Todays welds

[jpfabricator]

Wish my welds looked that good Charley-------- just haven't put in enough hours welding yet.

The easiest way to make nice welds is to get a good hood. If you cant see your welds you cant weld. Pick up a variety of diffrent shade filters, and a box of clear lenses. Try experimenting with the diffrent shades and see what you come up with. I worked for a pipeline welder who had diffrent hoods and lenses for diffrent jobs.

 

[Charley Davidson]

I can't see period!!!!!! Blind as a bat but have found keeping my lens clean really helps and my reading glasses work better than cheaters. My most difficult weld is a but weld, just can't see the joint so welding fast is definitely out in that area.

I purposely made those welds with the stack of dimes look if you just go straight it is a very smooth weld.

On another note, they just fired a guy for welding down hill

 

[GK1918]

I can't see period!!!!!! Blind as a bat but have found keeping my lens clean really helps and my reading glasses work better than cheaters. My most difficult weld is a but weld, just can't see the joint !


Friday a job came in from the plant we do all their shop work Its a big big alum intercooler, I think,
its manifold got cracked some how. Most know my son bought a new and bigger 230 mig. With a new in
the box attachment. I know of these but Im still lost in the 1950s. So he assembled it, I now I play with
some scrap, while he is tweeking the dials. I guess its called a spool gun loaded with alum. wire. I die
grind the cooler-clean clean here goes nothing. The crack is 90*s to the manifold. I actually
built up a gusset. Die grinding each pass, perfect, and I cant see what the hell im doing- the boy has
a high dollar auto helmet (with flames) tell you, man those are nice. So I slowly creep into the 21century.
I know its air, the whole plant runs on neaumatics they even have a V8Cat compressor outside. (emerg)

 

[Tim655]

The secret is practice, practice and then practice more

 

[November X-ray]

On another note, they just fired a guy for welding down hill

I have to ask, why was that? Of course there should be a written procedure detailing the weld parameters, but most pipelines are welded "downhill"!

 

[Charley Davidson]

I have to ask, why was that? Of course there should be a written procedure detailing the weld parameters, but most pipelines are welded "downhill"!

Not allowed in structual steel work unless it.s stick plus he had been told not to and did it anyway

 

[November X-ray]

Must be working in AWS D1.1 code, and yep, once your told not to do it and you continue to do it, you should get run off!!!

 

[Charley Davidson]

he wasn't know it all that had been there for over a year the longest person there and it done several things he was told not to do and did them anyhow.

 

[November X-ray]

he wasn't know it all that had been there for over a year the longest person there and it done several things he was told not to do and did them anyhow.

Hmmm, then I think about myself and how we are told not to eat to much but I still do, or not to drive to fast but I still do, etc, etc. Old habits are hard to break and sometimes it takes drastic measures to help you break the bad habits! Now I wonder what's for dinner!

 

[burnrider]

The easiest way to make nice welds is to get a good hood. If you cant see your welds you cant weld. Pick up a variety of diffrent shade filters, and a box of clear lenses. Try experimenting with the diffrent shades and see what you come up with. I worked for a pipeline welder who had diffrent hoods and lenses for diffrent jobs.

Great point- You can have 30 years of experience wiped out with a pair of lousy glasses or a dirty lens.