Retired now but used to make repairs on pipeline and refinery work. Made very good money making repairs. What I liked was they knew how much time it should make a weld but not how much time to repair one. Kinda could set your own pace. Just never rush it and always make the repairs pass film.....
If you use the 3 different sizes of grind wheels it's very effective... zip in, pipe disc your bevel and than 1/4 inch grind some space works just as well.
I told my student's if you ever meet a welder who says they have never failed UT or RT then disregard everything they have ever told you and ignore everything they tell you the future because they are a liar. Fucking own it and fix it. The more repairs you do the more you will learn why you failed. The shop I work at must have a 99% pass rate and we are 100% UT/MT. Almost everything we weld is well over and inch thick. So we are laying down thousands of pounds of weld a week. The reason we got so good is because every repair was investigated and discussed with everyone on our findings. We document everything and try our best to never repeat mistakes.
@@geoffmooregm i never failed x-ray or UT, that's a lot of practice in my garage, and for you to know there is always some play in how big your porosity can be. Your bead may not be completely perfect but for instance tungsten inclusion may be small enough forbead to pass x-ray...
Bottom line is, if you never busted a shot you havent been doing this long enough. Ive lost a job over a busted x ray, not all welds are made in a shop.
just made a repair on a nickel xray. it was my first bad xray on this job. it bummed me out but i fixed it and had 4 good xrays with it. dont lose confidence from a bad xray is what i learned from it.
Thanks for making these videos that portray real life scenarios, but can you make one about doing a repair on pipe with using only stick electrodes? The reason is that when I was in welding school I was taught to only use the process and filler that I had started using in the first place. Thank you again and I hope to get a response soon.
Woah, that video came just right in time! I'm in welding school and I had been struggling for a while with making a decent root pass in these big pipes. I'm racing to get good at this before we finish in three weeks. I didn't realize in bigger pipes you have to oscillate to get a good big penetrated root. What a dumb mistake! No wonder I could only do it in smaller pipes! You helped me a lot, pal! Best regards from this welding novice who's trying to aim for a homologation. Keep rocking on dude!
Good video, laid back, positive and smart respectful young man, not a lot of slang juberish, good english. Thank you for helping the ones that need, with your videos.
Surprised you started at the top but the pipe was cold.All the pipework we did was pre-heated first between 50c - 200c,different ball game at those temps.Some companies now want a root and hot pass with tig then sub arc on 26" dia pipe,1.5" wall thickness ! Pre-heat 200c.
Is always a bummer having a repair. Feels like letting yourslef down. But hey, got to keep chin up, its part of the job! Nobody can be perfect all of the time. Anyone trying to say they dont get repairs in a bullshitter
How do you see a bad weld in the field cant look at it through the end of the pipe 😊 we would get papers from the NDE showing the bad weld most of the time we cut a window 180 from the repair we would look the repair in and close up the window just saying good video👍
yep couple of times...funny story i was doing a WPQ and it ran like crap i knew it but befor i could say anything it was in the box off to the test facility well i relized that my a50 tank was on 20 psi lol so no where near enough gas sheild...
I would like to know why you do 2 cap runs next to each other instead of just 1 run . Just a question people don't get hostile. Theodore rose is asking not Richard herbert. I'm 24 apprentice welder
richard herbert the reason for multiple passes is because of the size of the opening it would be to much to cover in one pass I was always told never weave more then 3x the diameter of the filler rod That’s what I was taught not sure if it’s 100 percent right but that’s what I go by Hope it helps keep at it it’s the best trade in the industry
When I was welding Aluminum Pipe on large LNG Pressure Vessels you were allowed 3 Repairs max. The pipe sections took days to fit up, so on the second attempt we would run the root and call on the RT guys and do an excavation shot. We were welding 3" and 12" with a .090" backing ring and 20" open Butt. If you had a blister on the ring it would bust out and lack of tie in on the ring along with porosity. The alloy was 6061 and 5083 Class A RT/PT. At the top of the vessel there was the dome where all the pipes exited and there were quite a bit of mirror welds. Coming from a Navy Shipyard I was Ace at Mirror Welding, so I did all of it. To this day I still do Class A Welds on Aluminum, but 99% of it is DCEN with UHP Helium. 60XX Sucks on DC but 2219 is Porn and sweet. The RT guys will do a shoot any time you need them as they get paid each shot. All of our Class 1 Volumetric Inspection where I'm at is done with Digital RT or Phased Array UT.
