Jody, I've been welding a long time and still learn from you. You sir make quality videos. There are plenty of jokers on the interwebs....you are not one of them.
I can tell you for sure this man is a welder. I recently went through welding school at a blazing speed because I spent my spare time watching the videos and implementing the techniques immediately. I had familiarity with welding, but I went through 2G, 3G and 4G stick in two days. Freaked my audience out.....lol.
i'm going to share your videos with all of my welding classmates! i sat here and binge watched all of your basic MIG welding videos 1-8. it pretty much covered everything i learned in class the first week and gave me a better idea of what i'm supposed to be doing and looking for as well as how to adjust everything to make my beads better. i can't wait to watch the rest, thank you for these videos!!
Jody, you have helped me so much. I started as a welder 3 years ago and your videos have helped me learn so much about MIG and TIG, to the point I've got elders asking me for help! Legend!
I started welding in 1963. Here, some 51 years later, I still run across something I did not know. But I do know this, 90% of a good weld is knowledge and one helluva good machine. Ya gotta have both in your favor to do a good job. Never compromise on tool quality. Buy the best tools there are to offer. Cheap tools is never a good practice.
raginroadrunner I was always told that you pay for a nice tool once from your walllet. You pay for a cheap tool every time you have to use it, but you pay with your sanity
Do not agree.. a cheap welder is better than no welder. Everybody has to start from somewere. I don't think they suddenly buy welders like 2-5000$. Learn welding with a cheap machine and then build up to a professional one.
Thanks Jodi! Been welding for almost a year, but I'm serious. I run 70-s .45 daily with quality inverters and I thank you for the help my man. I love that puddle and want to see it like that at least 8 hrs a day. Thumbs up👍
I have been welding for 35 years and still go to your videos for HELP & Tips, You have a Ton of knowledge and explain everything that even a beginner could learn from with ease!!! My son has started a welding career and uses your videos ALL the time.. please Keep up the Great videos!!!!!
I have been welding for 12 years haven't done overhead for a while I have a test weld tomorrow for a new job and over head is the weld I have to do thanks for this upload 1 watch and it's come back to me time to hit the shed and get a bit of practise for tommorow thanks buddy
Hi , I'm new to welding but have just bought my first mig welder, love it. I have made 4 custom tool for my garage already. Thanks so much for your videos, they are a fantastic resource .
I sure wish I could weld like you. You make it look easy but I have been following your advice and putting as much hood time as I can with my Everlast welder. I've been getting better and better and it is largely because of your great videos.
I think they should take off about 80% of the welding videos on RUclips and you are not one of them finally a welder with real knowledge really advice. I been at it 17 years and picked up a few tips from u
Man you are legit. I weld for a living all day everyday MIG. 7 gauge 2” square tubing Mostly and I like your precise clear explanations. I tend to have most trouble with overheads. I look forward to trying some of these techniques tomorrow. Btw I’m running 26-28 volts and basically full speed on the wire. It’s production so it’s all about quantity. Thanks for the video
Been looking for a welding instructor that I can relate too. I think I have found him. Thank you sir! for making these videos. My MIG welding is getting better as I progress but vertical and overhead are difficult for me. Practice, practice & more practice.
I havr bin learning alot with your videos, i bin welding for 7 months and ive learned more in the 2 weeks watching your videos, they are very helpfull tank you for good quality videos.
You just earned yourself another sub! I'm studying here in Sweden to become a welder, and right now I'm practicing in this position, and I find it very hard. Your video helped me a lot answering a couple of questions.
Thanks for this Jody! I'm running a motorcycle workshop for people with various disabilities who are looking to pick up meaningful job skills. We've got a pretty nice MIG machine powered by 380v but it's only ever used to bake stuff together in the ugliest way possible. Nothing mission-critical, don't worry. I've watched this series in one go. Very practical and to the point. Starting out with welding can be pretty overwhelming, but I feel like I at least know the very basics to set the machine and start practicing myself. Thanks again!
thank you for your videos. I'm a sophomore in shop class and don't have very much experience, but your videos have helped me so much. I am actually getting pretty good thanks to them.
