Precise, to the point, gas feed,,, wire feed & speed,,, space from work peice ,,, proper heat,,, clean prep work peice,, , proper ground You covered the basics well No bad back ground music, no unessicary talking. This is a real good vid. Thx
I've been welding up all kinds of things over the past 2 years with my MIG and have run into every problem you showed! Sometimes I knew why, sometimes I didn't. Great video that shows me exactly the things I need to watch for. Thanks!
I've been welding a couple of years. Watched all the videos I could and took a class. I learned more practical info from you in this video than I did in all the other videos and class. Great job, really appreciate you taking the time.
I've been welding for 30 yrs. You can hold your torch at a 45 degree or less and don't want more than 5/8 of a inch of wire sticking out. I run my shielding gas 20cfm. Great video for people starting out.
This is immensely helpful for someone just starting out. Very frustrating trying different wire speeds to little effect when it is probably my torch angle and/or paint. Thank you.
Great Vid. Learning to weld at 85 years old. Have wood working shop but needed another hobby. Making rocket stoves. But welding in short sleeve, shorts? Brave. Learned several things from you. Bought two migs. 🐻
These make some of the best videos. Simple things that can seem so obvious to more experienced people. There is a fast growing group of watchers (me too) learning things without the schooling and testing. They are willing to learn from mistakes, and their own effort. Like you I never went to a "welding school", but instead I read, burned rods, read some more, burned more rods, asked questions, watched pros, and I get by pretty good. Now just getting into mig, a video like this takes you past the expectation of the good pass laid down. The sound, smell, feel, and related results can only be touched on by reading. They have to be experienced to truly learn. I am so envious of the kids these days, anything you want to learn or study, just a click away. Your video sums up in lightning speed a good bit of reading and mistake making. Great job, thanks for sharing.
OLD SCHOOL I too never went to school. Tough myself thru trial and error, and lots of RUclips lol. Became a welder and just got promoted as a robotic weld technician. They'll be sending me to school. Lol. It's all about the will to want to learn.
Excellent report. Left my gas off the other day but instantly know what was happening. Have done this before..BUT,,You have taught me something New. Thank you.
Thank you you help me out, I don't think I was close enough and my angle was wrong I'll play around with it again to see if I can get my machine dialed in.
THANK YOU!!!! Addressed a couple of my issues. Mostly, my Nozzle was too long - 1/4" tip recess was causing too much setback, sooty, spatter, and seeing your weld 'too far from the work' confirmed that it was exactly what I was fighting.
very informative video ive been welder 29 yrs and made some money from it. ive welded uphill , downhill sidewards and overhead. practice practice and yes you well get it!
I’m making all these mistakes as I’ve just got my first welder at the age of 59. I nearly sent it back as broken last week until a neighbour pointed out I wouldn’t be getting any earth contact because of the paint on my piece. Thank you, I think I’ll return to this video more than once.
I'm 43 and getting into it.... mainly because I bought the ex wife a bunch of equipment that she never even took out if the box.... getting pretty good with a stick. We are never too old to learn a new skill, when you stop learning you ain't living! 😁
Thanks for the strait forward approach. I did see some flaws in my technique and what may have been frustrating me so much today. I do exhausts and most welding is above my head so you can imagine my frustration when it kept puddling outward, me thinking "too hot" was backing the tip away and worsening my own issue.
Great info. One other thing that can also lead to the 2nd symptom of surging is a sharp bend in the welding cable. keeping a straight cable also prevents a surging condition. Keep up the good work!.
I've seen all of those welding results and often wondered if it was settings or technique and it appears that both are a contributor but only practice will fix the wrongs...Good stuff Garry..
Thank you Gary, as a novice “welder”, your video was very informative and I need all the tips I can get. I’m currently trying to patch holes in my cars floor with sheet metal,not easy.I think I have a bad ground. Thanks again,great video,Lester
You just helped my learning curve, so I subscribed and bookmarked this video. I probably will have to come back to it on my way to mastering mig welding. I will also use this video as a REFRESHER. You may not be a teacher but you come across with a clear straight forward delivery that a layman can understand. thx.
