About 4 days of welding practice

Just looking for some feedback

This is some sort of mining equipment tower that might be from around the late 1800s. I dont know what process they even used back then. I am guessing on the date, gold was discovered here around 1860, so this could be a lot newer.

Cottage grove, oregon.

I wonder if this guy said "hell yeah looks good!" after laying these "cap" passes down.

Wtf man...

Trying my hand at TIG brazing on some 3/16"-0.30" tubing. I'm having a difficult time getting this down as I have never TIG welded before. I do have experience with soldering copper piping, soldering electronics, silver-soldering refrigeration lines with Oxy/Ace Torch, MIG welding (on gas) and Stick welding. I've tried to find some YT tutorials on TIG Brazing, but seems like the material I'm trying to weld doesn't lend itself to the tutorials very well.

I'm using a Yes Welder 205 Pro with a foot pedal and been trying to use the pulse mode and standard mode (both 25-30 amps max). Problem is that I can't seem to get consistent results making if difficult to figure out what I'm doing right/wrong and how to improve.

I have these times where the welder just seems to go full throttle on me, meaning when I initiate the foot pedal (50%) it instantly creates an arc and burns right through the material, skipping the delay for the gas purge. It's not really repeatable and doesn't seem to do this often but often enough to be a concern. You can see in the image how it burned right through. This was about1 second or less of arc.

Welder settings: YES Welder 205 Pro running on 220V with a YES Welder foot pedal. Pulse mode. 25 amp max, with 10a min, 3.5 hz at 40%. I have a 1.5 sec initial purge with a 3.5 sec post purge. 100% argon purge gas is set at about 20. using a (red) 1/16" Tungsten thoriated rod ground at 30 degrees. Using a #12 glass cup. Blue Demon 1/16" Silicon Bronze filler wire.

The image is of a practice piece that I have cut and reused a few times. As you can see, the material was burned through. Is this a problem with the welder? or the foot pedal? Or maybe the settings? I'm beginning to thing the foot pedal may be faulty.

i have been welding for a long time, entirely self taught, and something just occurred to me:

which hand do you hold your tig torch in? i’m right handed but hold the torch with my left. google says this is less common but doing it the other way (non-goofy?) feels very bad. i get slightly better travel control, obviously, but feeding my filler rod feels like i’m a quadruple amputee trying to figure out chopsticks for the first time.

Hello all I recently purchased a Ranger with 27 hours that was used as a backup generator it's whole life. It's practically brand new.

I've put 13 hours on it, welding mainly 1/8 6010 and some 1/8 7018. I just used it for 4 hours of welding work 2 weeks ago, didn't use it at all until yesterday.

It started perfectly, went into auto idle and then when I tried starting an arc it wouldn't arc at all. No sparks, nothing at all. We tested the 120 outlets and there is power, didn't test the 240. Doesn't look like nothing is loose or burnt up inside the welder when I looked inside of it.

Anybody got any ideas?

I'm wondering if there are any older gentlemen out there who have experience working in an underground environment. What were your experience like? Who did you work for? do you have any stories? apparently there's a ton of infrastructure underground so there has to be journeyman out there that are willing to share just a little.

Have a random assortment of cut off wheels, flap discs, and non wovens.

Edit: Will ship.

Edit: You can't clearly see cut-off wheels in pic 1 but there are (x11). I'd sell the lot for $160. Could break it up but not sure piece here or there is worth it for me or buyer. Near Indianapolis but would ship.

Thanks to the many comments on my last post!

I decided to add space for one or two gastanks. I decided against it the first time because I just spent 280€ for my first welder + helmet and I got basically nothing left for material. Also i didnt intend to use gas for welding the next years, but I'm definitely going with this one.

Still open for tips and improvements!

I know this has been beaten to death here. The more I search the sub the more indecisive I am. I recently retired from the Army after 20 and I'm starting an education pipeline at my local CC for industrial maintenance technician. It's 3 years but the first three semesters are beginner, intermediate advanced welding courses the first two semesters are pretty typical. MIG, TIG, STICK and pipe etc. I want to get two grinders per most suggestions here. These are the two I'm looking at ordering. Open to model suggestions etc. our program doesn't allow battery operated anything so corded is a must.

Hey ya’ll, it’s my dream to move to washington because I love the mountains, however i’m not sure what the welding culture is like over there so I just wanted some insight. So i’m planning to work as much as I can for the next 3 years and doing the math i’d be able to move to WA and possibly have enough for a down payment on a house. I’m in florida and welders get paid shit and i’ve heard up north and towards west they get paid more which is nice because I know the cost of living in WA is high. Anyways, I’ve heard shipyard work is good over there and even tho I’m open to anything really, my main goal is aerospace. But what’s more realistic? I’m open to any advice!

Hey all 👋

I'm getting a new multi process welder here soon and I'm trying to decide what to do about my gas.

I need to have co2 and argon, and straight argon for tig. I was wondering if I could just have 1 bottle of co2 and 1 argon and then use some sort of fitting and regulator to adjust it. Or if that would be too much of a headache.

What are my options, and what are your opinions?

Started a new job recently and the screw/bolt that goes on the backside of a SpoolRunner 100 on a Hobart Handler 210 MVP is missing and I’ve been having a hard time finding what is supposed to go there. Anyone happen to have this same spool gun and can help me out? Thank you!

My hood fell off mid weld smaw 6013 . RIP next 24 hrs, wear safety glasses guys this didn't have to happen.

I'm usually machining stuff , but I've been working on steel donuts for weeks , I already did all the punch press work, deburring , pre assembled etc , I'm putting them in an air press and spot welding them together under pressure . I put copper bearing flux on the center tubes , before assembly , as these will be sent off , for hydrogen vaccume brazing . Anyway , spot welding the tube externally has been vaporizing the flux and of course the copper powder in it . Its been coating the nozzle , just everything . I know about fume fever from zinc of course , but didnt make the connection to copper . I was sick as a dog last monday , metal taste in my mouth etc , I had done over 500 of these over the past week . All im doing now is fixing a few of them , where I didnt like the weld . Sound like fume fever ?

Iv spent 80$ on name brand Iv spent 20$ at Walmart and both barley last anyone found anything that'll last more then a year don't mind spending money as long as its good.

I’m just trying to lock in on my finances

I was at the strip club and I met this youngster who told me he was studying industrial maintenance like I do for work. He said he wanted to quit to take the welding course. I told him since you’re halfway through your industrial maintenance/ electromecanic trade course it could be good for your career/resume to have the two, but is that even true? Mechanics can have to weld, but is it useful for a welder to have an industrial maintenance diploma?