Thanks for the video! i have a weld test tomorrow for a ship fitting job.. i only need to tack weld but they still require a test, 3x4" welds T joint vertical and overhead. fluxcore and in the past ive only done stick welding so im very nervous! these videos are a huge help! luckily i got to meet with the man who will test me at his shop and practice over the weekend and he thinks i will do fine. but still nervous when a high paying job is on the line!
love the videos you helped a lot i been welding for 3 years now i’m 18 now and about to go into the workforce you helped a lot with overhead and other ways to weld
Love your videos. You do great work!! I just wanted to say that when I ran overhead fillets with 0.45 at the ship yard I ran very hot but held a very hard push angle with zero weaving. It was 100s hard wire with 95/5 gas. I always had my tip flush with my barrel. I always found if I tried any sort of weave or dddnt push a hard angle I always had a bit of a lip on my bottom passes. I found this true especially if I was running 1/16 100s wire. But I always had great penetration!! Keep up the great videos!!!Pete Dellarma Maine
Just to explain to people that if you quench / dip your you hot welded metal into water it causes the metal to get brittle, and it more likely to crack under load.
Thanks, I just finished this eight part series. I’m going to be taking a 9 1/2 month course with TWS, I’ll probably end up watching these a second time round once I’m practicing again.
great series! ive been mucking around trying to do a good wel for many years, and always faught at it. Just learning that the tip was WAYYY too far resessed [over 1/4 inch!] has helped a TON.. Now to practice.
Jody Say hi to Wyatt for me I was at SEMA and what hoping you could be there the folks at Lincoln and Miller as well as the others all told me to say Hi to you All of the people speak very highly of you and what you have accomplished - I Agree!!!! Great Vid Thx for your help Awful Arthur
Mate, you just fixed years worth of problems for me in 5mins. I just cut back the nozzle flush with the tip and I can now weld upside down a whole lot better.
Hey Jody, a couple things I'd like to see you touch on for your MIG series would be working with thicker, higher current wire. I use .052 every day and would like to see if you have any tips or tricks other than the widely used "whip back." Especially for tight corners. Another thing would be for tack filling gaps. Thanks again, A fan and student of your page.
Thanks. I was saw high voltage got it melted but my movment was wrong to point of bolders dropping. Then ended up going low voltage & drooping welds then cut welds with cutoff wheel to flatten butt weld. The comment about the wire to long having time to heat up become weak & do nothing - was really helpful. I can think these things - but when your under pressure & dont have time to think = thanks.
Also a lot of the work I do, is waste height 10 inch downs, fillet welds and these I've found at the moment overlapping shorter welds is neater for me but I'd like to get more consistant like this
I welded 10 ft cyliders 10 ga stainless first time I left heat alone welded good flat and vert was good very good weld .Overhead blow holes right though it. Delta 452 miller. ITS BETTER TO ROTATE THE PC. single pass 3/16-1/4.the weld you're making looks better for thick ferrous multi pass. our overhead would have to be 30" no stops ,fast paced production we couldn't sit around. I noticed a difference in the outside burn marks,overhead was much thinner pushing.
Sir. You are the best master of welding. Your video's help me to welding beter. O need help! O never use a air care in carbon electrod to remove a bad weld, or other work. God bless you. Thanks 👍
thanks jodi > great explanations, good demos and really think the 'universal' holder w/ the supply of practice plates is a cool idea - 'students' send in there stuff, have it evaluated, tested, x-rayed or whatever; kinda like everybody tries a 'same' setting and then a 'personal best' setting, etc. - not everyone has a school/instructor situation is why i mentioned the sent in evaluation.
Hello Jody, ive been watching a lot of you videos and take your tips into practice so thank you for that. Now i have a short question. Howcome you talk about MIG welding all the time and not MAG welding for carbonsteel, because i thought MIG welding was mostly used for aluminum welding. Thank you in advance.
Thanks for your quick response. Looking forward to seeing more of your videos. After I purchase a welder, I'm gonna go into your website and buy your products.
I put a new tip in my welder last night (I think this is the first time i've replaced it since new, have run maybe 5lbs of wire through it total) and I was like like "man, this tip is really tight, it's a pita to tighten this thing all the way in". I now realize this must be intentional, and looking at the tip it's recessed inside the cup like 1/8" to 3/16". So I'm going to toss it and put a new tip in a check it as it's going in so I stop flush. I'm bad enough about pulling away from the material anyways, having it recessed is only making the problem worse for me. Thanks for the simple tip that I never hear people talk about
Hold on to your old tips if your the one paying for them . You can take tip cleaners for a torch and clean them out, spray some anti- spatter through them and get a little more use out of them.