I really hated my welding school at ftcc. I decided to change major to nursing. They said everything I was doing was wrong/bad. I just gave up. This helps more then anything so far. Thanks
Great video! I’m an amateur and just bought a Harbor Freight Titanium 125. I made my first bbq recently but had issues with welds looking ok. This video will help on next project.
Great video, puts the problem and the cure next to each other. You have covered the most common problems with beginning welders in a concise video. Thank you.
thanks for making this video. It really helps in seeing what i may be doing wrong. I'd love to see a future video on how to weld thin automotive sheet metal properly.
Had all these issues, but not sure why my gas is not coming through as pressure is good. Too much rust which is very hard to remove with a wire brush. Thankfully it's only rebar and will be covered by concrete.This has been very instructional, thank you. Did some MIG welding at college but everything was all set up perfect with clean steel plate, so never really learnt how to deal with problems.
Cover a part 2 where the nozzle gets clogged and grounds out. Also don't forget wire fusing into the tip, and how in a pinch you can sand it back to rescue it, if you don't have any extra tips on hand. Show the difference between a freshly ground surface and one with the mill scale left on. Hobbiest and small time fabricators should really get into the habit of using a flap disk to prepare the weld area. It makes enough of a difference in weld appearance and overall penetration. Which also builds confidence in knowing their welds are strong.
Hey buddy, keep up the good work. I enjoy the pride you show in your workmanship. I was a heavy equipment operator most of my life, now I just enjoy doing some welding fabrication in the shop. Keep the videos coming.
Good information Gary, I have a tendency to have my wire speed too low and I just learnt that from watching this and hearing how that sounds. Thanks for sharing.
Great video. I enjoy all of them, but this was especially helpful. I use a Millermatic 135 with C25. No auto settings so I constantly fight for the right settings to attain the sizzle. Thanks
I get that question sometimes from newbies who borrow my everlast mig welder. Most of the time it from user error. The other times it is because of worn consumables.
Awesome basic practical sense information, this cleared up alot of issues from me. Never could pinpoint the exact problem, just suspect. just because the issues are similar and random at times. Thank you sir.
Great video I have experienced all that you mentioned and this video has really helped understand what the problem has been and what to look out for in the future. More importantly the method to fix the problem was simply explained. Many thanks from a person just starting out to weld greatly appreciated
If I could add a tip on the grounding issues, check the part of the cable that reaches the clamp. It might be damaged, since the cable tends to bend a little there when you fix it to the work. I had those issues even though the clamp was in contact with clean metal, until I realized most of the copper stripes of the cable were completely damaged. I redid the connection and it improved a lot (still having a bit of a hard time, since I'm a beginner and working on 18-20ga sheets with a flux core machine)
If you have your gas flow too high it also can cause prosody due to turbulence....With shielding gas you push the puddle, with shielding wire you pull the pull the puddle and reverse polarity......Depending what material size sometimes you can melt the prosody out by cranking up the heat and turning down the wire speed and go over the prosody ...then reweld the affected area....
great video Gary. Just what I needed to see as I just upgraded to a 3in1 thermal arc 211 fabricator and cant wait to get it up and running. Ill be keeping yours and Jody's videos on standby for help!
lol.....I can't count how many times I've had my shielding gas blown away by a breeze coming thru the shop because I have both front and back bay doors open.
I learned alot from this video, have run across these issues in the past, just yesterday, I was not sure, but it was breezy out and my weld started to pop, thought it might be blowing my gas away. You just confirmed that for me, thank you !
Hi I have been building some motorcycle frames with a lot of grinding and filling after watching your video I realized my gun angle was not straight now my welds look like tig as they are smooth as can be Thank you for the tutorial . Gary
Hi T Prime I am not using A Spool Gun I am welding with .35 and after welding a penetrating Bead I go over it with another bead and grind the weld down . instead of filling in the seams with body filler . All of the joins are smooth as glass .
excellent video that cover most mistakes that a beginner usually makes, I 'd like to add that oily parts can cause many issues too, on sheetmetal, simply contamination at the back of the joint is more than sufficient to cause many of the issues you described
One thing I wish to add is polarity issues. If you swap between MIG and flux core welding, you have to remember to swap over the polarity while swapping wire spools. Welds turn out horrible with incorrect polarity.
