SPLICING WELDING LEAD TO ADD A WHIP
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- Опубликовано: 15 окт 2024
- It's Friday! Back with another video. Today I show you how I was taught to splice welding lead. In this video, I use the technique to add a whip to my continuous 100ft. lead that I carry on my rig truck. It's quick and easy, but I would also like to know how y'all do it. Leave me a comment.
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Filmed November 24, 2017 | Location Oklahoma
I spent 40 years as a union fitter welder piping tradesman. I’ve cut up and welded countless piping, fittings supports etc. mostly commercial and industrial. Some power plants. Lots of hospitals. I still appreciate a hand that knows what he’s doing. Pretty close to 70 years old now but I’m still active and working the family ranch.
I use copper splices and a hand hydraulic crimper and heat shrink. Your way works great but I needed to buy the tools for other jobs so that is why I do it that way. It makes a great good looking splice.
I normally use tweco connectors for my stingers but for a cable splice I take a tinned copper terminal from an industrial battery connector like for an electric forklift or winch and cut the flat lug off so I have just the cable tube. I drill !/8" hole in center, strip 3/4" off each cable and stick the ends in the tube so that ends butt tight at hole and crimp then heat the center of tube quickly with a small welding tip till I can flow a few inches of solder thru the hole I drilled then insulate with good heavy adhesive heat shrink. Makes compact electrically solid very short waterproof splice that winds on reels without issue.
I’ve done it several ways. Like Austin has, but instead of electrical tape I used 2 layers of heat shrink. Another, (which is my personal favorite) I just use Lincoln or Miller adapters and have ran 1/4 rod all day without any problems.
Austin's way is handy if you're out in the middle job somewhere with two hours to town
I use twist lock (either tweco or dins) and have a connection between the lead and the whip so it can be changed any time. Also I run my leads in fifty foot sections with connectors so I don't have to handle more than I need. I have also tried and liked a bit of solder in my wire ends where they are clamped. Not enough to stiffen the wire past the last inch but enough to keep all the strands under the clamp screw and improve the conductivity.
I begin just like you did it, but then solder mine. But that's me. The trick is soldering each pigtail without overheating the insulation. Then one layer of Scotch 33+ to hold it down tight, then shrink tubing over the whole thing.
I like your trick of rolling it on the floor. I'll do that next time.
50 foot lead (carried 2 50 foot lengths and 2 100 foot continuous lengths for the positive. Our negative was 100 foot continuous with a 10 foot whip. We had ground clamp or ground magnet depending what/where we were welding) sections with tweco connections. We had a 25 foot whip and a 10 foot whip of red to the stinger. It was required the last 10 feet be red per CALOSHA requirements incase of a cave in. When they first started seeing the red cable while digging you out they knew they were close. This just creates a knot and causes amperage loss and build up of heat.
They make a splicing tape you can use under the electrical tape. It’s a thick stretchy rubber that will make it a little more durable.
Right...3M product, 'self-fusing'...a little pricey, but well worth it.
I work with welding cable and telco flex you could lug it/splice lug and heat shrink
I do it the same way. Great vid brother.
thanks, man.
Have you ever tried welding them? I've seen it done a few times and it's pretty neat. Tommy clay did a video on Instagram awhile back showing how to go about it I believe.
We would never get away with this in Australia in mining for oil and gas
What Whip Cable (Brand)do you recommend and how many feet? I have 2/0
I've twisted the ends then slide a piece of copper tubing over and hammered flat then some shrink tube over it .
thats what we call "smash connector"
What all gauges of leads do you use? For your main, etc.
For wrapping leads I do one layer of electrical tape and wrap it tight and then heat it with a heat gun then do another layer tight and heat gun that and it last best for cheapest.
What do OSHA say about the electrical tape?🤔
Tweko connectors
Welder Mike T tewco connectors are gayer than aids
@@randomsongs8478 lol really? I thought it was hilarious to see that splice. What the heck do you do if you are welding 1/4 rod all day and you burn your whip up? Take 20 min to repair the splice or switch to your spare stinger in two seconds with a tweco. How bout when you need to connect your tig torch for alloys? Do you cut the lead and take another 20 minutes to splice the tig rig on?? Then what do you do if you are welding a process where it’s tig root and stick fill and cap; cut the lead and splice back and forth every pass??? Lmao I must be missing something.
@@davidhick4303 this is a pipeliner channel, its 5mm 8010 all day everyday
Same question I was gonna ask, tweco, I put them on and seal them up good to try an keep all the crud out, have had them on for years and then if you need more length you can just throw another lead on. or in some cases if you need to switch polarities and you don't have a switch just swap out the ground & handle.