I was welding today at work 5/16 steel vertical machine set to 26v 460 speed was getting great penetration but having burnout on edges any slower and I would get puddle drip, any ideas? Using a Lincoln 480v machine with gas and flux core wire.
I knowest you use a tampered nozzle with a blunt nose contact tip, but have you ever tried a tampered contact tip. You get maximum shelding gas around the puddle, also I use 95-5 mixture. 95% Argon and 5% CO2.
Hey Jody, good video. FYI, ordered a CK stubby gas lense kit from your store last week, and it arrived in 2 days, loving it so far... Hope to get some video of it for my channel soon.
My biggest concern with welding is how do you know your weld is strong enough. For example. If I back half a truck and weld a new piece of metal or frame how can I be sure my weld is strong enough. Or if I build a custom ladder rack for a truck to hold planks of wood and other materials. Is it just laying a good bead down and stack some Dims and I’m good lol is there any way for reassurance? Thank you!
Thanxs for all the GREAT advice and detailed instruction to help out us newbees, is there any plans to do a review on the new Lincoln 210mp??? Would love to hear your take on it, I have a 180c but want to upgrade if unit meets your qualifications!!!!!
What gas are you using? I use 90/10 and .035 hard wire 1/16" to 1" with a miller 252. We have about 4 of them at work. Very versatile for mild steel. We up hand all structural steel 3/16 and up. From flat to over head i don't change a thing.
I am currently in training at Huntington ingalls in NN, VA. And my nozzle keeps dragging my metal. Once that happens I try moving and I end up cutting into the metal making a huge gap
One of my biggest welding problems is seeing ahead of the arc and following the joint being welded I can get off course easily what is an easy way to look at the fire and follow the joint
What do you mean by staying on the leading edge. Isn’t the puddle always where the Ardee is ? I’m sorry about asking dumb questions but it think it might just be my lack of terminology.
You're doing a 90-degree corner try just a gap or no Gap gravity pulls so try to pieces of metal with a gap opening going straight down the work piece with no corner I want to see you perform that and it come out smooth
I'm not a certified welder, nor in any way in a position to give advice. But as I have ruined several tips and nozzles over the years learning to weld over head, I will try to share what seems to work for me to minimize the gun damage and frustration of having the weld puddle fall into the nozzle. Settings, joint preparation, and practice. Clean all mill scale and contaminants from the joint surfaces. A clean and well prepared joint is highest priority IMO. Choose the wire that fits the weld type and position. Then set your welder to the wire and position. Then practice..........a lot. I find using a course grinder to rough the surface when cleaning it works well for me. I also tend to use the same puddle pattern for over head as I do for vertical up. Seems to keep the heavy crowning somewhat in check. But again, that is only what works for me and I am in no way a professional.
The only concern I have is with the placement of pass #2 on your continues root pass. My concern is you went under instead of over, why did you choose this? I am instructed by shipyard foreman to go top to bottom to achieve proper fusion.
ok I feel like a noobie for asking this question but do you weld fluxcore the same way you do mig? just curious we run .045 wire with 75-25 just need some advice maybe a vid?? thank great vids
Justin Summerlin Since you are using the 75/25 gas and .45 wire (pretty much the most common sort of welding for anyone in the oil and gas field) Id have to say it is nothing like mig. I mean yes they both are a gun they have a trigger and wire and gas....As far as technique nah with flux core like you described you want to drag it more like as if you are using stick.The only thing we even use mig for is welding the banding flat bar on grating...we cant even use it to tack. Then again another shop I worked at I had an actual ticket for DOWNHAND mig no joke EVERY vertical strut in these 100 foot by 25 foot wide 18 foot tall bardges were all downhand mig. Just like a house every 16 inches 3x4 angle all downhand 2@12 stitched....But yeah it really depends where you work what you do and what the engineers deem as acceptable...Structural where I work now has the choice on every skid or just about anything they weld besides the lifting lugs to use what you said the c25 gas with .45 flux core wire or use metal core wire with the 8c gas .45 wire....99% of the time we being as the shops so big and we can flip and move any size thing up and over and flip its all in the flat position and all with metal core since its faster, hotter, and just downright stronger if you ask me. You literally see metal core digging the parent metal out and filling where you don't see that as much with flux core and especially not mig
You just explained what my welding instructor could not thank you most helpful video I have found
Jody, I've been welding a long time and still learn from you. You sir make quality videos. There are plenty of jokers on the interwebs....you are not one of them.