Hey man im your fan at weldtube.. Im from phils.. Beginners man.. Just need an information i need to improve.. Smaw welder i am.. And ihave family to feed.. Can i ask how much argon do you supply when u freehand is 5psi a standard ol da way.. Root to cap.. Thanks man appreciate i want to burn learn n eventually i gonna earn..
Weldingfanatic. Com get a titanium rod and heat it up with it in pipe let it cool from purge if their is a bunch of color purge is no good it should turn back silver with carbon you don’t need a purge I have welded a lot of carbon with out purge and xrayed a100 percent it all passed if you need help holler at me
@@Stxtireandmetalworks I know. But the older guys are usually easier to work with. Some can be as green as you, but the older expierenced guys are usually are a lot laid back and easy going.
@@Stxtireandmetalworks Niether am I. I've only been welding for a year. Some of the worst welds I've seen have been done by guys doing this work for 40 years, I've seen others guys who have done it their whole lives lay the best beads you'll see.
I failed many medical exams, not only X-Ray. They wrote that the results were negative. I asked if I could take the exam again, but they always said 'no need'.
great work, just one thing I noticed, you prep'd your hand on the pipe, so I wouldn't really call that freehanding, freehand I was taught is when you do it like with an oxy fuel torch, literally no contact whatsoever just holding the 'gun' in air
niusfro most people will call freehand tig resting your hand on something or nothing at all but not having your cup sit/touch the work peice , while obviously walking the cup is well as it says
At 2 minutes and 30 seconds he's talking about this guy that fixes his mistakes it would take him less than a minute would take him just a minute.. wow okay you know that 60 Seconds grind it out and cover it over.. and how did you know it was a mistake??? IDK sounds like a fish tale to me..
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Just had 2 bad x rays (3 repairs) so now I have to shoot 6 more. It really wrecked my confidence and has me paranoid about everything now lol
This man knows how to teach, he understands what new guys need to know, and explains it with great care. Awesome brother, keep it up.
Good to see a video about handling real scenarios as opposed to everything is perfect every time.
Retired now but used to make repairs on pipeline and refinery work. Made very good money making repairs. What I liked was they knew how much time it should make a weld but not how much time to repair one. Kinda could set your own pace. Just never rush it and always make the repairs pass film.....
I’m guilty of grinding straight in. I’ll try your method tomorrow. Thanks!
If you use the 3 different sizes of grind wheels it's very effective... zip in, pipe disc your bevel and than 1/4 inch grind some space works just as well.
Any welder who says has never had a repair is either a liar or has not done much quality work
👏👏 here here!!
Or had a guy dedicated to reworks
I told my student's if you ever meet a welder who says they have never failed UT or RT then disregard everything they have ever told you and ignore everything they tell you the future because they are a liar.
Fucking own it and fix it. The more repairs you do the more you will learn why you failed. The shop I work at must have a 99% pass rate and we are 100% UT/MT. Almost everything we weld is well over and inch thick. So we are laying down thousands of pounds of weld a week. The reason we got so good is because every repair was investigated and discussed with everyone on our findings. We document everything and try our best to never repeat mistakes.
@@geoffmooregm i never failed x-ray or UT, that's a lot of practice in my garage, and for you to know there is always some play in how big your porosity can be. Your bead may not be completely perfect but for instance tungsten inclusion may be small enough forbead to pass x-ray...
Bottom line is, if you never busted a shot you havent been doing this long enough. Ive lost a job over a busted x ray, not all welds are made in a shop.
Abraham is doing a great job with these videos.
just made a repair on a nickel xray. it was my first bad xray on this job. it bummed me out but i fixed it and had 4 good xrays with it. dont lose confidence from a bad xray is what i learned from it.
Had my days of repairs, mine and others, learned alot of technics from OGs.
