nothing will correct it then the next a fun
dream day of welding.

Water district pump stations as well GM, NUMMI plant and Navy projects we worked on did not take ones mouth as a answer they can weld, they wanted to see a piece of paper and at times required taking a welding test.
I have to tell you one thing it was a proud time in my life with my papers as I had to work for them, many others had failed. Now out of it and forced into early retirement due to a back injury. Rusty now yes, can't lean forward and get the body into the weld any more. I could never weld like on American Chopper with one arm out fully extended without bracing. One employee built a motorcycle trailer at the shop with the stick on a weekend, three months later and 400 miles from home he littered the highway with more iron. This was two Harley's as the trailer broke apart behind the hitch hence no safety chains. It wouldn't matter anyway with all that heavy iron the chains would of snapped anyway.The trailer had numbers and plate off another trailer placed on it, the CHP said it would of failed inspection at 50' just damn lucky no one was hurt. Round two new bikes and a paid custom trailer by a weling shop. This time thru DMV licensed properly as the sting of the last fines were rather stiff. He said he can weld. I called him BSA not the motorcycle but "Bird Chit Accident". Just laugh.

 

[BrewBeemer]

it's one of those lincoln electric wire-feeds, sells for around $270 I think. I'm not a welder and knew nothing about it prior to this weekend, "buzzbox" is what my welding friends call it. It plugs into standard household outlets and feeds .035" wire (flux core I think) and is pretty simple to use. It DID take a lot of practice to get the hang of, and I did use some scrap for, um, some of that practice. The rest is in the less visible welds.

I really do need to grind on it a while (with my new grinder, I may have to buy one of those welders soon, too). THen paint it...

Well your wire feed is DC not what your friends call a "buzzbox".
To grind down a weld is a sin unless it has to be flush like a stainless
sink top not to grind down what the birds left behind.

 

[imsoweetadid]

I was directing my comment at the original poster so settle down

Will do, sorry!

 

[Orangevango]

try TIG and get back to me on "not so hard"

never could get the hang of feeding the wire in TIG

 

[imsoweetadid]

try TIG and get back to me on "not so hard"

never could get the hang of feeding the wire in TIG

To be honest, stick welding for me, was harder than tig. For some reason the people that were excellent at stick, were horrible at tig, and I was the opposite, but I did eventually master stick. Tig came natural to me, after the first couple welds. Even that tig is easy for me, I can see why people would have problems with tig, their is allot going on at once. Alluminum tig welding was a little hard, even for me that was really good at all the other metals, as soon as I started alluminum, It was like I couldnt tig weld, but alluminum reacts different, needs to be super clean, and your tungsten has to be balled right. It took a little bit, but now its second nature. Orangevango, Id teach you if you were closer, I taught guys that couldnt walk and chew gum at the same time to tig weld.