Great video, Another thing Ive seen is that guys will get hot and turn the fans on them in the shop and try to weld. Fans and mig welding doesn't work.
It gets good penetration with less fill. Your welds will have either a washed out look or a stacked look. With some practice you can make mig welds that look like tig. The process is almost like using your mig gun as a tig.
Thanks for this video ive been trying to get better at welding and this video helped point out some of the things im doing wrong and what to change im just getting into welding and i really enjoy it im just struggling with a few things i think you just helped me understand what a few things im doing wrong thank you
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Precise, to the point,
gas feed,,, wire feed & speed,,, space from work peice ,,, proper heat,,, clean prep work peice,, , proper ground
You covered the basics well
No bad back ground music, no unessicary talking. This is a real good vid. Thx
Best advice and explanation of getting "good Mig welds" in over 50 RUclips videos I've watched. Thanks Man!
Last time I welded was 30 yrs ago. This was a great refresher course. Got all my issues fixed and making great welds now. You're awesome! Thank you! 🤠
I've been welding up all kinds of things over the past 2 years with my MIG and have run into every problem you showed! Sometimes I knew why, sometimes I didn't. Great video that shows me exactly the things I need to watch for. Thanks!
Very good to see all of these "bad" welds and issues all in a short video. Excellent work!
I've been welding a couple of years. Watched all the videos I could and took a class. I learned more practical info from you in this video than I did in all the other videos and class. Great job, really appreciate you taking the time.
Your story sounds familiar, Me too !!
Thanks so much for your advice. Turned my crappy welds into good ones after watching this.
I had too slow wire speed + too far from target.
I've been welding for 30 yrs. You can hold your torch at a 45 degree or less and don't want more than 5/8 of a inch of wire sticking out. I run my shielding gas 20cfm. Great video for people starting out.
This is immensely helpful for someone just starting out. Very frustrating trying different wire speeds to little effect when it is probably my torch angle and/or paint. Thank you.
Picking the mig up for the first time in a few years ! Produced crap welds, thanks for the re cap.
Great Vid. Learning to weld at 85 years old. Have wood working shop but needed another hobby. Making rocket stoves. But welding in short sleeve, shorts? Brave. Learned several things from you. Bought two migs.
🐻
These make some of the best videos. Simple things that can seem so obvious to more experienced people. There is a fast growing group of watchers (me too) learning things without the schooling and testing. They are willing to learn from mistakes, and their own effort. Like you I never went to a "welding school", but instead I read, burned rods, read some more, burned more rods, asked questions, watched pros, and I get by pretty good. Now just getting into mig, a video like this takes you past the expectation of the good pass laid down. The sound, smell, feel, and related results can only be touched on by reading. They have to be experienced to truly learn. I am so envious of the kids these days, anything you want to learn or study, just a click away. Your video sums up in lightning speed a good bit of reading and mistake making. Great job, thanks for sharing.
OLD SCHOOL I too never went to school. Tough myself thru trial and error, and lots of RUclips lol. Became a welder and just got promoted as a robotic weld technician. They'll be sending me to school. Lol. It's all about the will to want to learn.
Excellent report.
Left my gas off the other day but instantly know what was happening. Have done this before..BUT,,You have taught me something New.
Thank you.
Thank you you help me out, I don't think I was close enough and my angle was wrong I'll play around with it again to see if I can get my machine dialed in.
THANK YOU!!!! Addressed a couple of my issues. Mostly, my Nozzle was too long - 1/4" tip recess was causing too much setback, sooty, spatter, and seeing your weld 'too far from the work' confirmed that it was exactly what I was fighting.
very informative video ive been welder 29 yrs and made some money from it. ive welded uphill , downhill sidewards and overhead. practice practice and yes you well get it!