Only things on welding in ads and mailer rocks
I can tell you for sure this man is a welder. I recently went through welding school at a blazing speed because I spent my spare time watching the videos and implementing the techniques immediately. I had familiarity with welding, but I went through 2G, 3G and 4G stick in two days. Freaked my audience out.....lol.
i'm going to share your videos with all of my welding classmates! i sat here and binge watched all of your basic MIG welding videos 1-8. it pretty much covered everything i learned in class the first week and gave me a better idea of what i'm supposed to be doing and looking for as well as how to adjust everything to make my beads better. i can't wait to watch the rest, thank you for these videos!!
Jody, you have helped me so much. I started as a welder 3 years ago and your videos have helped me learn so much about MIG and TIG, to the point I've got elders asking me for help! Legend!
love how you actually show the mistake welds, instead of just explaining them.
I started welding in 1963. Here, some 51 years later, I still run across something I did not know. But I do know this, 90% of a good weld is knowledge and one helluva good machine. Ya gotta have both in your favor to do a good job. Never compromise on tool quality. Buy the best tools there are to offer. Cheap tools is never a good practice.
raginroadrunner I was always told that you pay for a nice tool once from your walllet. You pay for a cheap tool every time you have to use it, but you pay with your sanity
Do not agree.. a cheap welder is better than no welder. Everybody has to start from somewere. I don't think they suddenly buy welders like 2-5000$.
Learn welding with a cheap machine and then build up to a professional one.
Thanks Jodi! Been welding for almost a year, but I'm serious. I run 70-s .45 daily with quality inverters and I thank you for the help my man. I love that puddle and want to see it like that at least 8 hrs a day. Thumbs up👍
I have been welding for 35 years and still go to your videos for HELP & Tips, You have a Ton of knowledge and explain everything that even a beginner could learn from with ease!!! My son has started a welding career and uses your videos ALL the time.. please Keep up the Great videos!!!!!
I have been welding for 12 years haven't done overhead for a while I have a test weld tomorrow for a new job and over head is the weld I have to do thanks for this upload 1 watch and it's come back to me time to hit the shed and get a bit of practise for tommorow thanks buddy
Hi , I'm new to welding but have just bought my first mig welder, love it. I have made 4 custom tool for my garage already. Thanks so much for your videos, they are a fantastic resource .
I sure wish I could weld like you. You make it look easy but I have been following your advice and putting as much hood time as I can with my Everlast welder. I've been getting better and better and it is largely because of your great videos.
I think they should take off about 80% of the welding videos on RUclips and you are not one of them finally a welder with real knowledge really advice.
I been at it 17 years and picked up a few tips from u
Man you are legit. I weld for a living all day everyday MIG. 7 gauge 2” square tubing Mostly and I like your precise clear explanations. I tend to have most trouble with overheads. I look forward to trying some of these techniques tomorrow. Btw I’m running 26-28 volts and basically full speed on the wire. It’s production so it’s all about quantity. Thanks for the video
Been looking for a welding instructor that I can relate too. I think I have found him. Thank you sir! for making these videos. My MIG welding is getting better as I progress but vertical and overhead are difficult for me. Practice, practice & more practice.
I havr bin learning alot with your videos, i bin welding for 7 months and ive learned more in the 2 weeks watching your videos, they are very helpfull tank you for good quality videos.
You are the best teacher there is. My skills with my everlast welder are so much better now because of your great videos.
You just earned yourself another sub! I'm studying here in Sweden to become a welder, and right now I'm practicing in this position, and I find it very hard. Your video helped me a lot answering a couple of questions.
Sitting on the table in my booth at weldingg school watching this right now. Very helpful thank yiu
Thanks for this Jody! I'm running a motorcycle workshop for people with various disabilities who are looking to pick up meaningful job skills. We've got a pretty nice MIG machine powered by 380v but it's only ever used to bake stuff together in the ugliest way possible. Nothing mission-critical, don't worry. I've watched this series in one go. Very practical and to the point. Starting out with welding can be pretty overwhelming, but I feel like I at least know the very basics to set the machine and start practicing myself. Thanks again!
thank you for your videos. I'm a sophomore in shop class and don't have very much experience, but your videos have helped me so much. I am actually getting pretty good thanks to them.