Thanks for making these videos that portray real life scenarios, but can you make one about doing a repair on pipe with using only stick electrodes? The reason is that when I was in welding school I was taught to only use the process and filler that I had started using in the first place. Thank you again and I hope to get a response soon.
I want to see the cameraman try and weld a coupon 😁
love this channel i just bought my first flux welder from harbor freight to start training.
Weld tube gas come a long way. Good job guys, great content! 👍
That's some good looking work, Abraham
Thanks for this video. Been doing repairs at school the wrong way lol
this guy will go far...
Abramham great laid back video doing a great job also the story telling makes it even better than just showing us ✌️
Woah, that video came just right in time! I'm in welding school and I had been struggling for a while with making a decent root pass in these big pipes. I'm racing to get good at this before we finish in three weeks. I didn't realize in bigger pipes you have to oscillate to get a good big penetrated root. What a dumb mistake! No wonder I could only do it in smaller pipes! You helped me a lot, pal!
Best regards from this welding novice who's trying to aim for a homologation. Keep rocking on dude!
An old timer told me "if you ain't never busted on a weld test, then you ain't taken enough".
I just found this channel, a BIG 2 THUMBS UP to this guy and offering us this content
Essential skills..... Bravo!
Nice work Abraham, like it was never there . I like the laid back video style yous got going on.
Great video. And a great attitude to go with it. You my friend have got it.
Good video, laid back, positive and smart respectful young man, not a lot of slang juberish, good english. Thank you for helping the ones that need, with your videos.
Always check your root before you weld hot pass and cap . You don't have to cut out as much metal
Can't always...
Great job on ur first video taking over
Interesting to see a repair of a tested professionals weld by another pro 👍
Surprised you started at the top but the pipe was cold.All the pipework we did was pre-heated first between 50c - 200c,different ball game at those temps.Some companies now want a root and hot pass with tig then sub arc on 26" dia pipe,1.5" wall thickness ! Pre-heat 200c.
Glad I ran into this video 👍🏼
Be safe, use the handle that came with the grinder.
Wow now that is how you tig right there good job.
Nice repair
Is always a bummer having a repair. Feels like letting yourslef down. But hey, got to keep chin up, its part of the job! Nobody can be perfect all of the time. Anyone trying to say they dont get repairs in a bullshitter
What I do I’m not going all way thru!! I grind till start to get purple and then I blow thru
How do you see a bad weld in the field cant look at it through the end of the pipe 😊 we would get papers from the NDE showing the bad weld most of the time we cut a window 180 from the repair we would look the repair in and close up the window just saying good video👍
Will y’all do a video on using thumb control on tig torch?
I know exactly who he's talking about I use to go to Abraham Boot to practice welding he use to let me borrow he's machine lol hope he remembers me
yep couple of times...funny story i was doing a WPQ
and it ran like crap i knew it but befor i could say anything it was in the box off to the test facility well i relized that my a50 tank was on 20 psi lol so no where near enough gas sheild...
What does that term mean “bad xray” ??
and how would you do it when the repair is at the bottom
Done exactly the same👍
Good welding
Amazing video!!
Good job and and teaching!
Thanks for the video, nice repair.
Currently fixing robot mistakes in the shop I work in
Oh man that brings me back, robot would weld basket in 45 mins, the repairs took 2 days, both day and night shift 🙁.
What shop ?
Nice my brother 💥
Bravo 👏👏👏👏👏🙌🙌
I would like to know why you do 2 cap runs next to each other instead of just 1 run . Just a question people don't get hostile. Theodore rose is asking not Richard herbert. I'm 24 apprentice welder
richard herbert the reason for multiple passes is because of the size of the opening it would be to much to cover in one pass I was always told never weave more then 3x the diameter of the filler rod
That’s what I was taught not sure if it’s 100 percent right but that’s what I go by
Hope it helps keep at it it’s the best trade in the industry
Great video, man.