I’m making all these mistakes as I’ve just got my first welder at the age of 59. I nearly sent it back as broken last week until a neighbour pointed out I wouldn’t be getting any earth contact because of the paint on my piece.
Thank you, I think I’ll return to this video more than once.
I'm 43 and getting into it.... mainly because I bought the ex wife a bunch of equipment that she never even took out if the box.... getting pretty good with a stick. We are never too old to learn a new skill, when you stop learning you ain't living! 😁
Know how to diagnose is the most important thing. I know my weld is awful, but I didn't know how to improve, this helps a lot. Thanks!
Excellent concise diagnostic guide. I've done all of those. Yesterday.
Thanks for the strait forward approach. I did see some flaws in my technique and what may have been frustrating me so much today. I do exhausts and most welding is above my head so you can imagine my frustration when it kept puddling outward, me thinking "too hot" was backing the tip away and worsening my own issue.
Just started my welding career and this video answered a lot of my questions.
Great info. One other thing that can also lead to the 2nd symptom of surging is a sharp bend in the welding cable. keeping a straight cable also prevents a surging condition.
Keep up the good work!.
Excellent point!
I've seen all of those welding results and often wondered if it was settings or technique and it appears that both are a contributor but only practice will fix the wrongs...Good stuff Garry..
Thank you Gary, as a novice “welder”, your video was very informative and I need all the tips I can get. I’m currently trying to patch holes in my cars floor with sheet metal,not easy.I think I have a bad ground. Thanks again,great video,Lester
Thanks. Learning on my own and I’m now pretty sure my “be very cautious so set the speed low” approach is my problem! Thank you!
I am an new welder, trying to weld in a new trunk floor on my collector car; good tips. Thank you
You just helped my learning curve, so I subscribed and bookmarked this video. I probably will have to come back to it on my way to mastering mig welding. I will also use this video as a REFRESHER. You may not be a teacher but you come across with a clear straight forward delivery that a layman can understand. thx.
I really hated my welding school at ftcc. I decided to change major to nursing. They said everything I was doing was wrong/bad. I just gave up. This helps more then anything so far. Thanks
Aww man, sorry to hear you have changed majors. Just keep practicing, trying to learn, you will get it!
This was one of the top 3 videos i've seen on this subject, Great job explaining and showing what can happen or be the cause, again great tutorial!👍
Great video! I’m an amateur and just bought a Harbor Freight Titanium 125. I made my first bbq recently but had issues with welds looking ok. This video will help on next project.
Just learning how to weld. Bought my first starter MIG at Harbor Freight to pass the time. Great video, very insightful. Thank you!
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I'll reiterate what others have said - nice advice and excellent demo! Thanks for sharing these commonly made mistakes.
You really nailed it,! With the distance from the workpiece. John from Oz
Great video, puts the problem and the cure next to each other. You have covered the most common problems with beginning welders in a concise video. Thank you.
Thanks Paul, glad you liked it.
Wish I’d seen your video before welding up a gate yesterday. That would probably have saved a lot of grinder work on my part!
i hear ya, sometimes its best to learn on the job as your going along! so not all is lost
Just the kinds of problems i was having and you showed me how to fix them. Thank you
I found this very helpful.
Thanks for making this. I found a lot of useful info here to help me.
Thanks for the sharing. It really help me to understand more about MIG welding and improve my skill along the way. Regards from Malaysia.
thanks for making this video. It really helps in seeing what i may be doing wrong. I'd love to see a future video on how to weld thin automotive sheet metal properly.
This was so helpful man.. been doing my first couple welds last few days.. starting to get it .. definitely go to play around with the settings 👌
Had all these issues, but not sure why my gas is not coming through as pressure is good. Too much rust which is very hard to remove with a wire brush. Thankfully it's only rebar and will be covered by concrete.This has been very instructional, thank you. Did some MIG welding at college but everything was all set up perfect with clean steel plate, so never really learnt how to deal with problems.
Very basic and clear explanation! Thankyou! you hit all my problem while Im tyrin to figure out something to my welding machine in my job. 😅
Thank you! Some tips I've seen already. But you cleared up my issues with some of your other points! Brilliant
Glad it was helpful!