Thanks for the video! i have a weld test tomorrow for a ship fitting job.. i only need to tack weld but they still require a test, 3x4" welds T joint vertical and overhead. fluxcore and in the past ive only done stick welding so im very nervous! these videos are a huge help! luckily i got to meet with the man who will test me at his shop and practice over the weekend and he thinks i will do fine. but still nervous when a high paying job is on the line!
beginner welder here. your vids help a lot thanks
love the videos you helped a lot i been welding for 3 years now i’m 18 now and about to go into the workforce you helped a lot with overhead and other ways to weld
good and helpful information. I am learning to weld at a local community college and these pointers make success possible. THANKS!
Love your videos. You do great work!! I just wanted to say that when I ran overhead fillets with 0.45 at the ship yard I ran very hot but held a very hard push angle with zero weaving. It was 100s hard wire with 95/5 gas. I always had my tip flush with my barrel. I always found if I tried any sort of weave or dddnt push a hard angle I always had a bit of a lip on my bottom passes. I found this true especially if I was running 1/16 100s wire. But I always had great penetration!! Keep up the great videos!!!Pete Dellarma Maine
These 8 videos are an excellent refresher! Thanks Jody for sharing!
Just to explain to people that if you quench / dip your you hot welded metal into water it causes the metal to get brittle, and it more likely to crack under load.
Best Mig welding videos out there. Thank you, sir!
I am 13 years old and welding a cat excavator and it kept dripping but I watched this video and now I'm welding really well
It's been four years as of right now, how have your welding skills been developing?
@@apeanders hey thanks for reminding me man im 17 now full time hgv and construction mechanic weld a lot great at it now lifes great
@@gerfromireland8077 That's pretty great, man!
@@gerfromireland8077gotta be trolling no way if not that’s great dude 🔥🔥
@@Teekeef_Sosa not trolling just doing what i love here
Thanks, I just finished this eight part series. I’m going to be taking a 9 1/2 month course with TWS, I’ll probably end up watching these a second time round once I’m practicing again.
great series! ive been mucking around trying to do a good wel for many years, and always faught at it. Just learning that the tip was WAYYY too far resessed [over 1/4 inch!] has helped a TON.. Now to practice.
The stick out!! I couldn't figure out the blobs and dripping for the life of me. Thank you
Thank you so much for this because I have a competition this Friday at a college and I had no idea on how to do any overhead welding
Jody
Say hi to Wyatt for me
I was at SEMA and what hoping you could be there
the folks at Lincoln and Miller as well as the others all told me to say Hi to you
All of the people speak very highly of you and what you have accomplished - I Agree!!!!
Great Vid
Thx for your help
Awful Arthur
Mate, you just fixed years worth of problems for me in 5mins. I just cut back the nozzle flush with the tip and I can now weld upside down a whole lot better.
I am binging on your channel today Jody! So much good info here! Thanks for the time and effort you clearly put into every one of these videos!
Hey Jody, a couple things I'd like to see you touch on for your MIG series would be working with thicker, higher current wire. I use .052 every day and would like to see if you have any tips or tricks other than the widely used "whip back." Especially for tight corners. Another thing would be for tack filling gaps. Thanks again,
A fan and student of your page.
Thank you. I was getting frustrated in class today. This was the piece I was missing.
man I love your videos ! there's a lot of information out there but you tell it the best. keep up the awesome work
the best welding channel !!
Great series, Jody; thanks for sharing. I really learn lots from your videos.
Thanks again.
These videos are invaluable. Thank you for taking the time to make them.
tyvm. the whole series was well done and quite helpful. I am looking at practicing on vertical welding soon and then on to overhead; and, then pipe.
Thanks. I was saw high voltage got it melted but my movment was wrong to point of bolders dropping. Then ended up going low voltage & drooping welds then cut welds with cutoff wheel to flatten butt weld. The comment about the wire to long having time to heat up become weak & do nothing - was really helpful. I can think these things - but when your under pressure & dont have time to think = thanks.
I use spray arc on overhead welds.
Increases productivity, huge penetration, but hard to stay consistent. But it comes with practice…
Aim for "dead nuts 90 degrees” oh man now that's a line they need to use in training! No one would forget it lol!
Also a lot of the work I do, is waste height 10 inch downs, fillet welds and these I've found at the moment overlapping shorter welds is neater for me but I'd like to get more consistant like this
I welded 10 ft cyliders 10 ga stainless first time I left heat alone welded good flat and vert was good very good weld .Overhead blow holes right though it. Delta 452 miller. ITS BETTER TO ROTATE THE PC. single pass 3/16-1/4.the weld you're making looks better for thick ferrous multi pass. our overhead would have to be 30" no stops ,fast paced production we couldn't sit around. I noticed a difference in the outside burn marks,overhead was much thinner pushing.