I've worked a lot of structures welds ran off msha code were your lead cant have any spices and your ground cant have splices or cuts 10 foot from you clamp
Hey Austin where do you buy that wide of electrical tape..
Try using self sealing silicone tape.
What gauge welding cable would u recommend for a 98 classic lllD?
I cut both ends twist each real tight and I hook the ground and stinger together touch the whip end to the lead end and it’ll stick on and never come apart heat shrink it to seal it up
Can you do a Branch lay out ,cut, grind, and weld up video? and thank you for all the help
look up Jacob Schofield branch test
Yes, that is coming soon.
you should twist the wire in the opposite direction and that will give you a much tighter twist.
And while I'm on. Put your dang headrest back on your truck seats brother. Those serve a safety purpose. Big time
Safety is gay
What size is your main lead? then what size is your whip?
Where do you get all your welding supply’s do you order off a specialty pipeline supply store, or just a local welding supply store?
Most of the time just a local supply. Unless I can't get it then I order from the place I used to work and they just ship it to me wherever we are. Shipping can get pricey though with welding supplies
When you're jammed up that works perfect
Been having problems with some gas companies not letting us use splices like this or the hammer splicers they want the twist lock connectors and don't want to see any tape on the leads.
I haven't ran across that, but I am sure the day will come they will add that to the list of things we can't do anymore. lol
Structural also. Makes the safety guy feel important!🙄
@@arosswelding don't for get proper guage extension cords with the light up ends and your GFi.., all without any electrical tape patches and the proper color coded electrical tape for the month signaling your proper inspection of it .😬🙄
Why not just use twist locks that you can disconnect easily for storage if stinger/ ground clamp?
dan lachance because you loose heat with twist locks
Instead of the T-300 ( which good for a ground) try the V-Stinger it is much better.
I splice my leads basically the same what but I solder mine.
How long would you recommend the whip be?
Mine is 20ft but I would do at least 10ft or more.
Well, back when I got out of high-school...1964, I worked in an Electric motor repair/rewinding shop. We used copper brazing with just 'City' heating gas for the solid winding wire to the stranded leads...compact and long lasting. A lot of motors are still manufactured that way...check out Baldor here on RUclips...
That is how I do it too
What size lead and whip are you using as in 1/0 2/0
Is there any benefit to using a splice over a connector?
Chris Doeg Quick connects don't handle higher amps and end up melting or burning up your whip. Plus over time they don't lock to gather like they should
Texas Welder I haven't had that experience only with cheap connectors what type of work did I do I work a long way from my truck so I'm trying to build aluminum welding lead reels and have a bunch I need to splice together for that application
Chris Doeg I would splice them together like shown here rather than quick connect because the connectors don't coil neatly on a reel. And you usually only burn them up running 3/16 all day.
Use self sealing silicone tape
I'd rather strip the ends longer and have them all wraped together in the middle instead of folding them over.
Is there any real demand for pipe liners , I thought the there was more welders than work just askin, maybe I've been lying to myself
Really depends on the year. In general I would say it is over saturated, but the turnover is high too so there are places the sneak in if a guy wanted to.
welders are over rated and sometimes hard to get along with, Biden bent you guys over on the crude oil line ha ha h all good things must end
@@lindabingham394 lol they still seem to be using a lot of metal in things these days. Everyone lives in a bubble and has no idea how anything is made or fixed so of course welders are overrated, just like saying, I know food is great and all but farmers are overrated and hard to get along with.
That copper is burnt. I'd be using clean copper. Current running through the burnt copper welder not accurate on current.
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😂😂😂😂😂 they make connectors don't they
I run quick K'NEX on mine
Copper turn black when water saturated
i hate to say it but that looks awful. and why would you tie your stinger to a long length of welding lead. we put the stinger on a
six foot separate piece of lead with male/female tweeco fittings so it looks good and works good. this twisted connection is
a source of power loss and head buildup. if we have an emergency we clamp the two pieces together with a "smash fitting" amd
tape it up
josh m quick connects melt on the pipeline
Gotta tape the tar out of it!
Of course you got rock shield on the floor lol
0:30 Why not use a purpose made connector. Will outlast your tongs!!
Trying to do it yourself by splicing? That's just current/voltage loss and overheated burnt out leads waiting to happen.
Total shit method bro.. contact your pro's ie Pipeline technician"s they can assist you with doing this. Love your videos. I've been a Pipeline tech for 20 years
100’....sorry hit send.
Wrong on so many levels.
Adding a smaller cable onto a bigger cable is stupid. You basically just reduced the output of the cable. So why would you have the thicker cable in the first place if your going to have a thinner section. Just have that thinner cable for the while thing.
All we need is a cup of coffee and we just turned one cable savings into an OSHA nightmare.
I don't know any other welder that does this. Useless if you ask me.