Cover a part 2 where the nozzle gets clogged and grounds out. Also don't forget wire fusing into the tip, and how in a pinch you can sand it back to rescue it, if you don't have any extra tips on hand.
Show the difference between a freshly ground surface and one with the mill scale left on. Hobbiest and small time fabricators should really get into the habit of using a flap disk to prepare the weld area. It makes enough of a difference in weld appearance and overall penetration. Which also builds confidence in knowing their welds are strong.
You don't know who I am, so I'll just let that slide.
Lol, good come back, i was getting new comments on this video and just now saw this
Yeah Echo, we don’t know who you are. Just like the old internet saying goes - you could be a dog.
Says he is a mouse, who is economical, apparently. Just saying.
@@rick343 I suspect it's ecological rather than economical, judging by the green leaf on the avatar. Of course, he might be economical as well. ;-)
Hey buddy, keep up the good work. I enjoy the pride you show in your workmanship. I was a heavy equipment operator most of my life, now I just enjoy doing some welding fabrication in the shop. Keep the videos coming.
Good information Gary, I have a tendency to have my wire speed too low and I just learnt that from watching this and hearing how that sounds. Thanks for sharing.
Great video. I enjoy all of them, but this was especially helpful. I use a Millermatic 135 with C25. No auto settings so I constantly fight for the right settings to attain the sizzle. Thanks
I get that question sometimes from newbies who borrow my everlast mig welder. Most of the time it from user error. The other times it is because of worn consumables.
Awesome basic practical sense information, this cleared up alot of issues from me. Never could pinpoint the exact problem, just suspect. just because the issues are similar and random at times. Thank you sir.
New to welding, having the problem with wire coming out, but no arc. Was driving me crazy! I wasnt grounding to my work piece..thanks!
Great video I have experienced all that you mentioned and this video has really helped understand what the problem has been and what to look out for in the future. More importantly the method to fix the problem was simply explained. Many thanks from a person just starting out to weld greatly appreciated
Great video; thank you...I am new at welding and am experiencing it all!!!
My welding is about as much use as indicators on a submarine. Great tips, thanks.
Flux core gas welders. Are amazing. But the ones in school were for your G test for bigger material.
If I could add a tip on the grounding issues, check the part of the cable that reaches the clamp. It might be damaged, since the cable tends to bend a little there when you fix it to the work. I had those issues even though the clamp was in contact with clean metal, until I realized most of the copper stripes of the cable were completely damaged. I redid the connection and it improved a lot (still having a bit of a hard time, since I'm a beginner and working on 18-20ga sheets with a flux core machine)
If you have your gas flow too high it also can cause prosody due to turbulence....With shielding gas you push the puddle, with shielding wire you pull the pull the puddle and reverse polarity......Depending what material size sometimes you can melt the prosody out by cranking up the heat and turning down the wire speed and go over the prosody ...then reweld the affected area....
Is my mans welding with shorts on? A real man
Practical and straightforward video - thanks
Inch thick steel plate workbench is neat, rock solid.
That was helpful thanks for posting
Thank you for spending your time and resources to teach this. You've done a great job with this video. Very helpful.
Awesome, glad it was helpful to you
Agreed
great video Gary. Just what I needed to see as I just upgraded to a 3in1 thermal arc 211 fabricator and cant wait to get it up and running. Ill be keeping yours and Jody's videos on standby for help!
Good tips that I can give to my kids. They are learning how to use my everlast welders.
great video , great delivery , helped solve a couple of issues for me , thank you
Thanks for the tips. I think you covered it better than any other video I've viewed.
Thank you for being straight to the point with the different welds keep it up
Very nice video with very useful information included. Many thanks.
I’ve found your video to be a great help, thanks for taking the time
welding in SHORT PANTS HAHAHAHAH I LOVE IT I do that all the time well use to before the cut off my left leg. brings back memories!!
Thanks for that, very useful for someone like me just starting out and not certain what to look for.