Great video series. Thanks for making these very helpful educational videos.
Your videos have been invaluable to me.
Great videos. To be able to produce sound welds requires knowledgeable skills and good power sources.
you're the top master I watched from youtube so far, I wish to have butt horizontal with a big gap TIG and MIG please thank you master tip and tricks
i do it with spray tranfer, looks very good and penetration is good enough tor thin plates
In general, this equipment allows excellents layers. This another good video.
Just wanted to say thanks! im new to welding and your channel is super helpful. Happy New Year
Sir. You are the best master of welding. Your video's help me to welding beter.
O need help! O never use a air care in carbon electrod to remove a bad weld, or other work.
God bless you. Thanks 👍
Brilliant videos, many thanks for sharing knowledge, skills and experience.
thanks jodi > great explanations, good demos and really think the 'universal' holder w/ the supply of practice plates is a cool idea - 'students' send in there stuff, have it evaluated, tested, x-rayed or whatever; kinda like everybody tries a 'same' setting and then a 'personal best' setting, etc. - not everyone has a school/instructor situation is why i mentioned the sent in evaluation.
Thanks for the videos. Truly appreciate your time.
I like my heat hot on over head, especially stick welding.Gotta burn them in good!
I've got to practice overhead welding more with my powerimig welder. These are great tips.
Hello Jody, ive been watching a lot of you videos and take your tips into practice so thank you for that.
Now i have a short question. Howcome you talk about MIG welding all the time and not MAG welding for carbonsteel, because i thought MIG welding was mostly used for aluminum welding. Thank you in advance.
Hey Jody, could you make a video about doing overhead Stick Welding with E-7018 rod?
Thanks for your quick response. Looking forward to seeing more of your videos. After I purchase a welder, I'm gonna go into your website and buy your products.
Really like your videos. I learn something every time. Great job!
I put a new tip in my welder last night (I think this is the first time i've replaced it since new, have run maybe 5lbs of wire through it total) and I was like like "man, this tip is really tight, it's a pita to tighten this thing all the way in". I now realize this must be intentional, and looking at the tip it's recessed inside the cup like 1/8" to 3/16". So I'm going to toss it and put a new tip in a check it as it's going in so I stop flush. I'm bad enough about pulling away from the material anyways, having it recessed is only making the problem worse for me. Thanks for the simple tip that I never hear people talk about
Hold on to your old tips if your the one paying for them . You can take tip cleaners for a torch and clean them out, spray some anti- spatter through them and get a little more use out of them.
I was welding today at work 5/16 steel vertical machine set to 26v 460 speed was getting great penetration but having burnout on edges any slower and I would get puddle drip, any ideas? Using a Lincoln 480v machine with gas and flux core wire.
Hi Jody,
As always, short and concise... Excellent, ..... Everything!
Thanks,
Pierre
Pierre's Garage ,,thanks for the knowleged i got idea for that....
Currently practicing this in the works to getting my cert.
I knowest you use a tampered nozzle with a blunt nose contact tip, but have you ever tried a tampered contact tip. You get maximum shelding gas around the puddle, also I use 95-5 mixture. 95% Argon and 5% CO2.
Awesome video. You're a good teacher. Thanks for the info. I'm gonna check out more of your stuff.
Hey Jody, good video. FYI, ordered a CK stubby gas lense kit from your store last week, and it arrived in 2 days, loving it so far... Hope to get some video of it for my channel soon.
My biggest concern with welding is how do you know your weld is strong enough. For example. If I back half a truck and weld a new piece of metal or frame how can I be sure my weld is strong enough. Or if I build a custom ladder rack for a truck to hold planks of wood and other materials. Is it just laying a good bead down and stack some Dims and I’m good lol is there any way for reassurance? Thank you!
Thanxs for all the GREAT advice and detailed instruction to help out us newbees, is there any plans to do a review on the new Lincoln 210mp??? Would love to hear your take on it, I have a 180c but want to upgrade if unit meets your qualifications!!!!!
Jody I'd like to see more dual shield flux core. If you need footage I can get you some. Been running dual shield an metal core for almost 10 years.
I've been looking at mig vids for too long.