Does anywhere x-ray the root before next series of passes? Always seems to be the root that's the problem
When I was welding Aluminum Pipe on large LNG Pressure Vessels you were allowed 3 Repairs max. The pipe sections took days to fit up, so on the second attempt we would run the root and call on the RT guys and do an excavation shot. We were welding 3" and 12" with a .090" backing ring and 20" open Butt. If you had a blister on the ring it would bust out and lack of tie in on the ring along with porosity. The alloy was 6061 and 5083 Class A RT/PT. At the top of the vessel there was the dome where all the pipes exited and there were quite a bit of mirror welds. Coming from a Navy Shipyard I was Ace at Mirror Welding, so I did all of it. To this day I still do Class A Welds on Aluminum, but 99% of it is DCEN with UHP Helium. 60XX Sucks on DC but 2219 is Porn and sweet. The RT guys will do a shoot any time you need them as they get paid each shot. All of our Class 1 Volumetric Inspection where I'm at is done with Digital RT or Phased Array UT.
Hey man im your fan at weldtube.. Im from phils.. Beginners man.. Just need an information i need to improve.. Smaw welder i am.. And ihave family to feed.. Can i ask how much argon do you supply when u freehand is 5psi a standard ol da way.. Root to cap.. Thanks man appreciate i want to burn learn n eventually i gonna earn..
Weldingfanatic. Com get a titanium rod and heat it up with it in pipe let it cool from purge if their is a bunch of color purge is no good it should turn back silver with carbon you don’t need a purge I have welded a lot of carbon with out purge and xrayed a100 percent it all passed if you need help holler at me
Learn how to weld. Step one get behind that hood
Step 2 find the oldest guy on your crew
Step 3 get on that old guys good side
Not just cause a person looks old means he can weld I've seen it many times lol
@@Stxtireandmetalworks I know. But the older guys are usually easier to work with. Some can be as green as you, but the older expierenced guys are usually are a lot laid back and easy going.
I'm not super experienced by any means but I'm a pipeline welder and I've seen this before not many old guys can weld ol son
@@Stxtireandmetalworks Niether am I. I've only been welding for a year. Some of the worst welds I've seen have been done by guys doing this work for 40 years, I've seen others guys who have done it their whole lives lay the best beads you'll see.
The oldest man in my shop can't weld worth a fuck constantly fixing his stuff 😭
Show us how to do on the bottom n
Thanks
Good job!
I am always surprised by thumbs down. It is crazy there is nothing in this video that would deserve that.
What 's the name of the welder He's a pro
gran video 👌👍
Can you do a video on a Tig test in the 5f position, using a 22g plate and a
.035 wall tube.
EXCELLENT
Good tips
you should grind in before removing the cap
Thanks man!
Good job nic wlding
Good stuff right there
Nice music
Subtitula los vídeos..
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@@weldtube okay imma check them out, thank you
I went for an xray to see if there was any work left in me. Lol. 🇬🇧
Hard to repair. Not every welder can. 😉
Show me the money! Our services aren't for sell on discount, we (welders as a group) can't forget that. Negotiate for the better of all of us.
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I am tig welder i need work
I have, always really embarrassing.
Parabéns dizasonbrado
Tamos junto gosto muito de assistir esses video gosto muito da Minha profissao
I failed many medical exams, not only X-Ray. They wrote that the results were negative.
I asked if I could take the exam again, but they always said 'no need'.
Everything’s comes withs hards works
Slick
great work, just one thing I noticed, you prep'd your hand on the pipe, so I wouldn't really call that freehanding, freehand I was taught is when you do it like with an oxy fuel torch, literally no contact whatsoever just holding the 'gun' in air
niusfro most people will call freehand tig resting your hand on something or nothing at all but not having your cup sit/touch the work peice , while obviously walking the cup is well as it says
Bring us some combo mig/tig on pipe videos?
rhetorical
Hell yea Abraham get it
At 2 minutes and 30 seconds he's talking about this guy that fixes his mistakes it would take him less than a minute would take him just a minute.. wow okay you know that 60 Seconds grind it out and cover it over.. and how did you know it was a mistake??? IDK sounds like a fish tale to me..
Do it on the bottom
never pass it so ....
Show me the moneeeey!
When i welded pipe i repaired my own x-rays.
Not that busted that many x-rays.