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lol.....I can't count how many times I've had my shielding gas blown away by a breeze coming thru the shop because I have both front and back bay doors open.
95° and 90% humidity with all my insulation on welding in still air is my life 😢 and I'm dam good at it.
@@dishman5161 florida?
No that's not a good idea because you are blowing the shield gas away.
I learned alot from this video, have run across these issues in the past, just yesterday, I was not sure, but it was breezy out and my weld started to pop, thought it might be blowing my gas away. You just confirmed that for me, thank you !
@@geofftownsend7973 He literally said that in his post you numb nuts.
Lots of good information! Thanks!
I like the raw edge look when I’m working with wood. I’ve never seen it on a work bench like that! 😂
Thankyou. These are some excellent tips. I have been having a few problems welding my car. These suggestions have helped.
Awesome, glad they helped you. Be sure to subscribe, I have a ton of welding videos.
Hi I have been building some motorcycle frames with a lot of grinding and filling after watching your video I realized my gun angle was not straight now my welds look like tig as they are smooth as can be Thank you for the tutorial . Gary
Gary Jones Why are you fabbing motorcycle parts with mig and not tig? That shit needs to be pretty. Also aluminum spool guns suck.
Hi T Prime I am not using A Spool Gun I am welding with .35 and after welding a penetrating Bead I go over it with another bead and grind the weld down . instead of filling in the seams with body filler . All of the joins are smooth as glass .
Thanks for making & posting this video. I found it very helpful.
excellent video that cover most mistakes that a beginner usually makes, I 'd like to add that oily parts can cause many issues too, on sheetmetal, simply contamination at the back of the joint is more than sufficient to cause many of the issues you described
I don’t have argon with mine and my welds don’t look like that. I would like to get argon soon though and this will help.
Just starting mig weld with Argon/Co2 and experiencing what you just expose. Thanks for sharing this knowledge.
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A cross breeze from a fan or open door or something can blow the gas away and make porosity too. Another thing to check for.
Great video my friend easy to follow plus I learnt a lot as I'm learning these videos are a great help
Regards
Steve UK London
Be safe
That was excellent - it actually helped me a lot. Thank you so much.
That Torch is fabulous 😍😍😍
Thank you - great tips for us newbies.
Apart from his welding skills, he reminds me of me -- welding in shorts and t-shirt, at least until I got "sunburned"! Great training video, though.
The video was very well explained. Great job
Great discussion Gary - indeed, so many variables. Most useful :)
I am about to start welding school on Thursday and it’s currently Tuesday, I graduate if all goes to plan on 2/19/21 wish me luck!
good luck Mr. Big Bad Goose!
How's it going so far? I want to start
I suck at welding. Thank you for this.
Hell yeah this helps, very clear thanks! I'm gonna buy my first today as it happens lol
thank you, simple, easy to understand
One thing I wish to add is polarity issues. If you swap between MIG and flux core welding, you have to remember to swap over the polarity while swapping wire spools. Welds turn out horrible with incorrect polarity.
Probably one of the best vids seen in a long time - just subscribed!
awesome, thanks for checking out my channel. lots of metal fab, welding, painting, some car stuff also. what you got a 572 in?
Number I got in college - look forward to checking out the rest of your vids
Great video, Another thing Ive seen is that guys will get hot and turn the fans on them in the shop and try to weld. Fans and mig welding doesn't work.
Very good tip mate thanks for your time and effort go and have a beer now
tks for the tips. They will come in handy
Sometimes I like welding with the low wire speed. It is called globular transfer welding and is normally used for high carbon steel.
It gets good penetration with less fill. Your welds will have either a washed out look or a stacked look. With some practice you can make mig welds that look like tig. The process is almost like using your mig gun as a tig.
I learned a lot! Taking the plunge and buying a welder soon! Excellent Thank you! 😎
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Thanks for this video ive been trying to get better at welding and this video helped point out some of the things im doing wrong and what to change im just getting into welding and i really enjoy it im just struggling with a few things i think you just helped me understand what a few things im doing wrong thank you
Thank you, that was really useful ( after a very frustrating day at the Mig