What’s the best advice for preventing the puddle from building up and dripping during overhead? Push or pull?
if I could click one million likes , I would . love your tips 👍👍👍👍👍👍
good work
good work
you are a legend mate !!!!!!!!!! from down under
What gas are you using?
I use 90/10 and .035 hard wire 1/16" to 1" with a miller 252. We have about 4 of them at work. Very versatile for mild steel. We up hand all structural steel 3/16 and up. From flat to over head i don't change a thing.
Jody, with that machine, what settings would you use if you were running .030 wire?
Thanks
Yet another excellent video
Hay jody ,learning a lot from your video's love them
Thank you very much!!!Very informative in all of your tutorials!!! Peace
I am currently in training at Huntington ingalls in NN, VA. And my nozzle keeps dragging my metal. Once that happens I try moving and I end up cutting into the metal making a huge gap
One of my biggest welding problems is seeing ahead of the arc and following the joint being welded I can get off course easily what is an easy way to look at the fire and follow the joint
What do you mean by staying on the leading edge. Isn’t the puddle always where the Ardee is ? I’m sorry about asking dumb questions but it think it might just be my lack of terminology.
jody you are the man
i love you videos
You're doing a 90-degree corner try just a gap or no Gap gravity pulls so try to pieces of metal with a gap opening going straight down the work piece with no corner I want to see you perform that and it come out smooth
How do you stop the weld pool from dripping on you or on your MIG gun?
i would like to know the same thing.. i have had this happen to me and it SUCKS....
Try pulling the weld not pushing.
I'm not a certified welder, nor in any way in a position to give advice. But as I have ruined several tips and nozzles over the years learning to weld over head, I will try to share what seems to work for me to minimize the gun damage and frustration of having the weld puddle fall into the nozzle.
Settings, joint preparation, and practice. Clean all mill scale and contaminants from the joint surfaces. A clean and well prepared joint is highest priority IMO. Choose the wire that fits the weld type and position. Then set your welder to the wire and position. Then practice..........a lot. I find using a course grinder to rough the surface when cleaning it works well for me. I also tend to use the same puddle pattern for over head as I do for vertical up. Seems to keep the heavy crowning somewhat in check.
But again, that is only what works for me and I am in no way a professional.
I am in the same boat with overhead. When I slow down it seems to droop.
normally if your weld is falling out you need to turn the wire speed up.
The only concern I have is with the placement of pass #2 on your continues root pass. My concern is you went under instead of over, why did you choose this? I am instructed by shipyard foreman to go top to bottom to achieve proper fusion.
jody I need you to make a video for welding a tee plate joint going downhill, mig. please
Another great video. I need the reminder to stay on the leading edge of the puddle.
I'll keep in mind 'short stick out'..Thanks for your video !!!
I go for the multilayer but why don't you use a open arc?
Good vid, but can't wait for the 2g,5g, and 6g pipe! Hope some of those are done with 6010 root! Thanks for all you do!
ok I feel like a noobie for asking this question but do you weld fluxcore the same way you do mig? just curious we run .045 wire with 75-25 just need some advice maybe a vid?? thank great vids
Justin Summerlin Yes, the difference being you have to knock the slag off, the major advantage is no gas.
Justin Summerlin Since you are using the 75/25 gas and .45 wire (pretty much the most common sort of welding for anyone in the oil and gas field) Id have to say it is nothing like mig. I mean yes they both are a gun they have a trigger and wire and gas....As far as technique nah with flux core like you described you want to drag it more like as if you are using stick.The only thing we even use mig for is welding the banding flat bar on grating...we cant even use it to tack. Then again another shop I worked at I had an actual ticket for DOWNHAND mig no joke EVERY vertical strut in these 100 foot by 25 foot wide 18 foot tall bardges were all downhand mig. Just like a house every 16 inches 3x4 angle all downhand 2@12 stitched....But yeah it really depends where you work what you do and what the engineers deem as acceptable...Structural where I work now has the choice on every skid or just about anything they weld besides the lifting lugs to use what you said the c25 gas with .45 flux core wire or use metal core wire with the 8c gas .45 wire....99% of the time we being as the shops so big and we can flip and move any size thing up and over and flip its all in the flat position and all with metal core since its faster, hotter, and just downright stronger if you ask me. You literally see metal core digging the parent metal out and filling where you don't see that as much with flux core and especially not mig
Do you have a video explaining what "ARC FORCE is and how to use it best?
Does the ripple/dime on the final layer result from straight stingers or are you using some oscillation?